Becky Bloom
Assistant Director of Curatorial Affairs · Southern Utah University
Specializing in Art History, Tibetan Buddhism, Buddhist material culture, and issues surrounding the intersection of religion and museums.
Tibetan Buddhism Modern & Classic Tibetan History of Art Non-Western Art Museum Curation
Christopher Key Chapple
Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, and Director, Master of Arts in Yoga Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Sanskrit Literature Samkhya Philosophy Yoga Jainism Buddhism
James L. Fredericks
Emeritus Professor of Theological Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Christian Theology Interreligious Dialogue Buddhism Dante
Eric Haruki Swanson
Assistant Professor of Theological Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Esoteric/Tantric Buddhism Japanese Literature Religions of Japan East Asian Buddhism
Candi Cann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Baylor Interdisciplinary Core and Religion · Baylor University
Expert on death, dying and grief, diversity in death and the intersection of death and technology around the world
Death and Dying Digital Death Digital Afterlife Death and Diversity Modern Mourning Practices
David Creswell
Professor · Carnegie Mellon University
David Creswell’s research focuses broadly on understanding what makes people resilient under stress.
Social Psychology Health Neuroscience Neuroscience Health Psychology Psychoneuroimmunology
Adam Frank
Professor of astrophysics, science commentator, and popular author · University of Rochester
Frank is a leading expert on how stars form and how they die, as well as civilizations before humans
Extraterrestrial Life Space Discoveries Life on Other Planets Civilizations and climate change Theoretical Astrophysics
Amir Hussain
Professor of Theological Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Interfaith Dialogue Islam and Muslim Lives in the United States; Muslim Communities in North America Religion on Film and Television
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
Professor of Psychology · University of Toronto
You can forget the trail of breadcrumbs on this journey since you're going to a place where the cream of the real you shines through!
The Psychology of Personality Intelligence Behavioral and Brain Sciences Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychology
Art Nomura
Professor Emeritus, School of Film and Television Studies · Loyola Marymount University
Art Nomura is a Fullbright Research Scholar (Japan, 2003) who has worked as a painter, sculptor, potter, filmmaker and New Media artist
New Media Documentary Video Art Narrative Film Production
Jack Downey
John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies, Professor of Religion and Classics · University of Rochester
Downey studies self-immolation as reistance, forms of protest, Roman Catholicism
Civil Disobedience Social Justice Christianity Roman Catholicism self-immolation
Victoria Lorient-Faibish MEd, CCC, BCPP
Keynote Speaker/Holistic Psychotherapist//Relationship Expert/Life and Wellness Coach · MassEnergy
Keynote Speaker/Holistic Psychotherapist//Relationship Expert/Life and Wellness Coach
The Ultimate Holistic Anti-Anxiety Workshop Relationships Boundaries Transform the Inner Bully Into A Supportive Coach
John Osburg
Associate Professor of Anthropology · University of Rochester
Osburg is an expert on contemporary Chinese society and the changing economy in China
Entrepreurship in China Chinese Society Contemporary China Masculinity China
Julia DeLancey
Professor of Art History · University of Mary Washington
Dr. DeLancey is an expert in the art history of early modern Italy, 15th & 16th century Italian painting, history of art in Venice & more
History of Disabilities Pigments Color Sellers Art History of Renaissance Italy Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-century Italian Painting