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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 […]
November 22, 2019
Recap: “Civilians & the Laws of War: The Case of Civil War Missouri,” w/ LSU Prof. Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Though the French Revolution is typically designated as such, LSU Professor and Chair of History Aaron Sheehan-Dean opened his November 21 lecture at the Center for Missouri Studies with the competing claim that the Civil War was instead the “first popular war,” primarily because it was being fought by two democracies, if two highly imperfect […]