Back by popular demand, Professor Chistov is hosting a second religious freedom colloquium.
Register here to participate in a discussion colloquium on “Religious Freedom” Saturday, April 16th in the Club Room of the Honors townhouse.
Sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), this day-long colloquium will center on informal, yet serious, discussion with just fifteen participants. Dr. Theo Christov and Dr. Sam Goldman will serve as the discussion leaders in order to facilitate an in-depth exploration of the questions and challenges raised by a set of readings (totaling around 150 pages), which will be provided to you to read in advance. The readings include classical texts on religious freedom from thinkers like Locke and Tocqueville, to more contemporary arguments from John Rawls, to Supreme Court cases like Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
This is an all day event, so please be sure that your schedule allows you to arrive in time for breakfast and be present through the concluding dinner Saturday night. You will be expected to attend the full program, including discussions, meals, and socials. As compensation for your participation, IHS will provide you a $100 stipend.
We are eager to embark on this intellectual adventure with you. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Prof. Christov at christov@gwu.edu.
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Religious Freedom Colloquium in March: You're Invited!
You are invited, as part of a select group of students, to participate in a discussion colloquium on “Religious Freedom” this spring at George Washington University.
Sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies, this day-long colloquium will center on informal, yet serious, discussion with just fifteen participants. Dr. Theo Christov and Dr. Sam Goldman will serve as the discussion leaders in order to facilitate an in-depth exploration of the questions and challenges raised by a set of readings (totaling around 150 pages), which we will provide you with and ask you to read carefully in advance. The readings include classical texts on religious freedom from thinkers like Locke and Tocqueville, to more contemporary arguments from John Rawls, to Supreme Court cases like Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.
The event will take place on Saturday March 26, 2016 on the George Washington University campus. Please be sure that your schedule allows you to arrive in time for breakfast, and to be present through the concluding dinner Saturday night. You will be expected to attend the full program, including discussions, meals, and socials. As compensation for your participation, IHS will provide you a $100 stipend.
If you would like to attend this colloquium, please accept your invitation as soon as possible. This is a very small, select group of students and space is limited.
We are eager to embark on this intellectual adventure with you. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Professor Christov at christov@gwu.edu.
Prof. Christov Discusses His Book!
Before Anarchy: Hobbes and his Critics in Modern International Thought
A Book Event with
Theodore Christov, Professor, GWU
Loubna El Amine, Professor, Georgetown University (discussant)
Thursday, January 28, 2016
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Voesar Conference Room
1957 E St. NW, Suite 412
Please RSVP at http://go.gwu.edu/hobbes.
How did the ‘Hobbesian state of nature’ and the ‘discourse of anarchy’ – separated by three centuries – come to be seen as virtually synonymous? Before Anarchy offers a novel account of Hobbes’s interpersonal and international state of nature and rejects two dominant views. In one, international relations are seen as a warlike Hobbesian anarchy, and in the other, state sovereignty eradicates the state of nature. In combining the contextualist method in the history of political thought and the historiographical method in international relations theory, Before Anarchy traces Hobbes’s analogy between natural men and sovereign states and its reception by Pufendorf, Rousseau and Vattel in showing their intellectual convergence with Hobbes. Far from defending a ‘realist’ international theory, the leading political thinkers of early modernity were precursors of the most enlightened liberal theory of international society today. By demolishing twentieth-century anachronisms, Before Anarchy bridges the divide between political theory, international relations and intellectual history.
