AHI Fellow Invited to the Vatican
AHI Fellow Sheila O’Connor-Ambrose has been invited to participate in the first international conference of the World Women’s Alliance for Life and Family (WWALF), to be held in Rome, Italy, March 20-21, 2009. […]
President of National Association of Scholars to Speak on Academic Freedom
“When the AAUP [American Association of University Professors] speaks on academic freedom today,” maintains Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), “it is in the awkward spot of invoking the authority of documents and traditions that it has, in substance, repudiated.” […]
Medievalist to Speak on Origins of Liberalism 24 February
Christopher Hill, Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Hamilton College, specializes in the history of medieval Europe. His research focuses on the relations between law and religion in the pre-modern world and in the development of Western political philosophy. […]
Professor to Speak 19 February on Meaning of Diversity on College Campuses
Bonnie Urciuoli, a professor of anthropology at Hamilton College and a specialist in linguistics, has published extensively on how colleges and universities use diversity to market themselves. […]
Dawson Society Discusses Neuhaus 18 Feburary
Father Richard John Neuhaus, who died in January of this year at the age of 72 after long battle with cancer, was arguably “the most consequential public theologian in America since the days of Reinhold Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray, S.J.” […]
Student Presentation 16 February on Financial Crises
In August 1832, a deadly outbreak of cholera in Utica, New York, prevented a public commencement at Hamilton College. General Prosper M. Wetmore, a poet of some local repute, defied warnings, entered the region, and delivered moving verse on the nobility of ambition to a packed chapel that included little more than ninety students. […]
Second AHI Colloquium Announced
Man faces the world, as David Hume observed, with basically three kinds of goods: his physical capacity, his mental capacity, and his acquired possessions. […]
Ambrose Attends Liberty Fund Colloquium
Pierre Goodrich, an Indianapolis lawyer and businessman, founded Liberty Fund in 1960 “to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.” […]
AHI Adviser Publishes on Lincoln and Obama
“Much has been written about what Mr. Obama thinks about Lincoln,” writes John Stauffer in an essay coauthored with Henry Louis Gates. “But not much has been said about what Lincoln would think of Barack Hussein Obama.” […]
