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On Saturday, September 1, Matthew J. Franck, Director of the Witherspoon Institute’s Simon Center, will participate in a roundtable discussion at the 2018 meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston. The specific location will be forthcoming in early August and may be found in the online program schedule for the conference. 

R. J. Snell, Director of the Witherspoon Institute’s Center for the University and Intellectual Life, will serve as a panelist during the 2018 Christian Union Cities Conference in New York on June 22-23, 2018.

A panel of experts will reveal the “secrets” of their research in discovering how faith, work, psychology, and academia intersect for the common good of the City. To learn more and to register, please visit the conference website. 

R. J. Snell, Director of the Witherspoon Institute’s Center for the University and Intellectual Life, will lecture at a conference at Portsmouth Abbey in mid-June. Other featured speakers include: Cardinal Timothy Dolan; Mary Eberstadt; Jennifer Hubbard; Fr. Roger Landry; and, Brandon McGinley.

For additional information and to purchase tickets, please visit the Portsmouth Institute’s website. 

Since our nation’s founding, conservative Protestantism has been a critical force shaping American culture. Today the evangelical movement is clearly ascendant even as its health and integrity are widely debated. Can the movement survive the challenges of increasing secularization, technological innovation, political tumult, and other phenomena?  In the fifth annual William E. and Carol G. Simon Lecture on Religion in American Public Life, Dr. Russell Moore will examine the current state of evangelical Christianity in America and set forth a prescription for its future.

Dr. Russell Moore is president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. The lecture, co-sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, will take place in Bowen Hall 222 on the Princeton University campus at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, April 17.

Matthew J. Franck, Director of the Witherspoon Institute’s William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution, will join a distinguished lineup of speakers for a conference at the University of Alabama’s Law School on March 23, 2018. 

Speakers and topics include: 

•  Victoria Nourse, Georgetown University Law School, Justice Scalia’s Textualist Legacy and His Influence on Justice Gorsuch

• Matthew J. Franck, The Witherspoon Institute, The Politics of Judicial Nominations

• Hillel Levin, University of Georgia Law School, Justice Gorsuch on Judicial Precedent

• Heather Elliot, University of Alabama Law School, and Kristin Hickman, University of Minnesota Law School, Justice Gorsuch and the Future of Chevron

For a detailed schedule of events, including times and locations, please visit the conference webpage. 

R.J. Snell, Director of the Center for the University and Intellectual Life at the Witherspoon Institute, will participate in a two-day conference on The State of American Higher Education at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Dr. Snell’s talk is titled, “Why Faith-Based Institutions Are the Best Hope for the Revival of the Liberal Arts and Higher Learning.”

The conference is sponsored by the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life and will take place on April 6-7, 2018. 

Other speakers include: 

• Dr. Gerard Bradley, University of Notre Dame, “The State of American Catholic Higher Education”
• Dr. Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars, “The Student Debt Crisis: Is College Worth It?”
• Dr. William Deresiewicz, formerly of Yale University, “The Crisis of the Elite American Universities and Its Consequences”
• Dr. Patrick Deneen, University of Notre Dame, “The Consumerist Mentality in American Higher Education”
• Dr. Benjamin Wiker, Franciscan University of Steubenville, “The Collapse of the Liberal Arts”

For more information and to register for the conference, please visit the conference website.