Curriculum Viate For Douglass Allen
Back to the Philosophy Department Faculty at the University of Maine
Addresses
Department
of Philosophy 6
Charles Street
The Maples Orono,
Maine 04473
University of Maine U.S.A
Orono, Maine 04469 U.S.A.
Telephone: 207/581-3866; Fax: 207/581-2928 207/866-7782
E-mail: dallen@maine.edu or douglas.allen@umit.maine.edu
Education
Yale
University New
Haven, CT. 1959-63 B.A
Philosophy
Banaras Hindu Univ. Varanasi, India 1963-64 Indian
Philosophy
Vanderbilt Univ. Nashville,
TN. 1964-67 M.A.Philosophy
1971 Ph.D.
Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Phenomenology
(especially Phenomenology of Religion); Eastern Philosophy and Religion
(especially Hinduism and Buddhism); History of Religions (Religionswissenshaft);
Mircea Eliade; Mahatma Gandhi;Marxism and Political Philosophy (especially
Marx);
Comparative Philosophy and Religion.
Teaching Experience
Banaras Hindu Univ. 1963-64 Fulbright Instructor
Southern Illinois Univ 1967-72 Instructor, Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University 1972-73 Visiting Assistant Professor
Central Connecticut State 1973-74 Assistant Professor
University of Maine 1974- Assistant Professor; Associate Prof.;
Full Prof. (1981); Graduate Faculty;
Chairperson, Philosophy (1979-82,1998-2003)
Courses
taught at University of Maine:
Introd. to Philosophy; Introd. to Religious Studies; Social Issues in Recent
Religious and
Philosophical Thought; Problems of Philosophy; Marxist Philosophy; Twentieth
Century
Marxist Philosophy; The Nature of Religious Experience; Hinduism; Buddhism;
Views of
Self: East and West; Theories of Myth; Mircea Eliade; Mahatma Gandhi. Other
courses
taught: Ethics; History of Modern Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Afro-American
Philosophy; Graduate seminars on Indian Philosophy and Phenomenology of Religion.
Publications
Vanderbilt Dissertation: "The History of Religions and Eliade's Phenomenology"
Yale Honors Thesis: "Albert Camus: His Struggle with Nihilism."
Books
Structure and Creativity in Religion: Hermeneutics in Mircea Eliade's Phenomenology
and New Directions. The Hague, Paris, and New York: Mouton Publishers, 1978,
xviii + 266 pp.
Mircea Eliade: An Annotated Bibliography, Co-authored with Dennis Doeing. New York:
Garland Publishers, 1980, xxii + 262 pp.
Mircea Eliade et le phénomène religieux. Paris: Payot Editions, 1982, 276 pp.
Mircea Eliade y el fenomeno religioso. Madrid: Ediciones Christiandad, 1985, 301 pp.
Indochina and the War, Co-edited with Ngo Vinh Long, Special Issue of the Bulletin of
Concerned Asian Scholars 21, Nos. 2-4 (April-Dec. 1989), 212 pp.
Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States, and the War, Co-edited with Ngo Vinh Long.
Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991, x + 350 pp.
Religion and Political Conflict in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Editor. Westport,
Conn.: Greenwood Publishers, 1992, x + 230 pp.
Religion and Political Conflict in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, Editor.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.
The Philosophies of India (Nashville, Tenn.: Knowledge Products, 1996). This 120-page script
for cassettes in "The World of Philosophy" series is narrated by Lynn Redgrave.
Culture
and Self: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives, East and West,
Editor. Boulder,
Colo.: Westview Press/Harper Collins,
1997, xvii + 184 pp.
Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade. New York: Garland Publishers, 1998, xi + 380 pp.
Paperback edition: Routledge, 2002.
Comparative Philosophy in Times of Terror. Editor. Lexington Books, forthcoming.
The Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century. Editor, forthcoming.
Articles and Chapters in Books
"The Aesthetics of Albert Camus," Criticism and Research, ed. by N.M. Kalkarni, V. Rai,
T.N. Singh, and A.P. O'Brein (Varanasi, India: Lakshmi Das, 1964): 145-58.
"Is Academic Freedom Still a Viable Principle?" Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 3
(Spring 1971): 21-26.
"Mircea
Eliade's Phenomenological Analysis of Religious Experience," The
Journal of Religion 5
2 (April 1972): 170-86.
Translated as "L'analyse phénoménologique de l'expérience religieuse,"in Mircea Eliade,
ed. by Constantin Tacou (Paris: Editions de L'Herne, 1978): 128-38.
"A
Phenomenological Evaluation of Religious Mysticism," Darshana International 12
(July 1972): 71-78.
"Givenness and Creativity," Journal of Thought 8 (Nov. 1973): 270-78.
"Universities
and the Vietnam War: A Case Study of a Successful Struggle," Bulletin
of
Concerned Asian
Scholars 8 (Oct.-Dec. 1976): 2-16.
"Max
Müller: India, Europe, and the Origin of Religion," in Philosophical
Reflections |
(Dr. B.L. Atreya
Souvenir Volume: Part 2), ed. by R.S. Srivastava (New Delhi: Oriental
Publishers, 1977): 243-51.
"Tylor,
Otto, and the Irreducibility of the Religious," Darshana International 17
(Fall 1977):
17-29.
"Phenomenological
Method and the Dialectic of the Sacred," in Imagination and Meaning,
ed.
by Norman J. Girardot and Mac
Linscott Ricketts (New York: Seabury Press, 1982): 70-81.
"Ist
Eliade antihistorisch?" in Die Mitte der Welt, ed. by Hans Peter
Duerr (Frankfurt am Main:
Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984): 106-27.
"Essential
Religious Structures and Problems of Generalization," in Current Progress
in the
Methodology
of the Science of Religions, ed. by Witold Tiloch (Warsaw: Polish
Scientific
Publishers, 1984): 21-29.
"Vietnam and Central America," Lanka Guardian 8 (Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 15, 1986): 15-19.
"Edmund
Husserl," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol. 6 (New York:
Macmillan, 1987),
pp. 538-40.
"Phenomenology
of Religion," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, Vol. 11 (New York:
Macmillan,
1987), pp. 272-85.
"Chattopadhyaya's Marxian Interpretation of Indian Philosophy, History, and Society," Bulletin
of Concerned Asian Scholars 19 (April-June 1987): 60-66.
"Iran-Contragate: What You'll Never See in the Establishment Media," Lanka Guardian 11 (Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 15, 1988): 17-18.
"Eliade and History," The Journal of Religion 68 (Oct. 1988): 545-65.
"Marxism
and Buddhism: Similarities and Differences, Especially Regarding the Self," The
Maine
Scholar 1 (Fall 1988): 145-55.
"Introduction," Indochina
and the War, in Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 21,
Nos. 2-4
(April-Dec. 1989): 3-4.
"Antiwar
Asian Scholars and the Vietnam/Indochina War," Indochina and the
War, in
Bulletin
of Concerned Asian Scholars 21, Nos. 2-4 (April-Dec. 1989): 112-34
"Is
There Any Connection Between Studying the Humanities and Becoming an Ethical
Person?"
Southern Humanities
Review 24, No. 1 (Winter 1990): 33-47.
"American
Mythology: The Persian Gulf War as Myth," Lanka Guardian 14,
No 9 (Colombo, Sri
Lanka, Sept. 1, 1991):
13, 23, and Lanka Guardian 14, No. 10 (Sept. 15, 1991): 19-20.
"Scholars
of Asia and the War," in Coming to Terms: Indochina, the United States,and
the War,
ed. by Douglas Allen and
Ngo Vinh Long (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991). pp.
211-49.
"Preface" (pp.
vii-viii), "Introduction" (1-6), "Chronology" (303-20),
and "Bibliography"
(321-25) in Coming
to Terms (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press,1991).
"Religious-Political
Conflict in Sri Lanka: Philosophical Considerations," in Religion
and
Political Conflict
in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, ed. by Douglas Allen
(Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Publishers, 1992), pp. 181-203.
"Preface," "Introduction" (1-14),
and "Bibliography" (205-215) in Religion and Political Conflict
in South
Asia: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka Westport, Conn.: Greenwood
Publishers,
1992).
"Mircea
Eliade," in the Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches,
Scholars,
Terms , ed. by Irena Makaryk (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1993), pp. 306-308.
"Gandhi's
Philosophy: The Struggle Over Many Contradictory Philosophies," Social
Theory and
Practice 19,
No. 3 (Fall 1993): 289-313.
"Philosophical
Foundations of Gandhi's Legacy, Utopian Experiments, and Peace Struggles,"
Gandhi Marg 16,
No. 2 (July-Sept. 1994): 133-60.
"U.S. Left Scholars and the Vietnam/Indochina War," in Proceedings of the Radical Philosophy Association, Volume I (Dec. 1994), pp. 41-70.
"Recent Defenders of Eliade: A Critical Evaluation," Religion 24 (Dec. 1994): 333-51.
"Social Constructions of Self: Some Asian, Marxist, and Feminist Critiques of Dominant Western
Views
of Self," in Culture and Self: Philosophical and Religious
Perspectives, East and
West ed. by Douglas
Allen (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press/Harper Collins, 1997), pp. 3-26.
"Preface," "Introduction," and "Bibliography" in Culture
and Self: Philosophical and Religious
Perspectives, East and West,
ed. by Douglas Allen (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press/Harper
Collins, 1997), pp. ix-xv and
163-72.
"The
Enlightenment," in The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion (Washington,
DC:
Congressional Quarterly,
Inc., 1998).
"Violence
and Nonviolence," Philosophy and Social Action: Philosophy, Science,
and Society
24, No. 2 (April-June 1998):
15-22.
"Foreword," Geeta—The
Philosophy of Practical Life, Vol. 11, by V.B.N. Bakshy (Bombay
and
Delhi: Somaiya Publications, forthcoming).
"Debiprasad
Chattopadhyaya: Marxism, Indian Philosophy, and the History of Science," in
Essays in Honour of Professor
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, ed. by O. P. Jaiswal
(forthcoming.)
"Gandhian
Perspectives on Self-Other Relations as Relevant to Human Values and Social
Change Today," in Human Values and Social Change, Vol. I, ed. by
Ishwar Modi (Jaipur
and New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2000), pp. 283-309
“Humanitarian
Intervention: The U.S.-NATO Domination,” Philosophy and Social Action:
Philosophy, Science, and Society 26, Nos. 1-2 (January 2000): 93-98.
"L'ermeneutica
di Mircea Eliade e la storia delle religioni," in Esploratori del
Pensiero Umano:
Georges Dumézil e Mircea Eliade, ed. by Julien Ries and Natale Spineto.
(Milan: Jaca Book,
2000), pp. 311-29.
"Gandhi, Contemporary Political Thinking, and Self-Other Relations," in Contemporary Political Thinking, ed. by B. N Ray (New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, 2000), pp. 129-70.
"Mircea
Eliade's View of the Study of Religion as the Basis for Cultural and Spiritual
Renewal,"
in Changing Religious Worlds:
The Meaning and End of Mircea Eliade, ed. by Bryan
Rennie (Albany: State University
of New York Press, 2001), pp. 207-33.
“Cause
and Structure of Power: Terrorism,” Philosophy and Social Action: Philosophy,
Science,
and Society 28, No. 1
(Jan.-Mar. 2002): 15-19.
“Mahatma Gandhi,” The Philosophers’ Magazine (Jan. 2003): 52.
“Eliade
Hermeneutics and the Reception of the History of Religion,” in Deux Explorateurs
de la
Pensée Humaine: Georges
Dumézil et Mircea Eliade, ed. By Julien Ries and Natale Spineto
(Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2003), pp. 245-61.
“Philosophical
Foundations of Gandhi’s Legacy, Utopian Experiments, and Peace Struggles,”
in Non-Violence, Peace, and
Politics: Understanding Gandhi, ed. by Naresh Dadhich
(Jaipur India: Aavishkar Publishers,
2003), pp. 1-39.
“American Arrogance of Power: Threat to World Peace and U.S.,” Philosophy and Social Action:
Philosophy, Science, and Society 29, Nos. 3-4 (July-Dec. 2003): 37-39.
“Mircea Eliade and Platonism,” in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie (Bucharest: forthcoming).
“Major
Contributions of Philosophical Phenomenology and Hermeneutics to the Study
of
Religion,” in How to
Do Comparative Religion: Three Ways, Many Goals, forthcoming.
“Mahatma Gandhi,” in The Great Thinkers A-Z, ed. By Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom
(London: Continuum, 2004), pp. 103-105.
"Edmund
Husserl," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed.
(New York: Macmillan,
forthcoming).
"Phenomenology of Religion," in The Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd ed. (New York: Macmillan, forthcoming).
“The
Platonic Eliade,” in Neoplatonism and American Thought, ed. by Jay
Bregman (Albany:
State University of New York
Press, forthcoming).
“Phenomenology
of Religion,” in The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion,
ed. by
John Hinnells (London: Routledge,
forthcoming).
“Gandhi
After 9/11: Terrorism, Violence, and the Other,” in Comparative Philosophy
in Times
of Terror,
ed, by Douglas Allen (Lantham, Md.: Lexington, forthcoming).
"Mircea Eliade," in Encyclopaedia Britannica (new edition, forthcoming).
Konstantin Kolenda, ed., Creativity and Openness: Essays in Honor of James Street Fulton, in Philosophy and Rhetoric 10 (1977): 138-41.
Guilford Dudley III, Religion on Trial: Mircea Eliade and His Critics, in Religion 10 (Spring 1980): 133-37.
Mircea Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries, in Heythrop Journal 21 (1980): 207-209.
Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Faith and Belief, in Religious Studies Review 7 (April 1981): 140-41.
Helen B. Lamb, Studies in India and Vietnam, in Journal of Asian andAfrican Studies 17 (1982):
146-48.
Seyyed
Hossein Nasr, Knowledge and the Sacred, in Religious Studies Review 10
(April 1984):
153.
Mircea
Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 2: From Gautama Buddha
to the Triumph of
Christianity, and
Mircea Eliade, Ordeal by Labyrinth:Conversations with Claude-Henri
Rocquet, in Heythrop
Journal 26 (April 1985): 206-209.
T.R.V.
Murti, Studies in Indian Thought: The Collected Papers of Professor T.R.V.
Murti, ed. by
Harold Coward, in Journal
of Asian Studies 44 (May 1985): 632-33.
Dennis
Hickey, Home from Exile: An Approach to Post-Existentialist Philosophizing,
in
Religious Studies Review 12
(Jan. 1986): 48.
Antonio
Negri, Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse, in Southern
Humanities Review
20 (Spring 1986): 190-94.
Richard
Eugene Wentz, The Contemplation of Otherness: The Critical Vision of Religion,
in
Religious Studies Review 12
(July-Oct. 1986): 264.
Robert Bohm, Notes on India, in Journal of Asian Studies 45 (August 1986): 873-74.
Joanna
Macy, Dharma and Development: Religion as Resource in the Sarvodaya Self-Help
Movement, in Philosophy
East and West 37 (Jan. 1987): 97-100.
Debiprasad
Chattopadhyaya, Knowledge and Intervention: Studies in Society and
Consciousness,
in Philosophy East and West 38 (1988): 79-82.
Mircea
Eliade, A History of Religious Ideas, Vol. 3: From Muhammad to
the Age of Reforms, in
Heythrop Journal 29 (Oct.
1988): 520-21.
Ivan
Strenski, Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History, in Journal
of the American
Academy of Religion 59
(Winter 1991): 874-77.
Gene
Sharp, Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-military Weapons System, in Radical
Philosophy
Review of Books,
No. 5 (1992): 40-45.
Richard
Gombrich and Gananath Obeyesekere, Buddhism Transformed, in Philosophy
East and
West 42 (April 1992):
375-78.
Mac
Linscott Ricketts, Mircea Eliade: The Romanian Roots, 1907-1945,
2 vols., in Journal of the
American Academy of
Religion 60 (Spring 1992): 174-77.
Tariq
Ali, Revolution from Above: Where is the Soviet Union Going? in Southern
Humanities
Review 24 (Fall
1992): 361-63.
Carl
Olson, The Theology and Philosophy of Eliade: A Search for the Centre,
in The Journal of
Religion 74 (July
1994): 438-39.
David
Cave, Mircea Eliade's Vision for a New Humanism, in The Journal
of Religion 74
(Oct. 1994): 591-92.
Thomas
A. Idinopulos and Edward A. Yonan, eds., Religion and Reductionism: Essays
on
Eliade, Segal, and
the Challenge of the Social Sciences for the Study of Religion, in ARC:
Journal of Faculty
of Religious Studies, McGill University 27 (1999): 215-17.
Gavin
Flood, Beyond Phenomenology: Rethinking the Study of Religion, in International
Journal
of Hindu Studies 3
(August 1999): 206-207.
Bryan
S. Rennie, Reconstructing Eliade: Making Sense of Religion, in Zygon:
Journal of Religion
and Science 36
(1): 187-90 (March 2001).
Editorships
Editorial Board, Vietnam Quarterly 1975-76.
Editorial
Board, Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1976-present. (Journal
name changed to
Critical Asian Studies, 2001.)
Editorial Board, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 1976-present.
Editorial Board, Gandhian Studies, 1997-present. (Journal name changed to Gandhi and Peace Studies, 2001.)
Editorial Board, Archaevs (Romania), 2002-present.
Editor
of Book Series, “Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion,” Lexington
Books,
2002-present.
Honors
Fulbright Grant to India, 1963-64.
NDEA Fellowship to Vanderbilt University, 1964-67.
Many
teaching honors, including being selected by the undergraduate students,
graduate
students, and faculty of the Dept. of Philosophy for
the "Outstanding Teaching Award" at
Southern Illinois University; and being chosen by the
200 President's Scholars (the honors
students) at Southern Illinois University to teach the
first student initiated seminars.
Five
proposals have been funded as Faculty Summer Research Grants at the University
of Maine,
1976, 1978, 1983, 1991, and 1997.
Was
one of three scholars from the United States selected to participate in the "Methodological
Conference" in religion held in Warsaw in 1979.
Structure
and Creativity in Religion was selected by the American Council of
Learned Societies to
share first prize for the best first book in the history
of religions published during the past four
years, 1982.
Listed
in the Directory of American Scholars, various Who's Who editions,
and other similar
publications.
Selected as a member of the Maine Humanities Council, 1980-84.
Selected
as the representative for the Mellon Fellowships in the Humanities at the
University of
Maine, 1982-present.
Selected as the Faculty Representative to the University of Maine Board of Trustees, 1982-84.
NEH
Fellowship to attend Teaching Institution on "Marxism and the Interpretation
of Culture,"
University of Illinois, June-July 1983.
Smithsonian
Institution Fellowship for research in India on "Views of the Self:
East and West,"
1985-1986; fall 1992.
"Honorary Visiting Professor," University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Jan.-Feb., 1986.
"Visiting
Scholar," Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and Centre
for Social
Studies, Surat, India, Feb.-April 1986.
Grant
to Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, Collegeville, Minnesota
for research on
Mircea Eliade on Myth, 1991-1992.
"Visiting
Professor" at Centre for Study of Social Sciences, Calcutta; Dept of
Philosophy, Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi; and Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras; Sept.-Dec. 1992.
Elected
co-chair of Program Committee of Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy,
1993-
1994; Chair, Program Committee, 1994-present.
Selected for a University Sabbatical (one of five professors), 1991-1992, 1997-1998.
Selected
as the Distinguished Professor of the College of Arts and Humanities, University
of
Maine, 1995, 1996, 1997; College of Liberal Arts
and Sciences, 1998, 1999, 2000.
"Visiting Scholar" at the University of Delhi, India, Nov. 1997-Jan. 1998.
Grant from the American Academy of Religion to do research in Israel, March-May 1998.
Received
the 1998 Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award. (One professor
at
the University of Maine is selected for the Presidential
Award each year.)
Selected
to give the Commencement Address at the Commencement of the University of
Maine,
Dec. 1998.
Received the 2000 Distinguished Maine Professor Award (the highest honor for a professor at the
University of Maine, given for teaching, research, and service).
Elected Vice President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 1999-2000.
Elected President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 2001-present.
Elected to a three-year term on the national American Philosophical Association Committee on
the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies.
Visiting Scholar, the New Europe College, Bucharest, May-June 2002; Oct. 2003.
Invited as one of three keynote speakers at international conference on Approaches in
Comparative Religion, University of Helsinki, Nov. 2002.
Director of international conference on Comparative Philosophy in Times of Terror, Asilomar
Conference Grounds, California, May 2003.
Visiting Scholar at the Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research in Ujjain and the Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Invited
to give the major Valedictory Address on “Peace Education and Gandhi”
at the International
Conference on Peace Education for Contemporary Concerns at the University
of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Jan. 2004
Invited
to give the Extramural Lecture on “What Gandhi Would Say About 9/11/ the
War on Terrorism,
and the Iraq War,” attended by 400-500, Indian Institute of Technology Madras,
Jan. 2004.
Papers Presented
The following are major scholarly papers presented since 1974:
"Religious Symbolism, Ontological Moves, and Levels of Generality," presented at conference on "The Encounter Between Archaic and Contemporary Reality," Santa Barbara, 1974.
"Phenomenological
Method and the Dialectic of the Sacred," presented at conference
on "Coincidentia
Oppositorum: The Scholarly and Literary Works of Mircea Eliade," Notre
Dame, 1978.
"Phenomenological
Method and the Dialectic of the Sacred," presented at annual meeting
of the
Maine Philosophical Institute, 1978.
"Phenomenological
Method and Religion," presented at King's College, University of London,
1979.
"Mircea Eliade and Phenomenology," presented at the University of Lancaster, 1979.
"Essential
Religious Structures and Problems of Generalization," presented at the
"Methodological Conference of the International
Association for the History of Religions,"
Warsaw, 1979.
"Perspectives
on the Transcendence of the Ego: The Bhagavad-Gita, the Buddhist Pali
Canon,
and the Writings of Karl Marx," presented
at the International Research Conference for Asian
and Comparative Philosophy, "Interpreting
Across Boundaries," Hawaii, 1984.
"Philosophical
Analysis of the Transcendence of the Ego: Hindu, Buddhist, and Marxian
Perspectives," presented at conference on "Marxism
and Religion: Their Changing Dynamic,"
University of Northern Iowa, 1984.
"The
Buddha, Marx, and the Gita," "Is There a Crisis in the Comparative
Study of Religion?"
and "Nonviolence and Civil Disobedience: Gandhi
and Martin Luther King, Jr.," presented
as
the "Philosophy, Religion, and Psychology Lecture Series, 1986," sponsored
by Dept. of
Philosophy, University of Peradeniya, and Sri Lanka
Philosophical Society.
"Major
Aspects of the Philosophy of Karl Marx," presented at Madurai Kamaraj
University and
Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, 1986.
"Lessons
of the War in Vietnam and Central America," presented at the Centre
for Social Studies,
South Gujarat University, Surat, India, 1986.
"Hindu,
Buddhist, and Marxian Critiques of the Modern Western Self," presented
at the Indian
Institute of Technology-Madras, the Centre for Social
Studies, Surat, and the Graduate Centre
Seminars, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, 1986.
"Is
Eliade Antihistorical?" presented at the New England Meetings of the
American Academy of
Religion, Wellesley College, 1987.
"Interpreting
Mircea Eliade" and "Critiques of the Western Self," presented
at the University of
Vermont, 1987.
"Marxism
and Buddhism: Philosophical Foundations, Some Similarities and Differences,"
presented at the Association of Asian Studies,
1988.
"Can
Humanities Studies Make One Ethical? A Qualified 'Yes'," presented at
the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association, Washington,
D.C., 1988.
"On
Becoming a Person: Marx, Buddha, and the Humanities," presented at the
University of
Southern Maine, 1989.
"The
Historical and Cultural Constitution of Concepts of the Self," presented
at the Sixth East-
West Philosophers' Conference, Hawaii, 1989.
"Indian,
Marxist, and Feminist Critiques of the Self," presented at Eastern Division
of the
American Philosophical Association, New York, 1991.
"Religious-Political
Conflict: Philosophical Issues" and "Mircea Eliade's Theory of
Religious
Myth," presented at St. John's University, Minnesota,
1991-92.
Ten
scholarly papers, primarily on "Views of Self: East and West" and "Religious-Political
Conflict in India," presented in India, Sept.-Dec.
1992.
"Eliade's Theory of Religion," presented at University of Miami, 1993, 1994, 1995.
"Constructions
of Self as a Key to Understanding Cultural Diversity" and "Religious-Political
Conflict in India: Is Philosophy Completely Irrelevant?" presented
at Society for Asian and
Comparative Philosophy Conference on "Ways of Understanding
Cultural Diversity," Hancock,
Massachusetts, 1993.
"Class
and Gender: 'Unhappy Marriage' or Dialectical Relation," presented at
statewide
Conference on Class and Gender, University of Maine,
1994.
"U.S.
Scholars and the Vietnam/Indochina War," presented at the First National
Radical
Philosophy Conference, Drake University, 1994.
"East
and West: Culture and Self," presented at the opening of an art exhibit
at the Farnsworth
Museum, Rockland Maine, 1995.
"Marx:
Enlightened or Romantic?" and "Sounding the Retreat: Postwar Philosophy," presented
at Arts and Humanities Month, University of Maine, 1994,
1995.
"Social
Constructions of Self: Asian, Marxist, and Feminist Critiques of Dominant
Western Views
of Self," presented as the College of Arts
and Humanities Distinguished Lecture, University of
Maine, 1995.
"Social
Constructions of Self: Indian, Marxist, and Feminist Contributions," presented
at Eastern
Division of the American Philosophical Association,
New York, 1995.
"Buddhist
and Marxist Critiques of the Dominant Western Construction of Self" and "Group
Hatred," presented at the Second National Radical
Philosophy Conference, Purdue
University, 1996.
"The
Ambiguous Reception of Mircea Eliade in the USA: The Historical, the Political,
and the
Scholarly" and "Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya's
Marxist Challenge: What is Living and What
is Dead in Indian Philosophy and Religion," presented
at the Annual Meeting of the American
Academy of Religion, New Orleans, 1996.
"The Philosophies of India," presented at Bergen Community College, 1997.
"Gandhi's
Approach to 'the Self': Creative Possibilities for Philosophical Reflection
or Hopelessly
Nonphilosophical?" presented at the Maine
Philosophical Institute, 1997.
"Self
and Other in India: The Philosophy of Mohandas Gandhi," presented at
the Fourth Annual
Meeting of the International Association for Asian
Philosophy and Religion, Los Angeles, 1997.
"Self
and Other in the Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi" (and similar topics),
presented at
Banaras Hindu University, the University of Rajasthan,
the Indian Institute of Technology-
Madras, the Institute of Gandhian Studies at Warda,
the University of Delhi, and the
National Institute of Social Work and Social Sciences
at Bhubaneswar, Nov. 1997-Jan. 1998.
Lectures
on the self-other relation in Hindu and Jewish philosophy at Bar-Ilan University
and
Hebrew University in Israel, April-May
1998.
Lectures on “The Philosophy and Religion of Mohandas Gandhi,” Florida International University (1999), and “Nonviolence, Truth, and Morality: Mahatma Gandhi’s Religious, Philosophical, and Political Alternatives to Dominant Western Values,” University of Miami (2000).
Lecture on "The Impact of Philosophical Phenomenology on the Study of Religion," and chaired sessions on "Human Rights" and the "Philosophy of Religion" at the 18th Quinquennial World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), Durban, South Africa, August 2000.
Lectures on “Terror and Terrorism” including “Struggling with Terror and Terrorism: What the Religion and Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi Can Tell Us About the Tragedy of September 11,” Florida International University, and “Swimming in the Sea of Terror and Terrorism: Origins, Nature, and Solutions to the Tragedy of September 11,” University of Miami (2002).
Lectures on “Mircea Eliade and Platonism,” “The Scientific Posterity of Mircea Eliade,” “Eliade: 15 Years Later,” and “Terror and Terrorism” in Romania at New Europe College, University of Bucharest, Institute of Philosophy of the Romanian Academy, Spiru Haret University, and Constantin Brancaveanu University (May-June 2002).
Lecture on “Mircea Eliade’s Phenomenology of Religion and Platonism,” Conference on Platonism, Neoplatonism, and Literature, University of Maine (June 2002).
Keynote lecture on “Major Contributions of Philosophical Phenomenology and Hermeneutics to the Study of Religion, “ Conference on Approaches in Comparative Religion Reconsidered, Helsinki, Nov. 2002.
Lecture on “What Mahatma Gandhi Would Say About 9/11 and the War on Terrorism, ” presented at the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, 2002.
Lecture on “The Self, Phenomenology, and Globalization,” at international conference on Comparative Philosophy in Times of Terror, Asilomar, May 2003.
Two lectures on the Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi for the Twenty-First Century: Violence and Nonviolence, and Unity and Diversity, World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, August 2003.
Six lectures (two on philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics, two on Mahatma Gandhi, one on Mircea Eliade, and one on Indian philosophy) in Romania at New Europe College, Institute of Philosophy of the Romanian Academy, Spiru Haret University, Brasov Transilvania University and Constantin Brancaveanu University (Oct. 2003).
Twelve lectures, mainly on a variety of Gandhi topics (Peace Education, Truth and Nonviolence, Self Relations, Gandhi and Terrorism, the Iraq War, Gandhi after 9/11), at the International Conference on Peace Education for Contemporary Concerns at the University of Rajasthan, the Madhya Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research and Vikram University in Ujjain, Dept. of Philosophy at Banaras Hindu University, Gandhi Institute of Studies in Varanasi, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and Centre for the Studies of Developing Societies in Delhi (Jan.-Feb. 2004).
The following are some of the other papers presented at conferences and to university, high school, and community gatherings:
The Nature of Religious Experience The Nature of Religious Symbolism
Creativity and Religion Introduction to Oriental Philosophy
Talks on Hinduism and Buddhism The Political and the Spiritual
Ego vs. Enlightenment in Oriental Phil. India: Where Does It Go from Here?
The Foundations of Marxism Major Contributions of Karl Marx
Marx and Judaism Major Contributions of V.I. Lenin
Marx, Lenin, and the Soviet Union Marxism and Buddhism
What is Feminism? Modern Feminist Theory
Feminism: West and Third World Feminism and Marxism
The Power of Meditation Philosophical Basis of Vegetarianism
The New Religious Cults The Ethics of Affluence
The Concept of Justice The Meaning of Democracy
Lessons of the Holocaust Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
Academe and "the Real World" The Nature of the University
World Hunger: Myths and Realities The Significance of Jean-Paul Sartre
Many talks on Vietnam/Indochina War: roots of war, Vietnamese culture and history, Vietnamization, lessons of Vietnam, antiwar movement, scholars of Asia and the war. The Nuclear Arms Race The Draft Understanding Iran
El Salvador and U.S. Policy Vietnam Lessons and Central America
Many talks on South Africa, apartheid, university investments
Many talks on the Middle East/Persian Gulf conflict (Iraq, Islam, etc.)
Many talks on racism on anti-Semitism &nbs