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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

2004-2005 Lecture Series

Autumn Quarter
Winter Quarter
Spring Quarter

LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE

Autumn Quarter

Wednesday, October 27
4:30 p.m.
The Future of Equality in American Democracy
Wilson Carey McWilliams
Rutgers University

Social Science 122
Friday, November 5 Colloquium on the Thought of Francis Bacon Stuart 102
2:00 p.m

Bacon’s World
Bernhardt Trout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Can Bacon’s Science of Useful Knowledge be a Science?
Robert Faulkner
Boston College

Break

 
4:00 p.m.
Doctoral Lecture: Sobriety and Utopianism in Bacon’s Thought
Svetozar Minkov
Kenyon College
 
Wednesday, November 17
4:30 p.m.
What Happened?
William Galston
University of Maryland
&
William Kristol
The Weekly Standard
Analyze the 2004 Presidential Election
Breasted Hall
Oriental Institute

Winter Quarter

Wednesday, January 19
4:30 p.m.
The Grammar of the Soul: On Plato's Euthyphro
Michael Davis
Sarah Lawrence College
Social Science 302
Tuesday, February 8
4:30 p.m.
The End of History Fifteen Years Later
Francis Fukuyama
Johns Hopkins University
Social Science 122
Wednesday, February 23
4:30 p.m.
Can One Be a Neoconservative?
Christopher Hitchens
Author and Journalist
Social Science 122

Spring Quarter

Tuesday, March 29
4:30 p.m.
Partisanship and Independence: The Moral Distinctiveness of Party I.D.
Nancy Rosenblum
Harvard University
Social Science 302
Wednesday, April 6
4:30 p.m.
A Liberal Critique of Same-sex Marriage
Susan Shell
Boston College
Social Science 302

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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