Upcoming Events
September 17, 2012, 7:00pm
Constitution Day Lecture with Matthew Franck
Location: Carl Grant Events Center
Topic: Individual, Community and State: How to Think About Religious Freedom
Sponsored by: the Department of Political Science and The Center for Politics & Religion
About Dr. Franck:
Matthew J. Franck is the Director of the William E. and Carol G. Simon Center on Religion and the Constitution at the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Radford University, in Radford, Virginia, where he taught constitutional law, American politics, and political philosophy from 1989 to 2010, and was Chairman of the Department of Political Science from 1995 to 2010.
Franck earned his B.A. in political science (magna cum laude) from Virginia Wesleyan College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University. He was a Henry J. Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in 1993, J. William Fulbright Professor of American Studies in 1998 at the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, 2008-09, and a Visiting Lecturer in Politics at Princeton in 2012.
He is the author of Against the Imperial Judiciary: The Supreme Court vs. the Sovereignty of the People (1996); co-editor with Richard G. Stevens of Sober As a Judge: The Supreme Court and Republican Liberty (1999); and a contributor to several other books. He has published essays and reviews in numerous academic journals, and reviews and commentaries on constitutional and political subjects in such places as the Washington Post, First Things, National Review, the Claremont Review of Books, and Public Discourse. Franck blogs at NRO's "Bench Memos," the "First Thoughts" blog at First Things, and the "On Faith" page of the Washington Post, and has appeared numerous times on Bill Bennett's "Morning in America" radio show, as well as on CNN, Fox, and NPR.
Past Events
| March 5-6, 2012 | Dr. Peter J. Leithart, senior theology scholar at New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho, presented "The Metapolitics of Christendom: Constantine and the Transformation of Rome" and "Monsters of Ingratitude" at Union University - news release |
| Sept. 29, 2011 | Matthew Lee Anderson, author of “Earthen Vessels: Why Our Bodies Matter to Our Faith”, presented “The (Physical) Body in Evangelical Practice and Politics” at Union University - news release |
| Oct. 27, 2011 | Peter Lawler, Dana Professor of Government at Berry College (Ga.), presented “The Road to Serfdom Doesn’t Lead to Serfdom” at Union University - news release |
| Oct. 22, 2009 | Dr. Hunter Baker, Houston Baptist University, presented, "The Failure of Secularism" at Union University - news release |
| Sept. 17, 2009 | Dr. Jeffry Morrison, Regent University, presented, "Religion in the Constitutionalism of George Washington" at Union University |
| April 23, 2009 | Dr. David Michelson, historian at the University of Alabama, presented, "The End of Christianity in Iraq?" at Union University |
| Feb. 25-27, 2009 | Making Men Moral conference held at Union University. Speakers included Robert P. George, Hadley Arkes, James Stoner, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Russell Moore, and David Novak. See conference website for more details |
| February 24, 2009 | Dr. Keith Pavlischek, Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, presented "Onward Christian Soldiers? Can Followers of the Prince of Peace Defend Just War?" at Union University |
| February 4, 2009 | Co-sponsored Mars Hill Forum lecture by Dr. Wilfred McClay, "Does the Idea of Progress have a Future? Three Christian Views," at Union University |
| December 2, 2008 | Dr. Cal Beisner presented, "French Philosophes, or Scottish Whigs? Who Laid the Ground for the American Declaration of Independence?" at Union University |
| October 13, 2008 | Dr. Michael Sugrue presented "Measure for Measure: The Bible Contra Puritanical Christianity," at Union University. Dr. Sugrue is Professor of History at Ave Maria University |
| June 28, 2008 | Sponsored Michigan State and LeFrak Forum professor William B. Allen presented "Rethinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of Harriet Beecher Stowe," at the National Faculty Leadership Conference, Washington, D.C. |
| February 18, 2008 | President's Day event featuring Drs. Jeffry Morrison and Lucas Morel speaking on Washington and Lincoln, respectively, and their policy approaches to politics and religion. Cancelled due to tornado damage from February 5th |
| November 8, 2007 | Sponsored Delita Johnson, guest speaker on abstinence education for Ethics and Public Policy |
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