The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI) would like to announce its upcoming lecture:
The Currency of Cooperation: Charles Macune and the Social Meaning of Money in the Farmers’ Alliance
Jeffrey Sklansky
University of Illinois-Chicago
Thursday, October 15th at 4:30pm
HGS 401
For inquiries related to the lecture, please contact the organizer, Ariel Ron (ariel.ron@yale.edu).
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The YCRI is pleased to announce an upcoming lecture to celebrate Constitution Day.
In conjunction with the Political Theory Workshop, YCRI will host George Thomas, Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. He will offer a paper on “Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage, and Public Accommodations.”
The lecture will take on Wednesday, September 23rd from 4:15-6:00pm in Rosenkranz Hall, Room 202. A reception will follow.
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The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions would like to announce its upcoming symposium:
Empire and Revolution: The Political Thought of Edmund Burke
Thursday, September 10th, 2015
1:45 PM - 6:30 PM
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., Room 208
For related inquires, please contact the organizer, Yiftah Elazar (yiftah.elazar@mail.huji.ac.il)
Schedule
1:45-2:00 Opening Remarks
STEVEN SMITH, Yale University
2:00-4:00 PoliticalLink to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions would like to announce its upcoming conference:
Revolution, Dissent, and Democracy: The Political Thought of Richard Price
Friday, September 11th - Saturday, September 12th, 2015
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., Room 208
For related inquires, please contact the organizer, Yiftah Elazar (yiftah.elazar@mail.huji.ac.il)
Schedule
Friday, September 11, 2015
09:00-09:45 Breakfast &Link to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions in conjunction with the Jack Miller Center seek to appoint a Post-doctoral Associate for a period of one year, commencing July 1, 2015. Preference will be given to candidates working on aspects of the political and theoretical foundations of representative government in the Atlantic world from 1650-1850. The Post-doctoral associate will be expected to teach one course per term, to participate in an annual summer institute, to assist in the organization of conferences, speaker series, and symposia, and to produce a final syntheticLink to full article
The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions would like to announce its upcoming conference:
Grassroots Modernities: Nature, Agriculture, and Improvement in the Atlantic World
Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Luce Hall, Room 202
34 Hillhouse Avenue
Schedule
8:30-9:00 Welcome
9:10-10:50 Agriculture, Knowledge and the State
A ‘Country richly calculated’: How Britain Mapped the Agricultural Potential of American Land, ca. 1754-1791, S. Max Edelson, University of Virginia
Seed Sharing in the US Patent Office, 1836-1861, Courtney Fullilove, Wesleyan University
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The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions is happy to announce its upcoming symposium:
The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke
Friday, May 1st, 2015
2:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Luce Hall, Room 203
34 Hillhouse Ave
Schedule
1:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Human Nature and Politics in an Age of Revolutions
“Reflections on Burke’s Moral Psychology” - Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University
“Burke and the Wildest Democratic Ideas of Freedom” - Yiftah Elazar, Yale University
David Bromwich, Yale University, Respondent
Bryan Garsten, Yale University, Chair
3:30-4:00 Coffee Break
4:00-5:45 EmpireLink to full article
