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Oklahoma Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program Classes

2003-2004 CLASS SCHEDULE

The Search for Spiritual Understanding
A two part seminar:
September 25, 2003 at the University of Oklahoma
The New Christianity
Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religion, Penn State University October 23, 2003 at Oklahoma City University
What Buddhism Teaches Us
Robert Thurman, Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies and chair of religious studies, Columbia University

January 5 – 9, 2004 at the University of Oklahoma
Understanding Religious Differences and Questions of Faith
Coordinator: Doug Watson, Oklahoma Baptist University
Judaism & Christianity - John Lancaster, University of Oklahoma
Islam - Dan Snell, University of Oklahoma
Hinduism - Darian DeBolt, University of Central Oklahoma
Taoism - Marty Heitz, Oklahoma State University

February 18 – 22, 2004 at East Central University, Ada
American Indian Identity—Being Indian and Standing Proud
Donald L. Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History, Director Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas

March 31 – April 4, 2004 at the University of Oklahoma
Positive Psychology and the Pursuit of Happiness
Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside

April 7 – 11, 2004 at the University of Oklahoma
Companions in NatureCultures: Dogs, Cyborgs, and their Familiars
Donna Haraway, Professor of Feminist Theory and Science Studies, History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz

May 10– 13, 2004 at the University of Oklahoma
Hell Revisited: Dante’s Inferno
Giuseppe Mazzotta, Sterling Professor of Italian Language and Literature, Yale University

May 10 – 14, 2004 at the University of Oklahoma
Robotics—Artificial Intelligence Meets the Real World
Illah Nourbakhsh, Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University



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