Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lecture

The Mary Interlandi ’05 Lecture Fund on Contemplative Studies

Mary Interlandi ‘05 was an amazing, young woman whose family encouraged her broad vision. She loved African drumming, dance, theater, art, and poetry. When she was 17, she traveled to Nepal for 6 weeks. She hiked to and lived with a family in the village of Manang where she worked to help build a school, to teach its students, and to learn as much as she could about the Nepali people. Mary fell in love with the culture, and the experience changed the course of her life. These interests carried forward, and she studied Buddhism, feminist theory, and eastern philosophy in her undergraduate work at Brown until her untimely death at age 19 1/2 in 2003.

The Interlandi Lecture Fund in the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life has been
established with gifts from the Interlandi family and friends in memory of Mary Interlandi, Class of 2005, an accomplished Brown student who embraced and embodied all of what the University stands for intellectually and socially. The Fund is used to sponsor an annual lectureship whose theme will be centered on moral,
ethical, spiritual, and/or world religion issues.

Past Mary Interlandi '05 Memorial Lectures

2006: Abbot Thomas Keating, OCSO, Prayer in Secret. Held Monday, March 13 at 8 pm in List Art Center, Room 120.
2005: B Alan Wallance, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, Observing the Mind: A Buddhist Approach to Exploring Consciousness. Held Monday April 18 at 8pm in List Art Center, Room 120.