2006-2007 Events Archive

October 19-20 Conference: “The Future of Civic Education in America

  • Keynote Lecture: The Honorable Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice, The United States Supreme Court
  • Title: "Constitutional Government and Civic Education in America
  • Location and Time: October 19, Gaston Hall, 7 p.m.
  • Full schedule of events...

Thursday, October 26
Roundtable:  Religion and Politics in America, Past Present and Future:  On Michael Kazin’s A Godly Hero

Thursday, November 16
Political Theory Lecture

  • Peter Berkowitz, George Mason University Law School and Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  • Title: “John Stuart Mill’s Idea of a University, and Our Own
  • Location and Time: Mortara Seminar Room, Mortara Center, 5:30pm

Monday, February 12 Cancelled
Inaugural Lincoln Lecture

  • James M. McPherson, Professor Emeritus of History, Princeton University
  • Title: “Abraham Lincoln's Invention of Presidential War Powers”
  • Location and Time: Marriott Conference Center (Leavey Student Center) 4:30 pm

Monday, March 12
Roundtable:  Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind After 20 Years

  • Michael Zuckert, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
  • Norma Thompson, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University
  • James Seaton, Department of English, Michigan State University
  • Francis Fukuyama, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
  • Moderator:  Patrick J. Deneen, Department of Government, Georgetown University
  • Location and Time: Marriott Conference Center (Leavey Student Center), 4:30 pm

Thursday, March 22
Inaugural Carroll Lecture

  • James R. Stoner, Louisiana State University
  • Title: “Republicanism and Orthodoxy: The Contribution of John Carroll”
  • Location and Time: Gervase Conference Room, 5pm

Thursday, April 18
Political Theory Lecture

  • Roger Scruton, University of Buckingham
  • Title: “Conservatism as Conservation
  • Location and Time: Gervase Conference Room, 5pm