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  • Picture of The Wanderer (impressionist painting of man staring over mountain peaks) and photo of the speaker looking serious
    Nov 9
    What Is a Human?

    Paul Kingsnorth

    November 9, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CST - 6:30 pm CST Alumni Lounge, Pyle Center Register Here!

    Picture of The Wanderer (impressionist painting of man staring over mountain peaks) and photo of the speaker looking serious
  • Oct 26
    Civic Virtue Lecture Series: Mercy Otis Warren: Civic Virtue and American Memory

    Kirstin Birkhaug (Hope College)

    October 26, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CST - 6:30 pm CST UW Law School Room 7200

  • Oct 14
    Civic Virtue Lecture Series: Religion and Civic Virtue in 21st Century America

    Prof. Robert Burton (Utah Valley University)

    October 14, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CST - 6:30 pm CST UW Law School, Room 7200

  • Oct 12
    Conservative Movements of Past & Present

    Matthew Continetti

    October 12, 2026 @ 6:00 pm CST - 7:30 pm CST UW Law School, Room 7200

  • Oct 5
    Terrible Stuff Damaging Everybody

    Ian Rosenberg

    October 5, 2026 @ 4:00 pm CST - 5:30 pm CST Pyle Center Alumni Lounge

  • Sep 22
    Civic Virtue Lecture Series: Virtue & Duty in Constitutional Politics

    Prof. Christina Bambrick

    September 22, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CST - 6:30 pm CST UW Law School Room 2260

  • Sep 14
    Constitution Day 2026: “The Constitution, Civic Education, and Reflective Patriotism”

    Prof. Paul Carrese

    September 14, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CST - 7:00 pm CST UW Law School Room 2260

  • Aug 12
    Civic Virtue Lecture Series: Virtue and Duty in Constitutional Politics

    Prof. Christina Bambrick (Notre Dame)

    August 12, 2026 @ 5:00 pm CST - 6:30 pm CST UW Law School, Room 2260

  • May 4
    Stephen Macedo: In COVID’s Wake: How Our Policies Failed Us

    May 4, 2026 @ 12:00 pm CST - 1:00 pm CST

    Stephen Macedo is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2014, and the American Academy of Sciences and Letters since October 2024, he is also immediate past-President of the American Society for Political and …

  • Apr 16
    More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature

    April 16, 2026 @ 12:00 pm CST - 1:00 pm CST UW Law School, Room 2260

    How can we inhabit the moral imagination in a way that avoids heavy-handed moralism? Can looking at the world through the “million windows” of the “house of fiction” really elevate or transfigure our lives? In this public lecture, author and scholar Joshua Hren presents fresh takes on questions of timeless significance. Hren is founder and editor of Wiseblood …

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