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Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce the creation of a new Tocqueville program at Indiana University, hosted by the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, which in turn was co-founded by Vincent and Lin Ostrom, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in economics. The program is sponsored by the Jack Miller Foundation and will bring to campus in the years ahead scholars who work on Tocquevillian issues and American democracy. Through its interdisciplinary focus, the new Tocqueville Program is expected to have an important and broad impact on undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty at Indiana and beyond. The goal of the program is to foster an understanding of the central importance of principles of freedom and equality for democratic government and moral responsibility, as well as for economic and cultural life. It focuses on the theoretical foundations of democracy, and the development of liberal democratic institutions particularly in the American historical context. It includes a lecture series that will bring top scholars and public figures to Indiana to interact with undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. Our first event will be organized on Friday November 6, 12.1.30 pm., in the Tocqueville Room, at the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 513 N. Park, Bloomington. It will feature Professor Matthew Mancini, who will present a lecture entitled " "What's Wrong with Tocqueville Studies, and What Can Be Done About It" Matthew Mancini is Professor and Chair, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. He received his A. B. in English from Fordham, and the PhD in American Studies from Emory. He is the author of Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours (2006), Alexis de Tocqueville (1994), and One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South (1996); and the coeditor of Understanding Maritain (1988). Most recently, Professor Mancini has published “Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville’s American Reception," in Journal of the History of Ideas 69, no. 2 (April 2008). http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v069/69.2mancini.html We plan to have a major Tocqueville event next spring (March 4-5, 2010), featuring the editor and translator of the critical edition of Democracy in America (Eduardo Nolla and James Schleifer), forthcoming with Liberty Fund, in January 2010. At the same time, we shall also have panels on two other books on Tocqueville published by faculty affiliated with the Center (Tocqueville on America after 1840, and Conversations with Tocqueville). Also, on April 23, our Tocqueville program will co-sponsor a talk by Professor Jonathan Israel (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton). More information will be available soon on our new website: http://ywoodsolutions.com/IUprof/index.shtml Thank you for your consideration. With all best wishes, Aurelian Craiutu Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Tocqueville Program Indiana University 210 Woodburn Hall Bloomington, IN 47405 Tel: (812) 855-6308 Fax: (812) 855-2027 ****************************************** Costica Bradatan, H-Ideas Online Editor [AY 2009-2010] Solmsen Fellow The Institute for Research in the Humanities University Club Building University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI 53703 http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata ******************************************
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