I will be speaking this Friday morning at Georegtown at the conference Joe mentioned below on Civil Theology and Liberal Education. Here’s my projected last sentence: "That’s why our civic education has nothing to do with civil theology, and everything to do with liberal in the sense of liberating education, which includes, of course, theological education."
I will be speaking on Thursday the 26th at Kent State University at 4 pm on "Stuck-with-Virtue Conservatism." The lecture will be in Room 317 of the Student Center (thanks, Kate) and is sponsored by the Library. I hear Kent St. is near Cleveland, and Cleveland, I also hear, is near Ashland in some way.
And I will speaking on Saturday the 29th as part of a public program on Tocqueville at Rochester Institute of Technology. Mark Lilla and Bruce Frohnen will also be part of this program.
If I weren’t both shameless and lazy, I’d be posting links to these fine events.
Depending upon the Amtrak/Metro/cab connections, I’ll see you at the Forum. I can’t make it to Rochester, but I hope you encounter the good Mark Lilla, rather than the bad one. One good thing: you’ll fill the ideological middle between Lilla and Bruce Frohnen.
Kent State is only about an hour away from my home. My youngest son goes to Kent, and NEEDS to be hearing anything at all about virtue just lately, so I have suggested that he come with me. I look forward to hearing you speak. According to the Kent calendar, you are in Rm. 317 of the Student Center.
Well, Kate, you’re probably right on the location. It’ll be great to meet you and your son. Peter