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SUMMARY:Back to the Source: Conversations Between America’s Founding Documents and Early Black Writers
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton House presents: \nBack to the Source: Conversations Between America’s Founding Documents and Early Black Writers\nThursday\, September 17th\, 2026\n5:30pm EST\nCaldwell Hall 100 or via Zoom\nDinner reception to follow \nregister here \nThe founding of America can sometimes seem like a mystery. How do we make sense of the ideals of liberty and equality alongside the realities of slavery and racism? And what might we discover when we look beyond familiar narratives and listen to a wider range of voices from the period? \nIn 2021\, as the killing of George Floyd\, protests\, and debates over public statues brought these questions into renewed focus\, Angel Adams Parham\, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia\, sensed a need for a different way of approaching the conversation—one that returned to primary sources and took seriously the religious and intellectual worlds that shaped them. \nThis conviction led her through a series of transformative conversations within the past\, reading America’s founding documents alongside Black writers of the same era whose work drew deeply from the Christian tradition. Theology matters\, it turns out\, for how we understand this mystery. \nAngel Adams Parham; Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia \nAngel Adams Parham engages in research on the historical and comparative-historical sociology of race. She is the author of American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race (Oxford\, 2017) which examines changes in race and racialization in New Orleans under the French\, Spanish and Anglo-American administrations. The book was co-winner of the Social Science History Association’s Allan Sharlin Memorial book award (2018); co-winner of the American Sociological Association’s Barrington Moore book award in comparative-historical sociology (2018); and recipient of an Honorable Mention from the Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award\, International Migration Section\, American Sociological Association (2018). She is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively entitled “Reckoning and Reconciliation: On Race\, Place\, and Memory in American Life” which compares and contrasts the social histories of three key sites in New Orleans over a three-hundred-year period. The book considers how it might be possible to examine and publicly discuss contentious racial histories in ways that are more rather than less conducive to civic solidarity. \nIn addition to this research\, she is active in public-facing teaching and scholarship where she provides training for K-12 educators who are looking to better integrate Black writers and Black history into their teaching. As part of this work\, she authored The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature (Classical Academic Press\, 2022\, co-authored with Anika Prather)\, and founded Nyansa Classical Community\, a non-profit which creates classical curricula and programming designed to connect with students from diverse backgrounds. She is also at work on another public-facing book entitled “Conversations on American Freedom” which places Black writers of the 18th and 19th centuries into conversation with founders and founding documents as a way of deeply exploring questions concerning freedom and the American project. \nParham has published articles on the intersection of Black writers and the classics in popular outlets including the Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, Comment Magazine\, Public Discourse\, and Common Good Magazine. Parham has been a member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, as well as the recipient of a Fulbright grant. She received her bachelor’s degree from Yale University and completed her doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \nregister here
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LOCATION:Caldwell Hall 100\, 121 Reservoir Ave\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14853\, United States
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SUMMARY:Patrick Deneen & John Owen
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton Perspectives presents: \nChristianity and the Crisis of Liberalism\nMonday\, October 19th\, 2026\n7:30pm EST in campus\n(location TBD\, reception to follow)\n7:45 pm EST via Zoom \nregister here \nThere is something about the soul that longs for freedom and an inviolable dignity that’s protected from such controls as arbitrary rule and government overreach. We recognize this impulse especially in our American founding and culture and often label it “liberalism.” An imperfect construct\, but certainly a net good…right? \nPatrick Deneen would argue no. Historically\, freedom was understood to require discipline and self-limitation of our desires as well as social and political institutions that encouraged such virtues. Deneen argues that modern liberalism rejected this understanding in favor of a freedom centered on individual choice and liberation from outside constraints. Ironically\, this unconstrained “freedom” ultimately requires greater government oversight in an attempt to manage the unrestrained behavior of its citizens. The result\, he claims\, is both moral and material depletion. \nIn summary\, liberalism is failing because of itself\, not in spite of itself\, and Deneen believes we must look beyond it. \nBefore throwing liberalism out the window\, however\, respondent John Owen cautions that the constitutional democracy associated with liberalism is still our best late-modern political option. Additionally\, he believes there is an alternative form of liberalism to be retrieved\, one grounded in the historic Christian tradition and more supportive of virtue\, institutions\, religious practice\, and individual conscience than the modern take that Deneen critiques. \nJoin us for an evening of lively conversation with Patrick Deneen and John Owen as they consider the weaknesses of modern liberalism and the role of the historic Christian tradition as we evaluate whether to retrieve what was lost or retire what has run its course. \n\nPatrick Deneen; Professor of Political Science\, University of Notre Dame \nJohn M. Owen; Taylor Universtiy Professor of Politics and Senior Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture\, University of Virginia \nJohn M. Owen (A.B.\, Duke; M.P.A.\, Princeton; A.M.\, Ph.D.\, Harvard) is Taylor Professor of Politics\, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture\, at the University of Virginia. He is author of The Ecology of Nations (Yale\, 2023)\, winner of the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in World Order\, and of Confronting Political Islam (Princeton\, 2015)\, The Clash of Ideas in World Politics (Princeton\, 2010)\, and Liberal Peace\, Liberal War (Cornell\, 1997) and co-editor of Religion\, the Enlightenment\, and the New Global Order (Columbia\, 2011). Owen has published numerous academic articles\, as well as essays in First Things\, Providence\, Christian Scholars’ Review\, Foreign Affairs\, The Hedgehog Review\, The Washington Post\, and The New York Times. He has held fellowships at Harvard\, Stanford\, Princeton\, Oxford\, the Free University and WZB (Berlin)\, and the University of British Columbia. In 2015 he received a Humboldt Research Prize (Germany). He has served on the boards of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers and the Center for Christian Study in Charlottesville. He and his wife Patricia attend Holy Cross Anglican Church in Crozet\, Virginia. They have three adult children. \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/patrick-deneen-john-owen-2026/
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Bruenig
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton Perspectives presents: \nA Conversation with Elizabeth Bruenig\nMonday\, Novemeber 16th\, 2026\n7:30pm EST at 111 The Knoll Rd\n7:45 pm EST via Zoom \nregistration to come! \nMore information coming soon… \nElizabeth Bruenig; Staff Writer at The Atlantic \n  \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/elizabeth-bruenig-2026/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
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