GWAC Previous Guest Lectures
As the following list indicates, GWAC has been able to bring outstanding scholars to campus for public lectures.
2012
- Alexander Waugh, “Evelyn Waugh and the Question of Inheritance,” March 2012
- Susan Shell, “Are All Rights Human Rights? Personhood from Hobbes to Citizens United,” March 2012
2011
- George Thomas, “Is the President Constitutionally Obligated to Ignore the Supreme Court?,” April 2011
2010
- Jerry W. Weinberger, “Francis Bacon and Benjamin Franklin on Moral and Scientific Progress,” April 2010
- Allen C. Guelzo, “Who Won the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?,” March 2010
- Peter Augustine Lawler, “Tocqueville on the Democratic ‘Heart Disease’ of Individualism,” February 2010
2008
- Richard Jenkyns, “Is Jane Austen Modern?,” April 2008
- Clifford Orwin, “Is Compassion Good for Us? Nietzsche’s Politically Incorrect Thoughts,” March 2008
- Robert Alter, “Translating the Bible,” February 2008
2007
- Paul A. Cantor, “The Merchant of Venice: The Comic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” April 2007
- Michael Ruse, “The Origin of Species: Then and Now” February 2007
2006
- Victor Davis Hanson, “Thucydides, the Peloponnesian War, and Its Modern Relevance,” October 2006
- Maximillian E. Novak, “How Robinson Crusoe Started the Novel,” September 2006
2005
- Harvey C. Mansfield, “Is Manliness Obsolete?,” April 2005
