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Olin Center Conferences

Date and Venue Conference Title
May 6 - 7
The University of Chicago
Empire and Liberty
May 14 - 15
The University of Chicago
Tyranny: Ancient and Modern
May 9-11, 2003
The University of Chicago
Abraham Lincoln and Democracy in America
June 17-20, 2002
Munich
Living Issues in the Thought of Leo Strauss:  Fifty Years after Natural Right and History
April 19-20, 2002Democracy and Popular Culture
October 12-13, 2001
University of Chicago
Why Abstract Art?  Reflections on Alain Besançon's The Forbidden Image, University of Chicago Press
May 11-13, 2001Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History: Contexts and Subtexts
April 20-22, 2001
East Lansing, MI
Leo Strauss's Natural Right and History: A Reassessment
May 14-16, 2000Dilemmas of Humanitarian Military Intervention
May 14-16, 1999After the Beautiful: Politics and Modernism
May 15-17, 1998The European-American Connection
May 16-18, 1997The Closing of the American Mind Revisited
May 17-19, 1996The Meaning of Modern Revolutions
May 19-21, 1995Democratic Honor
May 20-22, 1994Reflections on Love & Friendship
May 21-23, 1993The Legacy of Rousseau
May 15-17, 1992The Purpose of the University
May 17-19, 1991The Cold War and Afterward
May 18-20, 1990Heroes and Heroism - Theoretical & Practical Perspectives
June 19-23, 1989
Paris, France
The End of the West? The End of Modernity?
June 16-18, 1988Classical Theory & Practice and the American Founding
June 19-21, 1987Theoretical Perspectives on the Problem of Evil in Twentieth Century Politics
June 20-24, 1986
Paris, France
America's Role in the World
May 31-June 2, 1985The Theoretical Foundations of the Relationship Between Politics and Religion in Liberal Democracy
August 20-25, 1984
Marlboro, VT
The Writer in the Contemporary World
June 8-10, 1984Nuclear Weapons and the Nature of Politics


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