Events and News
News:
Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson have won the 2009 Nobel prize for economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Monday, October 12, 2009. Indiana University's Ostrom and Williamson, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, were awarded the prize for their work in the field of "economic governance," the academy said. Ostrom "has demonstrated how common property can be successfully managed" by associations of users, while Williamson developed a theory regarding how business firms can serve as structure for conflict resolution, the academy said. Ostrom is the first woman to win the prize, which was established in 1968 by the Swedish central bank.
Events:
November 6, 2009
12 - 1:30pm
Matthew Mancini (American Studies, St. Louis University).
Tocqueville Today.
"What's Wrong with Tocqueville Studies, and What Can Be Done About It."
Tocqueville Room, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, 513 N. Park
Select publications of Matthew Manicini:
BOOKS:
- ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE AND AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS: FROM HIS TIMES TO OURS. Rowman and Littlefield, 2006 (American Intellectual Culture Series). Selected as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2006.
- ONE DIES, GET ANOTHER: CONVICT LEASING IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1866-1928. University of South Carolina Press, 1996. University of South Carolina Press submission for Francis Parkman Prize and Avery O. Craven Award.
- ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE. Twayne, 1994 (World Authors Series).
- UNDERSTANDING MARITAIN: PHILOSOPHER AND FRIEND. (Coeditor and contributor) Mercer University Press, 1988.
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS:
- "Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville’s American Reception," forthcoming in Journal of the History of Ideas 69, no. 2 (April 2008).
- "Alexis de Tocqueville’s Post-Civil War Reputation," SOCIETY 43, no. 1 (November/December 2005): 75-81.
- "Foreword to the Brown Thrasher Edition" of Robert E. Burns, I Am a Fugitive From a Georgia Chain Gang! Reprint of 1932 edition. University of Georgia Press, 1997.
- "Melville’s ’Descartian Vortices.’" ESQ 36 (4th Quarter, 1990): 315-327.
- "Maritain’s American Illusions" in From Twilight to Dawn: The Cultural Vision of Jacques Maritain, ed. Peter Redpath. (Notre Dame: American Maritain Association/University of Notre Dame Press, 1990).
- "Nominalism, Usury, and Bourgeois Man," in Freedom in the Modern World, ed. Michael Torre (Notre Dame: American Maritain Association/University of Notre Dame Press, 1989).
- "Political Economy and Cultural Theory in Tocqueville’s Abolitionism," Slavery and Abolition 10 (September 1989): 151-71.
- "Maritain’s Democratic Vision: ’You Have No Bourgeois,’" (sole author) and "Maritain and the Ambivalence of the ’Modern’ World," (co-author), both in Understanding Maritain: Philosopher and Friend, ed. Deal W. Hudson and Matthew J. Mancini (Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1988).
MOST RECENTLY, PROFESSOR MANCINI PUBLISHED:
"Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville’s American Reception,"
in Journal of the History of Ideas 69, no. 2 (April 2008).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_ideas/v069/69.2mancini.html
March 4-5, 2010
A two-day conference celebrating the publication of the Liberty Fund English translation of the critical edition of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, ed. Eduardo Nolla, trans. James T. Schleifer (December 2009).
The conference will also feature roundtables on two other books edited by faculty associated with the Tocqueville program: Conversations with Tocqueville (Lexington Books, 2009) and Tocqueville on America after 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2009). Participants will include: James Schleifer, Eduardo Nolla, Jeremy Jennings, Barbara Allen, Christine Henderson, and Aurelian Craiutu.
For more information on the publication: http://www.libertyfund.org/details.asp?displayID=2149
April 23, 2010
Jonathan Israel (School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton).
Co-sponsored by the Tocqueville Program, Department of Political Science, Department of Religious Studies, The Eighteenth-century Institute, and Department of History.
Jonathan Israel’s work is concerned with European and European colonial history from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century, with particular emphasis on the history of ideas, the Dutch Golden Age (1590–1713), including the Dutch global trade system, seventeenth-century Dutch Jewry and Spinoza, the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688–91 in Britain, and Spanish imperial strategy especially in Mexico, the Caribbean and the Low Countries. His books include European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism, 1550–1750 (1985); The Dutch Republic. Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806 (1995); Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650–1750 (2001); and Enlightenment Contested: Philosophy, Modernity, and the Emancipation of Man 1670–1752 (2006). His recent work focuses on the impact of radical thought (especially Spinoza, Bayle, Diderot and the eighteenth century French materialists), and on the Enlightenment and emergence of modern ideas of democracy, equality, toleration, freedom of the press and individual freedom.
Ph.D., University of Oxford, 1972; University of Hull, Assistant Lecturer, 1972–73, Lecturer, 1973–74; University College London, Lecturer, 1974–81, Reader, 1981–85, Professor, 1985–2000; Institute for Advanced Study, Professor, 2001–; Fellow, British Academy, 1992; Corresponding Fellow, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, 1994; University of Amsterdam, Honorary Professor, 2003; Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize in History, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2008.
