Bradley Lectures in Political Philosophy
Sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Political Science, and Theology
with the support of The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.
Contact: shirley.gee@bc.edu; 617-552-4144.
Fall 2008 Schedule
All lectures will be held at 4:00 P.M., McGuinn Auditorium, McGuinn 121.
Dinner and Discussion to follow the lectures in McElroy Faculty Dining Room.
Please RSVP if you plan to attend the dinner following the lecture.
Friday, September 19
GÜNTER FIGAL
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
"Politics and Philosophical Education: Re-reading Plato's Republic"
Respondent: Christopher Bruell, Boston College
Friday, October 17
JAMES H. NICHOLS
Claremont McKenna College
"Alexandre Kojève on Empire, with some Tacitean Reflections"
Respondent: TBA
Friday, November 7
ROBERT BARTLETT
Emory University
"Aristotle's Inquiry into Happiness in the 'Nicomachean Ethics'"
Respondent: TBA
Spring 2008 Schedule
Friday, January 25
Donald Maletz
University of Oklahoma
"Carl Schmitt's The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy"
Respondent: Professor Jonathan Laurence, Political Science, Boston College.
Dinner and Discussion to follow lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room
4:00 p.m., McGuinn Auditorium, McGuinn 121
Fall 2007 Schedule
Friday, September 14
David Bolotin
Saint John's College, Santa Fe
"Socrates and the Eleatic Stranger: An Introduction to Plato's Sophist"
Respondent: Nasser Behnegar, Boston College
Dinner and Discussion to follow lecture in McElroy Faculty Dining Room
4:00 p.m., McGuinn Auditorium, McGuinn 121
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Friday, October 19
Pierre Manent
Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron
"The Charms and Limits of Secularization:
A Reflection on the ReligiousSituation of the West"
4:00 p.m., St. John's Hall, St. John's Seminary, 127 Lake St., Brighton, MA
5:30-6:30 p.m., General Reception, St. John's Seminary
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The Bolotin lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Political
Science and Theology, with the support of the Lynde and Harry Bradley
Foundation.
The Manent lecture is sponsored by the Departments of Philosophy, Political
Science and Theology, with the support of the Lynde and Harry Bradley
Foundation and The Ernest Fortin Memorial Foundation.
Contact: Shirley Gee, geesh@bc.edu, 617-552-4144
Spring 2007 Schedule
All lectures will be held at 4:00 p.m., McGuinn Auditorium
Friday, January 26
DIANA SCHAUB
Loyola College of Maryland
“Bioethics and the Constitution”
Discussant: Thomas Kohler, Boston College
Friday, February 16
J. JUDD OWEN
Emory University
“On Hobbes’s Hope regarding Religion”
Discussant: Christopher Kelly, Boston College
Friday, March 16
F. RUSSELL HITTINGER
University of Tulsa
“Two Modernisms, Two Thomisms:
Reflections on the Centenary of Pius X's Letter against the Modernists”
Discussant: Frederick Lawrence, Boston College
Fall 2006 Schedule
All lectures will be held at 4:00 p.m.
McGuinn 121, Boston College
Friday, September 22:
Hugh Heclo
George Mason University
“Thinking Institutionally”
Respondents: Marc Landy and R. Shep Melnick, Boston College
Friday, October 20:
Pierre Manent
Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron
“What is a Nation?”
Respondent: Dennis Hale, Boston College
Friday, November 10:
Robert L. Wilken
University of Virginia
“The Many Faces of Augustine of Hippo”
Respondent: To Be Announced
2005-2006 Schedule
Friday, September 23, 2005
Jerry Z. Muller
The Catholic University of America
“Specious Divisions: What We Lose When We Separate Cultural Critique and History of Philosophy from Religious Critique and Critique of Religion”
Respondent: Arthur Madigan, S.J., Boston College
Friday, October 21, 2005
Pierre Manent
Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron, Paris
“The Triumph and Decline of the European Nation-State”
Respondent: Gerald Easter, Boston College
Friday, November 11, 2005
John Witte, Jr.
Emory University
“Facts and Fictions of the Separation of Church and State
in American Constitutional History”
Respondent: Gregory A. Kalscheur, S.J., Boston College Law School
Friday, January 27, 2006
Charles Fairbanks
Johns Hopkins University
“The Decline of the West?”
Discussant: Christopher Kelly, Boston College
Friday, February 10, 2006
Christopher Caldwell
The Weekly Standard
“What Will Become of Europe?”
Discussant: Peter Skerry, Boston College
Friday, March 17, 2006
“A Boston BaconFest”
Tobin Craig
James Madison College
“Bacon on the Scientific Study of Politics”
Svetozar Minkov
Roosevelt University
“Bacon on How to Judge a Human Life”
Discussant: Jerry Weinberger, Michigan State University