Diane Wood, Chief Judge, United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, The Magna Carta and the Idea of Due Process, September 24, 2015
Andrea Radasanu, Northern Illinois University, Conquest and Empire in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, April 9, 2015
Michael Valdez Moses, Duke University, Saved from the Blessings of Civilization: John Ford's Stagecoach, the West, and American Vernacular Modernism, February 19, 2015
, launching the Galileo-Shakespeare Project in concert with the Illinois Institute of Technology's Benjamin Franklin Project
Victoria Kahn, University of California at Berkeley, Thomas Hobbes: Revolution in the Making, November 14, 2014 (held at the Illinois Institute of Technology as part of the Galileo-Shakespeare Project)
David Wootton, University of York, Galileo and the Scientific Revolution, November 14, 2014 (held at the Illinois Institute of Technology as part of the Galileo-Shakespeare Project)
Mary Nichols, Baylor University, Antony and Cleopatra's "New Heaven, New Earth", November 14, 2014 (held at the Illinois Institute of Technology as part of the Galileo-Shakespeare Project)
Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin -- Eau Claire, The Arc of the Moral Universe: Brown v. Board, Sixty Years Later, October 6, 2014
Amity Shlaes, New York University, Every Man's Constitution? The Truth About the New Deal as Told through Its Most Important Case, September 18, 2014
Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, ±Ê±ô²¹³Ù´Ç’s&²Ô²ú²õ±è;Gorgias: Wanna Be a Tyrant?, April 17, 2014
Ronna Burger, Tulane University, In the Court of an Oriental Despot: Reflections on the Book of Esther, February 27, 2014
Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola University, New Orleans, The Liberty Narrative: From the Founders to John Stuart Mill, September 19, 2013
Peter Myers, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, A Dream Deeply Rooted in the American Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Great Speech Revisited, August 28, 2013
Andrew Norris, University of California – Santa Barbara, What Does It Mean to Ground Morality on Autonomy? Kant on Positive Freedom, April 24, 2013
David Lieberman, University of California, Berkeley, The Promise of Representative Government, September 20, 2012
Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame, Why Read John Locke in the Twenty-First Century? April 21, 2011
Jerry Weinberger, Michigan State University, Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Happiness, March 23, 2009
(Inaugural Lecture)
The Galileo-Shakespeare Project, A Conference on the Humanities and the Sciences in the Early Modern World, with Adam Gopnik, David Wootton, Victoria Kahn, and Mary Nichols, November 13-14, 2014
Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy, with Paul Berman, Richard Boyd, Nestor Capdevila, Ran Halevi, Robert Pippin, and others, March 5-6, 2009
The Summer Teachers' Academy, July 9-12, 2012, with Christopher Lynch, Ralph Lerner, Jessica Roney, Stuart Warner, Michael Zuckert, Mark D. Rosen, Mark Blitz, and Maura Jane Farrelly
The Summer Teachers' Academy, July 11-15, 2011, with Nathan Tarcov, Ralph Lerner, Stuart Warner, Michael Zuckert, Mark D. Rosen, Jessica Roney, Maura Jane Farrelly, and Ted Graf
The Summer Teachers' Academy, July 12-16, 2010, with Ralph Lerner, Peter Onuf, Michael Zuckert, Mark D. Rosen, Jessica Roney, Maura Jane Farrelly, and Ted Graf
Student Reading Group on Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws, Spring 2015, Moderated by Jeannine Love
Student Reading Group on Locke's Two Treatises of Government, Spring 2011, Moderated by Paul Diduch
Spring 2009: , Benjamin Franklin Professor Emeritus, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago