{"id":8463,"date":"2019-10-28T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/28\/tocqueville-lecture-series-crisis-of-liberalism-opens-oct-29\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:27","slug":"tocqueville-lecture-series-crisis-of-liberalism-opens-oct-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/tocqueville-lecture-series-crisis-of-liberalism-opens-oct-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Tocqueville Lecture Series ‘Crisis of Liberalism’ opens Oct. 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2019-2020 Tocqueville Lecture Series<\/a>, \u201cThe Crisis of Liberalism,\u201d begins with a literary perspective. \u201c\u2018This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine:\u2019 A Shakespearean Education for Liberty,\u201d by Panayiotis Kanelos, president of St. John\u2019s College in Annapolis, Maryland, will be Tuesday, Oct. 29, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. in Johns Hall 101 on the campus of Furman University.<\/p>\n

This event and all other Tocqueville Series lectures are free and open to the public. All lectures in the series are part of Furman’s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n

Kanelos, an ardent Shakespeare fan and scholar, has authored and edited numerous books, articles and essays on Shakespeare, including the \u201cShakespeare and the Stage\u201d series. He previously served as dean of the honors college at Valparaiso University, during which time he also oversaw the administration and finances of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts, a network of 100 colleges and universities that advances liberal arts education through conferences, workshops, publications and fellowships.<\/p>\n

Kanelos began his academic career at Loyola University Chicago, where he was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Shakespeare Studies Program. He holds a doctorate from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, a master\u2019s in political philosophy and literature from the University Professors Program at Boston University and a bachelor\u2019s in English from Northwestern University.<\/p>\n

The Tocqueville Program<\/a> is an intellectual community devoted to seeking the truth about the moral and philosophic questions at the heart of political life.\u00a0Every year, The Tocqueville Program coordinates a series of lectures by distinguished scholars and public intellectuals on a particular theme with a special course created specifically to address that theme.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Crisis of Liberalism\u201d addresses the liberal political order that has dominated the world since the second world war, but which has recently come under unprecedented challenges to its legitimacy. For the next two years, the Tocqueville Program will consider the nature and history of liberalism and the challenges to it, with a view to helping us navigate the unsettled age that is dawning.<\/p>\n

Talks include \u201cTaking Populism Seriously\u201d on Jan. 23, 2020, with Patrick Deneen from the University of Notre Dame; \u201cCan Liberalism Survive in an Age of Populism?\u201d on Feb. 25, 2020, with Shadi Hamid of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institute; and \u201cWhy Institutions Matter\u201d on March 24, 2020, with Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit the Tocqueville Program<\/a>. Or contact Paige Blankenship in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at 864-294-3547.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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