Past Events
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University; Cornel West *80, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University; Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University
Welcome and Introduction by Christopher L. Eisgruber '83, Princeton University President
First-Year Families Weekend Event
Part of the Being Human Festival of the Princeton University Humanities Council Colleges and universities, especially those...
Part of the Being Human Festival of the Princeton University Humanities Council Colleges and universities, especially those...
D. Alan Shewmon, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Neurology and Pediatrics, University of California; Patrick Lee, Professor of Philosophy and John N. and Jamie D. McAleer Professor of Bioethics, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program, Princeton University
A DeCamp Bioethics Seminar
D. Alan Shewmon received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1971 as a music major. After medical school and residencies in pediatrics and...
Cosponsor: University Center for Human Values
Antón Barba-Kay, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Catholic University of America; Mark Bauerlein, Professor Emeritus of English, Emory University; Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
Moderated by Ana Samuel '00, Research Scholar, Witherspoon Institute; Academic Director, Canavox
Moderated by Ana Samuel '00, Research Scholar, Witherspoon Institute; Academic Director, Canavox
In the digital age, distraction has gone viral. James Williams, in the 2019 Princeton University Pre-Read Stand Out of Our Light, brings his advertising and philosophizing experiences (from...
James Madison Program Constitution Day Event
Michael S. Greve, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University
During recent months, there have been sharp public attacks on the Supreme Court. Especially in the wake of Justice Kavanaugh’s appointment, critics loudly question the Court’s legitimacy, and they...
Cosponsor: The Program in American Studies
Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
George F. Will *68, Syndicated Columnist, The Washington Post
Respondent: Christopher L. Eisgruber '83, President, Princeton University
George F. Will’s newspaper column has been syndicated by The Washington Post since 1974. Today it appears twice weekly in more than 440 newspapers. In 1976 he became a regular contributing editor of...
Cosponsors: Program in American Studies, Program in Law and Public Affairs, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
Annual Princeton University Reunions Event
Harvey S. Rosen, John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy; 22nd Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors
Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80, Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 University Professor Emerita of Politics and International Affairs; Former Director of Policy Planning, U.S. State Department
Bradley A. Smith, 2018-19 James Madison Program Visiting Fellow; Professor of Law, Capital University; Former Chairman, Federal Election Commission
Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director, James Madison Program; Former Chairman, U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; Presidential Appointee, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Former Member, President’s Council on Bioethics
In Memory of Alan B. Krueger, James Madison Professor of Political Economy; 27th Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors
Cosponsor: Department of Economics
May 14, 2019 to May 15, 2019
The Annual Robert J. Giuffra '82 Conference
Keynote address: David Novak, J. Richard & Dorothy Shiff Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Toronto
How are we to understand the relationship between religion and the free society? On the one hand, it might seem that religion was necessary to the rise of freedom in the modern world. Free...
Cosponsor: The Association for the Study of Free Institutions, Texas Tech University
May 9, 2019 to May 11, 2019
Thursday Keynote: Joseph Carens, Profesor of Political Science, University of Toronto, and Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Science, Institute of Advanced Study
Keynote Presentations
Thursday, May 9, 2019
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Thursday, May 9, 2019
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Cosponsors: The University Center for Human Values, The Program in Law and Public Affairs, The Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Migration in the Program in International and Regional Studies , James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
May 9, 2019 to May 10, 2019
Keynoted by David T. Konig, Professor of History and Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, and Michael Zuckert, Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Thursday, May 9
McCormick 101
4:30–6:00pm: Keynote Address
Introduction: Stanley N. Katz, Princeton
Address: David Konig and...
Cosponsors: Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University Press, Center for Collaborative History, Program in Law and Public Affairs, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Program in American Studies
The Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles
Adrian Vermeule, Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School
Liberal rulers undermine their own rule. They are compelled, by the peculiarly dynamic character of their faith and its accompanying sacramental liturgy, to violate a central precept of Ragion di...