The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies will host a lecture by Tal Grinfas-David on Wednesday, March 2 at 8 p.m. at the Miller Center Auditorium, 105 Merrick Building. Grinfas-David will present “Understanding Zionism Through Its Music: A Century of Israeli Music.”

This exploration of Israeli music and culture presents a picture of life in Palestine from the first Aliyah through the founding of the state and into Israel’s contemporary mainstream culture. Touching upon styles and genres of music as a representation of changes in demographics, historical context, and Zionist endeavors, the presentation also examines the lyrics of several songwriters who memorialized key events in Israel’s history and thus helped to shape the nation’s heritage. This multimedia experience of Israeli life through the decades celebrates the struggles and victories of the people as they seek and develop their Israeli identity.

The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited. Light refreshments will be served at 7:30 p.m. on the Scharlin Patio. RSVP to [email protected] or call 305-284-6882.

The Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery will host grand rounds on Wednesday, March 2 from 11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, Ioannides Library, Room 2090. Robert Kirsner, Stiefel Laboratories Professor and vice chair of the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Hot Topics: Health Care Delivery and Skin Cancer and Comparative Effectiveness Studies in Wound Healing.” For more information, please call 305-243-4472.

The Department of Philosophy will present a lecture by Kevin Saunders, Charles Clarke Chair in Constitutional Law at Michigan State University, on Wednesday, March 2 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Learning Center, Room 192. Saunders will lecture on “Philosophy’s Relevance to the Law.” Saunders earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Miami in 1978 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan in 1984. He is the author of Violence as Obscenity; Limiting the Media’s First Amendment Protection (Duke University Press, 1996), Saving Our Children from the First Amendment (New York University Press, 2003) and Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech (New York University Press, 2011), as well as dozens of law review articles on topics ranging from the formal analysis of legal reasoning to constitutional law. For more information, visit www.miami.edu/phi or call 305 284-4757.

The School of Law’s Faculty Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, March 2 with Professor Mary Doyle, who will present “The Bush Brothers Repudiate the Federal-State Partnership in the Everglades: Restoration Loses Momentum on their Watch” in the fourth-floor faculty meeting room. The lecture begins at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at noon in the same room. A question-and-answer session will follow after the lecture.

Doyle was deputy general counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency during the Carter administration. She joined the faculty of the University of Arizona College of Law in 1974, where she served as associate dean for academic affairs from 1984 to 1986. She served as dean of Miami Law from 1986 through 1994 and was interim dean in 1998-99. During the 1994-95 academic years, she was dean-in-residence for the American Association of Law Schools.

From fall 1999 until the beginning of 2001, Doyle was on leave from Miami Law to serve in the U.S. Department of the Interior as acting assistant secretary of the interior for water and science and as chair of an intergovernmental panel coordinating a massive 20-year $7.3 billion Everglades restoration program.

There is limited seating for this event. To attend, RSVP to Detra Davis Fleming at [email protected]. Priority will be given to those first to reply.

Phillip G. Popovich, professor of neuroscience at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, will present “Manipulating Microglia and Macrophages to Promote Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury” on Wednesday, March 2 from 12 to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108 or visit www.themiamiproject.org/lectures.