Contemplative Studies Initiative & Concentration

  • Please join Brown Contemplative Studies for a workshop led by Professor Larson Di Fiori on Daoist Style Meditation and Qigong on Sunday, March 17th from 12:30 - 5:30 pm at  Brown/RISD Hillel's (80 Brown St.) Winnick Chapel. 

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  •  Please join Brown Contemplative Studies for a lecture by Jack Petranker on Meditation for Fragmented Times on, March 12th from 6 - 7:30 pm in List Art Building, Rm. 110.  This event is free and open to the public.



     

     



     




     

     

     


     

     

  • Please join Brown Contemplative Studies for Zazenkai with Rev./Dr. Masaki Matsubara on Saturday, February 24th, from noon - 5 pm in Winnick Chapel at the Brown/RISD Hillel (80 Brown St.). Please register for this workshop with [email protected].  For more information about the concentration in Contemplative Studies, please go to https://www.brown.edu/academics/contemplative-studies/ This event is free and open to the public.

     

       



     

     

  • We are excited to be able to offer an array of Contemplative Studies courses for Spring 2024. Click above to learn more!

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Faculty Profile

Michael Kennedy

Michael D. Kennedy is Professor of Sociology and of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Across his career, he has focused on both knowledge cultural sociology and global social change.  With regard to the latter, Kennedy has addressed East European social movements and systemic change with recent engagements around both Ukraine and Kosova.  On the former, he has worked on how communities of discourse use various kinds of questions, styles of reasoning, and forms of evidence to identify the qualities of justice defining various forms of social organization and modes of transformation. His last book, Globalizing Knowledge, combines both interests to figure how responsibility might be cultivated within universities and knowledge networks in their address of global publics. In the fall of 2022 he serves as Interim Director of the Brown University Contemplative Studies concentration, enabling him to develop further his knowledge cultural sociology of contemplative studies, on the one hand, and extending his work in martial arts sociology now with a more contemplative accent, on the other. Kennedy was the University of Michigan's first vice provost for international affairs in addition to being director of an institute and five centers and programs at UM; he also served as the Howard R. Swearer Director of Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. Kennedy concluded 9 years of service on the Executive Committee, as chair, and the Board of Directors at the Social Science Research Council in 2015, a two year term on the International Academic Advisors' Board of Singapore Management University's School of Social Sciences in 2017, a 3 year term on the Governing Board of European Humanities University in 2019, and 5 years as chair and co-chair of two education programs for the Open Society Foundations in 2021.  Within sociology, he was the chair of the Global and Transnational Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association in 2019-20. 

 

 

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