Events

SPRING CONFERENCE: “Towards Post-Constitutionalism?”

Keynote Lecturer: Charles Kesler, Claremont McKenna College

Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Dodson Auditorium

Panelists: Robert Collins, Dillard University; Nancy Maveety, Tulane University; Nathan Pinkoski, University of Florida; Robert Vipond, University of Toronto

Saturday, April 27, 2024, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Place: 218 French House (Honors College)

Conference: “French & Francophone Philosophy Today” [co-sponsored with the LSU Ethics Institute and others]

Speakers: Bachir Diagne, Penelope Deutscher, Francois Raffoul, and others

Dates: April 18-20, 2024

Place: LSU Student Union & French House (see schedule linked above)

Lecture: “A Woman in the Labyrinth: Angélique Diderot as Composer

Speaker: Rebecca Cypess, Professor of Musicology and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University

Date and time: Monday, April 8, 2024, 4:30 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House / Ogden Honors College

Lecture: “Strategy: What has Changed, and What Remains the Same”

Speaker: Eliot Cohen, Robert Osgood Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Date and time: Monday, March 25, 2024, 3:30 pm

Place: Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall

Lecture: “Truth Decay & Racial Justice” [co-sponsored with the Department of Political Science and the Ogden Honors College]

Speaker: Ray Block, Rand Corporation (and Penn State University)

Date and time: Tuesday, March 5, 2024, 4:30 pm (reception follows)

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House / Ogden Honors College

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: “What the Constitution Whispers in our Ears”

Speaker: Russell Muirhead, Robert Clements Professor of Democracy and Politics, Dartmouth College

Date and time: Monday, February 26, 2024. 4:00 pm (tentative)

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House / Ogden Honors College

Lecture: “Knowing ‘precisely’ in Aristotle: The Case of Posterior Analytics 2.19” [co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies, the Ethics Institute, and the Ogden Honors College] [cancelled due to travel difficulties]

Speaker: Ian McCready-Flora, University of Virginia

Date and time: Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 3:00 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House / Ogden Honors College

Evolution: A Panel in Honor of the Publication of Prosanta Chakrabarty’s Explaining Life Through Evolution (co-sponsored with the Center for Collaborative Knowledge)

Chairs: Sophie Warny (Geology & Geophysics) & Suzanne Marchand (History)

Panelists: Juliet Brophy (Anthropology), Deborah Goldgaber (Philosophy), Jonathan Snow (Geology & Geophysics), James Stoner (Political Science)

Date and time: Thursday, November 30, 2023, 4:30 pm

Place: The Club at Union Square

Lecture: “Cognitive Biases are a Writer’s Best Friend” [co-sponsored with the Ogden Honors College]

Speaker: Joshua Landy, Stanford University

Date and time: Monday, November 13, 2023, 4:30 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House / Ogden Honors College

Lecture: “Giants Among Us? Power and Monopoly in Today’s Economy”

Speaker: Michael Munger, Duke University

Date and time: Friday, November 3, 2023, 1:30 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House / Ogden Honors College

Talk: “Teaching Viewpoint Diversity” [co-sponsored with Heterodoxy at LSU]

Speaker: Paige Miller, University of Wisconsin, River Falls

Date and time: Monday, October 23, 2023, 4:00 pm

Place: Coates 168

Lecture: “Two Theories of Self-Control” [co-sponsored with the Department of Philosophy] 

Speaker: Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado

Date and time: Friday, October 13, 2023, 12:30-2:00 pm

Place: Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall

Constitution Day Lecture: “The Constitution and American Democracy”

Speaker: Joshua Sellers, University of Texas Law School

Discussants: John Devlin, LSU Law Center, and tba

Date and time: Friday, September 22, 2023, 12:40-1:40 pm

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center

ALSO:

“Originalism and the Role of History in American Law”

Date and time: Thursday, September 21, 4:30-6:00 pm

Himes 241

sponsored by the Modern History Colloquium

Talk: “The (Neo)imperial Struggles in Europe”

Speaker: Michał Kuź, Lazarski University

Date and time: Monday, September 18, 2023, 12:00-1:20 pm

Place: Stubbs 210

SPRING CONFERENCE: “Who Gets to Make Law?” 

Keynote Lecturer: J. Budziszewski, University of Texas

Friday, April 28, 2023, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Panelists: Nichole Bauer, LSU; Murray Dry, Middlebury College; Mary Keys, University of Notre Dame; Albert Samuels, Southern University

Saturday, April 29, 2023, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Zoom Lecture Series: “Eric Voegelin & His Interlocutors”

Speakers: David Walsh, Daniel Mahoney, and Peter Baehr

Dates and time: Wednesdays at 11:30 central time, February 8, March 8, & April 12, 2023

Poetry Reading

Speaker:  Dana Gioia, former poet laureate of California, former Chairman of NEA

Date and time: Monday, March 27, 2023, 4:30 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, Ogden Honors College, French House

Lecture: “How Not to Defend Western Civilization”

Speaker:  James Hankins, Professor of History, Harvard University

Date and time: Monday, March 6, 2023, 5:00 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, Ogden Honors College, French House

Lecture: “Microhistory and the Malleability of Identity in Nineteenth Century America”

Speaker:  Frank W. Garmon, Jr., Christopher Newport University

Date and time: Friday, March 3, 2023, 6:30 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, Ogden Honors College, French House

Co-sponsored with the LSU History Graduate Students Association

Lecture: “The Inherent Problem of Mass Incarceration”

Speaker:  Raff Donelson, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Date and time: Monday, November 7, 2022, 4:30 pm

Place: French House 135, Ogden Honors College

Co-sponsored with the Ethics Institute

Talk: “Old Lessons for Public and Private Shaming: Socrates, Cynics, and Epicureans”

Speaker:  Alin Fumurescu, University of Houston

Date and time: Friday, October 21, 2022, 12:00-1:20 p.m.

Place: Stubbs 210

Cecil Van Crabb Memorial Lecture: “Death of the Treaty Power”

Speaker:  Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School

Date and time: Monday, October 10, 2022, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Place: Hill Memorial Library

Constitution Day Lecture: “Giving Justice More Than Its Due”

Speaker: Daniel Philpott, University of Notre Dame

Discussant: Ray Diamond, LSU Law Center

Date and time: Friday, September 9, 2022, 12:40-1:40 pm

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center

Lecture: “Vindicating Wollstonecraft’s Rights: Duties, Virtue, and the Common Good”

Speaker: Erika Bachiochi, Ethics & Public Policy Center

Date and time: Monday, May 2, 2022, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Conversation: “Three Applications of Aristotle’s Ethics”

Speaker:  Michael Pakaluk, Catholic University

Date and time: Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Place: Stubbs 216

SPRING CONFERENCE: “Re-reading Aristotle’s Ethics Today”

Keynote Lecturer: Ronna Burger, Tulane University

Friday, April 22, 2022, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Panelists: Robert Berman, Xavier University; Alexander Duff, University of North Texas; Robert Koons, University of Texas; Usha Nathan, Louisiana State University

Saturday, April 23, 2022, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Talk: “Israel’s Declaration of Independence”

Speaker:  Neil Rogachevsky, Yeshiva University

Date and time: Wednesday, April 6, 2022, 11:30-1:00 p.m.

Place: Stubbs 210

Zoom Lecture Series: “Who Was Eric Voegelin & What Did He Think?” 

Speakers: Barry Cooper, Lee Trepanier, Carol Browning Cooper, David Walsh, and John von Heyking

Dates and time: Wednesdays at 11:30 central time, February 9, 16, 23, March 9, 23, 2022

Lecture: “Is There a Women’s History of Vatican I?”

Speaker:  Carol E. Harrison, University of South Carolina

Date and time: Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 4:30-6:00 p.m.

Place: 241 Himes Hall

Co-sponsored with the Modern History Colloquium

Lecture: “Is Reason the Renaissance Experience?”

Speaker: Kathy Eden, Columbia University

Date and time: Thursday, February 24, 2022, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Seminar: “Political Philosophy and the Ontological Question: Further Reflections on Heidegger and Strauss”

Speaker: Richard Velkley, Tulane University

Date and time: Monday, November 1, 3:30-5:00 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Ogden Honors College)

contact James Stoner for a copy of the paper in advance (poston@lsu.edu)

Lecture: “Seapower over Landpower? Nicholas Barbon, Montesquieu, and the Strategic Superiority of Modern Commercial Powers”

Speaker: Paul Rahe, Hillsdale College

Date and time: Monday, September 27, 3:30-5:00 pm

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Ogden Honors College)

Constitution Day Lecture: “Criminal Procedure and the Roberts Court”

Speaker: Stephen Smith, University of Notre Dame Law School

Discussants: Anna Gunderson, LSU Political Science; Scott Sullivan, LSU Law Center

Date and time: Tuesday, September 21, 3:00-4:30 pm

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center

WELCOMING THE OTHER: A Conference in Honor of Cecil Eubanks 

Keynote Talk and Presentation of Festschrift: Friday, April 30, 5:00 pm

Conference Panel: Saturday, May 1, 10:00 am (tentative)

Place: Sternberg Salon, Ogden Honors College/French House

Lecture/Conversation: “Glacial Progress: Inventing the Ice Age and Climate Change in Nineteenth-Century America”

Speaker: Caroline Winterer, William Robertson Coe Professor of History, Stanford University

Date and time: Monday, April 19, 1:30-3:00 pm

Place: ON-LINE via Zoom

PANEL SERIES: “Uncertainty Across the Arts and Sciences: A Conversation,” co-sponsored with the CCK, February 23, March 9, March 24, and April 14 

SPRING CONFERENCE: “Reason and Revolution” 

Keynote Lecturer: Bryan-Paul Frost, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Friday, April 9, 2021, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Panelists: Andrea Conque, University of Louisiana, Lafayette; Jeremy Mhire, Louisiana Tech; Gabrielle Stanton Ray, Tulane University; Albert Samuels, Southern University

Saturday, April 10, 2021, 10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Lecture: “Don Quixote” [Poster]

Speaker: Frederick A. de Armas, Andrew Mellon Disctinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago

Date and time: Wednesday, April 7, 4:30-5:30 pm

Place: In-person and ON-LINE via Zoom: contact cmattza@lsu.edu

Co-sponsored by the Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Lecture/Conversation: “Proclaiming Emancipation: How Washington and Lincoln Prepared the End of Slavery in America” [Poster] [Press Release] [VIDEO]

Speaker: William B. Allen, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University

Date and time: Tuesday, March 23, 3:00-4:30 pm

Place: ON-LINE via Zoom

Lecture/Conversation: “The Right of Revolution Today” [Poster] [Press Release] [VIDEO]

Speaker: Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr., William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government, Harvard University

Date and time: Tuesday, March 2, 1:30-3:00 pm

Place: ON-LINE via Zoom

Lecture: “The Economics and Politics of Race” [Flier] [Press Release] [Video]

Speakers: Jason Riley, Wall Street Journal and Manhattan Institute and Albert Samuels, Southern University

Date and time: Thursday, November 12, 2020, 5:00-6:15 p.m. [rescheduled from March 18]

Place: ON-LINE via Zoom

Constitution Day Lecture: “Our Fifteenth Amendment and Its Discontents” [Poster] [Press Release]

Speaker: Randall Kennedy, Harvard Law School

Discussants: Nathan Kalmoe, Manship School & Political Science, LSU; Christopher Tyson, LSU Law Center

Date and time: Friday, September 18, 2020, 3:00-4:15 p.m.

Place: ON-LINE via Zoom

PBK Lecture: “Threat and Response: Saving the World’s Manuscript Heritage from Imminent Danger” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Speaker: Columba Stewart, O.S.B., St. John’s University

Date and time: Thursday, March 5, 2020, 5:00 pm

Place: Design Building Auditorium

Talk: “Showdown at Fort Miamis: War & Diplomacy in the Anglo-American Crisis of 1794” [Flier] [Text]

Speaker: Michael Kochin, Tel Aviv University

Date and time: Wednesday, Feb 19, 2020, 12:00-1:20 p.m.

Place: Stubbs 210

Lecture: “Glaucon’s Dilemma: Origins of Social Order” [Poster] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Speaker: Josiah Ober, Stanford University

Date and time: Monday, February 17, 2020, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

PANEL: “Educating for American Democracy: Teaching Civics Today” [Poster] [LSU Press Release] [NEH Press Release] [Photo]

Speakers: Danielle Allen, Harvard University; Paul Carrese, Arizona State University; Albert Samuels, Southern University; Zevi Gutfreund, Louisiana State University

Moderator: Jonathan Earle, Dean, Ogden Honors College

Date and time: Tuesday, February 4, 2020, 3:00-4:15 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Lecture: “Locking Up Our Own” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Speaker: James Forman, Jr., Yale University Law School

Date and time: Friday, September 27, 2019, 12:40-1:40 p.m.

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center

Co-sponsors: Pugh Institute for Justice, Black Law Students Association

Constitution Day Lecture: “Religious Liberty as Freedom of the Church: A Better Response to Sexual Equality Laws” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3]

Speaker: Helen Alvaré, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University

Discussant: Judge S. Kyle Duncan, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Date and time: Thursday, September 19, 2019, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center

Lecture: “Rules of Redemption: The German Enlightenment and African Slavery”

Speaker: Martin A. Ruehl, University of Cambridge

Date and time: Friday, September 20, 2019, 3:30 p.m.

Place: 145 Coates Hall

Co-sponsored by the Modern History Colloquium

Talk: “George Washington and the Jews: Why on Earth They Mattered to Him” [Flier]

Speaker: Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto

Date and time: Monday, April 22, 2019, 12:00-1:20 p.m.

Place: Stubbs 210

Lecture: “Aquinas and the Market” [Poster] [Press Release]

Lecturer: Mary Hirschfeld, Villanova University

Date and time: Thursday, April 11, 2019, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Spring Conference: “Realism & Idealism” [Poster] [Press Release]

Keynote Lecturer: Catherine Zuckert, University of Notre Dame

Date and time: Friday, April 5, 2019, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Place: Hill Memorial Lecture Hall Hall

Panelists: Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola College of Business; Maura Cowan, Tulane University;  Joseph Hebert, St. Ambrose University; Jason Maloy, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Date and time: Saturday, April 6, 2019, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Place: French House (Honors College)

“A Conversation on Eric Voegelin’s Last Words — on God” [Flier]

Paul Caringella (Eric Voegelin’s Research Assistant) and Amb. Martin Palous (Florida International University)

Date and time: Monday, April 8, 2019, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Place: Stubbs 210

Lecture: “Shakespeare in America” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3]

Lecturer: James Shapiro, Columbia University

Date and time: Thursday, February 14, 2019, 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Lecture: “The Jury in the Age of Public Rights” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3]

Lecturer: Adam MacLeod, Faulkner University Law School

Discussants: Raff Donelson and Paul R. Baier, LSU Law Center

Date and time: Tuesday, January 22, 2019, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center

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Graduate Seminar: Freedom of Speech (Summer A, June-July 2018) 

Instructor: James Stoner

Time and Place: TTh, 1:30-4:30 (Summer A, June-July 2018), 210 Stubbs

Spring Conference: “Is the Social Contract Broken?” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3]

Keynote Lecturer: John Tomasi, Brown University

Date and time: Friday, April 13, 2018, 3:30 p.m.

Place: Hill Memorial Library

Panelists: Albert Samuels, Southern University; Chris Surprenant, University of New Orleans; Christie Maloyed, University of Louisiana, Lafayette; Brian Pedraza, Franciscan University of Our Lady (Baton Rouge) [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3] [Photo 4] [Photo 5]

Date and time: Saturday, April 14, 2018, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Place: French House (LSU Honors College)

Conference: “Sustainable Cities” [co-sponsored with the Center for Collaborative Knowledge] [Poster] [Press Release]

Lecturers: Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory; Gary Machlis, Clemson University;  Laurence Ralph  and Aisha Belisio-de-Jesus, Harvard University; Martha Serpas, University of Houston

Date and time: Thursday and Friday, April 12-13, 2018

Place: LSU College of the Coast and Environment (Thursday); LSU Honors College (Friday)

Lecture: “The Industrial Revolution as Global Environmental History, 1780-1920” [Poster] [Press Release]

Lecturer: John R. McNeill, Georgetown University

Date and time: Friday, February 9, 2018, 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Lecture: “Playing God with Time: Storytelling in Late Antiquity” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Lecturer: Simon Goldhill, Cambridge University

Date and time: Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Place: Sternberg Salon, French House (Honors College)

Lecture and Conference: “Unfettering Philosophy: Reading Aristotle’s Ethics in the Twenty-first Century” [Poster] [Press Release]

Lecturer: Michael Pakaluk, Catholic University

Date and time: Friday, March 31, 2017,  3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Hill Memorial Library

Panelists: Samuel Baker, University of South Alabama; Bryan-Paul Frost, University of Louisiana, Lafayette; Jeremy Mhire, Louisiana Tech; Rachel Parsons, LSU

Date and time: Saturday, April 1, 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Place: French House/ LSU Ogden Honors College

[Concluding Event in Lecture Series on “Millennial Classics,” cosponsored with the Honors College]

Lecture: “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Lecturer: Rod Dreher, Senior Editor, The American Conservative

Date and time: Friday, March 24, 2017, 3:00 pm

Place: Hill Memorial Library, LSU

[in conjunction with the annual conference of the Ciceronian Society]

Panel: “Castro’s Legacy and the Future of Cuba” [Poster] [Press Release] [Reveille Story] [Photo]

Panelists: Rosa Maria Paya & John Suarez

Date and time: Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 12:00-2:00 pm

Place: Vieux Carré Room, LSU Student Union

Lecture: “Past Belief: The Fall and Rise of Ecclesiastical History” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3] [Photo 4]

Lecturer: Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

Date and time: Monday, January 30 , 2017, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Grand Salon, LSU Honors College/French House

[Lecture Series on “Millennial Classics,” cosponsored with the Honors College]

Panel: “The Free Speech Crisis on American Campuses”[Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Panelists: Peter Wood, National Association of Scholars, and Thomas Cushman, Wellesley College

Date and time: Thursday, January 26, 2017, 7:00 p.m.

Place: Capital Chamber, LSU Student Union 329

Lecture: “Natural Law and Constitutional Law” [Poster] [blog post] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Lecturer: Santiago Legarre, Universidad Católica Argentina

Date and time: Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

Place: Robinson Courtroom, LSU Law Center 201

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture: “Age of Fracture: The Transformation of Ideas and Society in Modern America” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo]

Lecturer: Daniel Rodgers, Henry Rodgers Lea Professor of History, Emeritus, Princeton University

Date and time: Thursday, October 20, 2016, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Grand Salon, LSU Honors College/French House

Lecture: “Can You Learn More from a Person or from a Book?” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Lecturer: Norma Thompson, Yale University

Date and time: Monday, October 17, 2016, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Place: Grand Salon, LSU Honors College/French House

[Lecture Series on “Millennial Classics,” cosponsored with the Honors College]

Panel: “Affirmative Action and the University: An Inside View of Fisher v. University of Texas, Austin” [Flier] [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3]

Panelists: Allan Van Fleet, McDermott Will & Emery, LLP (author, amicus brief for Heman Sweatt Family); Thomas Galligan, Dean, LSU Law Center

Date and time: Monday, October 10, 2016

Place: Hill Memorial Library Lecture Hall, LSU

Constitution Day Lecture: “Justice Scalia and the Ground of the Law” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]

Lecturer: Hadley Arkes, Edward N. Ney Professor in American Institutions, Emeritus, Amherst College, and Founder and Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding

Discussants: Paul R. Baier, Judge Henry A. Politz Professor of Law, LSU Law Center; Raymond T. Diamond, Jules F. and Frances L. Landry Distinguished Professor of Law, LSU Law Center

Moderator: James R. Stoner, Jr., LSU Political Science

Date and time: Thursday, September 15, 2016, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center

Lecture: Liberal Learning in a Radical Age [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo]

Lecturer: John Agresto, Former President, St. John’s College, Santa Fe, and Former Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

Date & Time: Thursday, April 14, 2016, 3:30 p.m.

Place: Hill Memorial Library, LSU

Lecture: “The Value of Federalism in a Polarized Era” [Poster] [Press Release] [Photo]

Lecturer: John Dinan, Professor of Political Science, Wake Forest University, and Editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism

Date and time: Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 3:30 p.m.

Place: Hill Memorial Library, LSU

Lecture: “Gridlock and the Madisonian Constitution” [Poster] [Photo]

Lecturer: R. Shep Melnick, Tip O’Neill Professor of Political Science, Boston College

Date and time: Thursday, February 18, 2016, 3:30 p.m.

Place: Vieux Carre Room, LSU Union

Panel: “Freedom of Expression on Campus Today” [Poster] [Press Release]

Panelists: Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago, & Donald Downs, University of Wisconsin

Date and time: Thursday, November 19, 2015, 3:30 p.m.

Place: Hill Memorial Library, LSU

Lecture: “The Customer Is Not Always Right: Where Public Policy and the ‘Sharing’ Economy Collide” [Poster] [Press Release]

Lecturer: Nicole Gelinas, Manhattan Institute

Date and time: Monday, November 9, 2015, 5:00 p.m.

Place: The Rotunda, Business Education Complex, LSU

Constitution Day Lecture: “The Founders’ Constitution and Contemporary Constitutional Law, After Obergefell” [Poster]

Lecturer: Murray Dry, Middlebury College

Date and time: Thursday, September 10, 2015, 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Place: McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center