Programs

In addition to supporting the activities of the Janus Forum, the Political Theory Project supports other programming to further its mission. In 2009, the PTP launched the Odyssey Lecture Series. Odyssey Lectures feature a single speaker who will take students on an extended adventure over some new and unexpected intellectual terrain. The inaugural lecture featured Amity Shlaes whose book The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression offered an alternative view to the costs and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal. 

The Project also supports an interdisciplinary working group. The PTP Working Group brings together faculty, postdocs, and grad students in a range of disciplines to discuss a pre-assigned reading.

 

Past Events

Bourgeois Virtues: How the West Got Rich
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 4:00pm

Ms. McCloskey is the Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois. Trained as an Economist at Harvard, she has written 14 books and published numerous articles on economic theory, economic history, philosophy, rhetoric, feminism, ethics...

Encouraging Ideological Diversity at Brown
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 - 6:00pm

Reception and discussion with Brown's Political Theory Project, hosted by Steven Price '84 and Tina Price. Guest presenters are:

John Tomasi
Associate Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
Director, Political Theory Project

Steven Calabresi
George C. Dix...

Dambisa Moyo
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 4:00pm

Dambisa Moyo will be giving the second annual Odyssey Lecture on March 22, 2011. Ms. Moyo is an international economist and the New York Times best-selling author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way For Africa (2009). Moyo’s second book, How...

Dambisa Moyo [with video]
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 - 4:00pm

Dambisa Moyo will be giving the second annual Odyssey Lecture on March 22, 2011. Ms. Moyo is an international economist and the New York Times best-selling author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way For Africa (2009). Moyo’s second book, How...

Is Atlas Shrugging?
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 5:30pm

Based on her book The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression, Ms. Shlaes offers an alternative view of the costs and consequences of the Great Depression and the New Deal.

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