You can stream this year’s Salem Peace Lecture with a nuclear weapons abolition expert.
Dr. Ira Helfand will deliver this year’s Salem Peace Lecture. His topic will be “Back from the Nuclear Brink: Prescription for Survival.” Dr. Helfand will lecture in person as well as being live-streamed worldwide on Willamette University’s YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/a4YvlcIAbX0
“Dr. Helfand is a perfect fit for this topic,” said Fariborz Pakseresht, a member of the Peace Lecture Committee. “He is co-chair of national Physicians for Social Responsibility’s Nuclear Weapons Abolition Committee, as well as serving as Immediate Past President of PSR’s global parent organization, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW).” Helfand is also one of the originators of the international Back from the Brink campaign to address the global threat of annihilation by nuclear weapons. According to Peter Bergel, another committee member, “few people can equal Dr. Helfand’s mastery of the nuclear weapons issue.”
The lecture will take place at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, October 26 in Willamette University’s Smith Auditorium. There is no charge to attend. It will also be live-streamed at https://youtu.be/a4YvlcIAbX0. Anyone requiring disability accommodation for this event is invited to email chaplain@willamette.edu.
Dr. Helfand will also speak at Oregon State University’s College of Liberal Arts’ School of History, Philosophy and Religion the following day, October 27, at 2 pm in Multipurpose Room 13 in the Memorial Union. That event is also free of charge.
