Event Recaps: Indigo Talks

On June 5, 2025,  Professor Darren Kew delivered a talk called “Reflections on Religion and Peacebuilding,” drawn from his many decades’ experience with conflict resolution, which explored how religions offer unique ways to help even the most intransigent conflict situations get unstuck.

The 2024 edition of the annual Indigo Talks featured a longtime friend of the Ikeda Center, Dr. Andrea Bartoli, whose talk was called “Opening Pathways to Peace: The Role of Dialogue in Times of Conflict.”

During the second Indigo Talk of 2023, Cynthia Dillard of Seattle University drew upon Daisaku Ikeda's 1993 Harvard lecture, "Mahayana Buddism and 21st Century Civilization," as well as her own experience, to explore a new vision of hope and joy in life and death.

The Ikeda Center’s 30th anniversary year calendar of events continued on June 15, 2023, with the third Indigo Talk, this time featuring Zeena Zakharia, Assistant Professor of International Education Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park.

In a talk called "Envisioning A Better World Together Through Value Creation, Interdependence, and Creative Coexistence," Dr. John Lupinacci urged us to look at the deepest dynamics at play in a world that is unbalanced in so many ways. The virtual event was attended by 134 people from 13 countries