Events Articles
On this page you can search for articles covering our events, arranged chronologically. For more complete coverage of events prior to 2007, please see our print newsletter archive. In some cases, mostly before 2007, we have published a transcript of an event's main talk or lecture instead of a feature story. These can be found in our Thinkers section, along with other "first person" materials. All of our stories on our annual Ikeda Forum, which launched in 2004, can be found here as well as in their own section of our website.
2019
Dialogue Nights (Aug.): Friendship: An Antidote to Despair?
Dialogue Nights (May): Being Authentic
Dialogue Nights (March): The Loneliness Epidemic
Dialogue Nights (Jan.): Failing Forward
Seminar: The Art of Classroom Dialogue
2019 Education Fellows Gathering
Movie Nights (Sept.): The State of Pride
Movie Nights (June): American Textures (interracial dialogues)
2018
Dialogue Nights (Dec.): Love: A Force Stronger Than Hate
Ikeda Forum: How Do We Practice Human Rights?
Dialogue Nights (Oct.): Creating Hope Together
Dialogue Nights (July): Breaking Gender Stereotypes
Dialogue Nights (May): The Apathy Epidemic
Dialogue Nights (March): Learning to Live Together
Dialogue Nights (Jan.): The Invisible Arrow of Prejudice, War, and Conflict
Student-led Nuclear Abolition Seminar
Reardon-Zakharia nuclear abolition seminar, Part 2
2017
Dialogue Nights (Dec.): The Power of Raised Voices
Dialogue Nights (Oct.): Life to Life Encounters In a Digital World
Dialogue Nights (Sept.): Soft Power and the Power of Friendship
Reardon-Zakharia nuclear abolition seminar, part 1
The state of Soka education: research and practice
The Role of Literature in Times of Division
2016
Peace education panel: Glimmers of Hope
Ikeda Forum: Democracy, Inclusion, Community
2015
Ikeda Forum: The Practice of Dignity
Our World To Make book launch with Ved Nanda
Conflict resolution seminar with Meenakshi Chhabra & Darren Kew
Donna Hicks: The Role Dignity Plays in our Lives and Relationships
2014
Art of True Relations Author Event: The Poetic Heart of Human Possibility
Youth Seminar: Creativity, Peace Building, and Education
Living As Learning book launch event at Teachers College
The Art of True Relations book launch event with Sarah Wider
2013
Youth Seminar: Examing Assumptions About Peace and the Military
Ikeda Forum with Vincent Harding: Laboratory of Dreams
Garrison & Hickman Youth Seminar: A Multiplicity of Dialogues
2012
Keith Motley Event: Education and Human Possibilities
Inner Philosopher Event with Lou Marinoff: Focusing on What's Right With Us
Ikeda Forum on Interdependence
2011
Youth Seminar: Revisiting "The Age of Soft Power"
Education Seminar: Addressing Matters of Consequence
2010
Ikeda Forum on the Democratic Spirit
2009
Creating Waldens Event: In Dialogue with Self, Nature, and Others
Ikeda Forum: John Dewey, Daisaku Ikeda, & the Quest for a New Humanism
2008
Active Education, Active Democracy: Du Bois, Makiguchi, and Montessori
Learning to Learn About Death: Panel with Cox, Tu, Bateson, Yalman
Ikeda Forum: How Our Experiences with Death Change Us
Preparing for Death by Fostering Connections, with Bateson and Kawada
2007
Re-imagining the Purposes of Education in Our Time
Ikeda Forum: Women and the Power of Friendship
2006
Ikeda Forum: Emerson and the Power of Imagination
2005
Ikeda Forum: Talking Back to Whitman: Poetry Matters
Report on "Women of Courage" Event with Gloria White-Hammond
2004
1st Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue: Walden and Beyond
"Biomicry" Lecture by Janine Benyus
2003
Nagler & Lappe: Challenging Assumptions, Empowering Peace
Re-imaging Self, Other, & the Natural World, Part 1
Re-imaging Self, Other, & the Natural World, Part 2
2002
Humanistic Education: Beyond the Traditional/Progressive Divide
2001
Beyond Consumerism: Constructing a Transformative Politics
1998
Religious Pluralism and Transformative Education
1997
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