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2011 Fall
Friday, September 16, 2011
The Constitution in Contemporary American Politics – A Panel Discussion
Kathleen A. Brady, James Madison Program 2011-12 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, Professor of Law, Villanova University; Matthew J. Franck, Director, William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, Witherspoon Institute; Kenneth P. Miller, James Madison Program 2011-12 Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow, Associate Professor of Government and Associate Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government, Claremont McKenna College; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
James Madison Program Annual Constitution Day Event
Cosponsored by the Program in American Studies and the Bouton Law Lecture Fund
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Faith in America: The Role of Religion in the Public Square
A Discussion with Dr. Russell D. Moore, Dean of the School of Theology, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Monday, October 10, 2011
James Madison, Father of Politics
Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor of National Review, Biographer, Historian
Author of James Madison (Basic Books 2011)
An Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in Constitutional Law and Political Thought: The Quest for Freedom
4:30 p.m., McDonnell Hall A01
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
The West’s Spectacular Exceptionality
Ricardo Duchesne, Professor, Department of Social Science, University of New Brunswick Saint John
Author of The Uniqueness of Western Civilization (Brill, 2011)
An America’s Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy
A book forum featuring the book's author, Maurizio Viroli, Professor of Politics, Princeton University; with discussants  R. Daniel Kelemen, Center for European Studies, Rutgers University; and  Jan-Werner Müller, Program in the History of Political Thought, Princeton University; Moderated by Kim Lane Scheppele, Director, Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Organized by the Program in Law and Public Affairs, and cosponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and the European Union Program at Princeton University
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Friday, November 18, 2011
A Book Panel Discussion on A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson (The University Press of Kentucky, 2011), edited by Alan M. Levine and Daniel S. Malachuk
Featuring Panelists: George Kateb, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Princeton University; Alan M. Levine, Associate Professor, Department of Government, American University; Daniel S. Malachuk, Associate Professor of English, Western Illinois University; and Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Chair of Excellence in Humanities and Professor of History, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga; Moderated by Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
An America's Founding and Future Lecture
4:30 p.m., Lewis Library 120
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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
The Revolutionary Origins of the Civil War
Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor, Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
Recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Annual Herbert W. Vaughan Lecture on America’s Founding Principles
4:30 p.m., McDonnell Hall A01
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
James Madison and the Top One Percent
Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Stuart Lecture Series on Institutional Corruption in America
Author of Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law (Harvard University Press, 2011) and Why Progressive Institutions are Unsustainable (Encounter Books, November 29, 2011)
Book Sale and Signing after Lecture
4:30 p.m., McDonnell Hall A01
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