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国产伦理 Symposium Addresses Origins of the American Presidency

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By polly burks | 2/8/2019

国产伦理鈥檚 2019 Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency鈥檚 鈥淥rigins of the American Presidency,鈥 a two-day symposium featuring scholars from around the world to present research, will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 20 and Thursday, Feb. 21 at 国产伦理鈥檚 Student Union, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. 听Tickets for the symposium are $35 and tickets for the symposium and VIP reception are $60. Tickets can be purchased by calling 561-297-6124, at , or at the Box Office in 国产伦理鈥檚 Student Union. 国产伦理 faculty, staff and student rates also are available at the box office.

On Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 3:30 p.m., Caroline Winterer of Stanford University will present 鈥淭he American Presidency in the Age of Enlightenment鈥 in the Live Oak Pavilion of 国产伦理鈥檚 Student Union. Winterer is Anthony P. Meier Family Professor in the Humanities and director of the Stanford Humanities Center. She is an American historian, with special expertise in American thought and culture. She will sign her most recent book, 鈥淎merican Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason,鈥 following the lecture, with a reception to take place at 5:30 p.m. in the Wimberly Library.听

On Thursday, Feb. 21, the symposium will last from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Live Oak Pavilion. Presentations include:

9-11 a.m. The European Origins of the American Presidency

  • 鈥淓nglish Republican Thought and the Age of Revolution,鈥 with Blair Worden, University of Oxford
  • 鈥淣atural Rights, Ordinary People, and the Construction of Political Philosophy,鈥 Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
  • 鈥淭he Eighteenth-Century Debate about Party: Montesquieu to Madison,鈥 Max Skj枚nsberg, University of St. Andrews

1-2:45 p.m. The Politics of Constitution Making and the Federal Union听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

  • 鈥淒ebates at the Constitutional Convention,鈥 Jonathan Gienapp, Stanford University
  • 鈥淭he Federalist Papers in Theory and Practice,鈥 Claire Arcenas, University of Montana
  • 鈥淭he Bill of Rights and Contours of Citizenship in the Republican Experiment,鈥 听听听听听听Daniel Hulsebosch, New York University Law School

3-4:45 p.m. Political Theory and Practice among the Early Presidents

  • 鈥淭heory and Practice: The Politics of the First Presidents,鈥 with Lindsay Chervinsky, Southern Methodist University
  • 鈥淚nside the Early American Presidency: The Making of a Slave Nation,鈥 听听听听听听Fran莽ois Furstenberg, Johns Hopkins University
  • 听鈥淧ower and Liberty: Women and the World the Constitution Made,鈥 听听听听听听Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

Since its founding in 2007, the Alan B. and Charna Larkin Symposium has welcomed former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; journalists/authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein; Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post; and historian David McCullough, as speakers. For more information about the Larkin Symposium, visit www.fau.edu/larkin.

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