SEPTEMBER
Monday, September 17, 2007
Who's Afraid of Senator Byrd? Constitutionalism, History and Academic Freedom
Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University
The Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Program in American Studies
4:30 p.m., Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The American Founding and the Culture Wars (In Celebration of Constitution Day)
Alan R. Gibson, California State University, Chico
Author of Interpreting the Founding and Understanding the Founding
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
Co-sponsored by the Program in American Studies
4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 1
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OCTOBER
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Debating Immigration
Moderator: Carol M. Swain, Vanderbilt Law School
Panelists: Roger E. Hernandez, Nationally Syndicated Columnist, Douglas S. Massey, Princeton University, Peter H. Schuck, Yale Law School, Robert J. Wuthnow, Princeton University
A Symposium co-sponsored by Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center for Migration and Development, the Center for the Study of Religion, the Program in Latin American Studies
4:30 p.m., Dodds Auditorium
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Thursday, October 4, 2007
The Great Debate: The Federalist Response to the Anti-Federalist Challenge
Thomas L. Pangle, Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin
The Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles
8:00 p.m., Friend 006
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Monday, October 8, 2007
The Rise and Fall of Italian Jewry From 1839-1939 and the Revival of Italian Judaism in Italy and Israel
Dan Vittorio Segre, Italian University of Lugano
Co-sponsored by the Program in Judaic Studies
4:30 p.m., East Pyne 010
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Dante and Freedom: The Autonomy of Hell and The Liberty of Paradise
Anthony M. Esolen '81, Providence College
Editor and Translator of the Modern Library Edition of Dante's Divine Comedy
4:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Revisiting President John F. Kennedy and the 1960s
James Piereson, Manhattan Institute in New York City
Author of the new book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution:  How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism
7:30 p.m., Friend 006
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Saturday, October 20, 2007
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founding Fathers Different
Gordon S. Wood, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History, Brown University
The 4th Annual Mary Tanner History Lecture
Co-sponsored by the Lawrence Historical Society
2:00 p.m., Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Freedom's Power: The True Force of Liberalism
Panel Discussion of a New Book by Paul Starr, Princeton University
Moderator: Kim Lane Scheppele, Princeton University
Panelists: Paul Starr, Princeton University, E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, James Ceaser, University of Virginia, Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University, Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution
Co-sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs
4:30 p.m., Computer Science 104
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NOVEMBER
Friday-Saturday, November 9-10, 2007
Mormonism and American Politics
A Conference co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion
November 9, 8:00 p.m.
November 10, 9:00 a.m-5:00 p.m.
All Sessions to be held in 222 Bowen Hall
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Election as Edifice: How 1936 Gave Us 2008
Amity Shlaes, Syndicated Columnist for Bloomberg, and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Woodrow Wilson School
4:30 p.m., Bowl 1, Robertson Hall
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Importing Legal Ideas
Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Author of A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
The Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism
Co-sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs
8:00 p.m., Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Spring 2008

FEBRUARY
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Election 2008: Where Do Things Go from Here? Conservative Perspectives
Featuring William Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard, Fox News Contributor and New York Times Columnist
Moderator: Robert P. George, Princeton University
Panelists: William Kristol, Editor of The Weekly Standard, Fox News Contributor and New York Times Columnist, Eric Cohen, Ethics and Public Policy Center; James W. Ceaser, Princeton University; Yuval Levin, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Co-sponsored by the Pace Center
8:00 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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Friday, February 8, 2008
The Contributions of William H. Rehnquist to American Constitutional Jurisprudence
Participants: Akhil Reed Amar, Yale College and Yale Law School; Charles J. Cooper, Cooper & Kirk PLLC; Donald L. Drakeman, Princeton University; Richard W. Garnett, University of Notre Dame Law School; Robert P. George, Princeton University; Kent Greenawalt, Columbia University; R. Shep Melnick, Boston College; Robert F. Nagel, University of Colorado Law School; Kim L. Scheppele, Princeton University; Stephen J. Schulhofer, New York University School of Law; Stephen F. Smith, University of Virginia School of Law; Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University; Bradford P. Wilson, Princeton University.
A Public Conference co-sponsored by the Program in Law and Public Affairs
3 Sessions Beginning at 9:15 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 2:45 p.m.
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Monday, February 11, 2008
Bioethics: What Would the Founders Say?
Diana Schaub, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, Loyola College, and Member of the President's Council on Bioethics
An America's Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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Friday-Saturday, February 15-16, 2008
The Limits to Constitutional Democracy
Walter F. Murphy Conference on American Constitutionalism
Co-sponsored by The University Center for Human Values (UCHV), Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, and the Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA).
Friday, February 15, 2008   9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.
Saturday, February 16, 2008   9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. 
Robertson Bowl 16  
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MARCH
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The Land of Israel: Salient Facts
Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe
A Public Lecture Co-Sponsored by Center for Jewish Life and Tigers for Israel
5:30 p.m., McCosh 28 

Friday, March 7, 2008
The Role of the Courts in a Liberal Democracy
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
Co-Sponsored by the American Whig-Cliosophic Society
Public Lecture (Tickets Required)
8:00 p.m., McCosh 50
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Monday, March 10, 2008
How Obscenity Became the Litmus Test for the First Amendment
Rochelle Gurstein
Author of The Repeal of Reticence: A History of America’s Cultural and Legal Struggles Over Free Speech, Obscenity, Sexual Liberation, and Modern Art
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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Monday-Wednesday, March 24-26, 2008
Tocqueville’s New Liberalism
Harvey C. Mansfield, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government, Harvard University
March 24: America's First Cause
March 25: Forms of Greatness in Democracy
March 26: The Mild Despotism of Rational Control
The Charles E. Test, M.D., Distinguished Lectures
4:30 p.m. each day, Robertson Hall 001
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APRIL
Monday, April 7, 2008
The Free Man and Free Government in Political Theory
Ellis Sandoz, Hermann Moyse, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies, Louisiana State University
Author of Republicanism, Religion, and the Soul of America
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
4:30 p.m., East Pyne 010
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
(Cancelled) On Founding – and Saving – a Republic
Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University
Author of Consciousness and Mental Life, 2001 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of the History of Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Distinguished Contribution Award from the APA's Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
5:00 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
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Friday, April 18, 2008
Neo-Calvinism and American Political Thought
A Joint Colloquium of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and the Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary.
Moderator: J. Daryl Charles, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, James Madison Program, and associate professor of religion, Union University
Panelists: Robert Lowry Clinton, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, James Madison Program, and Professor and Chair of Political Science, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; Keith Pavlischek, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington DC, and Director of the Program to Protect America's Freedom; James Skillen, Executive Director of the Center for Public Justice
4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Mackay Center Main Lounge, Princeton Theological Seminary
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Monday, April 21, 2008
The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: The Battle for Control of the Law
A Panel Discussion of a New Book by Steven Teles, Associate Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland
Moderator: Robert P. George, Princeton University
Panelists: Steven Teles, University of Maryand; Paul Frymer, University of California Santa Cruz; Kevin Jackson, Fordham University; Keith Whittington, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., Computer Science 105
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Election 2008: Perspectives from the Left
Moderator: Andrew J. Seligsohn, Pace Center, Princeton University
Panelists: Nadia Urbinati, Princeton University, Patricia Williams, Columbia Law School, Eddie Glaude, Princeton University
A Panel Discussion co-sponsored by the Pace Center
8:00 p.m., Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Reclaiming Conservatism: How a Great American Political Movement Got Lost - And How It Can Find Its Way Back
A Panel Discussion of a New Book by Mickey Edwards, Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Vice President of the Aspen Institute
Moderator: Robert P. George, Princeton University
Panelists: Jeffrey Bell, Capital City Partners; Andrew E. Busch, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Government, Claremont McKenna College; Mickey Edwards,Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Vice President of the Aspen Institute; Robert Sean Wilentz, Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era, Department of History, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School
4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 016
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MAY
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Is It Wrong to End Early Human Life?
Moderator: Harold T. Shapiro, Princeton University
Panelists: Robert P. George, Princeton University; John Haldane, University of St. Andrews; Elizabeth Harman, Princeton University; Patrick Lee, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Don Marquis, Princeton University & University of Kansas; Jeff McMahan, Rutgers University; Peter Singer, Princeton University;
A Public Conference co-sponsored by the University Center for Human Values
2:30 - 6:00 p.m., Friend 101
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Monday-Tuesday, May 12-13, 2008
Moral Conflict and the Free Society
A Public Conference co-sponsored by the Association for the Study of Free Institutions, University of Nebraska at Omaha
May 12 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
May 13 9:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Aaron Burr 219
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Alternatives to Embryonic Stem Cells
Markus Grompe,Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics and Pediatrics, Oregon Health and Sciences University;
Acclaimed Stem Cell Research Scientist; Member of the Board of the International Society for Stem Cell Science
Co-sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute
4:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219

Friday, May 30, 2008
Executive Office of the President: Theory and Practice
Princeton University Reunions 2008 Panel Discussion
Joshua B. Bolten ‘76, White House Chief of Staff; Fred I. Greenstein, Princeton University; David E. Lewis, Princeton University; Moderated by Robert P. George, Princeton University
2:00 p.m.  Robertson Hall, Bowl 16