India, Punjab Hills, Basohli, Bhadrakali,
Destroyer of the Universe, c1660-70. 
Howard Hodgkin Collection, London

Term One

• 7 March - Introduction
  Jackie Menzies, head curator of Asian art
     
• 14 March - To be a goddess now and then
  Rachel Kohn, ABC Radio presenter The Spirit of Things and The Ark
     
• 21 March - Kamakhya, Hindu goddess of desire
  Brenda Dobia, lecturer, School of Education, University of Western Sydneyia 
   
• 28 March - The goddess in classical Hindu literature: expressions of the divine female in the Rgveda
  Tamara Ditrich, lecturer in eastern religions and co-director, Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Queensland 
     
• 4 April - Iconography of the Hindu goddess
  Acharya Rami Sivan, Australian Council of Hindu Clergyes
   
• 25 April - Parvati: daughter of the Himalayas 
  Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions,  Divinity School and Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago 
  
  
• 2 May - Durga: slayer of the buffalo demon 
  Wendy Doniger
   
• 9 May - The ideal wife and the ideal family in Indian art
  Jim Masselos, honorary reader, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney
    
• 16 May - Burning of Sita: depictions in Balinese painting  
  Adrian Vickers, chair of Asian studies, Faculty of Arts
  University of Wollongong)
   
• 23 May - Ratu Kidul, Javanese goddess of the Southern Seas
  Joanna Barrkman  curator, Southeast Asian art and material culture
  Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
   
• 30 May - The giant Hampatong: protective ancestral figure from Kalimantan
  Ross Langlands, director Nomadic Rug Traders
   

Term two

• 18 July - Prajnaparamita: the perfection of wisdom in Buddhist religion and art 
  Chaya Chandrasekhar, curator of South and Southeast Asian art
   
• 25 July - Tara: Texts and icons in India and Tibet
  David Templeman, independent scholar and PhD candidate Monash Asia Institute, Monash University
   
• 1 August - Dakini: sky dancer and divine envoy
  Christina Sumner, curator of decorative arts and design, Powerhouse Museum
    
• 8 August - Kumari: the living goddess of Nepal
  Michael Allen, honorary research associate, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
    
• 15 August - An introduction to tantra: paths to enlightenment through sound and image
  Swami Shankardev Saraswati, yoga authority, medical doctor and author and Jayne Stevenson, author and filmmaker
   
• 22 August - Mothers, nuns and the feminine Guanyin: depicting Buddhist goddesses of temporal and heavenly realms
  Tonia Eckfeld, fellow, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
   
• 29 August - From Sarasvati to Benzaiten: a Goddess of Music and her transformation in South and East Asian cultures
  Andrew Alter, senior lecturer, ethnomusicology and Hugh de Ferranti, associate professor Japanese studies, University of New England
   
• 5 September - Shakti: the power of Shiva
  Alan Croker, architect
   
• 12 September - Bollywood images of the goddess
  Rachel Dwyer, reader in Indian studies and cinema and chair of the Centre of South Asian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
    
• 19 September - The goddess as lived and loved in India
  Kalpana Ram, senior lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University
   
• 26 September - Offerings to the Goddess: Hindu puja ritual
  Acharya Rami Sivan, Australian Council of Hindu Clergy