2016-17 Speaker Series
Spring 2017 Events
April 10
"George Washington's Strategy of Enlightened Self-Interest: The American Foreign Policy"
Dr. Paul Carrese (Arizona State University)
6:00 pm in the President's Dining Room
March 27-28
The A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas
On Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
Monday, March 27: President's Dining Room in UC
4:00pm-5:30pm Mercer Student Panel:
Anna Bates, Jake Harvey, Justin Kasian, Cody Moran, Joseph Payne
6:00pm-7:30pm Michael Palmer (University of Maine)
Opening Lecture: "Stasis (Civil War, Revolution, Regime Change) in the War Narrative"
Tuesday, March 28: President's Dining Room in UC
9:00am-10:30am Faculty Panel I:
- Norman Fischer (Clark Atlanta)
- Allison Levy (St. John's College, Santa Fe)
- Ann Ward (University of Regina)
10:45am-12:15pm Faculty Panel II:
- Bernard Dobski (Assumption College)
- Steven Forde (University of North Texas)
- Devin Stauffer (University of Texas)
4:00pm-5:30pm Faculty Panel III:
- Sarah Gardner (Mercer University)
- Laurie Johnson (Kansas State University)
- Karl Walling (U.S. Naval War College)
6:00pm-7:30pm Clifford Orwin (University of Toronto)---"Thucydides Visits America"
January 19 6:00pm in SEB 110
"The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship" Dr. John von Heyking (University of Lethbridge)
Fall 2016 Events
September 19 6:00pm in the President's Dining Room--UC
Mercer's Undergraduate Constitution Day Observance
"The Anti-Federal Appropriation" Dr. Jeffrey Tulis (University of Texas)
September 29 6:00pm in the Medical School Auditorium
"Liberalism and Nationalism: Individual Liberty and Borders in the History of Political Thought" Dr. Lee Ward (University of Regina)
