{"id":6493,"date":"2017-03-02T23:26:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T04:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/02\/georgetowns-joshua-mitchell-presents-tocqueville-lecture\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:16:34","slug":"georgetowns-joshua-mitchell-presents-tocqueville-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/georgetowns-joshua-mitchell-presents-tocqueville-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown&#8217;s Joshua Mitchell presents Tocqueville lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown University Professor of Political Theory Joshua Mitchell will speak on the Furman University campus Wednesday, March 22 at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30603\" style=\"width: 305px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30603\" class=\"wp-image-30603 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Joshua-Mitchell-Georgetown1.jpg\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 295px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 295\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University Professor of Political Theory<\/p><\/div>\n<p>His talk, \u201cWhy the State Grows Ever-Stronger,\u201d is free and open to the public. His lecture is the second in the three-part Tocqueville series, \u201cTocqueville and the American Republic.\u201d All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell served as Chairman of the Government Department and was Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at the School of Foreign Service in Qatar. During the 2008-10 academic years, Mitchell took a leave from Georgetown to serve as Acting Chancellor of The American University of Iraq &#8211; Sulaimani.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell\u2019s research interest lies in the relationship between political thought and theology in the West. He has published numerous articles and books, including <em>Not by Reason Alone: Religion, History, and Identity in Early Modern Thought<\/em> (Chicago, 1993), <em>The Fragility of Freedom: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future<\/em> (Chicago, 1995), <em>Plato&#8217;s Fable: on the Mortal Condition in Shadowy Times<\/em> (Princeton, 2006), and <em>Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age<\/em> (Chicago, 2013). He is currently working on a book manuscript entitled <em>Reinhold Niebuhr and the Politics of Hope<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell received a bachelor\u2019s from the University of Michigan, a master\u2019s in sociology from the University of Washington, and a master\u2019s\/Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to teaching at Georgetown University, Mitchell is an avid conservationist, working to restore his small forest on the Eastern Shore and helping to develop the next generation of solar-electric sailboats.<\/p>\n<p>The third and final Tocqueville lecture is set for Wednesday, April 5 at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101. It features Indiana University Bloomington professor Aurelian Craiutu who presents \u201cModeration: A Virtue for Our Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Paige Blankenship in the Furman Department of Politics and International Affairs, 864-294-3547, or visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram\">www.furman.edu\/tocquevilleprogram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgetown University Professor of Political Theory Joshua Mitchell will speak on the Furman University campus Wednesday, March 22 at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101. 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