Georgetown Political Theory Colloquium

 
2006 - 2007 Schedule

Thursday, September 21

Charles T. Mathewes, Associate Professor of Religion, University of Virginia
  • Political Theory Colloquium
  • Title: "Augustine and Civic Virtue"
  • Commentator: Matthew Sitman, Department of Government
  • Location and Time: 4:30 in ICC 662

Thursday, October 5

Michael Gillespie, Professor of Political Science, Duke University
  • Political Theory Colloquium
  • Title: “Where Did All the Evils Go?”
  • Commentator: Christopher McClure, Department of Government
  • Location and Time: 4:30 - 6:00 in ICC 662

Thursday, October 26 -- Co-sponsored by American Studies, Department of History, American Politics, and the Tocqueville Forum

SPECIAL EVENT
Roundtable: Religion and Politics, Past, Present and Future: Michael Kazin’s A Godly Hero

  • Participants:
    Wilfred McClay, Sun Trust Professor of the Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
    James A. Morone, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
    Michael Kazin, Professor of History, Georgetown University
  • Moderator: Patrick J. Deneen, Georgetown University
  • Location: TBA
  • Time: 4:00

Thursday, November 16

Peter Berkowitz, George Mason University Law School

  • Political Theory Lecture
  • Title: “Mill’s Idea of a University, and Ours”
  • Location and Time: 5pm, location TBA

 

2005 - 2006 Schedule

Monday, January 23, 2006
Peter Augustine Lawler, Dana Professor of Government, Berry College
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Fred R. Dallmayr, Pakey Dee Professor of Government, University of Notre Dame
  • Political Theory Colloquium
  • Co-sponsored by the Program in Social and Political Thought
  • Title: "Gadamer and the Classics Today"
  • Discussant: Farah Godrej
  • Location and Time: 4:30-6:00, ICC 462
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Sharon Krause, Associate Professor, Harvard University
Wednesday, March 1, 2006 (Co-sponsored with CDATS )
Carol Gould (George Mason University)
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Jacob Howland, McFarlin Professor of Philosophy, University of Tulsa
  • Political Theory Colloquium
  • Co-sponsored by the The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
  • Title: "Kierkegaard and Socrates" (Introduction, Chapter 5)
  • Discussant: Eugen Nagy (Ph.D. Candidate at The Catholic University of America)
  • Location and Time: 4:30-6:00, ICC 462
Monday, April 24, 2006
Benjamin R. Barber, Gershon and Carol Kekst Professor of Civil Society and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland
  • Political Theory Lecture
  • Co-sponsored by the Program in Political and Social Thought
  • Title: "TBA"
  • Location and Time: 4:30 p.m., location TBA