Word: diasporas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Masten said he regrets that Harvard, "through a failure to tenure from within, simply let evaporate the intellectual vibrancy represented by a list that includes Phil Harper, Meredith McGill, Wendy Motooka and Lynn Wardley. It's a distinguished diaspora...
Flores called it "a diaspora within a diaspora...
...shame" over the Vietnam War and its images of monks setting themselves afire in protest. Others were in search of enlightenment that lasted longer than a tab of acid. Their quests seemed to end in Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a brilliant apostle of Vajrayana and part of the Tibetan diaspora. Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Denver, an eclectic colloquium of Eastern spiritual and Western intellectual cultures, constituted one of the great spiritual bazaars of the 1970s. One of its most popular courses, after Trungpa's dialogues with such people as Timothy Leary, was a seminar offered by Jack Kornfield and Joseph...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel will foster dialogue with Israel to define the Jewish future. Together Israel and the Diaspora write the Jewish story of the next century," Steinberg said, quoting Hillel's recently-adopted mission statement...
Last spring BSA held its first annual intercollegiate black students' conference, and earlier this semester the club held a conference on the future of affirmative action. Recently, BSA also held a conference on the African diaspora...