The Robert P. Kogod Annual Lecture will be given Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 8 pm, at Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem on the subject of "The Role of Religion in the Public Space: Israeli and American Perspectives." Speakers are Prof. William Galston, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, and Prof. Ruth Gavison, the Hebrew University. Moderator is Prof. Jonathan Malino, Guilford College.   The lecture, the capstone event to the Hartman Institute's biannual Philosophy Conference, is free and open to the public.   The theme of the conference, the 23rd Philosophy Conference held at the Institute, is: The Public/Private Distinction.   Participants from outside Israel are: Ted Cohen, University of Chicago Miriam Galston, George Washington University William Galston, Brookings Institution Michael Harris, London School of Jewish Studies Lawrence Kaplan, McGill University Barry Kogan, Hebrew Union College Judith Lichtenberg, University of Maryland David Luban, Georgetown University Jonathan Malino, Guilford College Charles Manekin, University of Maryland David-Hillel Ruben, University of London Michael Sandel, Harvard University Ari Schick, Michigan State University Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University Josef Stern, University of Chicago Howard Wettstein, University of California Israeli participants are: Yossi David, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ruth Gavison, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Annabel Herzog, University of Haifa Ariel Meirav, University of Haifa Saul Smilansky, University of Haifa Daniel Statman, University of Haifa Shalom Hartman Institute scholars participating and giving presentations at the conference include:  David Hartman Donniel Hartman Yitzhak Benbaji David Dishon Yair Eldan David Feuchtwanger Menachem Fisch Moshe Halbertal Menachem Lorberbaum Yair Lorberbaum Jennie Rosenfeld Naomi Sussman Hami Verbin Noam Zion Noam Zohar