As part of the Emory Williams Lecture Series, John Agresto, former president of St. John's College, gives a talk entitled "Toward an American Liberal Education" (October 23, 2013). Dr. Agresto holds a Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University. He has published in the areas of politics, law, and education, and has taught at the University of Toronto, Kenyon College, Duke University and the New School University. From 1989 to 2000, he served as president of St. John's College in...

As part of the Emory Williams Lecture Series, Allen Guelzo of Gettysburg College gives a talk entitled " Lincoln and the War Powers" (September 18, 2013).

Prof. Ceaser has written several books on American politics and political thought, including "Presidential Selection", "Liberal Democracy and Political Science", "Reconstructing America", and "Nature and History in American Political Development". He has held visiting professorships at the University of Florence, the University of Basel, Oxford University, the University of Bordeaux, and the University of Rennes. He is also a frequent contributor to the popular press.

Tracy Lee Simmons, Lynchburg College, gives a talk entitled "Thomas Jefferson, Humanism, and Classical Education" (Feb. 27, 2013). The author of "Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin," he is currently writing a book about Thomas Jefferson.

Ronna Burger, a professor of philosopy at Tulane University, gives a talk entitled "The Best Human Life: On Aristotle's Ethics I.5" at Emory University on Feb. 12, 2013. Dr. Burger is the author of "Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics" (University of Chicago Press, 2008, paperback edition, 2009).

Luke Timothy Johnson of the Candler School of Theology gives a talk entitled "Jesus among the Philosophers: Ancient Conceptions of Happiness" (Jan. 30, 2013). Professor Johnson's research concerns the literary, moral, and religious dimensions of the New Testament, including the Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts of early Christianity (particularly moral discourse), Luke-Acts, the Pastoral Letters, and the Letter of James. The Emory Williams Lecture Series in the Liberal Arts has been made...

Aurelian Craiutu of Indiana University gives a talk entitled "Tocqueville on the Sources of Greatness in Democratic Societies" (November 27, 2012). His research interests include French political and social thought (Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Constant, Madame de Staël, Guizot, Aron), varieties of liberalism and conservatism, democratic theory as well as theories of transition to democracy and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe.

As part of the Emory Williams Lecture Series in the Liberal Arts, Donald Livingston, a retired philosophy professor at Emory University, delivered this talk entitled "David Hume's Ethical Philosophy" (November 14, 2012). Livingston received his doctorate at Washington University in 1965. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, and his books include "Hume's Philosophy of Common Life" and "Philosophical Melancholy and Delirium." The Emory Williams Lecture Series in the...