The spring schedule for 2011 at The Tocqueville Program at the University of Indiana:
January 24, 2011
12-1.30 pm, 513 N. Park, Workshop in Political Theory,
Alan Kahan,
Florida International University
Translator of Tocqueville’s The Old Regime and the Revolution, 2 vols. (University of Chicago Press, 1998, 2001) and author most recently of Mind vs. Money.
Title: “Tocqueville and the Islam”
February 11, 2011
12-1.30 pm, 218 Woodburn Hall, Department of Political Science
Annelien de Dijn
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Notre Dame & Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
Author of French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Leveled Society (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Title: On Political Liberty: Montesquieu’s Missing Manuscript
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March 4, 2011.
12-1.30 pm, 218 Woodburn Hall, Department of Political Science,
K. Steven Vincent,
Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University and most recently, author of Benjamin Constant and the Birth of French Liberalism,
Title: “Constant and Liberal Pluralism”
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March 25, 2011.
10-3 pm, 200 Woodburn Hall, Department of Political Science,
Steve Wrinn,
Director, University Press of Kentucky, former editor at Rowman & Littlefield
Steve Wrinn will lead a one-day workshop for graduate students in which he will discuss various strategies for preparing dissertations for publication, and the future of book publishing.
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April 8, 2011 (co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science)
12-1.30 pm. 218 Woodburn Hall, Department of Political Science
Dana R. Villa
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Title: Tocqueville and Hegel
