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Benson Center Newsletter - December 2020

Cornel George and Robert West

What's new?

Is Civil Discourse Dead? A Conversation with Robert George and Cornel West

Virtual Event | Jan. 21, 2021, 7 p.m.

Start 2021 with a discourse on unity and hope. The Aquinas Institute, the Center for Leadership and the Benson Center have teamed up to host Robert P. George, Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, and Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University, for an honest conversation about fostering dialogue and friendships across the political aisle.  Learn more

Benson Center Upcoming Events

Elizabeth Spalding

At Home and Abroad: Forms of Community in American Foreign Relations

Elizabeth Spalding, Senior Fellow, Pepperdine University School of Public Policy

Virtual Event | Jan. 26, 2021, 6 p.m. | "Community or Disunity" series

Learn more

Glenn Loury

The Problem of Self-Censorship in American Public Discourse

Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics, Brown University 

Virtual Event | Feb. 8, 2021, 6 p.m. | "The Canceled" series

Learn more 

Center Affiliate Events

Dick Wadhams

Keeping Our Bearings in Unsteady Times: A Congenial Conversation between Dick Wadhams and Patty Limerick

Center of the American West

Virtual Event | Dec. 18, 2020, 12 p.m.

Learn more

Don't Label Me book jacket

"Don't Label Me" CWA Book Study & Virtual Event

Conference on World Affairs

Start Date | Jan. 19, 2021

Learn more

On the Horizon

  • William B. Allen | February 23, 2021, 6 p.m.
    • “George Washington's Warning About Party Faction”
    • COO, Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
    • "Community or Disunity?" series

  • CU Faculty Panel Discussion | March 1, 2021, 6 p.m.
    • “Alexander Hamilton: The Man Behind the Musical”

  • Noel Johnson | March 11, 2021, 6 p.m.
    • "The Church, the State, and the Emergence of Religious Freedom" Register
    • Associate Professor, Economics Department, George Mason University

  • Robert R. Reilly | March 16, 2021, 6 p.m.
    • "The Challenge Posed to American Pluralism by Non-Pluralistic Ideologies"
    • Senior Fellow at the American Foreign Policy Council
    • “Community or Disunity?” series

  • John and Elizabeth Eastman, Special Guests TBA | April 6, 2021, 6 p.m.  
    • Holocaust Remembrance; “Community or Disunity?” series

  • Daniel J. Mahoney | April 13, 2021, 6 p.m.
    • Augustine Chair in Distinguished Scholarship, Assumption University
    • “The Canceled” series, title TBA

All events are virtual and free of charge.

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