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Don Otto Rogers delivering the 2009 Balyuzi lecture.
(All photos by Evan Wilder.)Washington, D.C., 31 August 2009 (CBNS) — Close to one thousand participants attended this year’s 33rd Annual Conference of the Association for Baha’i Studies, held in Washington, D.C., August 13 to 16. The conference was organized by the Association, for the first time in collaboration with an outside agency, the International Environment Forum. There were two plenary presentations by guest speakers, Geographer Peter Brown of Canada’s McGill University and Professor Soli Shahvar of the University of Haifa, and an outstanding Balyuzi lecture from former International Counsellor and well known Canadian artist, Donald Otto Rogers.

Mr. Paul Lample addressing a plenary session of this years' ABS conferenceSan Diego, California (CBNS)- Scholarly pursuits should be governed by a humble posture of learning. According to Mr. Paul Lample, this describes the activities of local Bahá’í communities throughout the world as they strive to make intellectual, moral and spiritual education more and more systematic.

Mark Keedwell at the South Keys Chapters in Ottawa with the first copies of "Baha'u'llah" for sale. (Nov. 2007)Vancouver, British Columbia, 1 May 2008 (CBNS) — Responding to increasing interest in books about spiritual issues, Chapters bookstores in Ottawa and Vancouver have been stocking Canadian author Shahrokh Monjazeb’s new book on the Prophet-Founder of the Baha'i Faith, “Baha’u’llah.” Eight Chapters stores in these two cities now have copies of the book, with a number of additional stores expected to add it to their shelves soon.

A small group discussion at the University of Alberta symposium in October.Toronto, Ontario, 15 April 2008 (CBNS) — Canadian Campus Associations for Baha'i Studies (CABS) chapters have responded vigorously to the refusal of Iranian authorities to allow Baha’is to attend universities and colleges. The 2007-2008 school year has seen a number of initiatives designed to raise awareness of the way in which Baha'i students in Iran continue to be denied their right to higher education.

Fariborz Sahba speaking at the Yale symposium. In the background, the Bahá’í House of Worship in India.
New Haven, Connecticut, 12 December 2007 (CBNS) — On October 26 and 27th 2007, the Yale School of Architecture held a symposium called, “Constructing the Ineffable: Contemporary Sacred Architecture”. Among the presenters was Fariborz Sahba, Canadian architect of the Bahá'í House of Worship in India and the Terraces of the Shrine of the Báb in Haifa, Israel.