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Colloquium
The Ashbrook Center cordially invites the public to participate in the Ashbrook Colloquium, the purpose of which is to dedicate particular Friday afternoons to informal discussions of an academic nature. We schedule an impressive list of academic scholars to lead these discussions by introducing recently published projects on which they have been working and opening the program up to questions and comments. Our intention is to provide a forum for the discussion of a wide series of topics. We have three such meetings each semester, always on Friday afternoons at 3 p.m. in the Ashbrook Center on the eighth floor of the University library. Although we expect each discussion to formally last about an hour and a half, attendees may come and go as they wish. We introduce the guest, let him take no more than twenty minutes to characterize the subject, and then open the topic to discussion.
Upcoming Speakers
Previous Speakers
Mark Hulliung
Topic: The Right to Land in the Land of Rights
Friday, April 18, 2008
Jeremy Bailey
Topic: Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power
Friday, February 29, 2008
Kristofer Ray
Topic: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier: Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825
Friday, January 18, 2008
Jean Edward Smith
Topic: FDR
Friday, November 02, 2007
Gordon Lloyd
Topic: Hoover’s Rugged Individual Meets Roosevelt’s Forgotten Man
Friday, October 05, 2007
Harry V. Jaffa
Topic: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Friday, March 23, 2007
Michael Anton
Topic: Clothes Make the Man
Friday, February 23, 2007
Russell Weaver
Topic: Questioning Keats
Friday, November 10, 2006
James Ceaser
Topic: Foundational Ideas in American Political Thought
Friday, October 13, 2006
Elizabeth Edwards Spalding
Topic: Harry Truman, the Cold War, and the Remaking of Liberal Internationalism
Friday, September 22, 2006
Matthew Spalding
Topic: Does the Original Constitution Still Matter?
Friday, March 24, 2006
Ralph A. Rossum
Topic: Antonin Scalia’s Jurisprudence: Text and Tradition
Friday, February 24, 2006
Myles Weber
Topic: Consuming Silences
Friday, November 18, 2005
James W. Muller
Topic: The Education of Winston Churchill
Friday, October 21, 2005
Larry Schweikart
Topic: Why We Need a Patriot’s History of the United States
Friday, September 23, 2005
Danielle Allen
Topic: Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education
Friday, April 01, 2005
Stephen Knott
Topic: Alexander Hamilton in Myth and Memory
Friday, February 25, 2005
James McPherson
Friday, February 11, 2005
Robert H. Ferrell
Topic: Good Fortune in Politics: The Case of Calvin Coolidge
Friday, January 28, 2005
David Hackett Fischer
Topic: Liberty and Freedom
Friday, October 29, 2004
Wolfgang Bergsdorf
Topic: The Reunification of Germany
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Alonzo L. Hamby
Topic: For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s
Friday, April 16, 2004
Allen C. Guelzo
Topic: The Emancipation Moment: Abraham Lincoln and the First of January, 1863
Friday, February 27, 2004
John Koritansky
Topic: Thomas Paine: American Radical
Friday, January 30, 2004
Peter C. Myers
Topic: John Locke on the Constitution of the Liberal Family
Friday, November 14, 2003
Donald Brand
Topic: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights
Friday, October 17, 2003
Steven Forde
Topic: Benjamin Franklin’s Democratic Virtues
Friday, September 26, 2003
Jeffrey Tiel
Topic: The Ethics of Espionage
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
James W. Muller
Topic: Winston Churchill’s River War
Friday, February 28, 2003
Richard Ruderman
Topic: Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison
Friday, February 07, 2003
Ken Masugi
Topic: Reconstituting American Citizenship: A Response to September 11
Friday, November 08, 2002
David Brennan
Topic: A Victory for the Kids, the Cleveland Voucher Case
Friday, October 25, 2002
Robert V. Remini
Topic: Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars
Friday, September 06, 2002
Jean M. Yarbrough
Topic: American Virtues—Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People
Friday, April 12, 2002
Daniel J. Mahoney
Topic: From Under the Rubble: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the Postcommunist Present and Future
Friday, March 22, 2002
Andrew E. Busch
Topic: Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Freedom
Friday, February 08, 2002
Keith Windschuttle
Topic: The Killing of History
Monday, November 26, 2001
Herbert Romerstein
Topic: The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors
Friday, November 16, 2001
David Forte
Topic: Studies In Islamic Law
Friday, October 19, 2001
John E. Moser
Topic: Twisting the Lion’s Tail—American Anglophobia between the World Wars
Friday, September 21, 2001
William B. Allen
Topic: The Federalist Papers
Friday, April 27, 2001
Harvey Mansfield, Delba Winthrop
Topic: Democracy in America
Friday, March 30, 2001
Christopher C. Harmon
Topic: Terrorism Today
Friday, February 23, 2001
Mackubin T. Owens
Topic: The Generalship of Ulysses S. Grant
Friday, February 02, 2001
Allen C. Guelzo
Topic: Great Fixer or Great Emancipator?
The Unlikely Intellectual Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Friday, December 01, 2000
Ronald J. Pestritto
Topic: Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America
Friday, November 03, 2000
Lucas Morel
Topic: Lincoln’s Sacred Effort: Defining Religion’s Role in American Self-Government
Friday, October 13, 2000
Karl Walling
Topic: Why America Won the Cold War: Alexander Hamilton and American Freedom
Friday, April 07, 2000
Michael Uhlmann
Topic: Reflections on Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
Friday, March 24, 2000
Kimberly Shankman
Topic: Compromise and Republican Statecraft: The Political Thought of Henry Clay
Friday, March 17, 2000
Gary Rosen
Topic: American Compact: James Madison and the Problem of Founding
Friday, February 25, 2000
Charles R. Kesler
Topic: The Federalist Papers
Friday, December 03, 1999
Bradley C.S. Watson
Topic: Civil Rights and Democracy
Friday, October 22, 1999
Herman Belz
Topic: The Constitution and Lincoln
Friday, September 24, 1999
David Lowenthal
Topic: No Liberty for License: The Forgotten Logic of the First Amendment
Friday, April 23, 1999
G. William Benz
Topic: Post-Cold War Russia
Friday, March 26, 1999
Jerry Pournelle
Topic: The Mote in God’s Eye
Friday, March 19, 1999
C. Bradley Thompson
Topic: John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Thursday, March 04, 1999
John Alvis
Topic: Woodrow Wilson
Friday, November 06, 1998
Kirk Emmert
Topic: Winston S. Churchill on Empire
Friday, October 23, 1998
Robert Sobel
Topic: Coolidge: American Enigma
Friday, September 11, 1998
John G. West, Jr.
Topic: The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation
Friday, March 20, 1998
Lucas Morel
Topic: Lord Charnwood’s Biography of Abraham Lincoln
Friday, March 06, 1998
James W. Ceaser
Topic: Reconstructing America: The Symbol of America in Modern Thought
Friday, January 16, 1998
Thomas G. West
Topic: Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America
Friday, December 05, 1997
Steven Hayward
Topic: Churchill on Leadership: Executive Success in the Face of Adversity
Friday, November 21, 1997
Matthew Spalding
Topic: A Sacred Union of Citizens:
George Washington’s Farewell Address and the American Character
Friday, October 24, 1997
Mike Curtin
Topic: Ohio in National Politics
Friday, November 15, 1996
Robert DeSanto
Topic: Who Pays When Criminals Don’t?
Friday, October 25, 1996
Wang Shouyi
Topic: The Link Between Chinese and American Poetry: Reflections on Ezra Pound
Friday, September 20, 1996
Gilbert D. Meilaender, Jr.
Topic: Two Images of the Christian Life
Friday, March 22, 1996
Stephen Haven
Topic: Poems of American History History and Religion
Friday, March 01, 1996
Russell Weaver
Topic: Education and the Problem of Knowledge
Friday, November 17, 1995
R.F. Hassing
Topic: The Philosophic Challenge Posed by the Natural Sciences to Human Self-Knowledge
Friday, October 20, 1995
Bradford P. Wilson
Topic: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Post-Communist Life in Russia
Friday, September 22, 1995
Deborah Fleming
Topic: The Literary and Political Implications of Yeats’s Depiction of the Irish Countryman in the Context of Colonialism and Irish National Identity
Friday, April 21, 1995
Russell L. Craig, David A. Rausch
Topic: The Various Approaches to Penology in the Moden World
Friday, March 24, 1995
Diana J. Schaub
Topic: The Political Thought of Frederick Douglass
Friday, February 24, 1995
Andrei Marga
Topic: Democratization in Eastern Europe and the Danger of Restoration
Monday, February 06, 1995
G. William Benz
Topic: The Birth of a New Russia: The End of History?
Friday, December 09, 1994
David N. Mayer
Topic: Jefferson’s Constitutional Thought
Friday, October 28, 1994
Sallie Baliunas
Topic: Cosmological Origins and Cosmological Theories, and their Theological Implications
Friday, October 14, 1994
William B. Allen
Topic: A Consideration on the Reintroduction of Stigma to Effect Social Behavior
Friday, September 30, 1994
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