Gandhi Jayanti and the Thakore Visiting Scholar Award
Sponsored jointly by the India Club of Vancouver, the Thakore Charitable Foundation, the Institute for the Humanities and the J.S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.
Mahatma Gandhi and his legacy have been honoured at Simon Fraser University since the unveiling of his memorial bust in the Simon Fraser Peace Square in l970. Each year the Gandhi Jayanti celebration brings members of the local Indo-Canadian community together with others who wish to salute his memory and honour his ideals.
Along with its local focus, this celebration also has a national and international orientation. Simon Fraser University, since l99l, has presented the Thakore Visiting Scholar Award to outstanding persons who have made the welfare of society their lifetime work. Recipients to date include Edward Broadbent, Douglas Roche, Ovide Mercredi, Ursula Franklin, Aung San Suu Kyi, George McRobie, Mary-Wynne Ashford, Marta de la Vega Torres, Thomas Berger, Medha Patkar, Lloyd Axworthy, Reverend James Lawson, War Child Canada, Operation Eyesight Universal and Marilyn Gullison, Michael Clague, Roy Miki, James Pau and Free the Children.
This year, we are proud to present the award to Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley.
Kogila Moodley is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Education at UBC and was the first holder of the David Lam Chair. Raised in the Indian community of apartheid South Africa, her research is focused on critical multiculturalism and anti-racism education. She has served as President of the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Ethnic, Minority and Race Relations (1998-2002).
Heribert Adam, FRSC, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at SFU and also holds an annual appointment at the University of Cape Town. Educated at the Frankfurt School of critical theory with Adorno and Habermas as mentors, his most recent books, co-authored with Kogila Moodley, are: Seeking Mandela: Peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians (Temple University Press, 2006) and, as editor, Hushed Voices: Unacknowledged Atrocities of the 20th Century (Berkshire Academic Press, 2010).
The Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in collaboration with The India Club, the Thakore Charitable Foundation and the J.S. Woodsworth Chair has been honoring public figures, scholars and individuals who, in Gandhi's tradition, have made the welfare of society their lifetime work. We are proud to honour Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley this year as the 20th recipient of the Thakore Foundation Visiting Scholar Award. We look forward to seeing all of you at the Gandhi Commemorative Lecture at Simon Fraser University where Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley will give a lecture, Gandhi and Mandela: Reconciliation in Deeply Divided Societies, and will be presented with this award. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday October 3, 2010 in the Fletcher Challenge Theatre at SFU Harbour Centre. This event is free and open to all but space is limited. To reserve a seat please visit: www.sfu.ca/reserve
For further information please visit: www.gandhijayanti.com.
