Pada tanggal 28 April 2010, pembicara dalam forum mingguan CRCS-ICRS, Wednesday Forum, adalah Dr M. Valliammal Baskaran yang berbicara tentang “Hubungan Antar Agama Kuno Tamilnadu” Sedangkan Maufur Ipung, koordinator akademik ICRS, bertindak sebagai moderator.

Sebelum melanjutkan ke inti presentasinya, Valiammal menunjukkan peta India pertama untuk menunjukkan wilayah Tamilnadu kepada para audiens. Menurutnya, selama umur Sangam (300 SM – 300 M), ada tiga agama inti di sana: agama Veda, agama Adat, dan agama Shramanic – yang mengacu kepada Jainisme, Buddhisme, dan lain-lain. Valiammal mengatakan bahwa selama masa tersebut tiga agama utama ini eksis hingga akhir Zaman Sangam.

Kami mengundang mahasiswa CRCS dan ICRS, fakultas dan rekan-rekan lainnya untuk berpartisipasi dalam CRCS & ICRS Wednesday Forum minggu ini. Forum kali ini akan menghadirkan Dr. M. Valliammal Baskaran (Associate Professor, Department of History, Lady Doak College, Madurai Tamilnadu, India) sebagai pembicara, yang akan berbicara tentang “Hubungan Antar-agama di Tamilnadu Kuno” Informasi mengenai forum ini dapat dibaca dibawah ini.

Hari/tanggal: Rabu, 28 April 2010
Waktu: 12.30 – 14.30 WIB (gratis makan siang)
Tempat: Ruang 306, UGM Sekolah Pascasarjana Jln. Teknika Utara Pogung
Pembicara: Dr. M. Valliammal Baskaran

On April 28, 2010, the speaker of the weekly ICRS-CRCS Wednesday Forum was Dr. M. Valliammal Baskaran who spoke on “the Inter Religious Relations in Ancient Tamilnadu.” While Maufur, the ICRS academic coordinator, acted as moderator.

Before proceeding to the meat of her presentation, Dr. Baskaran showed first the map of India to locate where Tamilnadu is to the audience. According to her, during the Sangam Age (300 B.C. to 300 AD), there were three major types of religions that existed which were the: Vedic religion; Indigenous faiths; and Shramanic religions – refer to Jainism, Buddhism, Ajivaka etc. She said that during that time these three major types of religions co-existed until the end of the Sangam Age.

Dear CRCS and ICRS students, faculty and guests, We kindly invite you to participate in the CRCS and ICRS Wednesday Forum of this week. Wednesday forum will have M.William Baskaran (Professor and Head, Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Science) as the speaker who will talk about “Relevance of Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century.” Some information about this forum can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Time: 12.30 pm – 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara, Pogung
Speaker: M.William Baskaran

Dear CRCS and ICRS students, faculty and guests, We kindly invite you to participate in the CRCS and ICRS Wednesday Forum of this week. Wednesday forum will have Dr. M. Valliammal Baskaran (Associate Professor, Department of History, Lady Doak College, Madurai Tamilnadu, India) as the speaker who will talk about “Inter-religious Relations in Ancient Tamilnadu.” Some information about this forum can be read as follows.

Date: Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Time: 12.30 pm – 2.30 pm (free lunch)
Venue: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara, Pogung
Speaker: Dr. M. Valliammal Baskaran

Kami mengundang mahasiswa CRCS dan ICRS, fakultas dan rekan-rekan lainnya untuk berpartisipasi dalam CRCS & ICRS Wednesday Forum minggu ini. Forum kali ini akan menghadirkan M.William Baskaran (Professor and Head, Department of Gandhian Thought and Peace Science) sebagai pembicara, yang akan berbicara tentang “Relevansi Filsafat Gandhian pada Abad XXI.” Informasi mengenai forum ini dapat dibaca di bawah ini.

Hari/tanggal: Rabu, 12 Mei 2010
Waktu: 12.30 – 14.30 WIB (gratis makan siang)
Tempat: Ruang 306, UGM Sekolah Pascasarjana Jln. Teknika Utara Pogung
Pembicara: M.William Baskaran