April 15-16, 2024

The A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas

William Shakespeare, Politics, and Philosophy

Student Panel (3:45pm on April 15)

Gabrielle Gurrola ('27), Riley Hall ('27), Lucy Roach ('25), Carolina Stover ('27)

Harris Wallace ('27), Caroline Wood ('27).

3:45-5:30pm in the Presidents Dining Room in the University Center

Opening Lecture (6:00pm on April 15)

Vickie Sullivan (Tufts University, Political Science)

"Transcendent Ambition: Machiavelli and Shakespeare on Coriolanus and Julius Caesar"

6:00-7:15pm in the Presidents Dining Room in the University Center

Faculty Panel I (9:00am on April 16)

9:00am-10:30am in Connell Student Center, Conference Room I

Bernard J. Dobski (Assumption University, Political Science)

"The Necessary Power of the Particular: Cosmopolitanism and Liberal Education in Titus Andronicus"

L. Joseph Hebert (St. Ambrose University, Political Science)

"'Law and Form and Due Proportion': Richard II and the Challenge of English Constitutional Reform"

Deneen Senasi (Mercer University, English)

"'A King of Shreds and Patches': A Fragmentology of Shakespeare and the Public Good"

 

Faculty Panel II (10:45am on April 16)

10:45am-12:15am in Connell Student Center, Conference Room I

Sheila T. Cavanagh (Emory University, English)

"'A Place in the Story': Autobiographical Shakespeare"

Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia, English)

"Pursuing Happiness in Shakespeare"

Stuart Warner (Roosevelt University, Philosophy)

"Who's Whose?  Ambiguity Moral, Political, and Literary in Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale"

Faculty Panel III (4:00pm on April 16)

4:00pm-5:30pm in Connell Student Center, Conference Room I

Clinton Brand (University of St. Thomas, English)

"Macbeth and the 'milk of human kindness': Nature, Natality, Sex, and Politics in the Scottish Play"

Kevin Cherry (University of Richmond, Political Science)

"The Theology of Coriolanus"

Khalil Habib (Hillsdale College, Politics)

"Church and State Dynamics in Machiavelli's Florentine Histories and Shakespeare's King John"

Closing Lecture (6:00pm on April 16)

Gary Taylor (Florida State University, English)

"Shakespeare, History, and Politics"

6:00-7:15pm in Connell Conference Room I

 

 

 

September 11, 2023

Susan Hanssen (History, University of Dallas)

"George Washington and Patriotism"

6:00pm in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center

Our 2023 Constitution Day Observence

 

October 16, 2023

Jerome Foss (Political Science, St. Vincent College)

"The Importance of Political Ideas in the Stories of Flannery O'Connor"

6:00pm in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center

 

November 6, 2023

Susan McWilliams Barndt (Political Science, Pomona)

"A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought"

6:00pm in the Presidents Dining Room of the University Center