Conference: America the Virtuous: Reimagining America’s Role in the World

America the Virtuous: Reimagining America’s Role in the World

A CONFERENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS AND OTHERS

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

WASHINGTON, D.C.

APRIL 22-23, 2016

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                      

Undergraduate and graduate students and others are invited to attend a conference organized by the National Humanities Institute. NHI has designed the America the Virtuous conference to broaden the participants’ knowledge and understanding of American constitutionalism, humility, and restraint as sources of peace and prosperity among nations and of how principles of limited government safeguard a free society. In order for a foreign policy agenda to be successful, it must be rooted in a basic, realistic understanding of human behavior as in the American constitutional tradition. Most importantly, a deepened awareness of these issues will help provide the intellectual context and inspiration for better foreign policies and wiser international relations. It will also strengthen our ability to articulate why governments that conform to traditional limits offer the best path toward peace, freedom, prosperity, and general human flourishing.

We need to revisit central lessons of our culture and return to prudence and restraint in foreign policy. Many conservatives in particular have moved dramatically away from the wisdom of humility and moderation in foreign policy. The time is ripe for another way of thinking about America’s role in the world—and for inculcating time-tested principles in the rising generation of thinkers and leaders. NHI wants to lead the conversation on prudent foreign policy and its connection to a free society.

Conference Schedule

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

6:30-7:00 PM              Registration

7:00-8:30 PM              “America the Virtuous? Toward Foreign Policy in a New Key”

Claes G. Ryn

Professor of Politics, Catholic University of America (CUA), and Chairman, National Humanities Institute (NHI)

8:30-9:00 PM              Reception (free for registered participants)


SATURDAY, APRIL 23

9:00-10:30 AM           “American Foreign Policy and Modest Republicanism: The Great Rule Reconstituted”

Michael P. Federici

Professor of Politics, Mercyhurst University, and President, National Humanities Institute (NHI)

10:45 AM-12:15 PM   “The Limits of Exceptionalism: Difference as Constraint”

Richard M. Gamble

Professor of History, Hillsdale College

12:30-1:30 PM            Lunch (free for registered participants)

1:45-3:15 PM              “The Problem with Primacy: Why U.S. Foreign Policy Needs a Reset”

Christopher Preble

Vice President for Defense and Foreign Policy Studies, CATO Institute

3:30-5:00 PM              “What Should a Bankrupt Republic do in Today's World?”

Doug Bandow

Columnist, Forbes, and Senior Fellow, CATO Institute

5:30-7:30 PM              Dinner (free for registered participants)

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