Fwd: Paul Kurtz to Embark on Speaking Tour of India
Kevin Saldanha
From: Center for Inquiry <in...@centerforinquiry.net>
Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Subject: Paul Kurtz to Embark on Speaking Tour of India
To: Kevin Saldanha <veg...@gmail.com>
Dear Kevin Saldanha,
Paul Kurtz to Embark on Speaking Tour of India
CFI Chairman and Founder Paul Kurtz has been invited to lecture at
various universities and colleges in India, including two newly
established Centers for Inquiry. He will receive an Honorary Doctoral
Degree from Periyar Maniammai University on September 9th where he
will deliver the commencement address on "Critical Thinking and
Planetary Ethics."
The university is near Chennai (formerly Madras) where he will deliver
two other talks, including the awarding of the "Veeramani Social
Justice Award" to the chief minister of the State of Tamil Nadu.
Professor Kurtz will also speak on September 11th at the University of
Pune, one of India's premier universities (near Mumbai), often
considered to be the "Oxford of the East." He will keynote an all-day
conference on "Secularism, Humanism, and Nation Building in Asia." The
university is host to a Center for Inquiry.
Kurtz will speak on September 13th at Maulana Azad Medical College in
New Delhi, considered one of the top medical schools in India. He is
Guest of Honor at a special symposium on the "Challenge of Beliefs and
Faiths to Public Health." His talk will be on "Evidence-Based
Medicine." The college also hosts a new Center for Inquiry.
His final talk will also be in New Delhi. Sponsored by the Rationalist
Association of India, his topic is "The Scientific Temper and
Secularism."
This speaking tour is Dr. Kurtz's seventh trip to India.
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