Chicago Area Events
City Club Luncheon: Chicago Initiative Table, on 23 September, 2010
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Past Events
May 13, 2010
Civic Education Roundtable with Judges Marjorie Rendell and Diane Wood. Other participants included Michael Zuckert, James Ceaser, and others.
May 13, 2010
Conference on Jewish Law and America’s Founding Principles hosted at DePaul University.
November 16, 2009
The Montesquieu Forum hosted a lecture by Richard Velkley, Celia Scott Weatherhead Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, on “The Defect in the Natural Origin and the Problem of Law: Reflections on Rousseau’s Second Discourse and Social Contract.”
October 2009
The Cline Center and the Civic Leadership Program hosted a conference on the “Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration” in Champaign.
October 19, 2009
The Montesquieu Forum hosted a lecture by Paul Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage and Professor of History at Hillsdale College, on “Montesquieu and the Founding Fathers: Federalism, the Separation of Powers, and the Crisis of American Democracy.”
April 20, 2009
The Montesquieu Forum hosted Clifford Orwin, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, lectured about “The Foundations of the Athenian Democratic Empire: Reflections on Herodotus’s History.”
March 5, 2009
The University of Chicago and the Montesquieu Forum hosted an international conference on “Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy.”
February 4-5, 2009
The Tocqueville Center at the University of Notre Dame hosted their inaugural conference entitled “Freedom of, Freedom for, or Freedom from Religion—The Meanings of Religious Freedom in America”
November 4, 2008
The Montesquieu Forum hosted Charlotte Thomas, Professor of Philosophy at Mercer College presented a lecture titled, “Making it Home: Vigilant Memory and the Founding of Ithaca in Homer’s Odyssey.”
October, 2008
The Cline Center and the Civic Leadership Program hosted a conference on the “Constitutional Convention Debate” in Champaign.
October 27, 2008
The Montesquieu Forum hosted Ronna Burger, Professor of Philosophy and Sizeler Professor of Jewish Philosophy at Tulane University, spoke on “In the Wilderness of Sinai: Moses as Lawgiver and Founder of a People.”
