Past Events
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Aug 12Civic Virtue Lecture Series: Virtue and Duty in Constitutional Politics
Prof. Christina Bambrick (Notre Dame)
UW Law School, Room 2260
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May 4Stephen Macedo: In COVID’s Wake: How Our Policies Failed Us
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 …
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Apr 16More than a Matter of Taste: The Moral Imagination and the Spirit of Literature
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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Apr 16“Natural and Social Rights”: Founding Declarations in Dialogue in American and French Revolutions
UW Law School, Room 7200
Part of the CSLD’s America @ 250 Celebration, this lecture will be given by history professor Katie Jarvis of the University of Notre Dame. The CSLD is co-sponsoring this event with the UW-Madison Department of History, with the leadership of Professor Jason Yackee.
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Apr 8Natural Law Panel with Eric Claeys (George Mason) & Cecelia Klingele (Wisconsin)
UW Law School, Room 5229
Join the CSLD and the UW Law School Federalist Society for a discussion of the meaning and relevance of natural law.
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Apr 6Order & Influence Series: Ignatian Spirituality & the Birth of the Modern Catholic Self
UW Law School, Room 7200
This fifth talk in the Order & Influence lecture series discusses the past and present role of the Jesuit order in bridging the divide between secular and spiritual concerns, historically and in the modern era. Presenter Rev. Patrick Gilger, S.J., is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Director of the McNamara Center for the Social Study of …
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Mar 23Order & Influence Series: A Life Preached: Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P. and the Catholic Land Movement
Lubar Commons, UW Law School, Room 7200
Talk by Nicholas Eastman, OP, Ph.D.
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Mar 18Greg Lukianoff, CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)
Discovery Building, DeLuca Forum, UW-Madison
In a moment where we too often see a ‘free speech for me, but not for thee’ attitude across a spectrum of topics and viewpoints, Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin and Greg Lukianoff will discuss the rights, risks, and responsibilities of free expression in higher education. They’ll also discuss how to build a campus culture that encourages …
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Mar 9Order & Influence Series: “Un poquito de este puro amor”: Contemplation and the Common Good
This third talk in the Order & Influence lecture series, “Un poquito de este puro amor”: Contemplation and the Common Good, draws its title from the writing of the 16th Century Spanish Carmelite John of the Cross, and explores the question of whether and how the tradition of monastic contemplation contributes to the good of …
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Feb 23Order & Influence Series: From opus Dei to the Opus Dei: the Modern Reevaluation of Labor in the Roman Catholic Church
UW Law School Room 7200
This second talk in the Order & Influence lecture series, titled From opus Dei to the Opus Dei: the Modern Reevaluation of Labor in the Roman Catholic Church, will be given by cultural anthropologist Frank Ngo of the Ohio State University Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society. Abstract: Is there a connection between the …