IHS Scholarship and Free Society Seminars

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The Institute of Humane Studies announces summer seminar with sponsorship. The Scholarship & a Free Society seminar brings together graduate students and faculty fromacross disciplines and around the world to consider the classical liberal tradition as a paradigm for contemporary scholarly research. The weeklong seminar will cover topics in history, philosophy, political science, and economics, as well as methods and applications that may inspire rich, new research areas.

Interdisciplinary research workshop for graduate students interested in the classical liberal perspective and how leading academics are applying it to their work. 
June 15–19 ● Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA area
July 23–29 ● Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA area

Throughout the workshop, plenary sessions and student presentations will address topics such as the forms and functions of political power, the ways in which people cooperate to peacefully resolve complex social problems, the nature and origins of modernity, and how social and economic facts influence normative theorizing. These topics will raise questions central to contemporary academic research such as:
•   How to address social, economic, and political challenges through voluntary association and civil society
•   How to achieve a successful academic career that makes significant advancements to liberty
•   How to combine both normative concerns and empirical study in the humanities and social sciences
•   The nature and origins of modernity

The workshop lectures will also address methodological and substantive aspects of some of today's most pressing and difficult questions:
•   What relevance do norms and values have to social scientific research?
•   What explains the unprecedented levels of material and moral well-being that characterize the modern world and sets it apart from pre-modern societies?

The renowned faculty of professors will cover cutting-edge research driving much of the contemporary work relevant to classical liberals and the wider intellectual community:
•   Historian Steve Davies will display classical liberalism's richness, showing it is not a legacy or a past body of thought but a living intellectual tradition, still changing and growing.
•   David Schmidtz will speak on the growing movement in political philosophy towards non-ideal (i.e., real-world based) theories of justice.

Link to Apply: IHS Scholarship and Free Society Seminars

Apply by March 15 to receive a book (supplies limited).

Deadline: March 31

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