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Gandhi Lecture Series 2015

When: Friday, October 9, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Where: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
Description: Cultivating a lived practice of nonviolence

'Be the change you wish to see in the world' an often used quote by Mahatma Gandhi leads us to the conclusion that true social transformation is rooted and entwined in individual transformation.

What are the underlying principles that connect individual transformation and cultural transformation? What might these principles look like expressed in our daily lives? What can we do individually and collectively to create the world we choose to live in?

Kit Miller has served as the director of the M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence since 2009. Her prior position was as director/celebrator of Bay Area Nonviolent Communication in Oakland, California. Kit has been learning about and organizing for nonviolence for the past 22 years in a variety of capacities. She draws on Gandhian and Kingian nonviolence, as well as nonviolent communication, the Work that reconnects and permaculture for direction and daily practice in her life and work. In addition to leading the Institute and teaching nonviolence, she works on community projects related to restorative justice, sustainability and race as applications of nonviolence in Rochester. Kit co-leads nonviolence retreats each year in various sites around the world. She has 3 children and is grateful to have been happily married for 24 years to her husband David.
Topical Areas: University Community, Indic Studies, Lectures and Seminars