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Lecture: "Perspectives on the Figure of Abraham"

May 3, 2016
On Sunday, May 15, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., the Pocitos Campus (Bv. España 2633), the lecture "Approaches to the Figure of Abraham," presented by Dr. Santiago Kovadloff, honorary professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and member of the Academic and Scientific Committee of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. The lecture is part of the seminar "Philosophical Perspectives on the Bible," organized by Limud Uruguay.

Prof. Kovadloff holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Business and Social Sciences in Argentina. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires.

He is a full member of the Argentine Academy of Letters, a corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy, and vice president of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

He is a member of the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome. He is a regular contributor to the Buenos Aires newspaper La Nación. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Criterio magazine. He was a member of the Ethics Tribunal of the Jewish community of Buenos Aires.

He is the author of the books The Primordial Silence, Essays on Intimacy, The Irremediable, Meaning and Risk of Everyday Life, A Biography of Rain, The Pressures of the Day, and The Enigma of Suffering, among others.

The lecture is organized by Limud Uruguay and the university’s Department of Jewish Studies.

Admission is free.