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The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy


The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy

The University of Chicago

Presents a lecture series for 2003-2004

Politics and Ethics

Autumn Quarter
Winter Quarter
Spring Quarter

LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE

Autumn Quarter

Wednesday, October 8
Social Science 302
Steven Smith
Department of Political Science
Yale University
Spinoza on Love and Friendship
Wednesday, October 29
Social Science 302
Hillel Fradkin
President
Ethics and Public Policy Center
Two Nations Were in Her Womb: Contemporary Liberal Democracy and the Political Teaching of the Bible
Wednesday, November 5
Social Science 302
Ronna Burger
Department of Philosophy
Tulane University
Pleasure and the Good: on the Action of the Argument of Aristotle's Ethics

Winter Quarter

Wednesday, January 21
Harper Memorial 130
Ruth Grant
Department of Political Science
Duke University
Liberalism Against Patriarchalism: John Locke on Women and the Family
Thursday, February 12
Harper Memorial 130
Clifford Orwin
Department of Political Science
University of Toronto
The First Democracy at War: Athens in the Pages of Herodotus
Wednesday, February 18
Social Science 122
William Kristol
Editor
The Weekly Standard
9/11 and the Future of American Foreign Policy

Spring Quarter

Wednesday, April 21
Social Science 302
Juergen Gebhardt
Department of Political Science
University of Erlangen-Nuremburg
Political Order and Religious Culture: a Trans-Atlantic Perspective
Wednesday, May 5
Social Science 302
Vickie Sullivan
Department of Political Science
Tufts University
Cato's Letters as the Reconciliation of Machiavelliean
Republicanism and Lockean Liberalism

All lectures are at 4:30 p.m. Rooms for the Winter and Spring Quarters will be announced at the beginning of each quarter.

Questions about Olin Center events may be directed to Stephen Gregory (773-702-3423; stephen-gregory@uchicago.edu). Please check our website (http://olincenter.uchicago.edu) for updates on our programs.




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