4/22/13

Judaism, Environmental Crisis is Topic for Siegel Lecture at SLU May 1

Roger S. Gottlieb

CANTON - The 2012 Rabbi Seymour Siegel Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence University will be delivered by Roger S. Gottlieb, professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, on Wednesday, May 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole Hall. The lecture, titled “Judaism, Jewish Experience and the Environmental Crisis,” is open to the public, free of charge. A dessert reception will follow.

Gottlieb is internationally known for his work as a leading analyst and exponent of religious environmentalism, for his passionate and moving account of spirituality in an age of environmental crisis and for his innovative and humane description of the role of religion in a democratic society.

Gottlieb is an author or editor of 16 books and more than 100 articles on environmentalism, religious life, contemporary spirituality, political philosophy, ethics, the Holocaust, feminism and disability. He received his bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. from Brandeis University.

Siegel was a noted Conservative Jewish author and scholar. His family donated his papers to St. Lawrence University's Owen D. Young Library and created an endowment for an annual lecture on campus in his memory.