Past Events
The Annual Elizabeth M. Whelan Lecture
Harold James, Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies, Professor of History and International Affairs, and Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, Princeton University
Now that the UK has invoked article 50 of the European Union Treaty and triggered Brexit, the position of both the UK and the European Union is precarious and fraught. Which side is most vulnerable...
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Robert K. Faulkner, Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Make America great again? But what is America’s greatness? The famous Alexis De Tocqueville explored the tensions among this dynamic country’s expanding ambitions and complicated creed of equal...
Cosponsor: The Witherspoon Institute
April 6, 2017 to April 9, 2017
The US-China Global Governance Forum will consist of a series of lectures and talks, delivered by prominent Princeton Faculty and other distinguished scholars in the field of US-China relations. These talks will focus on a comparative examination of the political and legal institutions in China and the United States, and will cover a wide-ranging spectrum of historic and contemporary issues.
This event is sponsored and organized by the Princeton University U.S. China Coalition.
Thursday, April 6, 2017
10:00am - 11:30am
...
10:00am - 11:30am
...
Cosponsors: The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students, Center on Contemporary China, University Center for Human Values, Humanities Council's Ferris Seminar in Journalism, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, The Program in Law and Public Affairs, The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton University, Princeton USG Projects Board, History and the Practice of Diplomacy
3:00 p.m. Panel Discussion featuring Daniel Cullen, Professor of Political Science, Rhodes College; Alicja Gescinska, Philosopher and Novelist; John Haldane, J. Newton Rayzor, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University; and Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.
4:45 p.m. Public Lecture by Sir Roger Scruton, Writer and Philosopher; Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, on Philosophy in the Public Culture.
The following books will be available for sale by Labyrinth Books; the book signing will occur after the lecture, at 6:00 p.m.
On Human Nature (Princeton University Press, 2017)
...
...
The Annual William E. and Carol G. Simon Lecture on Religion in American Public Life
Meir Y. Soloveichik, Rabbi, Congregation Shearith Israel; Director, Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, Yeshiva University
This lecture will reflect on the Hebraic impact of America and its meaning for religion in public life today.
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik *10 is Director of the Zahava and Moshael...
Cosponsor: The Witherspoon Institute’s William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Sohrab Ahmari, Editorial Writer, The Wall Street Journal
Identity politics, exclusionary nationalism, and global insecurity are eroding liberal order around the world, from Hungary to Turkey to the Philippines and -- perhaps -- here in the U.S. That's the...
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Thomas C. Leonard, Research Scholar, The Council of the Humanities; Lecturer in Economics, Princeton University; Respondents: Christine Rosen, Senior Editor, The New Atlantis; William Schambra, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
In Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Princeton University Press, 2016), Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and...
Michael J. Klarman, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs; Book sale/signing and reception to follow.
Michael J. Klarman is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School, where...
Cosponsors: The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, The Program in American Studies
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Stuart Taylor, Jr. '70, Author; Contributing Editor, National Journal
The evidence that American universities are doing grave damage to our constitutional values -- largely disregarded by the public -- is sitting in plain view. Censorship of views disliked by the...
Cosponsor: The Program in Law and Public Affairs
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
Gastón Espinosa, 2016-17 James Madison Program William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life; Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religion, Claremont McKenna College
Professor Espinosa explores the religious influences on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and the critical role of race and religion in the 2016 election. He will expose the ways in which candidates...