Past Events
March 30, 2022
The Harold T. Shapiro Lecture on Ethics, Science, and Technology
Charles Camosy, Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University
The Annual Harold T. Shapiro Lecture on Ethics, Science, and Technology featuring Charles Camosy, Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University. The Shapiro Lecture honors former Princeton...
March 15, 2022
Charles E. Test, M.D. '37 Distinguished Lectures Series
James Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
Join us for the Charles E. Test, M.D. '37 Lectures featuring Professor James W. Ceaser. This event includes a series of three lectures, taking place on the evenings of March...
February 24, 2022
James Madison Program Black History Month Event
Jacqueline C. Rivers, Executive Director and Senior Fellow for Social Science and Policy, Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies
Historically, the Black Church has played a vital role in the black community, spiritually, socially, and politically. In the current period the Black Church, like the church as a whole, is...
February 17, 2022
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Michael D. Breidenbach, Associate Professor of History at Ave Maria University
Our Dear-Bought Liberty is...
January 20, 2022
Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program and McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and Daniel Miner, M.D.
Join us for a community performance of folk music! The performance will be facilitated by Robert P. George and feature students from his Wintersession course, "Don't Think Twice! A Folk Music...
Cosponsor: Wintersession
December 7, 2021
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Scott Brewer, Professor of Law, Harvard University
Please join us for a lecture by Scott Brewer, professor of law at Harvard University. In this lecture, he will explore what kinds of competitive success are valuable, and why are they valuable? This...
December 2, 2021
James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship
Allen C. Guelzo, Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University; James M. McPherson, George Henry David '86 Professor Emeritus of History, Princeton University
Join us for an in person event with award-winning Civil War historian Allen Guelzo about his new book, Robert E. Lee: A Life. The New York Times praised the book as “A deeply...
November 1, 2021
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Kevin J. Weddle *03, Professor of Military Theory and Strategy and the Elihu Root Chair of Military Studies at the U.S. Army War College, and Allen C. Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities; Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship, Princeton University
Please join us for a discussion between Professor Kevin J. Weddle and Dr. Allen Guelzo on Professor Weddle's new book,...
Cosponsor: Princeton Army ROTC
October 27, 2021
The Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles
Daniel J. Mahoney, Senior Writer at Law & Liberty, Professor Emeritus at Assumption University
The lecture will challenge the widespread, even dominant, view of politics as nothing but a vehicle for raw power and domination. Such false realism obfuscates both the very real quest for justice...
October 21, 2021
Dorian Abbot, Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago
Professor Abbot's talk was originally scheduled to be the Carlson Lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. When MIT...