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Event Name:
Continuing Controversy Over Free Speech on Campus - Rethinking the First Amendment

Event Type(s):
Salon

Description:
We will be joined for the June 27th Salon by Dr. Thomas Merrill, an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at American University. His topic will reflect his work to promote civic education among the university community with the Jack Miller Center which partners with faculty, administrators, and donors to transform student access to education in American political thought and history, an education necessary for informed civic engagement. Its mission is to help provide coming generations the opportunity for an education grounded in a commitment to the values of liberty and equal opportunity.

Dr. Merrill is the author of Hume and the Politics of Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2015), which won the Delba Winthrop Prize for Best Recent Work in Political Philosophy. He is also the co-editor of three edited volumes, including The Political Thought of the Civil War (University Press of Kansas, summer 2018) and has held fellowships from Harvard, Princeton, and the American Enterprise Institute. He was a senior research analyst for the President’s Council on Bioethics during the George W. Bush administration and is the Associate Director of the Political Theory Institute at American University, which has hosted many public intellectuals from across the political spectrum as well as many academic political theorists.
 
He has served as coordinator of the undergraduate program in Government and, more recently, as chair of the Department of Government at American University.
 
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Event Date:
6/27/2019

Event Time:
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM Eastern

Location:
DACOR Bacon House
1801 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
UNITED STATES

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Contact Person:
DACOR Programs
(phone: 202-682-0500 x20)

Details:
  • Fee: $40/person
  • Dress code: Business casual (summer dress code)

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Dr. Thomas Merrill
Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, American University