Israeli professor discusses Middle East in lectures

Neve Gordon, a professor of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, will give three lectures at KU next week.

Gordon will speak about “The Israeli Peace Movement in Dark Times” at 4 p.m. April 9 in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Peace and Conflict Studies Minor Program of the Department of Humanities and Western Civilization, the Kansas Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East and the Lawrence Coalition for Peace and Justice. For more information, contact Mehrene Larudee in the economics department.

Gordon will address “Israel in Dark Times” at 8 p.m. April 9 at Unity Temple on the Plaza, Fillmore Chapel, 707 W. 47th St., in Kansas City, Mo. The speech is sponsored by the National Catholic Reporter, Citizens for Justice in the Middle East and the Muslim Students Association at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Gordon also will present “Extra-Judicial Executions and Legitimization of Authority” at 4 p.m. April 10 in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union. This lecture is sponsored by the departments of political science (supported by the Cliff Ketzel Speakers Fund), communication studies, religious studies and philosophy.

All talks are free and open to the public.

Gordon received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and his bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Hebrew University. From 1992 to 1994 he was the director of Physicians for Human Rights in Israel.

Gordon is active in Ta’ayush, an Arab-Jewish partnership, and is a frequent contributor to The Nation, In These Times, The Humanist and The National Catholic Reporter, and he publishes a monthly column.