{"id":2013,"date":"2014-02-18T21:53:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T21:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2014\/02\/18\/henderson-to-speak-about-tocquevilles-memoir-on-pauperism\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:42:04","slug":"henderson-to-speak-about-tocquevilles-memoir-on-pauperism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/henderson-to-speak-about-tocquevilles-memoir-on-pauperism\/","title":{"rendered":"Henderson to speak about Tocqueville&#8217;s &#8220;Memoir on Pauperism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Henderson2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10140 lazyload\" alt=\"Henderson2\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Henderson2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/207;\" \/><\/a>Christine Dunn Henderson, Ph.D., will speak Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 4:30 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center on the Furman University campus.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Henderson\u2019s talk, &#8220;Progress and Paradox in Tocqueville&#8217;s <i>Memoir on Pauperism,<\/i>&#8221; is free and open to the public. Her lecture is presented by the Tocqueville Program at Furman University whose sponsors are Ginny and Sandy MacNeil, Beth and Ravenel Curry, and several private foundations. \u00a0All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson is senior fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., a private educational foundation based in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n<p>She is the contributing editor of\u00a0<i>Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy<\/i>, editor of the forthcoming\u00a0<i>Tocqueville&#8217;s Voyages<\/i>, co-editor (with Mark Yellin) of\u00a0<i>Joseph Addison&#8217;s \u2018Cato\u2019 and Selected Essays<\/i>, and co-translator (with Henry Clark) of the forthcoming\u00a0<i>Encyclopedic Liberty: Political Articles from the \u2018Dictionary\u2019 of Diderot and D&#8217;Alembert<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Henderson holds bachelor\u2019s degrees in government and French studies from Smith College, and a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College.\u00a0Her publications and research interests include Tocqueville, Beaumont, French liberalism, and politics and literature.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Paige Blankenship in the Department of Political Science, 864-294-3547, or visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram\">www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Dunn Henderson, Ph.D., will speak Wednesday, Feb. 26 at 4:30 p.m. in Watkins Room of the Trone Student Center on campus.\u00a0Dr. Henderson\u2019s talk, &#8220;Progress and Paradox in Tocqueville&#8217;s <i>Memoir on Pauperism,<\/i>&#8221; is free and open to the public. Her lecture is presented by the Tocqueville Program at Furman University whose sponsors are Ginny and Sandy MacNeil, Beth and Ravenel Curry, and several private foundations. \u00a0All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.\u00a0Henderson is senior fellow at Liberty Fund, Inc., a private educational foundation based in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":12877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}