Washington Collegium for the Humanities



November 2000

Wednesday, 1 November 4:30 pm

The Catholic University of America
Columbus School of Law
Lecture Series: On Two Wings: The Humble God and Common Sense at the Founding of the United States
Lecture 3: Immoral Man: Moral Society; Religious Liberty
MICHAEL NOVAK, American Enterprise Institute

Thursday, 2 November 3:30 pm

Library of Congress
Washington Area Group for Print Studies
National Museum of American History
The Hall for Printing and Graphic Arts
Third Floor
Lecture and Demonstration: Typefounding and Handpress Printing
STAN NELSON, National Museum of American History

Friday, 3 November 2:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Life Cycle Institute, Auditorium
Lecture: Holmes on Natural Law and Legal Science
ROBERT GEORGE, Princeton University

Wednesday 8, November 4:30 pm

The Catholic University of America
Columbus School of Law
Lecture Series: On Two Wings: The Humble God and Common Sense at the Founding of the United States
Lecture 4: A Theory of Religious Rights
MICHAEL NOVAK, American Enterprise Institute

Wednesday, 8 November 6:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Jefferson Building, Whittall Pavilion
Books and Beyond Lecture Series
Lecture 4: Robert Lowell: Collected Poems,
FRANK BIDART & DAVID GEWANTER, Authors

Wednesday, 8 November 7:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium
Bicentennial Program
Living Legend Series: Herman Wouk

Thursday, 9 November through Saturday, 11 November

Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
The Inn and Conference Center at the University of Maryland
Conference: Attending to Early Modern Women: Gender Culture, and Change

Friday, 10 November 2:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy
Life Cycle Institute, Auditorium
Lecture: Nature and History
in Tocqueville's Thought
HARVEY MANSFIELD, Harvard University

Friday, 10 November 8:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium
A Capella Group from France
Tickets required

Monday, 13 November 5:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
Early Christian Studies
201 McMahon Hall
Lecture: The Politics of Passing: Philosophical Conversion
REBECCA LYMAN, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley

Tuesday, 14 November 8:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium
Aaron Copland Anniversary
Concert: Chamber Orchestra ORPHEUS
Tickets required

Wednesday, 15 November 5:30 pm

Dumbarton Oaks, Music Room
Lecture: The Poetics and Politics of Gesture in Chinese Gardens (Illustrated)
MARTIN POWERS, University of Michigan

Thursday 16, November 4:00 pm

Smithsonian Institution Libraries
National Museum of American History
Reception Suite
Dibner Lecture: The Form and Function
of Scientific Discoveries
KENNETH CANEVA, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Thursday, 16 November 8:00 pm

The Library of Congress
Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium
Concert: Le Concert Des Nations
JORDI SAVALL
Tickets required

Friday, 17 November through Saturday, 18 November

The Catholic University of America
School of Philosophy & Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
Symposium: "...at home with you". Pope John Paul II and the University World

Friday, 17 November 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm

The Catholic University of America
Session I 1:30 pm
Lecture 1: The Interdisciplinary Dialogue Between Science, Philosophy and Theology
MOST REVEREND JOSEPH M. ZYCINSKI, Archdiocese of Lublin, Catholic University of Lublin
Lecture 2: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning in the Thought of John Paul II
GEORGE V. COYNE. S.J., Director, Vatican Observatory

Saturday, 18 November

Pope John Paul II Cultural Center
Session II 10:00 am
Lecture 3: John Paul II: At Home with the World (Philosophical Considerations)
JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN, University of Chicago
Lecture 4: The Human Person and Political Life
REV. Dr. ROBERT SOKOLOWSKI, The Catholic University of America
Session III 1:30 pm
Lecture 5: Christian Social Doctrine as Critical Theory: On Methodology of Christian Social Doctrine
ROCCO BUTTIGLIONE, International Academy of Philosophy
Lecture 6: The Radical Non-Relative Plurality of Truth
KENNETH SCHMITZ, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and Family

Saturday, 18 November 2:00 to 4:00 pm

The Library of Congress,
Jefferson Building, Whittall Pavilion
Copland Symposium
Tickets required

The Library of Congress 6:00 pm
Jefferson Building, Coolidge Auditorium
Celebration of Aaron Copland's 100th Birthday
Concert: Copland Chamber Music
MUSIC FROM COPLAND HOUSE
Tickets required