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Contemplative Practice Grants

 

The Contemplative Studies Initiative is please to announce that we will be awarding a small number of grants up to $300 each for Brown students to help defray the cost of attending a retreat at a practice center from any contemplative tradition. Longer retreats will be eligible for the full amount; shorter retreats for less.

Applications for the Summer Grant Period MUST be received by June 1, 2009. Late applications will be considered if funds remain available. Applications must include a description of the retreat and an explanation of how this retreat relates to prior and future contemplative practice. Please be sure to include your basic contact information, concentration (if any), and prior relevant coursework. The Contemplative Practice Grants are made possible by an award to the Contemplative Studies Initiative from the Frederick Lenz Foundation.

Please send applications to:

Professor Hal Roth
Director,
Contemplative Studies Initiative
Harold_Roth@Brown.edu

 

The Contemplative Heart of Higher Education

The First Annual Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference

April 24-26, 2009 Chapin Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA

We are delighted to announce the first Association conference, to convene April 24 -26, 2009 at Amherst College. ACMHE members are warmly invited to submit proposals to present papers and to attend the proceedings. Refer to the call for papers (below) for additional information.

2 - 3 Parallel Sessions of 30 minutes each (to be divided between presentation and discussion) will be offered in each time period to allow for the greatest number of presentations. Contemplative practices, including arts and movement practices, will also be offered as a choice during parallel sessions.

Attendance is restricted to members of the ACMHE, but new members may join at the conference attendance rate of $50 for a one-year faculty membership. Online registration will be available soon (Feb 09). For more information, please contact Beth Wadham at beth@contemplativemind.org.

Call for Papers
The conference welcomes proposals concerning contemplative pedagogy, methodology and epistemology within and across disciplines. Submissions of proposals for panel discussions are also invited. Please send a title and an abstract of not more that 200 words for a 30 minute paper (with discussion) or performance along with name, affiliation and 50 - 100 word professional biography to beth@contemplativemind.org by March 1, 2009.

For more information about the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, please visit http://www.acmhe.org.

News, Publications, Lectures & Interviews

Article in the Brown Daily Herald about Contemplative Studies

Posted by Hao Zhu on March 6, 2009

An article about Contemplative studies featured in the Daily Herald, titled "Contemplative studies an 'emerging' field." Read it here!

Updates on the Website

Posted by Hao Zhu on February 18, 2009

Professor Hal Roth's paper "Against Cognitive Imperialism is now available online, published in IWR Journal: Religion East and West.

The response by B. Alan Wallace is available as well.

These can be found on the scholarly works page.

Further, the first of our concentrator profiles have been compiled. Click here to see who concentrates in Contemplative Studies.

New Website Design!

Posted by Hao Zhu on November 14, 2008

In an effort to better the web experience for those involved with Contemplative Studies, I have redesigned the website with a different aesthetic, layout, and organization. I hope everything is at least functionally equal to the old site. I tried to improve some features and added a few others, along with a new look.

The videos, suggested readings, scholarly works, and fellowships have been consolidated under 'resources.' The 'events' have been updated with a calendar view. Also, I am working on putting together some profiles on concentrators in the 'people' section. The former 'About Us' has been labeled 'mission.' All else remains the same, I think.

Please have some patience with anything I may have overlooked. Please contact me with any feedback, especially with problems at:

If you want use the old site, it's still available here. (I left it intact, if anything disastrous happens.)

If you want a trip down memory lane, I dug up the older site here.

Against Cognitive Imperialism Radio Interview and Paper

Posted by Hao Zhu on November 14, 2008

Professor Harold Roth, director of the Contemplative Studies Initiative, gave a lecture on "Against Cognitive Imperialism" at the Pacific School of Religion. He was interviewed on Pacifica Radio regarding the lecture and the Contemplative Studies Initiative. Go to the scholarly works page to listen to this interview.

Further, Professor Roth has turned this lecture into a paper published by the Journal of the Institute for World Religons. The paper and a response written by B. Alan Wallace are available for download and reading on the scholarly works page.

Videos of the Current Fall '08 Contemplative Studies Lectures

Posted by Hao Zhu on November 14, 2008

All the recordings of the lecture series for this fall are up on the site. If you have missed any of them check them out on the videos page.

Some notables include:

Do Buddhist Practices Offer a Science of Healing?: Thoughts on Contemporary Representations of Buddhist Philosophy and Meditation
David Gardiner, Associate Professor of Religion at Colorado College

101 Years Old and Still Going Strong: The Tathagatha Zen of Roshi Joshu Sasaki
Seiju Bob Mammoser, Abbot of the Albuqerque Zen Center

Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls: A Talk and Book Signing
Zoketsu Norman Fischer, Former Abbot of the SF Zen Center

Sudden and Gradual: Paradigm of Awakening in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism
Prof. Mark Unno, Univ. of Oregon

Videos of Past Contemplative Studies Lectures

Posted by Hao Zhu on November 14, 2008

From the lecture series last year, two recordings have been now processed and uploaded.

Now available for viewing in the video archive:

Tibetan Medicine in Contemporary Nepal
Prof. Sienna Craig - Brown '95, Dartmouth College

A Cognitive Psychologist's Analysis of Contemplative Practice: Theoretical Information Processing Models of the Mind, Brain, and Meditation
Prof. David E. Meyer, University of Michigan

Scholarly Concentration in Contemplative Studies

The Scholarly Concentration is a branch of the Brown University Contemplative Studies Initiative in the Warren Alpert Medical School that focuses on the clinical aspects and applications of contemplative practices.

Learn about it here.

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