Conferences and Events

Note: Videos of past events are available on YouTube.

SPRING 2020 EVENTS

April 16, 2020: Paul Rahe, Professor of History at Hillsdale College, in the Government Department’s Political Theory Colloquium, on “Athens and Sparta.” In Knafel 450 at 4pm.

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FALL 2019 EVENTS

December 5, 2019: Daniel Fram  on "Why Rawls' Liberalism is both Cosmopolitan and Nationalist." 

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SPRING 2019 EVENTS

February 9, 2019: Rita Koganzon on “Sex, Freedom and Education in Rousseau's Emile."

April 25, 2019: Lorraine Pangle, on “Plato vs. Homer: The Old Quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry” 

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FALL 2018 EVENTS

November 8, 2018: Post-Election Analysis with Bill Kristol and Bill Galston. 
 

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SPRING 2018 EVENTS

Thursday, March 29, 2018: Ronna Burger on "The Fall from our Ancient Nature: Plato's Aristophanic Speech on Eros and the Biblical Story of Adam and Eve."

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FALL 2017 EVENTS

October 26, 2017: Dennis Rasmussen on "David Hume & Adam Smith and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought."

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SPRING 2017 EVENTS

April 20, 2017: Russ Muirhead on “The Epistemic Basis of Political Opposition.”

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FALL 2016 EVENTS

November 10, 2016: Biennial Post-Election Analysis with William Galston and Bill Kristol.


December 1, 2016: Mark Blitz on “Natural Limits and The Origin of Political Concepts."

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SPRING 2016 EVENTS

March 24, 2016. Hugh Liebert ’01, on “An Introduction to the Political Philosophy of Plutarch.”

April 21, 2016. Alberto Ghibellini, on “Leo Strauss and the Politicization of Philosophy.”

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FALL 2015 EVENTS

September 22, 2015: Charles Murray, on his new book By the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission.

October 29, 2015: Diana Schaub, on “Montesquieu’s Legislator: Putting Order in the Laws.”

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SPRING 2015 EVENTS

February 12, 2015. Alison McQueen, on “Thomas Hobbes: At the Edge of Promises and Prophecies.”

April 2, 2015. Robert Goldberg '81, on “Liberal Education and Plato’s Laws.”

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AUTUMN 2014 EVENTS

November 6, 2014: William Galston and William Kristol ’73, on the 2014 Election.

November 20, 2014: Christopher McClure, on "The Amazing Rhetoric of Thomas Hobbes."

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SPRING 2014 EVENTS

March 13, 2014: Charles Murray interviewed by William Kristol on his recent book, Coming Apart. 6 pm at the Forum, Harvard Kennedy School, JFK Street.

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AUTUMN 2013 EVENTS

September 19-20, 2013: A conference on the 500th anniversary of the writing of Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince. See full program here.

September 26, 2013, 4-6 pm, K354: Jesse Norman, Member of Parliament, on his new, responsibly acclaimed book Edmund Burke: The First Conservative.

November 7, 2013, 4-6 pm, K401: Maurizio Viroli, on his new book, Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece.

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SPRING 2013 EVENTS

April 4-5 2013: "Thinking About Politics": A Conference Dedicated to Explaining and Perpetuating the Political Insights of James Q. Wilson. See full program here.

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AUTUMN 2012 EVENTS

September 20-21, 2012: A conference on the 25th anniversary of Allan Bloom’s bestseller The Closing of the American Mind.

November 8, 2012: William Kristol, William Galston and Michael W. McConnell, with an analysis of the November 6 election.

November 29, 2012: Devin Stauffer, on Leo Strauss’s book on Socrates and Aristophanes.

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SPRING 2012 EVENTS

February 6, 2012: A conversation with Peter Thiel and Niall Ferguson.

February 21, 2012: Christopher Caldwell, on the doubtful survival of Europe.

March 30, 2012: Harvey Mansfield’s students and friends, to celebrate his 80th birthday discussing a selection of his writings. Conference schedule and readings.

April 19, 2012: Robert Bartlett, on “Sophistry: How to Make It Work for You.”