Events

Spring 2008
FEBRUARY
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
8:00 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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
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Friday, February 8, 2008
3 Sessions Beginning at 9:15 a.m., 11:30 a.m., and 2:45 p.m.
Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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
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Monday, February 11, 2008
4:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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
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Friday-Saturday, February 15-16, 2008
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
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).  
For more information, a full list of panelists, and full schedule, go to http://www.princeton.edu/~uchv/constitutionalism/index.html

MARCH
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
5:30 p.m., McCosh 28
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 

Friday, March 7, 2008
8:00 p.m., McCosh 50
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
For further Details:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/39/57G75/index.xml?section=announcements

Monday, March 10, 2008
4:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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
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Monday-Wednesday, March 24-26, 2008
4:30 p.m. each day, Robertson Hall 001
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 Visiting Scholar Lecture Series
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APRIL
Monday, April 7, 2008
4:30 p.m., East Pyne 010
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
Annual Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
5:00 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 2
(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
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Friday, April 18, 2008
4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Mackay Center Main Lounge, Princeton Theological Seminary
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
For more information:
http://libweb.ptsem.edu/collections/kuyper/conferences/consultation2008.aspx?menu=298

Monday, April 21, 2008
4:30 p.m., Computer Science 105
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
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
8:00 p.m., Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
4:30 p.m., Robertson Hall, Bowl 016
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
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MAY
Thursday, May 1, 2008
2:30 - 6:00 p.m., Friend 101
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
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Monday-Tuesday, May 12-13, 2008
May 12, 10:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
May 13, 9:15 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Aaron Burr 219
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
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Friday, May 16, 2008
4:30 p.m., Aaron Burr 219
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

Friday, May 30, 2008
2:00 p.m.  Robertson Hall, Bowl 16
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

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