February 23, 2006

Upcoming events

Tikkun editor/rabbi talks March 2

Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the bimonthly magazine TIKKUN and author of a newly published book about the need to reclaim America from the religious right, will deliver a lecture Thursday, March 2.

Titled “Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right,” Lerner’s lecture will take place at 6 p.m. in Room 107 of Harris Hall. A reception will follow in Room 108 of Harris Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.

Not surprisingly, Lerner’s newly published “The Left Hand of God: Taking Back Our Country from the Religious Right” (Harper San Francisco) has earned him plaudits from the left and criticism from the right. A spiritual manifesto for a new kind of change, Lerner’s new book includes a survey of American history and ideology and argues for the adoption of a life of higher purpose rather than a life of materialism.

Lerner’s book was celebrated at the “Spiritual Covenant for America” conference of religious and political liberals and progressives that took place last summer in Berkeley.

The conference was designed to launch a spiritual politics agenda and train organizers to bring the conference agenda to their communities. Lerner, with other leaders, will participate in a similar conference scheduled to take place in May in Washington, D.C.

Noted cardiologist to give Feinberg Lecture March 8

Elizabeth G. Nabel, M.D., director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, will be the speaker at the 10th Annual Frances Feinberg Lecture at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 8, in the Conference Center of the Feinberg Pavilion, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 251 E. Huron St., third floor. 

A reception will be held prior to the event at 4 p.m. in the atrium on the third floor of the pavilion.

Nabel, an internationally renowned researcher in vascular biology and genetic therapies for cardiovascular disease, will discuss “Genomic Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease.”

Nabel is a board-certified cardiologist. She was appointed director of the NHLBI in 2005. She joined the NHLBI in 1999 as the Institute’s Scientific Director of Clinical Research.

She also served as the chief of the Institute’s Vascular Biology Section, directing research on the molecular, cellular and genetic mechanisms that cause vascular disorders.