WILFRED McCLAY TO SPEAK NOVEMBER 17
The Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good at
Eastern University presents Wilfred McClay, a nationally acclaimed scholar and teacher, on Thursday, November 17, for a public lecture at 8 p.m. He will speak in the atrium of the Warner Library on the campus at 1300 Eagle Road in St. Davids, PA. Co-sponsored by Eastern University’s Office of Development and the Templeton Honors College, the evening will explore the topic of Patriotism and the American Experiment: The Use and Abuse of History, considering the proper role of education in shaping citizens.
Wilfred M. McClay is an American historian, a noted public intellectual, and SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dr. McClay serves as a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., where he concurrently serves on the editorial board of the Center’s journal The Wilson Quarterly. McClay is also a a member of the Society of Scholars at the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions of Princeton University.
In 2002, McClay was appointed to the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additionally, Dr. McClay is a member of the editorial and advisory board of the journal First Things, Society (formerly Transaction), Historically Speaking, The University Bookman, and The New Atlantis. His books include The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, The Student’s Guide to U.S. History, Religion Returns to the Public Square, and Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past.
By hosting lectures such as this one, the Agora Institute seeks to cultivate open and honest inquiry into the fundamental virtues, truths, values, and habits required for human flourishing within a free and ordered society, while promoting quality interdisciplinary research and programs.
To R.S.V.P. or for more information, contact Kelly M. Hanlon, Executive Director of the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good at
www.AgoraInstitute.org