The Tocqueville Lecture Series brings together some of the best researchers and lecturers to the Workshop each semester. An archive of past events dating to 2015 is available below.
The Tocqueville Lecture Series is co-organized by the Tocqueville Program directed by Professor Aurelian Craiutu, Department of Political Science, IU Bloomington.
Additional details, such as speaker slides and supporting materials, are available for most presentations. Contact workshop@indiana.edu with questions or to request copies.
March 26 Ken I. Kersch, Boston College “The Messianic Executive in American Conservative Political Thought”
April 9 Aaron Tugendhaft, Bard College Berlin Iconoclasm and Politics: A conversation inspired by “The Idols of ISIS”
January 21 Peter Wehner, Ethics and Public Policy Center “The State of American Politics 2020”
January 31 Roundtable with Laren MacLean, Gwen Arnold, and Edella Schlager On Elinor Ostrom as an inspiration and mentor to women scholars
September 25 Min-hyeok Kim, Political Science, IU “Reconceptualizing Liberty in the Time of Disorder: Maruyama Masao’s Request for Responsible Liberty in Postwar Japan” Response from Dongxian Jiang (Stanford) and Hussein Banai (IUB).
October 9 Michael Weinman, Comparative Literature, IU Presentation and discussion on his newly published book The Emergence of Illiberalism
October 23 Constantin Vassiliou, Post-doctoral fellow, Kinder Institute, University of Missouri “Montesquieu’s Moderation: A Liberal Art for the Commercial World” *Co-sponsored by West Institute & the Modern Greek Program, IU
October 30 Bradford Wilson, Executive Director, Madison Center, Princeton University On the legacy of Alexander Hamilton based on his recently published two-volume edition of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton *Part of “The Idea of America” series
November 6 Francesca Viano, Visiting Fellow, Weatherhead Initiative on Global History, Harvard “What Says the Goddess? Miss Liberty and the Sorrows of an Abstract Icon” *Part of “The Idea of America“ series
January 18 James T. Schleifer, Emeritus Dean of the Library and Professor of History, College of New Rochelle Roundtable on Tocqueville
Panelists: James T. Schleifer; Christine Dunn Henderson, Liberty Fund, Inc.; Kuangyu Zhao, Department of Political Science, IU
Moderator: Aurelian Craiutu, Department of Political Science, IU
March 29 at Social Science Research Commons, Woodburn Hall 200 Helena Rosenblatt, Professor of History, CUNY Roundtable on The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century Archived Zoom
Panelists: Helena Rosenblatt; Daniel Cole, Maurer School of Law, IU; Russell Hanson, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, IU
Moderator: Aurelian Craiutu, Department of Political Science, IU
October 25 Steven Smith Alfred Cowles Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy, Yale University “Patriotism and Loyalty”
November 15 Michael Munger Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University “Polycentricity, Transaction Costs, and the Future of Local Government: An Ostrom Perspective” Archived Presentation
December 13 Various Panel Presentations “Benjamin Constant's 'Liberty of the Ancients and the Moderns' at 200” [No Live Stream]
February 6 Amy L. Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School “What is Happening to the Family and Why?”
February 16 William Scheuerman, Department of Political Science and International Studies, IU (with Maeve Cooke, University College Dublin, Ireland; and Jeffrey Isaac, IU) “Civil Disobedience”
February 22 (no live stream) Balázs Trencsényi, Department of History, Central European University Budapest In dialogue with Aurelian Craiutu (Political Science, IU) on Trencsényi's recent book, A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'
March 2 (no live stream) Elliott Abrams, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Washington, DC “Promoting Democracy in the Arab World” Discussant: Lee Feinstein (Dean, School of Global & International Studies)
April 13 (no live stream) Christopher Sebastian Parker, Department of Political Science, University of Washington “The Great White Hope: Donald Trump, Race, and the Crisis of American Politics”
September 28 David M. Hart, Director, Online Library of Liberty Project, Liberty Fund “The ‘Seen’ and the ‘Unseen’ Bastiat: Some Reflections on Editing His Work and His Continuing Relevance for Today”
October 29 Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs “Raymond Aron, Liberalism, and the Question of Antisemitism”
November 5 Paul Carrese, School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership, Arizona State University “Character and Leadership: How Personnel is Policy”
November 9 Chandran Kukathas, Department of Government, London School of Economics “Immigration and Freedom”
November 30 Dalibor Rohac, American Enterprise Institute “Polycentrism, Sovereignty, and International Cooperation”
February 10 Stefan Kolev, Political Economy, Wilhelm Röpke Institute, Erfurt, Germany “Ordoliberalism and the Austrian School: Two Potentially Complementary Varieties of German-Language Liberalism”
February 24 (no live stream, IMU Alumni Hall) William Kristol, Editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard PANEL DISCUSSION: “American Politics in the Age of Trump”
Panelists: William Kristol, editor-at-large of The Weekly Standard; Paul Helmke, Professor of Practice, School of Public & Environmental Affairs; Director, Civic Leaders Center
Moderator: Aurelian Craiutu, Professor of Political Science
March 24 (President’s Room, University Club, IMU, 1st floor. No live stream) Teresa Bejan, Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, University of Oxford
Aurelian Craiutu, Department of Political Science, IU Bloomington ROUNDTABLE ON MODERATION AND CIVILITY
Panelists: Teresa Bejan, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford; Aurelian Craiutu, Department of Political Science, IU
Commentators: Allen Wood, Department of Philosophy, IU; Jeffrey Isaac, Department of Political Science, IU; Alexander Smith, Department of Sociology, Warwick, UK
September 22 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”
September 29 Frank Lovett, Department of Political Science, Washington University, St. Louis
October 5 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?”
November 10 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”
December 1 Jasnon Brennan, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University “Democracy: Can We Do Better?”
January 29 Paul Dragos Aligica, Mercatus Center George Mason University “Institutional Diversity and Political Economy: The Ostroms and Beyond”
February 26 Roberta Herzberg, John Templeton Foundation “Polycentricity and Social Connectedness in the Work of Vincent and Elinor Ostrom” [No paper for this presentation]
September 9 Tun Myint, Department of Political Science, Carleton College “Citizen Science in a Democracy: The Case of Thai Baan Research”
September 23 Robert Gannett, Institute for Community Empowerment “The Politics of Imagination: Community Organizing in Chicago as a Response to Tocqueville’s Challenge”
October 21 (12-1:30 pm) Geoffrey Kabaservice, Washington, DC “Trump and the Republican Party Crackup—A Moderate Historical Perspective” (author of Rule and Ruin)
October 21 (4-5 pm) Special Roundtable: “Is There a Role for Moderation in America’s Polarized Politics?” Panelists:
Lee H. Hamilton (Former Congressman, School of Global and International Studies, SPEA)
Geoffrey Kabaservice (Washington, DC; author of Rule and Ruin)
Leslie Lenkowsky (SPEA)
Moderator: Edward Carmines (Political Science)
September 18 Christopher DeMuth Sr., Hudson Institute, Washington, DC “Congress Incongruous: The Dilemma of the Legislature in Modern Government” (no paper)
October 23 Ioannis Evrigenis Department of Political Science, Tufts University
October 30 Brian Anderson, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York “Raymond Aron’s Political Reason” (no paper)
November 13 Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: Karen Dawisha, Department of Political Science, Miami University “Putin’s Russia” (no paper)
