Past Events
James Madison Program Constitution Day Event
Keynote: Michael Zuckert, Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
The Political and Constitutional Thought of Herbert Storing
Joseph Bessette, Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics, Claremont McKenna...
Joseph Bessette, Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics, Claremont McKenna...
Cosponsor: Program in American Studies, Princeton University
Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Associate Professor of Political Science, Haverford College; David Thunder, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra; Barbara Buckinx, Associate Research Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Cosponsors: Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra, Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competition
Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
Carolyn Rouse, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
Sponsored and organized by the Program in American Studies, Princeton University
Supported by the Office of the Provost Free and Open to the Public For more information, please visit...
Supported by the Office of the Provost Free and Open to the Public For more information, please visit...
Cosponsors: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Program in Law and Public Affiairs, Department of Anthropology
Annual Princeton University Reunions Event
A Panel Discussion with John "Jay" Ellison, Dean of Students in The College, University of Chicago; John W. Etchemendy, Provost, Patrick Suppes Family Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University; Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, Stern School of Business, New York University; Jacqueline Rivers, Hutchins Fellow in the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute, Harvard University; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
John “Jay” Ellison is the Dean of Students in the College at the University of Chicago, a position he’s held since 2014. As Dean of Students, he oversees a large staff of...
May 22, 2017 to May 23, 2017
The Annual Robert J. Giuffra '82 Conference
Keynote Address by Leon R. Kass, M.D., Addie Clark Harding Professor Emeritus in the Committee on Social Thought and the College, University of Chicago; Madden-Jewett Chair, American Enterprise Institute
The free society is a great blessing, but it is not itself the sum of all blessings. We cherish our freedom, but we sense that it is a limited good, that it is to be used in the pursuit of other...
Cosponsor: The Association for the Study of Free Institutions at Texas Tech University
May 9, 2017 to May 11, 2017
Charles E. Test, M.D. '37 Distinguished Lectures Series
Steven D. Smith, Warren Distinguished Professor of Law, University of San Diego
Standard depictions of the Culture Wars as a conflict between “secular” and “religious” constituencies resonate with an entrenched historical paradigm, interpreting Western history as having...
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Alvin S. Felzenberg *75, *78, Lecturer, Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania; Author of A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. (Yale University Press, 2017); and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University
Alvin S. Felzenberg *75, *78 is Lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as Director of Communications for the Joint Economic...
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence; Director, James Madison Program, Princeton University (Banjo, Guitar)
Robin Ringgold Cockey (Fiddle)
Doug Greason (Bass)
Charles McGovern (Mandolin, Guitar)
Daniel Miner (Guitar)
Glenn Rosen (Washboard, Spoons, Piano)
and Dave Scheiber (Pedal Steel Guitar)
Robin Ringgold Cockey (Fiddle)
Doug Greason (Bass)
Charles McGovern (Mandolin, Guitar)
Daniel Miner (Guitar)
Glenn Rosen (Washboard, Spoons, Piano)
and Dave Scheiber (Pedal Steel Guitar)
Arthur C. Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute
Entrepreneurship has always played a central role in American society. Ambitious individuals using their talents to create new ventures are a central piece of our national story. But at its root, to...
Cosponsor: The American Enterprise Institute
The Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles
Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard University
This lecture will be about the extent to which the President of the United States has come to dominate the making and interpretation of international law—including treaties, customary international...