Peace Studies Lecture & Discussion Every Tuesday, Noon to 1:00 490 Breyman NE (Salem Friends Meeting) Salem, Oregon 97201 45 minutes of Michael Nagler's classes on Peace and non-violence trainings at Berkeley by video and great discussion - Brown Bag lunch - Every Tuesday. Michael Nagler is Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program and taught the upper-division nonviolence course as well as meditation and other courses for over twenty years, and and is the founder-President of The Metta Center for Nonviolence Education (www.mettacenter.org). His major work, The Search for a Nonviolent Future, received a 2002 American Book Award and has been translated into Korean, Arabic, and other languages; he also wrote Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence (2005), The Upanishads (with Sri Eknath Easwaran, 1987), and other books as well as many articles on peace and spirituality. He has spoken for campus, religious, and other groups on peace and nonviolence for many years, and consulted for the U.S. Institute of Peace and many other organizations. Michael has worked on nonviolent intervention since the 1970's and served on the Interim Steering Committee of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. Among other awards, he received the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for "Promoting Gandhian Values Outside India" in 2007. Michael is a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation; he has lived at the Center's ashram in Marin County since 1970 and gives presentations around the world for the Center's Eight-Point Program. OFOR | PO Box 222, Salem, Oregon 97308 |