For Immediate Release September 19, 2005

For More Information Contact: Rich Schneider, 317-278-4564 rcschnei@iupui.edu

Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture Lecture

Controversial author, Jean Bethke Elshtain

INDIANAPOLIS - Jean Bethke Elshtain will deliver the 2005 lecture in the Center's ongoing series, "The Role of the Public Intellectual in American Society."

Author of the controversial Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World, and Democracy on Trial, among others, Elshtain is considered one of the country's most influential public intellectuals.

She is The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at The University of Chicago, where her teaching and research areas include social and political theory and ethics (including the history of political thought), contemporary political and social theory, moral philosophy and women's studies, and the just war tradition.

The lecture is slated for 7:30 p.m. on Friday, October 14, 2005, in Room 152 of the Informatics and Communications Technology Complex. The lecture is free and open to the public.

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