Events

On this page you can access all the articles on our website covering Ikeda Center events. They are arranged here by event series. You can also search for event articles at our Themes page, where they are organized according to topic. You can also search events by year.

18th Annual Ikeda Forum
Our Stories Matter: Dialogue as a Way of Knowing, Being, and Becoming
Friday, October 14 @ 7 pm ET
(Reception at 6:30 pm)
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Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue

The annual Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue explores connections between life affirming philosophies deriving from literary, cultural, and educational traditions in the East and West. The Ikeda Forum has been held each year since 2004, with the exception of 2017.
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Dialogue Nights

This event series engages Boston-area university students and young professionals in dialogue on contemporary social and ethical topics.
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Virtual Dialogues

With the advent of the global pandemic in March 2020, we took the spirit of Dialogue Nights online, bringing scholars together with Ikeda Center youth leaders, and with particpants from all around the world joining via Zoom.
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Scholar-Student Seminars

These articles report on seminars bringing scholars from our network together with Boston-area university students. The most recent featured peace educators Betty Reardon and Zeena Zakharia working with students on the topic of nuclear weapons abolition.
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Movie Nights

Our newest event series presents films to inspire and inform structured discussions on issues of everyday interest to attendees of all ages.
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Author Talk and Book Launch Events

Through our Dialogue Path Press we have published nine books featuring Daisaku Ikeda in dialogue with leaders in fields relating to peacebuilding, global ethics, and humanistic education and philosophy. Freqently the authors are able to appear at the Ikeda Center to discuss the book and share its core ideas.
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Colloquia and Panel Discussions

Over the years, and especially in our earlier years, we have hosted colloquia in which scholars tackle a single topic, such as restorative justice or environmental sustainability or education reform.
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Lectures and Guest Speakers

Periodically, we host leading thinkers for events unrelated to one of our series.
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