(New Orleans)--Loyola University New Orleans Professor of Ethics Kenneth Keulman, Ph.D., will deliver the spring Yamauchi lecture Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. in Nunemaker Auditorium in Monroe Hall, 6363 St. Charles Ave. The lecture, “Civil Liberties and National Security: Political Ethics in an Age of Terrorism,” is free and open to the public. A reception follows.

Keulman is author of The Balance of Consciousness: Eric Voegelin’s Political Theory, and the editor and coauthor of Critical Moments in Religious History. He is currently writing The Politics of Globalization. Keulman has contributed to journals such as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Harvard International Review, French Politics and Society, Harvard Law and Medicine Society Bulletin, and LeTrimestre du monde. Keulman has taught at Harvard University and Rice University and was the Rockwell Lecturer at the University of Houston.

The Yamauchi Lectures in Religion series was begun in 1985 in memory of the Rev. H. James Yamauchi, S.J., former chair of the Department of Religious Studies, who taught at Loyola University New Orleans from 1956 to 1966. Yamauchi was known for his effective communication of knowledge about religion to the New Orleans community, and this lecture series seeks to perpetuate his work by bringing the results of religious scholarship to a wider audience.

For more information, contact the Department of Religious Studies at 865-3943.