Happy Naw Ruz! Happy New Day!
This event is a celebration of the beginning of a new calendar year for the Baha’is worldwide.
Friday, March 20, 2009, 5:30-8:00 pm, in the CCLIR Community Room
Program:
5:30 Tea, cookies, and music with PowerPoint presentation
5:45 Sarah Wong and Judy Farnsworth
6:15 Keynote speech: Ray Estes, “Baha’i Faith: A Message of Unity and Light for the World”
7:00 Dinner, music, socializing
A presentation by Dr. Abdel-Aziz Shady, Department of Political Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, Director of the Program on Terrorism Studies at Cairo University, and a visiting Fulbright scholar at Valparaiso University
Thursday, October 16, at 6:30 pm in the Community Room of the CCLIR
Respondents:
Prof. Chuck Schaefer, Chair, Department of History
Prof. Nelly Van Doorn-Harder, Department of Theology
Prof. Susan Shearer, Department of Political Science
A question and answer session involving the audience will follow the presentation.
Sikh Festival
On the Occasion of the 300th Anniversary of the Guru Granth Sahib (Sikh Scriptures)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
9:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Valparaiso University Center for the Arts
Jointly sponsored by:
The Surjit S. Patheja Chair in World Religions and Ethics, Valparaiso University
Provost’s Office, Valparaiso University
Northwest Indiana Sikh Religious Society (NWISRS), Crown Point
The full program: Sikh Festival, Fall 2008 Program
