Event Recaps - Global Citizens Seminar Series

Read a report from the 2026 Global Citizens Seminar, called “Becoming Human Together: Hope, Healing, and Justice.”

The 2025 iteration of the Ikeda Center’s annual Global Citizens Seminar featured the participation of fourteen doctoral students exploring two key themes from the work of Daisaku Ikeda – hope and the closely-related activity of value creation.

For the fourth (2024) iteration of the annual Global Citizens Seminar, seven Boston-area doctoral students gathered at the Ikeda Center to share their own stories as global citizens and engage in dialogue on key issues and challenges in the endeavor to create local and global cultures of peace.

For this of the iteration seminar, which was held on June 16 and 30, 2023, as part of the Center’s 30th anniversary year slate of events, participants engaged with the central ideas in Mr. Ikeda’s 1993 Harvard lecture, “Mahayana Buddhism and 21st Century Civilization.” 

Like the first, the second gathering of its 2022 Global Citizens Seminar featured the excitement of bringing seven doctoral students together with Professors Jason Goulah and Catia Confortini to explore key themes from Daisaku Ikeda’s 2022 peace proposal.