Past Events
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
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
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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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
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...
Charles E. Test, M.D. '37 Distinguished Lectures Series
Diana Schaub, Professor of Political Science, Loyola University Maryland
Lecture 1: Abraham Lincoln and the Daughters of Dred Scott
The definitive refutation of the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision was delivered by Abraham Lincoln in an 1857...
The Annual Elizabeth M. Whelan Lecture
James Piereson, President, William E. Simon Foundation and Senior Fellow, the Manhattan Institute
Among the causes of the current polarization and dysfunction in national politics are the ongoing effects of two post-war upheavals -- the cultural and political revolution of the 1960s and the...
The Annual William E. and Carol G. Simon Lecture on Religion in American Public Life
Robert Louis Wilken, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, University of Virginia
Much writing on religious freedom focuses on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and on the Enlightenment. But the developments of those centuries are only intelligible when seen in a longer...
Cosponsor: The Witherspoon Institute
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Joanne B. Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies, Yale University
If you think the conflict in today’s U.S. Congress is at a historic extreme, Yale historian Joanne Freeman helps set the record straight. In The Field of Blood, Freeman explores the history ...