Notable Political Scientist to Speak on the State of Higher Education

Noted political scientist Clifford Orwin will give a presentation entitled “On the Greatest Obstacle to Higher Education Today” at 7:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum on Wednesday, April 22. His lecture is free and open to the public.

Orwin is a Fellow of St. Michael’s College and Director of the Program in Political Philosophy and International Affairs at the University of Toronto. He received his BA from Cornell University, and his MA and PhD from Harvard.

Orwin has served as a visiting professor at such prestigious universities as Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Michigan State University, as well as briefer stints at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa in Lisbon. He also served on the Panel on Political Science at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, and has received three NEH Fellowships.

Orwin is the author of numerous articles, the book The Humanity of Thucydides (Princeton University Press, 1997), and co-editor of The Legacy of Rousseau (University of Chicago Press, 1997). His work spans a broad range of issues in political thought, ranging from ancient times to the present, and has been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, and Hebrew.

Orwin’s ongoing projects include articles on Churchill, Herodotus, Montesquieu, the Book of Esther, and Favius Josephus. He is also writing a book, intended to be accessible to the general public beyond academia, on the role of compassion in modern politics, and co-editing Allan Bloom’s commentary on Rousseau’s Emile.

This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Political Science. For more information and disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4117.