CORONADO (Press Release)–Sanford Lakoff, PhD, will deliver lectures Dec. 14 in Coronado and Dec. 19 in Carlsbad on the situations in Iraq and in Israel.
Lakoff’s lecture will take place in the Winn Room of the Coronado Library on December 14 at 10:30 am. Five days later he will speak on the same subject in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on December 19 at 7:00 pm.
In his talk, professor Lakoff will describe his experiences and observations made during his recent trip to Iraq where he participated in an international conference titled “Liberty, Democracy, and New Realities in the Middle East and North Africa.” He will also discuss six potential impediments for establishing liberal democracies in the region’s post-tyrannical countries.
Sanford Lakoff, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of political science at UCSD. He earned his doctorate at Harvard, where he taught in the Department of Government. He is founding chair of the Department of Political Science at UCSD and is a distinguished scholar in political philosophy and science and public policy. He is the author of Equality in Political Philosophy, Democracy: History, Theory and Practice, and Max Lerner: Pilgrim in the Promised Land (1998, University of Chicago Press) among others. He has also contributed over fifty essays to edited volumes, journals, and encyclopedias.
Future lectures will feature brilliant professors speaking on their own areas of research. Rabbi Scott Meltzer of SDSU, in January, will speak about “Messianic Parallels in Rabbinic Literature and the New Testament.” In February, Dr. Joellyn Zollman will share on “Shalom, Hunan! An Historical Exploration of American Jews and Chinese Food.” Other speakers include Professor Risa Levitt Kohn and Professor Alyssa Sepinwall.
The Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies in Carlsbad and the Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series in Coronado are programs of the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, co-Sponsored by Jewish Federation of San Diego County. The Carlsbad program is also sponsored by the Leichtag Family Foundation while The Mandelbaum Family Lecture Series is additionally cosponsored by Friends of the Coronado Lecture Series. All lectures are free and open to the public.
For more information on this or future talks in these series, contact the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture, (858) 362-1327 or www.sdcjc.org.
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Preceding based on material provided by the San Diego Center for Jewish Culture