TALK: America & the Human Future: Surviving Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq
Robert Jay Lifton (Harvard University)
Wednesday, February 16th / 8:00 PM / Free
Corwin Pavilion, UCSB

Robert Jay Lifton is Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology at CUNY. He was formerly Director of The Center on Violence andHuman Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He previously held the Foundations' Fund Research Professorship of Psychiatry at Yale University for more than two decades. The overall themes of Dr. Lifton's work have been holocaust and transformation. He has studied many of the most destructive events of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and has played an important role in the development of the field of psychohistory. His many books have won him critical acclaim, and he is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees.

Sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB; Global and International Studies Program at UCSB; Religious Studies Department at UCSB; History Department at UCSB; Sociology Department at UCSB; The Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research Center for Global Studies at UCSB; Law and Society Program at UCSB; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB; UCSB Bookstore; PAX 2100

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