Dalai Lama and a 3rd science dialogue in 2013

Hot off my twitter feed from about 2:40 pm PDT today (Aug. 21.12): @natashamitchell (via @kristinalford) confirmed that there will be a 3rd series of science dialogues featuring the Dalai Lama on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) radio service.

Mitchell provided a link to two previous Dalai Lama science dialogues hosted by ABC, the first in 2009 and the second in 2011. Excerpted from the Dialogue with the Dalai Lama webpage on the ABC radio service website (Note: I have removed links),

In recent years, the Dalai Lama has engaged in a series of dialogues with influential scientists, especially in the mind sciences. He’s interested in exploring links between Western science and what he describes as the ‘contemplative’ science of Buddhism, in an effort to better understand the human condition and promote wellbeing. …

[2009 dialogue series]

  • Dialogue with the Dalai Lama: Part 1 (of 3)
    Saturday 5 December 2009

From the stage of the 2009 Mind and Its Potential conference, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins All in the Mind’s Natasha Mitchell in an extended conversation about the mind, science and much else. And, joining the dialogue over coming weeks is the founder of the field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, leading Harvard evolutionary biologist Marc Hauser, and Buddhist scholar Alan Wallace

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[2011 dialogue series]

Dialogue with the Dalai Lama – Part 1 [of 3] – happiness, sadness and everything in between

Saturday 25 June 2011

Is sadness important for happiness? How does compassion become a mental habit? From the Happiness and Its Causes Conference, His Holiness the Dalai Lama joins Natasha Mitchell with a panel of top scientific minds.

As for Natasha Mitchell, here’s more about her from her webpage on the ABC radio service website,

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Natasha Mitchell originally trained as an engineer, but escaped a PhD partway to pursue her real passion—radio. Her first stint behind a microphone was hosting a punk music show on Monash University’s 3MU.

She was the founding presenter and producer of ABC Radio National’s popular program All in the Mind from 2002-2012, her eclectic approach to science, psychology and culture attracting a passionate, global audience.

Natasha is currently vice president of the World Federation of Science Journalists, for which she’s served as board member since 2009. From 2009-11 she was a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Human Genetics Advisory Committee.

Natasha spent a year at MIT and Harvard as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow in 2005, where she also received a Marine Biological Laboratory Journalism Fellowship.

Her work has been recognized with four Gold World Medals and the overall Grand Prize at the New York Radio Festivals, four Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Broadcast Media Awards, the Yooralla Broadcast Media Award, and the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Professionals’ Award, among others. She was finalist for two Human Rights Awards.

Natasha Mitchell on Twitter @natashamitchell

They offer podcasts and transcripts of the previous and hopefully that will keep you satisfied until 2013.

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