Fall 2017 — Tocqueville Lecture Series
Date / Time / Location | Speaker | Presentation |
| September 22 12:00–1:30 p.m. Social Science Research Commons, Woodburn Hall 200 | Damon Linker Senior correspondent at TheWeek.com; consulting editor at the University of Pennsylvania Press; and author of The Theocons and The Religious Test | "The Task of Thinking in an Age of Reaction" Abstract/Bio |
September 29 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Woodburn Hall 218 (Not live streamed) | Frank Lovett Department of Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis | "The Rule of Law in the Age of Trump" Abstract/Bio |
| October 5 12:00–1:30 p.m. 513 N. Park | Peter Levine Associate Dean for Research and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs, Tufts University's Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life | "Elinor Ostrom and the Citizen’s Basic Question: What Should We Do?" Abstract/Bio |
November 10 12:00–1:30 p.m. 513 N. Park | Alvin Felzenberg Currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication | "The Future of Bill Buckley’s Conservatism in the Age of Donald Trump" Abstract/Bio |
December 1 12:00–2:00 p.m. 513 N. Park | Jason Brennan McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University | "Democracy: Can We Do Better?" Abstract/Bio [Archive live stream not available] |