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10/15/01

PEACE PROCESS IN ISRAEL IS TOPIC FOR SLU'S SIEGEL LECTURE

CANTON - Ian S. Lustick, professor of political science at the 
University of Pennsylvania, will give the 2001 Rabbi Seymour Siegel 
Memorial Lecture at St. Lawrence University, on the topic "Israel 
and the Iron Wall: The Role of War in the Peace Process." The lecture 
will be on Thursday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. in Herring-Cole; a 
dessert reception will follow, and the event is open to the public, 
free of charge.
	Lustick, founder and past-president of the Association for 
Israel Studies, holds the Richard L. Simon Chair in the Social Sciences 
at the University of Pennsylvania, and has worked as an analyst at the 
U.S. Department of State. He has also been a consultant on Middle East 
policy for several presidential administrations, and has lectured 
widely on topics related to the Middle East.
	His publications include Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: 
Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank-Gaza 
(1993); "Reinventing Jerusalem" (Foreign Policy, 1993-94); and "Writing 
the Intifada: Collective Action in the Occupied Territories" (World 
Politics, 1993). Lustick is also the editor of a 10-volume collection 
of articles entitled Arab-Israeli Relations: Contending Perspectives 
and Recent Research (1994).
	Rabbi 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.

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