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February 24, 2020
Recap: “Slavery & Politics at the University of Missouri,” with Kinder Institute Postdoc Zachary Dowdle
When then-aspiring politician James Sidney Rollins gave a July 4, 1834, public speech on the importance of education, he must have known that he was preaching to the choir. The state’s Whig-leaning population was open in its belief that an informed citizenry would benefit both civic and economic life in Missouri, and when Rollins reached […]
February 18, 2020
Recap: “Constructing Colonial Identities and Power in the British Atlantic World,” with KICD Postdoc Erin Marie Holmes
At first blush, the initial question posed in Kinder Institute Postdoc Erin Marie Holmes’ February 14 colloquium—“how do we recover the lost 18th-century landscape and built environment?”—seems like an insurmountable obstacle. Especially given limited scholarship on the subject, scanty documentary record, and a sometimes counter-productive disciplinary divide within the academy, it would seem that a […]
February 12, 2020
Starting Points Journal Call-for-Submissions
A joint project of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy and Arizona State University’s School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership, Starting Points Journal, now nearing its third year, remains a leading interdisciplinary outlet for accessible scholarly research and writing on “American Principles and American Practices.” The editorial staff at Starting Points is pleased […]
February 3, 2020
Recap: “Montesquieu and Moderation: A Liberal Art for the Commercial World,” with KICD Postdoc Constantine Vassiliou
The commerce v. virtue dilemma central to Kinder Institute Postdoctoral Fellow Constantine Vassiliou’s January 31 talk in Jesse 410 is (at least) as old as the Enlightenment and (at least) as immediately relevant as the subprime mortgage crisis of the 2000s. How, we continue to ask, can magnanimity be nourished within the context of commercial […]
January 15, 2020
Spring 2020 KICD Events Calendar Now Available
Use the link below to download a copy of our Spring 2020 schedule of events, which begins with a January 24 symposium on the political career and thought of James Madison and wraps up on May 5 with award-winning historian Andrew Roberts’ Distinguished Lecture, “Churchill: Walking with Destiny.” Spring 2020 KICD Events Calendar Any questions […]
January 14, 2020
KICD Grad Conference Call-for-Papers: “The Long Atlantic World, 1500-2000” (Deadline Extended to Jan. 31)
Submissions are currently open for the second annual Kinder Institute Graduate Student Conference, which will be organized this year around the theme of “The Long Atlantic World, 1500-200” (see below for more information). The conference will be held on April 25, 2020, in the Kinder Institute offices in Jesse Hall, and submissions, which include a […]