Summer 2019 Guest Lecturers
“The Constitution and Religion as a Public Good”
Featuring Dr. Susan Hanssen, Professor of History at the University of Dallas. (Delivered in the Senate Room of the Texas Tech Student Union, on October 18th, 2019.)
Most discussions about the role of religion in the American Founding focus on the constitutional guarantees for religious freedom and the prohibition of an established church. Dr. Hanssen argues that this leaves out something equally important, the belief held by almost everyone at the time that a republic had to be virtuous in order to survive, and that virtue depended on religion. George Washington's notion of religion as a public good is examined as an illustration of this widespread conviction.
Steve Balch interviews Dr. Susan Hanssen of the University of Dallas about her experience teaching the Western and American traditions, as well as her research on Henry Adams.
- Science and The Scientific Revolution
- Shakespeare and his Legacy
- The U.S. Constitution and American Civic Culture
- The Shadow of the Great War
All Fall 2018 Events
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SEP 06
Academic Director and the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education of The Fund for American Studies
"The Political Economy of Terrorism: Economic Freedom as the Counter-Measure"
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SEP 13
Emeritus, Dean and Professor, Michigan State University
and current Visiting Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy, University of Colorado"Conscience: The Basis of Liberty, Character, and Civilization"
The U.S. Constitution and American Civic Culture Lecture Series
Ryan Hackenbracht
TTU Assistant Professor, Department of English
"Holy Disobedience, Compulsory Liberty: Hobbes, Locke, and the Biblical Right to Be Bad"Stacey Jocoy
TTU Associate Professor of Musicology, School of Music
"From Yankee Doodle Dandy to Hamilton: Music that Makes the Nation"Erin Marie Legacey
TTU Assistant Professor, Department of History
"The Dead and the Founding of the French Revolution"Sydnor Roy
TTU Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures
"Lawgivers or Tyrants: Plutarch's Lives and the Contested Status of the 'Founding Fathers' in Revolutionary -era America"
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SEP 19
Professor of History at West Texas A&M University
"Lost Causes and Impossible Loyalties: An Apology for the Middle Ages"
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OCT 04
Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington
The Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar Program
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OCT 15
Former United States Ambassador to Qatar
"Qatar: Maverick of the Middle East"
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OCT 24
Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Political Hero Worship: Intellectuals, Non-Intellectuals and the Problems of Modernity"
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NOV12
Charles J. Stille Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University
"The Second Great War, 1917-1923"
The Shadow of the Great War Lecture Series
Dr. Jen Shelton
TTU Associate Professor, Department of English
Thursday, November 8thDr. Richard Lutjens
TTU Assistant Professor, Department of History
Wednesday, November 14thDr. Allison Whitney
TTU Associate Professor, Department of English
Thursday, November 15thDr. Michael Fredrick Rollin
TTU Instructor, Department of History
Tuesday, November 20th
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NOV27
Professor of Political Science at Portland State University
"The Case for Colonialism"
Dr. Steve Balch is Director of the Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and President of TTU Phi Beta Kappa
Recommended Organizations:
The Constitutionalist Society
Recent Events:
All Fall 2018 "Institute Encounters"
"Shakespeare and his Legacy" Lecture Series Trailer
"Science and the Scientific Revolution" Lecture Series Trailer
His Imperial and Royal Highness
Archduke Georg von Habsburg-Lothringen
The Institute for the Study of Western Civilization
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