Colloquium on the American Founding Events
This Fall the Colloquim was held September 26 & 27, 2008.
Speakers and Talks for the Colloquium Weekend
"Environmentalism and Its Discontents--Greens Left and Right, and their Frustrations"
Date: Tuesday, September 9
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Description: Stephen F. Hayward is a F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Mr. Hayward studies the environment, law, political economy, and the presidency. He is the coauthor of the annual Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, and writes AEI's Environmental Policy Outlook. Hayward recently produced and hosted An Inconvenient Truth . . . or Convenient Fiction? a rebuttal to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
Location: Babbott Room
Octagon
"Willful Blindness: A Prosecutor Tells Why Terrorism Cannot Be Fought with Prosecutions and Prosecutors"
Date: Tuesday, September 16
Time: 8:00 pm
Description:Andrew McCarthy joins us again to speak about his most recent book, Willful Blindness. Mr. McCarthy is a former chief assistant U.S. attorney who led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others. Mr. McCarthy is currently the Director of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) Center for Law and Counterterrorism.
Location: Babbott Room
Octagon
"Who Killed New York?"
Date: Friday, September 26
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Description: George J. Marlin is the author/editor of ten books including Squandered Opportunities: New York’s Pataki Years (2006), The American Catholic Voter: Two Hundred Years of Political Impact (2004) and Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party (2002). In 1993, Mr. Marlin was the Conservative Party nominee for mayor of the City of New York, and in 1994 he served on Governor-elect Pataki's transition team. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals including The New York Times, New York Post, National Review, Newsday, The Washington Times and the New York Daily News. Mr. Marlin is also general editor of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton.
Location: Friedmann Room
Keefe Campus Center
"On Medellin v. Texas"
Date: Saturday, September 27
Time: 9:30 a.m.
Description: Ted Cruz serves as the Solicitor General of Texas. Appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in January 2003, he is the chief appellate lawyer for the State of Texas. Mr. Cruz is the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas and, when appointed, was the youngest Solicitor General in the United States. He has authored over seventy U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented twenty-eight oral arguments, including seven in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Location: Friedmann Room
Keefe Campus Center
"Can Judges and the Courts Violate the Constitution?"
Date: Saturday, September 27
Time: 10:45 a.m.
Description: Carlos T. Bea is a Federal Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was appointed to the court in 2003 by President George W. Bush.
Location: Friedmann Room
Keefe Campus Center
Noah Silverman '92
Date: Saturday, September 27
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Description: Noah Silverman '92 will give his predictions for upcoming Presidential and Congressional electoral contest. Silverman is the Director of Congressional Relations for the Republican Jewish Coalition.
Location: Friedmann Room
Keefe Campus Center
"The Puzzle of Herbert Hoover: Conservative or liberal?"
Date: Saturday, September 27
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Description: George Nash served as president of the Philadelphia Society from 2006-2008, the nation’s oldest organization of conservative intellectuals. He is the premier historian of the American conservative movement and is the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945. Dr. Nash is also an authority on the life of President Herbert Hoover. Between 1975 and 1995 he lived in Iowa near the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, where he prepared three volumes of a definitive, scholarly biography under the general title The Life of Herbert Hoover (New York: W.W. Norton & Co.).
Location: Friedmann Room
Keefe Campus Center
"The Emergence of the Conservative Party in New York in the 1960's- and the Reshaping of Republicans"
Date: Saturday, September 27
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Description: George J. Marlin is the author/editor of ten books including Squandered Opportunities: New York’s Pataki Years (2006), The American Catholic Voter: Two Hundred Years of Political Impact (2004) and Fighting the Good Fight: A History of the New York Conservative Party (2002). In 1993, Mr. Marlin was the Conservative Party nominee for mayor of the City of New York, and in 1994 he served on Governor-elect Pataki's transition team. His articles have appeared in numerous periodicals including The New York Times, New York Post, National Review, Newsday, The Washington Times and the New York Daily News. Mr. Marlin is also general editor of The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton.
Location: Friedmann Room
Keefe Campus Center
"Will Gay Marriage Strengthen Marriage?"
Date: Wednesday, October 22
Time: 8:00 p.m.
Description: David Blankenhorn is founder and president of the Institute for American Values, a private, nonpartisan organization devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life and the sources of competence, character, and citizenship in the United States. In 1994, Blankenhorn helped to found the National Fatherhood Initiative, serving as that organization's founding chairman. Mr. Blankenhorn is also the author of two books: Fatherless America (1995) and The Future of Marriage (2007).
Location: Cole Assembly Room
Converse Hall