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Sangha Shantivanam
of Santa Cruz
Events
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2024 Speaker Event: Pandey
Guest Speaker:
Annapurna Pandey
Wisdom of the Upanishads
March 10 4p - 5:30p
Sangha Room/Hybrid
Dr. Annapurna Devi Pandey teaches Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from Jawaharlal Nehru University and a Post-doctorate in Social Anthropology from Cambridge, UK. Her research interests are women’s livelihood and identity in rural and tribal India, South Asian religions in the Indian diaspora in the US, and Indian immigrant women’s challenges and struggles in the Diaspora.
Dr. Pandey is the author of numerous essays on Women’s entrepreneurship and empowerment in India and the Indian diaspora.
She will reflect on the Vedic Mythology from the introduction of Universal Wisdom
By Bede Griffiths. Pp 16-23
We will be using this text in the coming months.
2023 Speaker Event Bankole
Link to the article on Akindele published in the Sentinel: https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2017/09/10/santa-cruz-county-stories-composer-opera-singer-restaurateur-akindele-bankole-does-it-all/
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