2008-2009 Event Photographs
2008-2009 Event Photographs"How to Make the Most of Georgetown's Core Curriculum"
Father Stephen Fields, Theology Professor at Georgetown, shows students that the core curriculum is not a restriction, but an opportunity for intellectual discovery.
"Public Theology in America"
Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, Editor in Chief of First Things, speaks to the audience in the ICC Auditorium.
"Bioethics, Technology and the Human Person: Prospects for the Future of American Democracy"
Peter Lawler, Dana Professor of Government, Berry College, speaks at the roundtable during a morning conference in the Philodemic Room. Other panelists pictured are (right) Gilbert C. Meilaender, Phyllis & Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University, and (left) William Saletan of Slate.com.
Dr. Steven Brust, Forum Assoc. Director, greets Prof. Robinson as he makes his way into the ICC Auditorium to deliver the Carroll Lecture.
Prof. Daniel Robinson, Distinguished Research Professor, Emeritus, Georgetown University, and Member of the Philosophy Faculty, Oxford University, speaks to the audience on the importance of education.
Tocqueville Forum Student Fellow, Justin Hawkins, converses with Prof. Robinson after the lecture.
"What, If Anything, Did We Learn From Iraq?"
Prof. John Agresto, Princeton University, makes a point in McShain Lounge.
Conference: "Natural Rights and the American Constitutional Experience"
Michael Novak of AEI delivers his lecture to the conference attendees.
2nd ANNUAL REV. JAMES V. SCHALL, S.J. AWARD CEREMONY
Forum Director Professor Deneen delivers the opening remarks at the 2nd Annual Father Schall Awards Ceremony.
Father Schall listens intently, with Prof. Kass in the background.
Prof. Leon Kass, MD, Ph.D, of the University of Chicago and the President's Council on Bioethics receives the 2nd Annual Father James V. Schall Award for Teaching and Humane Letters from Director Patrick Deneen.
Prof. Kass delivers his lecture on human dignity (transcript can be found here).
Left to right: Founding supporter of the Schall Award, Michael Maibach; Fr. Schall; Prof. Kass; Prof. Deneen, Director of the Tocqueville Forum; Dr. Brust, Assoc. Director of the Tocqueville Forum.
"The End of American Exceptionalism: 1941-2008 as the Short American Century"
Forum Director Prof. Patrick Deneen introduces the keynote speaker, Prof. Andrew Bacevich, and hold up his recent book The Limits of Power.
Prof. Andrew Bacevich of Boston University addresses a capacity crowd inside the Mortara Center.
Jack Miller Center Post-Doctoral Fellow Lecture
"That Unequalled Spirit of Enterprise: The Link
Between Political Economy and Strategy in the
Federalist"
JMC Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Tocqueville Forum for 2008-2009, Brian Smith, delivers his lecture in McShain.
Co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs: "International Religious Freedom – How Important is it to America?"
Tocqueville Forum Assoc. Director, Dr. Steven Brust, introduces the speaker: Tom Farr, Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, and 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.
"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."