Encouraging free inquiry and meaningful dialogue on important political and social issues
Learn about the events in our fall series on 'Academic Freedom: Its Meaning and Limits'
Faculty development seminar examines 'Trumpism and Its Critics'
New Morrison Family Directorship awarded to Edmund Santurri
This fall, we’ll hear from some of the world’s leading voices on academic freedom and what it means in 2017. Expert academics from across the world will deliberate on how we can work to encourage debate and conversation rather than censorship and retaliation. Join us for an exciting series on a significant topic on college campuses today.
Danielle Allen of Harvard University and Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University will engage in a dialogue as part of the Institute for Freedom and Community’s fall series on “Academic Freedom: Its Meaning and Limits.”
Joanne Lynn, a national leader in research and policy on care for the last phase of life, will deliver a lecture as part of the Institute for Freedom and Community’s spring series on “Freedom, Community, and Health Care.”
As part of a spring series on “Freedom, Community, and Health Care,” David Craig and Joan Tronto will engage in a discussion on whether the United States should move to a single-payer health care system.
As part of a spring series on “Freedom, Community, and Health Care,” Amitabh Chandra and Tyler Cowen will engage in a discussion on whether the United States should move to a single-payer health care system.
Academic and author Joanna Williams will offer a talk as part of the Institute for Freedom and Community’s fall series on “Academic Freedom: Its Meaning and Limits.”
The symposium will conclude with a lecture by Robert Benne, the Jordan-Trexler Professor of Religion Emeritus and Research Associate at Roanoke College.
Writing in August 1944, Reinhold Niebuhr declared: “When … optimism is not qualified to accord with the real and complex facts of human nature and history, there is always a danger that sentimentality will give way to despair and that a too consistent optimism will alternate with a too consistent pessimism.” Read More »
