Post A Scientific Look at Synchronicity: The Search for Meaning in Coincidence Synchronicity, as defined by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, entails the simultaneous occurrence of a certain psychological state with one or more external events that appear as meaningful parallels; in other words, synchronicity references the notion of meaningful coincidence. Whether or not we choose to attribute meaning to such coincidences, they tend to constitute...
Post SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable Where do we humans get our supernatural beliefs from? It seems obvious to many that children are gullible and believe what they are told. But such an indoctrination account fails to answer a number of questions about supernatural beliefs. For instance, where do the beliefs come from in the first place? Why do highly educated...
Post Encyclopaedia Iranica: The Legacy of a Nation Past and Present Join us for a special celebration commemorating the completion of the midway point of the Encyclopaedia Iranica, the landmark undertaking by its founding Editor, Dr. Ehsan Yarshater, to record and document the history, culture, and life of the Iranian peoples from prehistory to the present. Dr. Yarshater will survey the remarkable work that has been...
Post Decoding the Spiritual Messages of Everyday Life How can science help us develop our deeper spiritual potential? This unique approach to the question combines spirituality with key concepts from modern psychology to help us overcome challenges and become more perceptive, creative, and fulfilled. In this fascinating new book, Dr. Paul DeBell, a psychiatrist with 30 years experience in clinical and academic psychiatric...
Post Spirituality and the Brain Can contemplative disciplines such as yoga and meditation increase your brainpower? How should we define spirituality, and how is it different from religion? Four experts in the field of psychiatry discuss how techniques such as yoga, meditation and prayer can impact not just our beliefs and behavior but also the physiology of our brains. Featured...
Post Brain and Self Although there is a great deal about the brain that we do not yet know, what we do know can be used to understand our behavior, as well as our sense of self and ultimately even influence the direction of human cultural evolution. Dr. Gordon’s paintings use metaphors of the Brain and Self, and symbols...
Post The Impact of Brain Function on the Concept of Criminality Dr. Bennett is Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Sydney, and Scientific Director of the Brain & Mind Research Institute and holds a University Chair awarded for research ‘recognized internationally as of exceptional distinction’. He graduated in Electrical Engineering and did his doctoral research in Zoology at Melbourne University before turning to the brain sciences and...
Post Universal Morality, Inclusivity, and the Brain Dr. Andrew B. Newberg is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology and Psychiatry at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and a staff physician in Nuclear Medicine. Upon completing a Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, he has actively pursued a number of neuroimaging research projects that have...
Post The More We Understand, The Less We Understand Dr. Martha Farah is currently Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, where she has been teaching since 1992. Farah has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University. She is the recipient of...
Post From Prodigy to Virtuoso: Mozart and Ostad Elahi Farhad Mechkat is a critically acclaimed composer, conductor, and musical virtuoso who began his musical studies at the Geneva Conservatory of Music. After graduating from the Mannes College of Music in New York, he spent 3 years studying with Toscanini’s disciple, Franco Ferrara in Rome and Sienna. He then returned to New York where he...
Post Advances in Neuroscience Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald is a Research Associate Professor in the Division of Biochemistry and Pharmacology of the Department of Oncology and the David Lauler Chair for Catholic Health Care Ethics at the Georgetown University Medical Center. He is a member of the Center for Clinical Bioethics, the Advisory Board for the Center for Infectious Disease...
Post The Neurobiology of Virtue: Evolution, Cognition and Human Flourishing Dr. Casebeer is a career intelligence analyst and Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force. He holds degrees in political science from the US Air Force Academy (BS), philosophy from the University of Arizona (MA), national security studies from the Naval Postgraduate School (MA), and a joint PhD in cognitive science and philosophy from the...
Post Common Morality: Deciding What to Do Dr. Bernard Gert is currently the Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, Dartmouth Medical School. In addition to being awarded numerous fellowships, he has been the recipient of two Fulbright Awards, and in 2006 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Bioethics and...
Post Neuroscience, Reverence and Moral Sense Dr. James Giordano is Samueli-Rockefeller Professor of Medicine and Neurosciences, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC. and is a Senior Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (VA), where he serves as Director for the Center for Neurotechnology Studies; he is a Fellow in Philosophical Psychology at Blackfriar’s Hall, University of Oxford, UK; Visiting...
Post Persons and their Brains Roger Scruton, Ph. D. is currently Research Professor for the Institute for the Psychological Sciences where he teaches philosophy at their graduate school in both Washington and Oxford. He is also Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. Dr. Scruton is a writer, philosopher and public commentator. He has specialized in aesthetics with particular attention to music...
Post The Varieties of Transcendent Love Dr. Leili Anvar is Professor in Persian Language and Literature at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris, where she is also the Head of the Iranian Languages Department. She holds a chronicle dedicated to literature and spirituality in the magazine Le monde des religions and co-hosts a weekly radio program on...
Post Infinite Echoes Infinite EchoesRobert Crinella – guitar & laudEmmanuel During – viola & oudPaola Munari – soprano Catena d’Amore by Cesare NegriTuo Splendore by LaudanovaSono Pellegrino by LaudanovaImprovisation on Middle Eastern MelodiesSelini Selini by Laudanova
Post Toward a Common Morality Discoveries in neuroscience and in particular neurotechnology have provided a unique window through which we can glance into the intricate workings of the human brain. Technologies such as brain scanning using positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging have enabled us to now monitor and understand the detailed geographical representation of human emotions, feelings,...
Post The Neuroscience of Fair Play As head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior at Rockefeller University, Dr. Pfaff uses neuroanatomical, neurochemical and neurophysiological methods to study the cellular mechanisms by which the brain controls behavior. His research has focused on steroid hormone effects on nerve cells as they direct natural, instinctive behaviors, as well as the influences of hormones...
Post Brain, Mind & the Nature of Being As the fields that are broadly grouped under the rubric of neuroscience provide increasingly more information about the structure and function of neural systems and the brain, it becomes relatively easier to accept and use this data as “facts” to guide, if not actually dictate, our perspectives and activities. Indeed, in the past decade neuroscience...
Post Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being Does the world make you sick? If the distractions and distortions around you, the jarring colors and sounds, could shake up the healing chemistry of your mind, might your surroundings also have the power to heal you? This is the question Esther Sternberg explores in Healing Spaces, a look at the marvelously rich nexus of...
Post How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist Whether you are a Christian, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, or even an Atheist, thinking about God can improve your cognitive functioning, physical health, and make the world a safer place to live. In How God Changes Your Brain, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and Mark Robert Waldman prove, for the first time, that meditation/prayer improves memory and helps...
Post The Paradox of Neurotechnology Read the Conference ReportAs published in Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine Though neurotechnologies have allowed unparalleled capability to bring groups of individuals together through rapid communication and informational delivery while at the same time providing invaluable insight into the workings of the brain, the paradox remains that these technologies may also incur more dystopian...
Post The Science Behind Happiness Despite the age-old quest to define the nature of happiness and identify its root cause(s), there is still no universal consensus on how happiness can be truly achieved. Recent scientific research has identified a number of factors that seem to correlate with happiness. Join our panelists as they examine these factors from a variety of...
Post The Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz Currently working on a selection of poems by three 14th century Persian poets—Hafez, Obeyd-e Zakani, and Jahan Khatun—Prof. Davis will discuss the details and challenges of his forthcoming book, The Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz (Mage, December 2009) as well as the intriguing relationship between these three contemporary poets from Shiraz...
Post My Uncle Napoleon Dubbed as “the most beloved Iranian novel of our time,” My Uncle Napoleon is Iraj Pezeshkzad’s widely-acclaimed literary masterpiece, a hilarious satire about youthful love in an extended Iranian family ruled by the egomaniacal and paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. The novel’s universal themes of love and family relationships, blended with its keen insight into...
Project Technology, Neuroscience, and the Nature of Being: Considerations of Meaning, Morality & Transcendence The aim of this three-part symposium series is to provide a forum for the launch of high-level interdisciplinary discussions intended to address and overcome the increasing isolation and fragmentation of the disciplines devoted to the science and advancement of the human person. The conferences, which will take place at Georgetown, Oxford University, and the United Nations in New York, will seek to incorporate recent advances in neuroscience into a more comprehensive paradigm that is consistent with what is known of the human condition from a philosophical, psychological, and theological perspective.
Post Traces of Nostalgia Widely recognized as the preeminent translator of Persian poetry and verse into English today—having rendered such literary masterpieces as Attar’s Conference of the Birds, Ferdowsi’s epic Shahnameh in three volumes, Gorgani’s Vis and Ramin, and Pezeshkzad’s My Uncle Napoleon—Prof. Dick Davis is also an award-winning poet with exceptional prosodic skill and range. Among Davis’s numerous...
Post Strings Resonance: A Musical Performance A special musical performance featuring a series of solo and duet pieces inspired by a vision of converging Eastern and Western musical traditions into a seamless, harmonious whole that reflects the universal nature of humankind. Renaud Garcia-Fons: Often referred to as “The Paganini of double bass,” the largest bowed stringed instrument in the orchestra, world-renowned...
Post Three Musical Precursors: Beethoven, Debussy & Stravinsky While it is certainly true that creativity constitutes one of the main components of any work of art, it does not necessarily follow that all creative minds engender new paths for subsequent generations to follow or rebel against. Beethoven, Debussy, and Stravinsky are thus exceptional in this regard, for history has shown that these three...
Post From Consciousness to the Soul: A Philosopher’s Journey in Neurotheology The trend of contemporary research labeled as “neurotheology” has a strange flavor for philosophers trained on a Cartesian diet. It offers an unusual blend of cutting-edge science and traditional spirituality, of experimentalism, hard-won facts and lofty philosophical speculations. Drawing from quantum physics and brain science, behavior therapy and mysticism, “neurotheologians” probe issues of ordinary psychology...
Post Beyond the Brain: The Experiential Implications of Neurotheology As explorations into the neuropsychology of religious and spiritual experience provide new insights into the neural mechanisms underlying the interplay of consciousness, volition, and emotion, the central question remains: to what extent does the mind transcend its neural basis? Conventional wisdom holds that assemblies of neurons must account for consciousness, and, by extension, for all...
Post Why God Doesn’t Use Biostatistics: Science and the Study of the Mind, the Body, and Spirituality With the rapidly expanding field of research exploring mystical and spiritual phenomena as well as altered states of consciousness, there have been many perspectives as to the validity, importance, relevance, and need for such research, in addition to the ultimate issue of how such research should be interpreted with regard to epistemological questions. Ultimately, this...
Post Unraveling the Mystery of the Self: From Descartes to the Human Consciousness Project℠ The mystery of the ‘self’ is a subject that has both captivated and eluded artists, philosophers, and scientists alike for centuries. Simply stated, the human mind or self constitutes the inexplicable and intimate entity that makes each and every one of us into the unique beings that we are today. Or to put it in...
Post Mind-Body Connections: How Does Consciousness Shape the Brain? certainly does not render it a good candidate for reduction to a physical basis. Noting that physical theories alone would be compatible with the absence of consciousness, popular philosophical arguments have long highlighted the fact that an adequate theory of consciousness requires more than mere brain physics can provide. In short, there is something more to our minds than meets the eye in brain imagery.
Post A Tribute to Dick Davis Professor Dick Davis, a noted English poet, has emerged as the foremost translator of a number of masterpieces of Persian poetry into English verse, thereby rendering a rare service to their widespread recognition. Born in Portsmouth, England, in 1945, and educated at the universities of Cambridge (B.A. and M.A. in English Literature) and Manchester (PhD....
Post In Search of the Self: The Science of Transcendence One of the subjects that has both captivated and eluded humankind throughout time is the mystery of the “Self”-that entity which endows each of us with our unique and transcendent personalities, thoughts, traits, and emotions. Although we are inherently aware of and involved with our own selves, we neither understand how this sense of self...
Post The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st Century Power Over the past 25 years, India has moved from a largely impoverished, underdeveloped country to a bustling, innovative, and rapidly changing society, boasting one of the fastest growing economies on the planet and a middle class equivalent to the entire population of the United States. In his latest work, “The Elephant, the Tiger, and the...
Project Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness Over the past decade, an increasing number of physicians and neuroscientists have sought to uncover the complex relationship between mind, brain, and consciousness as they continue to search for a more comprehensive perspective on the “self” and the workings of the human mind. Though much remains to be done, their findings to date have shed...
Post The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul Mounting a sweeping critique of a trend in popular science and the media to explain away religious experience as an artifact of the brain, neural pathology, or evolutionary idiosyncrasy, Prof. Mario Beauregard warns against the temptation to force the complex varieties of human spirituality into simplistic categories and models that are often conceptually crude, culturally...
Post Contemporary Mysticism: The Quest for Meaning in a Secular World Moderated by Ebby Elahi, MD, FACS Prof. James W. Morris Dept. of Theology, Boston College Prof. Jawid Mojaddedi Dept. of Religion, Rutgers University Prof. Simon Weightman Dept. of the Study of Religions, Univeristy of London Musical Performance by Emmanuel During & Ensemble The history of humanity is deeply intertwined with a search for transcendence and...
Post Timeless Beauty Over the past five decades, Ovissi has firmly established himself as a brilliant and versatile artist whose elegant work presents a unique blend of European, Persian, and contemporary art. Combining his passion and admiration of his Persian heritage with his love of beauty and artistic expression, Ovissi has published over 15 books and is the...
Post Spirituality in Daily Life: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ostad Elahi The life of Ostad Elahi (1895-1974), the celebrated master musician, jurist, philosopher and spiritual teacher—spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the conditions of religious life, both in his native Iran and globally. The striking contrast between the traditional ascetic disciplines and ecstatic rituals of his childhood upbringing, and his later experience of a deeply...
Post Temps i Espai (Time and Space) Though “Time and Space” represent two concepts that have taken on a multitude of interpretations throughout history, ranging from the two basic categories of human beings, according to Harvey, to merely being an illusion as Berkley has claimed, Miquel Solis’s special conception of time and space is more closely aligned with Kant’s perspective, in which...
Post Mind over Matter: Unlocking the Secrets of the Spiritual Brain Receiving international media coverage for his work on the effects of consciousness and volition on the emotional brain and the neural correlates of the mystical experience in Carmelite nuns, Dr. Mario Beauregard will present a nonmaterialist view of the relationships between mind, consciousness, and brain based upon various lines of scientific evidence set forth in...
Post Unifying Melodies: Redefining the Infinite World of Musical Creativity Composing original music is a joyous, stimulating, and liberating activity, but has historically been off limits to many people because of their supposed lack of musical training. Tod Machover and his innovative group at the MIT Media Lab, however, have specialized in developing tools and experiences—such as Hyperscore—that allow anyone to create their own music...
Post A Life Unseen: A Legacy of One Woman’s Courage, Humanity & Insight A simple and courageous woman who led by example, Malek Jân (1906-1993) devoted her entire life to the service of humanity and advocacy for the rights of oppressed woman and children. Notwithstanding her lack of sight and frail stature, and armed only with the strength of her character and the depth of her convictions, this...
Post Judging Children as Children: A Proposal for a Juvenile Justice System How does a civilized society view children and adolescents who violate the law? Should a just society punish such juveniles, and if so, what form should this punishment take? Should children and young offenders be treated as adults, as they currently are in most states around the country? And what are the policy consequences of...
Post The Art of Listening: A Melodic Evening with Farhad Mechkat Critically acclaimed international composer, conductor, and musical virtuoso Farhad Mechkat shares his unique perspective and insights on the fascinating world of classical music. Examining the subtleties of the age-old art of listening, Mechkat draws upon a lifetime of musical experience to help listeners open new doors for the appreciation and enjoyment of the most beautiful...
Post Healing Light: Thirty Messages of Love, Hope, and Courage Poet and author Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave offers a profoundly personal response to the tumultuous, emotional aftershocks of the devastation being witnessed today around the world. The author pays special homage to those who lost their lives or loved ones in these attacks by compassionately lending her voice to a more universal application, featured in...
Post What Happens When We Die Dr. Sam Parnia faces death every day. Through his work as a critical-care doctor in a hospital emergency room, he became interested in his patients’ accounts of experiences that they had while clinically dead. After collecting these stories and reviewing the latest research, he decided to conduct his own experiments in the field, resulting in...
Post A Literary Evening with Shashi Tharoor Dubbed as “one of the best in a generation of Indian authors” and “a fluid and powerful writer” by The New York Times Book Review, Shashi Tharoor, the eloquent Under-Secretary-General of Public Information at the United Nations and the acclaimed author of six books, is once again at his provocative best in his latest work,...
Post Revitalizing the Self: A Seminar on Energizing Mind, Body & Soul Revitalizing the Self is a special two-day workshop aimed at discovering and tapping into the unlimited power of the mind-body connection in order to achieve a more successful, balanced, and holistic approach to life. Examining the complex relationship between mind, body and soul, the workshop will demonstrate how to overcome various imbalances that quench our...
Post The Extended Mind: Unraveling the Mysteries of Consciousness A prominent neuropsychiatrist and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Dr. Peter Fenwick is a leading clinical authority on near-death experiences, having analyzed more than 300 of these life-altering events in the course of four decades of research. Associated with the Mental Health Group at the University of Southampton, Dr. Fenwick is also chairman...
Post Realizing Your Dreams: The Power of Self-Perception Perhaps one of the greatest gifts we have been given is the ability to see beyond our present state—in other words, the gift to dream. As long as we’re alive, there resides within each of us a special dream. We may not label it as such, but there is a dream or vision permeating within...
Post The Quest for Survival: Coping with Aftereffects of the Deadliest Disaster in History Following the terrible earthquake and Tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the Virtue Foundation sponsored a team of physicians led by Dr. Kiran Patibandla to provide much-needed medical assistance to the thousands of people living in camps along the southern coast of India. Accompanied by a CBS reporter, the team’s activities were...
Post Materializing Light: Drawings & Paintings In his unique work, the artist explores fractal formations and the use of pure color through archetypal formations that express the properties of self-similarity and infinite reproducibility. The objective of my painting is to create images that impart concrete experience to the unity of spiritual and scientific realities — Bruce Pollock Location: The Nour Foundation...
Post Extreme Poverty in a Prosperous World: The Quest to Achieve Sustainable Humanitarian Efforts Featuring:Ken Bacon, President of Refugees InternationalGeorge C. Biddle, Senior Vice President of International – Rescue Committee (IRC)Ebby Elahi, MD, FACS, Oculoplastic and Reconstructive Surgery The growing integration of economies and societies around the world has been one of the most hotly debated topics over the past few years. While globalization has resulted in rapid growth...
Post Music: A Universal Language for Harmony Transcending racial, cultural, and ideological boundaries, music is a universal language that brings together human beings from all different origins, backgrounds, and ethnicities. Used in many cultures and traditions as a vehicle for inner reflection and contemplation, music invigorates the spirit and strengthens higher love. In addition, in recent years musicologists have explored numerous therapeutic...
Post Healing the World: The Ethical Dimension of Globalization and Interdependence in the Age of Terror Coinciding with the United Nations World Day of Peace, Virtue Foundation’s Third Annual Multidisciplinary Symposium commemorating the anniversary of September 11 will feature a long list of distinguished speakers and panelists, including Kate Adie, Chief Correspondent of the BBC; Ken Bacon, President of Refugees International; Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme; John Chambers,...
Post The Implications of Outsourcing: Exploring the Economics of Globalization Fearuting: Dr. Michael T. Clark, Executive Director, U.S.-India Business Council Andy Dimitri, Director and Chief Operating Officer of the Information Technology Division, CSFB Kristin J. Forbes, Member, Council of Economic Advisers, The White House Tarun Khanna, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School Teresa McGonagle, Senior Vice President and Global Practice Leader, JPMorgan Chase Shashi...
Post Spiritual Approaches to Cultural Understanding: From Ibn ’Arabi to Ostad Elahi Prof. Morris explores the longstanding combination of cultural diversity, tolerance and spiritual cooperation that has historically allowed followers of Islamic faith to live peacefully in diverse communities throughout Asia. The lecture begins by examining the principles of spiritual intelligence as expressed by master-thinkers of Islam, from the influential classical Islamic exposition by Ibn ’Arabi (d....
Post Music and the Mystic Experience This rare lecture demonstration explores the relationship between spiritual philosophy and music within the context of the Persian tanbour (lute). A rich musical repertoire developed into an integral part of Persian mysticism and became a practice that Sufi mystics could use to spiritually connect to the divine or use as “wings to transport themselves to...
Post Searching for a Window of Hope: Overcoming Poverty, Hunger & Disease in the 21st Century Featuring: Dr. Ebby Elahi, Director, Mount Sinai-NYU, Hospital Eye Care ServicesNicholas De Torrente, Executive Director, Medecins Sans Frontieres, United StatesDr. Desmond Johns, Director, UN AIDS, New York OfficeAmbassador Kishore Mahbubani, Permanent Representative of Singapore to the UNDr. Christopher Murray, Director, Harvard University, Global Health InitiativeDr. Agostino Paganini, UNICEF, Team Leader, Emergency Operations Considering the remarkable...
Post Yuncaypata: Exploring a Quechua Indian Community in Peru Located an hour or so from Cusco, Peru, Yuncaypata is a small community of 400 Quechua Indians, more than half of whom are young children. Not much is heard about this community of peaceful Indians, whose life expectancy is under the age of fifty. When a 23-year-old Franco-American student serendipitously came across this village, she...
Post Education in the 21st Century: Addressing the Realities of Globalization Featuring:John Brademas, President Emeritus, New York UniversityJoseph A. Esposito, Associate Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of EducationRosalind W. Picard, Director of Affective Computing Research, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, M.I.T.Robert Weisbuch, President, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Although revamping the educational system has been a prevalent topic among academicians and politicians...
Post Symposium Commemorating the Second Anniversary of September 11 On the second anniversary of the unforgettable events of September 11, the Virtue Foundation has once again invited a select group of prominent experts from multiple disciplines–including Ambassador Joseph Verner Reed, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations; Gordon Conway, President of the Rockefeller Foundation; James Rubin, Former Assistant Secretary of State; and Chris Cramer, President of...
Post The Brainart Exhibition The BrainArt Exhibition consists of the work of renowned brain scientist Dr. Evian Gordon, editor of “Integrative Neuroscience” and producer of the TV series “The Human Brain” for PAGE and SBS Television. Some 40 works representing the artist’s exploration of Human Brain Evolution, Brain Dynamics, and their relationship to our sense of Self will be...
Post The Impact of the United Nations: Multilateralism in a Unipolar World Featuring:John Dauth, Australia’s Ambassador to the United NationsRaghida Dergham, Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, Al HayatEdward C. Luck,Director, Ctr. on Int’l Org., Columbia UniversityShashi Tharoor (Moderator), Under-Secretary-General, Communications & Public Information, U.N.James Traub, Contributing Writer, The New York Times Magazine Bypassing a second United Nations Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq of...
Post An Evening with Terence Ward Join author and cross-cultural consultant Terence Ward as he presents the touching story behind his inspirational and uplifting journey to Iran in 1998 in search of a former family friend. Mr. Ward will share his insight, memories, and knowledge about the culture and history of this enigmatic region of the world from a fresh and...
Post Symposium Commemorating the First Anniversary of September 11 Few would argue that the tragic events of September 11, 2001 did not devastate this nation and forever change the course of its destiny. Thousands of innocent lives were senselessly lost to an enemy that shamelessly preys on vulnerable and defenseless civilians. In response, the world community has joined together in unanimously denouncing these horrible...
Project From Tragedy to Unity: A Celebration of the Human Spirit Few would argue that the tragic events of September 11, 2001 did not devastate this nation and forever change the course of its destiny. Thousands of innocent lives were senselessly lost to an enemy that shamelessly preys on vulnerable and defenseless civilians. In response, the world community has joined together in unanimously denouncing these horrible acts of misguided hatred and destruction.
Post New York Early Music Series Advisor: Pat O’BrienDirectors: Kamran Bayegan and Tony Elitcher One of the most popular music programs hosted by the Foundation since 1995 is the New York Early Music Series, an extension of the New York Continuo Collective under the direction of Elitcher and Moncrieff. Featuring French and Italian music from the Renaissance and early Baroque period,...
Post An Enchanting Evening With Ovissi With exhibitions spanning across the globe from Brazil to Japan, Europe, and the United States, Ovissi has firmly established himself as a brilliant and versatile international artist whose passionate work presents a unique blend of European, Persian, and contemporary art. A painter, sculptor, engraver, designer, and goldsmith, he has published over twelve books in Italian,...
Post An Evening of Art with Charles H. Zenderoudi Featured in museums of modern art all over the world, the brilliant works of renowned artist Charles H. Zenderoudi converge the poignant essence of the East with the intellectual spirit of the West to portray a unique and profound reflection of humanity. Join us for an evening of dazzling art as Zenderoudi presents a collection...