TUESDAY October 6, 2026 – 10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
University Memorial Center (UMC) – 1669 Euclid Avenue (at the corner of Broadway & Euclid on the CU campus in Boulder) Room 235
Janet Ward Schofield, Award-winning Professor Emerita
Lecture: Discovering Bhutan: Land of Gross National Happiness
Janet Ward Schofield is an award-winning professor emerita of social psychology. Her research was featured on the Discovery Channel as well as on radio and TV in Europe and Asia. She has given presentations on five continents, including at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Stanford in the US. The most recent of her four books, Discovering Bhutan: Land of Gross National Happiness, is a travelogue and memoir introducing readers to this reclusive and fascinating Himalayan kingdom where she and her husband lived for over a decade as part of a 5-member team that established and developed Royal Thimphu College. With over 2,000 students in 10 areas of study, it is the only Bhutanese college to have twice received the highest possible accreditation mark, A+.
Lecture:
Journey into the mystical Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, where gods live atop mountains, mermaids inhabit sacred lakes, and spirits dwell in rocks, cliffs, and trees. Through captivating stories of encounters with everyone from the King and child monks to remote yak herders, discover the extraordinary culture, traditions, and legends of this fascinating and reclusive land.
Janet provides an enthralling portrait of Bhutan, a tiny, remote country that has won international admiration for its remarkable environmental policies as well as for originating the ground-breaking philosophy of Gross National Happiness.
Join her as she examines what is being lost—and gained—as Bhutan, largely unchanged for 500 years, transitions to democracy and confronts the challenges of the digital age. Explore the challenges these dramatic changes bring while Bhutan continues its pursuit of Gross National Happiness.
Photos from Lecture Luncheon #1. Click on photo to see entire picture.