The Department of Religious Studies is pleased to announce that Samuel Heilman will deliver the 2012 Lillian and Marvin Goldblatt Lecture in Jewish Studies.

Heilman will present a lecture titled “Lubavitch, Messianism and the Denial of Death” on Monday, Nov. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in CIBC Hall.

He currently holds the Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies at the Graduate Centre, and is a distinguished professor of sociology at Queens College, City University of New York.

Heilman is also the author of eleven books – including the 2010 National Jewish Book Award-winning The Rebbe: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson – and is the editor-in-chief of Contemporary Jewry.

For more information, please contact Sheryl Dick at dickshe@mcmaster.ca.