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MEDIA CONTACT: Polly Burks
561-297-2595, pburks@fau.edu
FAU Launches Peaceful Mind/Peaceful World Series
with Lecture by Carol Flinders
BOCA RATON, FL (March 15, 2006) – Florida Atlantic University’s Peace Studies Program presents the first event in its Peaceful Mind/Peaceful World series. Carol Flinders, author of several books and articles about faith and women’s issues, will present “From Inside Out: A Culture of Peace and the Women Who are Building it.” The lecture will take place Monday, March 27 at 4 p.m. in the Majestic Palm Room of the University Center on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road. There will also be a book signing at the Barnes and Noble on Glades Road across from FAU on Sunday, March 26 at 4 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.
After earning her doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, Flinders spent much of her early career writing about natural foods, co-authoring the popular “Laurel’s Kitchen” cookbooks and posting a weekly syndicated newspaper column. In 1990, she wrote “Enduring Grace: Living Portraits of Seven Women Mystics,” a book that sheds light on the lives of women mystics who lived during the Middle Ages, including Saint Catherine of Genoa and Saint Therese of Avila. Subsequent books include “At the Root of this Longing: Reconciling a Spiritual Hunger and a Feminist Thirst,” “Rebalancing the World,” and in Spring 2006, she will release “Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women of Faith in Action.” This latest book profiles four contemporary women of faith who continue in the tradition of the women profiled in her earlier book. The women profiled are Jane Goodall, Etty Hillesum , Sister Helen Prejean and Tenzin Palmo.
Flinders lives in California at the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation with her husband, with whom she co-authored “The Making of a Teacher,” a portrait of the late Eknath Easwaran, a philosopher and teacher who stresses the importance of slowing down the mind to contribute to a more peaceful existence.
The next event in FAU’s Peaceful Mind/Peaceful World
Series will be a lecture, lunch and workshop, on Saturday, April 8
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., titled “Creating Inner Peace:
Healing, Wellness and Healthcare,” with keynote speaker Jill
Bormann, Ph.D., R.N., of the VA San Diego Healthcare System and San
Diego State University.
There will be a
follow-up workshop on April 22.
These events are sponsored by FAU’s Peace Studies Program, the Women’s Studies Program, and the Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters; and the Center for Intentional Health of the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing. FAU’s Peace Studies Program is designed to provide students with a deeper understanding of the complexity of peace and the resolution of conflict from a multidisciplinary perspective. Additional lectures and workshops will be scheduled for the fall of 2006. For more information, call 561-297-3158.
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