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Summer Seminars 2015

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The Institute is pleased to announce our 2015 Summer Seminars for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students. These intensive programs examine vital moral questions in social, philosophical, legal, and political thought and have attracted young men and women from across the world for over a decade. With discussions guided by leading scholars from the United States and Great Britain, the Summer Seminars comprise the core of the Institute’s efforts to assist the next generation of scholars in reflecting on distinctly human questions. 

For more information about seminar topics, faculty, readings, and application processes, visit the links to the seminar pages below. We look forward to seeing you in Princeton this summer!

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Annual Simon Lecture to be given by George Marsden

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The Witherspoon Institute, together with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, is pleased to announce the 2014 Simon Lecture to be given by esteemed scholar George Marsden (University of Notre Dame, Emeritus). His lecture is titled “Beyond Liberalism and the Culture Wars: Principled Pluralism” on October 1, 2014, at 4:30PM in McCormick Hall 101 on the campus of Princeton University. The lecture is open to the public.
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Chen Guangcheng on the 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square

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On June 3, Witherspoon Distinguished Senior Fellow Chen Guangcheng gave his first public address ever in English commenting on the 25th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Chen’s speech recounted the student protests and other events preceding June 4, 1989, when Chinese troops killed unknown numbers of civilians demonstrating peacefully in the main square in central Beijing. Chen pointed out that despite great recent economic progress in China, there has been little political reform [Read more…] about Chen Guangcheng on the 25th Anniversary of Tiananmen Square

Research Fellow Daniel Mark appointed to U. S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

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The Witherspoon Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Research Fellow Daniel I. Mark to the U. S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Mark is an assistant professor of political science at Villanova University, where he teaches political theory, philosophy of law, American government, and politics and religion.  At Villanova, he is a faculty associate of the Matthew J. Ryan Center for the Study of Free Institutions and the Public Good.  Mark holds his BA, MA, and PhD from the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where he was affiliated with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, the Program in Law and Public Affairs, and the Penn-Princeton Bioethics Forum. [Read more…] about Research Fellow Daniel Mark appointed to U. S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

“Libertad Religiosa” presented to Pope Francis at Christianity and Freedom Conference in Rome

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Senior Fellow Thomas F. Farr, director of the Religious Freedom Project at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center, presents Pope Francis with a copy of Libertad Religiosa, a Spanish translation of the Witherspoon Institute’s Religious Freedom: Why Now? Defending an Embattled Human Right, at the Vatican, on December 14, 2013.  The pope gave a private audience to the sixty participants in a conference held in Rome titled “Christianity and Freedom: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” hosted by the Religious Freedom Project and co-sponsored by the Witherspoon Institute.  [Read more…] about “Libertad Religiosa” presented to Pope Francis at Christianity and Freedom Conference in Rome

Under God at Gettysburg? Lincoln’s Moral Constitution: A Public Lecture by Allen C. Guelzo

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The Witherspoon Institute is pleased to announce the first annual William E. and Carol G. Simon Lecture on Religion in American Public Life with a lecture given by the distinguished Civil War historian Allen C. Guelzo, who is Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era Professor of History at Gettysburg College. The lecture, titled “Under God at Gettysburg? Lincoln’s Moral Constitution,” will be held on Tuesday, November 19, 2013, at 4:30 PM. It will take place in McCormick Hall Room 101, on the campus of Princeton University. The lecture is co-sponsored by the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University and marks the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. All are welcome to attend. [Read more…] about Under God at Gettysburg? Lincoln’s Moral Constitution: A Public Lecture by Allen C. Guelzo
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