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Symposium To Examine “The Future Of American Conservatism” October 24-25.
The Bradley Institute of Belmont Abbey College invites you to the 25th Annual Weaver/Ingersoll Symposium on the campus of the College October 24-25.
Join us as we examine a very timely topic during this contentious election season: “The Future of American Conservatism.”
Our All-Star speaker lineup includes 2008 Weaver Prize Winner George Nash, Wilfred McClay, Steven Hayward, Leonard Liggio, Robert V. Young, Daniel Mahoney, Marc Henrie and Robert Preston.
About the speakers:
Dr. George H. Nash, the 2008 winner of the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters, is the author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945, as well as the masterly three-volume work, The Life of Herbert Hoover.
Dr. Nash is a member of the Historical Society, The Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation, and the Churchill Centre. He is currently president of the Philadelphia Society, the nation’s oldest organization of conservative intellectuals.
His topic: “How Firm a Foundation? The Prospects for American Conservatism.”
Dr. Stephen F. Hayward is a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has also been a Fellow at The Heritage Foundation (1993-94 and 1997-98), and a contributing editor at Reason magazine (1990-2001).
He is the author of the book Air Quality in America, and he recently produced and hosted An Inconvenient Truth…or Convenient Fiction?, a rebuttal to Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth.
Dr. Hayward’s topic will be “‘Modernizing Conservatism’ And Other Oxymorons.”
Dr. Wilfred McClay is the Sun Trust Chair of Excellence in the Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is the author of The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, which won the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in intellectual history published in 1993 and 1994. Among his other books are A Student’s Guide to U.S. History and Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America.
He is the 2006 winner of the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters.
His topic is “Sowing and Reaping: Cycles of American Conservatism.”
Dr. Leonard P. Liggio is Executive Vice President of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. He is also Research Professor at George Mason University Law School.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Liberty Fund and was president of the History & Economics Research Institute from 1998 to 2004 and he is past president of the Philadelphia Society and of the Mont Pelerin Society, where he now serves on the Board of Directors.
His topic: “American Conservatism in Historical Perspective.”
Dr. Robert V. Young is Professor of English at North Carolina State University. He was recently appointed the editor of Modern Age, published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). He, with his colleague M. Thomas Hester, founded the John Donne Journal, and edited it for 25 years. He has twice been a Fulbright Fellow and has held an ACLS fellowship and a fellowship with the Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
His topic: “‘This Purifying of Wit…Which We Commonly Call Learning’: Conservatism and The Future of Liberal Learning.”
Dr. Daniel J. Mahoney is Professor of Political Science at Assumption College. His books include Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology; Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity, and more.
He is currently working on a book entitled: Forgotten Truths: The Conservative Foundation of the Liberal Order.
His topic will be “Tocqueville and the Renewal of American Conservatism.”
Dr. Mark C. Henrie is Vice President for Academic Affairs for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI). He is also the Senior Editor of the Intercollegiate Review, Senior Editor of Modern Age, and Executive Editor of The Political Science Review.
He is the author of A Student’s Guide to the Core Curriculum and editor of Arguing Conservatism: Four Decades of the Intercollegiate Review.
His topic: “Rethinking American Conservatism…Yet Again.”
Dr. Robert A. Preston is President Emeritus and Professor of Philosophy at Belmont Abbey College. Prior to serving as president of his alma mater (1995-2001), he was Provost of Illinois Benedictine College, Academic Vice President at Loyola University, New Orleans, and Academic Dean at Ballarmine College. Dr. Preston has written widely on the thought of Richard M. Weaver and is the author of Ideas Have Consequences Fifty Years Later, published in Steps Towards Restoration: The Consequences of Richard Weaver’s Ideas.
His topic will be “Richard Weaver and the Future of Conservatism: The Past as Prologue.”
The symposium will be held in the Haid Ballroom.
To attend the entire symposium the cost is $75.00 (includes meals).
To attend individual days, please see the information below:
-Friday only (with no meals): $20.00
-Friday Lunch: $10.00
-Friday Cocktail and Dinner: $25.00
-Saturday only (with no meals): $20.00
-Saturday Lunch: $10.00
To register for the symposium, please click here.
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