Jean Bethke Elshtain: The Engaged Mind
Public and Private:
Feminism, Marriage, and Family in Political Thought and Contemporary Life
The first of four conferences in the series “The Engaged Mind,” reflecting on themes drawn from the work of Jean Bethke Elshtain. Sponsored by the McDonald Agape Foundation.
February 25-26, 2010
3rd Floor Lecture Hall
Divinity School
University of Chicago
Conference Overview | Series Overview
Conference Schedule
Unless otherwise noted, all events take place in the Third Floor Lecture Hall.
Coffee and tea will be available for conference attendees during the breaks.
Thursday, 25 February 2010
1:00 Registration
1:45 pm Welcome
2:00 – 3:30 pm Panel Session One: Feminist Themes in Public and Private
Mary Ann Glendon, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard Law School:
Discovering Eleanor Roosevelt
Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Professor of History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and Senior Research Associate, Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Syracuse University:
paper title TBA
Respondent: Kristine Culp, Dean of Disciples Divinity House and Associate Professor of Theology, The University of Chicago Divinity School
3:30 – 4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00 pm Keynote Lecture
John Witte, Jr. Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory Law School:
A Law Unto Themselves? Faith-Based Family Laws in Modern Democracies
5:00 – 6:00 Reception
Swift Hall Common Room
Friday, 26 February 2010
10:00 – 12:00 Panel Session Two: The Family in Public and Private
David Blankenhorn, President, Institute for American Values:
Young Jean
Don Browning, Alexander Campbell Professor Emeritus of Ethics and the Social Sciences, The University of Chicago Divinity School:
Elshtain’s "Reflective" Ethics of Feminism and Family: An Appreciation and Critique
John Witte, Jr., Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law and Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion, Emory Law School:
The Nature of Family, The Family of Nature: The Wisdom of the Scottish Enlightenment
Respondent: Cristina Traina, Associate Professor of Religion, Northwestern University
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00 – 2:30 pm Panel Session Three: Public and Private Reconsidered
William Galston, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies and The Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution:
Becoming Jean Elshtain
Arlene Saxonhouse, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan:
The Context and Texts of Public Man, Private Woman: Jean Bethke Elshtain in the World of Ideas and Action
Respondent: Richard Garnett, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
2:30 – 3:00 pm Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:30 pm Closing Comments
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School; also in the Department of Political Science and the Committee on International Relations
