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Inform 2009 Spring Seminar

Inform Seminar XLII
Intentional Communities


Date: 
Saturday, 23 May 2009, 9.30am - 4.30pm

New Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science


Online clickable map available
here.

Inform Seminars are intended to help participants to understand, or at least recognise, different perspectives. The presence of speakers on an Inform programme does not mean that Inform endorses their position.
For Inform’s codes of practice see here.


LIST OF SPEAKERS

Professor Eileen Barker (LSE/Inform), More than a Nuclear Family: An Illustrated Introduction to Community Living

Chen Atid, BSc, MA (Emerson College), Freedom and Responsibility in an Anthroposofic Community

John Campbell (Jesus Army), The Bugbrooke Community- 40 Years On

Neville Hodgkinson (Brahma Kumaris), Henpecked to Heaven? My 15 years in a Woman-led Retreat Centre

Rashid Maxwell (Artist/farmer/beekeeper in the Sannyas movement), The Intelligence and Flow of Commune Life

Carol McQuire (former member of New Kadampa Tradition - NKT), Realising the Guru’s intention; How the NKT constructs the Guru in one community of the International Kadampa Buddhist Union

Professor Timothy Miller (University of Kansas, Lawrence), Creation then, evolution now: How 1960s spiritual communities have developed

Graeme Wilson (Church of Scientology), Isolation or Community (and shades in between)

Registration
Registration: Tickets (include buffet lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea) booked and paid in
advance by 10 May 2009 cost £38 each (£16 students/unwaged). To register, post cheque to
Inform, Houghton St., London WC2A 2AE. (Inform@lse.ac.uk; 020 7955 7654).
Tickets booked after 10 May 2009 cost £42 each (£21 students/unwaged).

Registration Form available here.

Provisional Programme here.



Inform seminars are intended to help participants to understand, or at least recognise, different perspectives. The presence of speakers on an Inform programme does not mean that Inform endorses their position.

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