Mahatma Gandhi Commemorative Lecture

Individual Responsibility in a Rapidly Changed World: "We must be the change we wish to see in the world" - Mahatma Gandhi

Thursday, October 1, 2015
7:00pm–9:00pm
Simon Fraser University
Harbour Centre Campus, Room 1900
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver

Jennifer Allen Simons, C.M., Ph.D., LL.D. is the recipient of the 2015 Thakore Visiting Scholar Award and will give the Gandhi Commemorative Lecture on Thursday evening, October 1, 2015.

This event is free and open to the public but registration is required.  Click here to register or visit the SFU Institute for the Humanities for more information.

The Thakore Visiting Scholar Award is cosponsored by SFU’s J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities, The Thakore Charitable Foundation, and the India Club of Vancouver.  It has been presented annually since 1991 at Simon Fraser University and honours individuals who have devoted their lives to “creativity, commitment, and a deep concern for truth in public life, which includes, but it not limited to, showing the connection between academic values and critical public spirit.”

The award also recognizes commitment to Gandhi’s ideals of truth, non-violence, social justice, religious tolerance, education and ethics in politics. In addition to these principles, the award adds racial equality and concern for balance between industry and the environment.