Sinopoli Memorial Lecture
The Sinopoli Memorial Lecture, an annual lecture established in memory of Richard C. Sinopoli, selects distinguished lecturers for their contribution to the study of political philosophy.
This year, we are pleased to welcome Dr. Sharon Krause (William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of Political Science at Brown University) on Friday, April 26, 2024, at 2 PM.
Past Lectures
2023 -- Frank Lovett, Washington University, "Milton and the Republican Politics of Paradise Lost"
2022 -- Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia, "Toni Morrison and the Imagination of Freedom"
2021 -- Richard Dagger, University of Richmond, "Republicanism and the Rule of Law"
2019 -- Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto, "Dangerous Minds in Dangerous Times"
2018 -- Melissa Schwartzberg, New York University, "Justifying the Jury"
2017 -- Jill Frank, Cornell University, "Constitutional Virtue"
2016 -- Chandran Kukathas, London School of Economics, "Immigration and Freedom"
2015 -- Josiah Ober, Stanford University, "Democracy before Liberalism"
2014 -- Patchen Markell, University of Chicago, "The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt"
2013 -- Steven Smith, Yale University, "In Defense of Patriotism"
2012 -- Charles Griswold, Boston University, "Rousseau on Self-love, Narcissism and Social Decay"
2011 -- Alan Patten, Princeton University, "Liberal Neutrality: A Reinterpretation and Defense"
2010 -- Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan, "Xanthippe in the Phaedo: Why?"
2009 -- Tracy B. Strong, UCSD, "Wars the Like of Which No One Has Ever Seen"
2008 -- Peter Euben, Duke University, "Socrates in the Streets"
2007 -- Deidre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Hobbes, Rawls, Buchanan and All Seven of the Virtues"
2006 -- Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame, "Completing the Constitution: The 14th Amendment"
2005 -- Paul A. Cantor, University of Virginia, "Libertarianism in Contemporary Pop Culture"
2004 -- Ruth Grant, Duke University, "Power and Influence: The Ethics of Incentive"
2003 -- Susan Okin, Stanford University, "Multiculturalism and Feminism: No Simple Question, No Simple Answer"
2002 -- Harry V. Jaffa, Claremont Graduate School, "A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln's Political Achievement"
2001 -- Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, "Tocqueville on Nature and Fact"
2000 -- Catherine H. Zuckert, University of Notre Dame, "Go West Young Man, or Woman: Cooper vs. Cather on the Pioneers"
1999 -- Jean Beth Elshtain, University of Chicago Divinity School, "Law and the Moral Life"
1998 -- Mark Roelofs, NYU, "The Gettysburg Address: A Theoretical Reconsideration"