Colloquium and Speaker Series


Our past speakers have included:
George Kateb, Princeton University
Freedom of Association
Tyler Cowen, George Mason University
The Economics of Fame
Ruth Grant, Duke University
The Ethics of Incentives
David Hackett Fischer, Brandeis University
The Iconography of Freedom

Evan Charney, Duke University
Political Liberalism, Deliberative Democracy and the Public Sphere

James Fishkin, University of Texas
Democratic Theory

Judith Martin, "Miss Manners"
Manners and Civility

Paul Cantor, University of Virginia
Globalization and Popular Culture
Tracy Strong, UCSD
Nietzsche and Music
Michael Lienesch, UNC
The Evolution of Anti-Evolution
Jonathan Lear, University of Chicago
Plato on the Struggle for Hearts and Minds

Christopher Kelly, Boston College
Rousseau

Jerry Weinberger, Michigan State University
Benjamin Franklin

Peter Euben, University of California, Santa Cruz
The Polis, Globalization, and the Politics of Place

Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
The Idea of the Political

Mark Warren
Democratic Theory

Terry Pinkard, Northwestern University
Hegel's Social Theory

Laurence Lampert, University of Indiana/Purdue
Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil"

Bradley Smith, Federal Election Commission
Fair Elections

Gordon Tullock, University of Arizona
Dictatorship

Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
Religion and Liberalism in America

George Schulman, New York University
Prophecy in the Prophetic Tradition