Tocqueville Forum

Mark C. Henrie, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Rev. Stephen M. Fields, S.J., Associate Professor of Theology, Georgetown University

Location: Mortara Center, 3600 N Street, NW

 

George W. Carey, Professor of Government, Georgetown University and author of In Defense of the Constitution and The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition (co-author with Willmoore Kendall)

Patrick J. Deneen, Director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy

Location: Wagner Alumni House, 3604 O Street, NW

 

"Public Theology in America"
September 30, 2008, 5:30-8:00 p.m.
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom, Georgetown University
Darryl G. Hart, Scholar in Residence, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke University Divinity School 
(Rev.) Richard John Neuhaus, Editor in Chief of First Things
Location: ICC Auditorium

 

Peter Lawler, Dana Professor of Government, Berry College

Gilbert C. Meilaender, Phyllis & Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University

Location: Philodemic Room, Healy Hall
Continental Breakfast will be served at 9:00 a.m., Presentations to begin at 9:30 a.m.

Forum Lecture:
"Can Islam Tame Islamist Radicalism?: Muslim Sources in the West"
12:00--1:30 P.M. October 28th
Maajid Nawaz, Director of the Quilliam Foundation
Location: Copley Hall Formal Lounge

TOCQUEVILLE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION SERIES (2007-2008), Lecture 6

November 6, 2008, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Ralph C. Hancock, Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young  University

Location: Philodemic Room, Healy Hall

(Made possible through the generous support of the Earhart Foundation)

 

James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia and co-author of Red over Blue: The 2004 Elections and American Politics

William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard and columnist, The New York Times

Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University and author of A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan

Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Camille Paglia, University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia
Location: Georgetown University Hotel Conference Center Ballroom

 

Daniel N. Robinson, Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University; Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, Georgetown University

Location: ICC Auditorium

SPRING 2009

Click here for our updated University Calendar.

TOCQUEVILLE AND THE AMERICAN TRADITION SERIES (2007-2009), Lecture 7
"Alexis de Tocqueville and John Paul II on the Moral Trajectory of Modern Democracy"
Carson Holloway, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Made possible by the generous support of the Earhart Foundation
January 14, 2009, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Location: Philodemic Room, Healy Hall

A FORUM LECTURE
"What, If Anything, Did We Learn From Iraq?"
John Agresto, Princeton University
Author of Mugged By Reality: Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions
January 27, 2009
McShain Lounge Small, 5:15-6:30

A FORUM CONFERENCE
"Natural Rights and the American Constitutional Experience"
featuring:
Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute
Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center
Charles Lugosi, Ave Maria School of Law
Robert George, Princeton University
Phillip Muñoz, Tufts University
Brian Tierney, Emeritus, Cornell University
Robert Kraynak, Colgate University
Christopher Wolfe, McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies
Made possible by the generous support of the Bradley Foundation
Copley Formal Lounge
January 30, 2009; 9:30 am to 3:30 pm, with Lunch Keynote
RSVP required for Lunch and Keynote
For full schedule click here.

A FORUM LECTURE
"Kennedy and Lincoln: A Tale of Two Tragedies"
James Piereson, William E. Simon Foundation, Manhattan Institute
author of Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Killed American Liberalism
Respondents: Joe McCartin, Georgetown University
Steven Hayward, American Enterprise Institute
February 3, 2009; 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm
With a light reception to follow
Mortara Building Conference Room

A LINCOLN DAY LECTURE
"Of Ballots and Bullets: Lincoln, the Union and the Fate of Democracy in the World"
Bicentennial Birthday Celebration of Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Michael Lind, New America Foundation
February 12, 2009, 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Mortara Center, 3600 N Street, NW

A FORUM LECTURE
"Small Is Still Beautiful: Economics as if Families Mattered"
Joseph Pearce, Ave Maria University
March 3, 2009, 5:45-7:15 p.m.
Room 104  Healy Hall

2nd ANNUAL REV. JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. AWARD
Recipient: Dr. Leon Kass, University of Chicago
Lecture: "Defending Human Dignity: What It Is and Why It Matters"
March 23, 2009,  7:30-9:00pm
Copley Formal Lounge

A FORUM DEBATE
Co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute
"Economic Freedom and Moral Virtue:
Does the Free Market Produce Captive Souls?"
David Schindler, John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family
vs.
Doug Bandow, former Cato Senior Fellow, and author, Foreign Follies
Moderator: Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University
April 1, 2009, 7:00-9:00pm
Salon D, Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center


A FORUM LECTURE
Co-sponsored by the Mortara Center and the Center for Peace and Security Studies
"The End of American Exceptionalism: 1941-2008 as the Short American Century"
Andrew Bacevich, Boston University
April 2, 2009, 5:00-6:30pm
Mortara Center

A FORUM ROUNDTABLE
Co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
"International Religious Freedom – How Important is it to America?"
Tom Farr, Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
Respondents:
Allen Hertzke, Visiting Senior Fellow, Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Andrew S. Natsios, Distinguished Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Abkar Ahmed, Professor, Schoole of International Studies, American University
April 15, 2009, 5:00-6:45pm | Riggs Library

A FORUM LECTURE
Jack Miller Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Lecture
"That Unequalled Spirit of Enterprise: The Link
Between Political Economy and Strategy in the
Federalist"
Brian Smith, Georgetown University
April 16, 2009, 1:00pm
McShain Lounge Small

A FORUM CONFERENCE
Co-sponsored by the Jack Miller Center
"American Political Thought: Ideas and Institutions"
April 24-25, 2009
Location: Philodemic Room, Healy Hall
For a full schedule please visit here.

A FORUM COLLOQUIUM
Co-sponsored by the American Polish Forum
and Political Theory Colloquium in the Department of Government
at Georgetown University
"Solidarity and the Future of Democratization"
May 19, 2009 3:00pm-6:15pm
Reception to Follow
Location: Healy Hall Room 104
For the full schedule please visit here.

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."

- Alexis de Tocqueville