Central College Professor to Discuss Sikhs and Anthropologists in Faculty Lecture Series
Pella, IA (02/24/2020) — Cynthia Mahmood, the Frank Moore Endowed Chair in Anthropology and professor of anthropology at Central College, will present "Civic Engagement Between Sikhs and Anthropologists" at 7 p.m. Monday, March 9, in the Boat/Moore rooms of Maytag Student Center.
The presentation is the fourth of five in the Central's 2019-20 Faculty Lecture Series with a focus on civic engagement. It is free and open to the public.
Sikhism is a faith tradition in which the spirit and the world are one piece; prayer and meditation are but the other side of service to community. Ethnographic work with Sikhs reveals a complex theology and history around this concept, which inspires a similarly engaged ethos in the anthropologist herself.
Mahmood is an expert on human rights and has taught at Central since 2014.
Central College of Pella, Iowa, is a private, four-year liberal arts college. Central is known for its academic rigor, leadership and character development, global experiential learning, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and sustainability education, athletics and service. For more information about Central College: www.central.edu.
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