Colloquium on the American Founding Events

This Spring The Colloquium was held April 1 & 2, 2005.

Talks & Speakers for the Colloquium Weekend.

"The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art"

Date: Friday, April 1

Time: 7:15 p.m.

Description: Roger Kimball, The New Criterion, will give a talk entitled "The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art."

Location: Lewis-Sebring

Valentine Hall

“On Theology and Reason: Speaking Truth about Divine and Human Things in a Pluralist Society”

Date: Saturday, April 2

Time: 9:30 a.m.

Description: John Flinnis of Oxford University will give a talk entitled “On Theology and Reason: Speaking Truth about Divine and Human Things in a Pluralist Society.”

Location: Babbott Room

The Octagon

"Reflections on a Fallacy Well-Travelled: Religious Conviction and the Screening of Truth"

Date: Saturday, April 2

Time: 10:30 a.m.

Description: Michael Pakaluk, Professor of Philosophy, Clark University, will give a talk entitled “Reflections on a Fallacy Well-Travelled: Religious Conviction and the Screening of Truth” 

Location: Babbott Room

The Octagon

"The Global Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement"

Date: Saturday, April 2

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Description: Carol Swain of Princeton University will give a talk entitled “The Global Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement."

Location: Lewis-Sebring

Valentine Hall

"Memoirs of the Law"

Date: Saturday, April 2

Time: 3:00 p.m.

Description: Judge John Sprizzo, Second Federal Circuit (New York) and Petet Fleming, Esq, will give a talk entitled “Memoirs of the Law”

Location: Lewis-Sebring

Valentine Hall