Arise Awake The Universal Swami Vivekananda In California

Celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda’s Visit to the Bay Area!

Vedanta Society Berkeley in association with the Consulate General of India, San Francisco and in collaboration with Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley 

Swami Vivekananda influenced several scholars in the U.S., Europe, and India in many fields during his lifetime.  As part of the year-long celebrations to mark Swamiji' s visit to the Bay Area in 1900, you are invited to an engaging academic discussion on Swami Vivekananda on Saturday Nov. 15th at 3pm at the First Presbyterian church in Berkeley at 2407 Dana St. Berkeley CA 94704.

Event includes very eminent speakers from great universities:

Keynote speaker Dr. Ruth Harris, author of the book Vivekananda: Guru to the World, Oxford University in England

Dr. Dipesh Chakravorty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago 

Dr. Robert Goldman,  Professor of the Graduate School and Catherine and William L. Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Sanskrit Emeritus and author of a highly authoritative translation of Ramayana, University of California Berkeley

A panel discussion will feature:

Dr. Rita D Sherma, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
Dr. Christopher Key Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Luther Obrock, UC Berkeley, CA