Parliament of Worlds Religion 2009 Melbourne Australia

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
11:30am-1:00pm INTERRELIGIOUS SESSION
method (the BIV method) used in Sweden to address the identity problems experienced by young refugee children during the asylum-seeking process when they are especially vulnerable. Marie Joyce is an academic and clinical psychologist and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She is a founding member of the Refugee Tertiary Education Committee IRTECI. Ann Lidgren is Minister for Interreligious Issues within the Church of Sweden. She has a background in psychotherapy. Susan Ennis is an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher who works with adult refugees in Australia and abroad. She is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Reviving and Maintaining Indigenous Languages: Saving Indigenous Languages in the Face of Globalisation Dr Darlene St Clair, USA: Dakota, Moderator Jacob Andrew Swamp, USA: Mohawk Clarence Jackson, USA: Tlingit Room 103 Panel Discussion The right of Indigenous communities to maintain or strengthen the continuation of their languages is an important part of Indigenous self-determination. Some communities focus on the classroom in their efforts to maintain languages, while other communities use innovative strategies such as language immersion. Panellists will discuss the importance of Indigenous language to the survival of future generations as well as its necessity in sacred ceremonial practices. lyekiyapiwin (Darlene St Clair) is an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at St Cloud State University and the director of the Multicultural Resource Center. Her career has focused on the education of Native peoples from early childhood to college, the integration of Native cultures, histories and languages into curricula, and the arts and cultural expressions of Native peoples. She is Bdewakantunwan Dakota and an enrolled member of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. Jake Swamp is employed with the Men for Change Program, part of the Icthini'sten ha Family Violence Shelter. He is a former leader of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation and was directly involved in the creation of the Akwesasne Freedom School, an acclaimed Mohawk language immersion school that has been an inspiration to many First Nation peoples in the United States and Canada, Clarence Jackson is a Tlingit Clan Elder from the village of Kake, Alaska. He is of the Ch'aak (Eagle) moiety. Tsaagweidi (Killer Whale) Clan. He is on the board of directors for Sealaska Corporation, a regional. Native, for-profit corporation founded by the US Congress for the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people. He also serves on the board of trustees for Sealaska Heritage Institute and its Council of Traditional Scholars.
Perspectives on Sustainability: Buddhist and Jewish Perspectives Ross Moore Venerable Michael Lobsang Yeshe Adele Hulse Allyson Bader Helen Gardner Room 106 Panel Discussion This program consists of two parts. The first presentation offers a prayer for peace, two short talks by two very different Buddhists, and a short awareness meditation It concludes with the dedication of the positive energy generated from the session toward achieving Parliament goals, sustaining individuals working for positive change, and healing the earth. In the second part, members of the Jewish Ecological Coalition provide a brief introduction to the Jewish perspective on environmental issues and then present on activities undertaken by the B'nai B'rith Environment Group and the Jewish Ecological Coalition towards creating a more sustainable world. Dr Ross Moore lectures on art and design at the Australian Catholic University. He has been a student of Tibetan Buddhism since meeting teachers in 1983. Since then he was worked intimately with Tara Insititute, where he has been centre director and spiritual program coordinator. He regularly teaches Buddhist philosophy and meditation and is particularly interested in exploring relationships between Western and Eastern cultural traditions. Currently he is writing a book on meditation for international publication. Venerable Michael Lobsang Yeshe was born in London in 1966 to a Greek father and a Belgian mother. He was raised in Kopan Monastery in Nepal and has been a Tibetan Buddhist monk since he was seven. At age thirteen, he entered the Sera Jhe Monastic University in South India, where he spent eighteen years studying Buddhist Philosophy. Since then he has taught and translated in Buddhist centres around the world. He is currently translator for Venerable Geshe Doga at Tara Institute in Melbourne Adele Hulse has written a column for The Age for 22 years, under the pseudonym Sharon Gray. Three collections of her columns have been published. She is the author of 'Big Love', the biography of Lama Thubten Yeshe. Hulse has worked for the Makor Jewish Community Library in Melbourne since 2000. The Library has published 82 memoirs and six anthologies, mostly Holocaust related. Hulse has been President of the Centre for Grief Education at Monash Medical Centre since 2002
Engagement for Justice: Meeting the Needs of Refugees Marie Joyce Ann Lidgren Susan Ennis Room 104 Interactive Workshop The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that there are more than 15 million international refugees in the world today. Significant numbers of refugees have recently settled in Australia and Sweden. This session will focus on several aspects of the refugee experience, beginning with the importance of religion and religious rituals in the time of crisis in the home country, the flight into refugee camps, and settlement in Australia. The first part will focus on refugees from Ethiopia, Iraq. Somalia and the Sudan and their healing process. The second part will focus on an innovative program in the camps to bring tertiary education to refugees through a combination of online and distance mode courses. The third part of the session will explain a pedagogical play
Allyson Bader has worked in Defence, telecommunications, procurement, knowledge management and consulting and has lived in Australia, Singapore and the US. She is a public servant who develops and delivers communications programs that support strategic financial initiatives. She
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