January - May 2010
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Date
|
Speaker
|
Topic
|
1/03 |
Dr.
Nancy Tuchman
Director, Center for
Urban Environmental
Research and Policy
Loyola University
|
"Environmental
Sustainability"
|
1/10 |
Murray Pomerantz
Educator, Israeli Expert
|
"Update on Israel:
2009 Elections"
|
1/17 |
Dr. Ron Miller
Co-Director
Common Ground
Prof. of Religion
Lake Forest College
|
"Ron Miller Reflects on 30 Years
with LSUS"
|
1/24 |
Dr. Christopher Mount
Assoc. Prof.
Dept. of Religious Studies
DePaul Univ.
|
"How Roman Imperialism and Christian Persecution Shaped the New Testament"
|
1/31 |
Dr. Jay Olshansky
Prof., School of Public Health at U of I at Chicago
Research Associate
Center on Aging
|
|
2/7 |
Dr. David Spadafora
President
Newberry Library
Chicago
|
"1859: A Pivotal Year" |
2/14 |
Dr. William Taylor
Emeritus Professor
Political Science
Oakton Community College
Facilitator, Seeds of Peace, Hands of Peace
|
"Peace Not Victory
in the Middle East"
|
2/21 |
Dr. Jerome Bowers
Assoc. Professor
Dept. of History
NIU, Director, Genocide & Human Rights Institute
|
"Priestly: Reassessing Unitarian Theology in the Past and Present" |
2/28 |
Dr. Gabriel Reynolds
Tisch Family Assoc. Prof. of Theology Director of Theology Studies Program University of
Notre Dame
|
"Latest Theories on the Quran in Islamic World and the West" |
3/7 |
Dr. Gary Saul Morson
Chair, Dept. of Slavic Languages & Literature
Northwestern Univ.
|
"Tolstoy's
War & Peace:
What does it say to us in the 21st Century?"
|
3/14 |
Rabbi Adam Chalom
Rabbi, Kol Hadash
Humanistic Congregation
|
"Imagine Theres's No Heaven: Humanist Approach to Mortality and Memorial" |
3/21 |
|
"LSUS Young People Come of Age" |
3/28 |
Dr. Cristina Traina
Assoc. Prof. Dept of Religious Studies
Northwestern Univ.
|
"A Global Perspective on Child Labor" |
4/4 |
Rabbi Herbert Bronstein
Rabbi Emeritus
Senior Scholar of
North Shore Congregation
|
"Happiness: Themes from Passover and Easter" |
4/11 |
Reverend Don Wheat Minister Emeritus
3rd Unitarian Church
|
"The Greatest Inequality of All...
Gender? Height? Race?
|
4/18 |
Dr. Stephen Asma
Pr, Dept. of Liberal Education, Eastern Philosophy
Columbia College, Chicago
|
"The Evolutionary Causes of Ethics" |
4/25 |
Dr. Sara Anson Vaux
Lecture
Dept. of Religion Director, Office of Fellowships
|
"The Theme of Forgiveness in Clint Eastwood's Invictus and the Dardenne Brothers' Le Fils (The Son) |
5/2 |
Dr. Patrick Callahan
Chair, Dept. of Political Science, DePaul Univ.
|
"Ethical Reflections on the War in Afghanistan" |
5/9 |
|
"Unitarianism in Other Countries" |
5/16 |
Religious Education Participants |
"Annual RE Program" |
5/23 |
Lake Shore Unitarian Society Choral Group
And tribute to
Barbara Stewart
after Program
|
"Annual Music Celebration" |
