Dr. Michael Nagler to Speak, June 25 at UUP

Dr. Michael Nagler will speak on Sunday, June 25, at the Unitarian Universalists of Petaluma’s Sunday worship service, held at 10:30 a.m. at the Petaluma Woman’s Club at 518 B Street. His talk is tentatively titled “Peace From Within.”

Nagler has devoted his life to exploring nonviolence as an alternative to war. Professor Emeritus of Languages at the University of California, Berkeley, and founder and former chairperson of the University's Peace and Conflict Studies program, Nagler has become one of the world's most widely respected peace scholars and activists.

Nagler is also a student of Sri Eknath Easwaran, Founder of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation.

Nagler is the author of several books, including Is There No Other Way: The Search for a Nonviolent Future, which received an American Book Award in 2002. Nagler is on the editorial board of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society, and also serves on the advisory board of Tikkun magazine.

Nagler has been teaching various subjects at the university level for the past forty years, including ancient Greek, comparative literature, religious studies, and peace studies, and continues to teach highly popular courses on nonviolence and meditation at U.C. Berkeley. He makes his home in Petaluma.