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2024 Conference

Civility and its Discontents

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Friday, October 4

Friday’s event will be at the Gerald Ford Museum (303 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49504). Seating is limited, so if you plan to attend this Friday evening conversation, register (for free) with the Ford Museum.

6:30-7:45, Ross Douthat in conversation with Jeff Polet

Saturday, October 5

9:15-10:15, Cultivating Civility
  • Micah Watson, “No Porches in Prison: God, Civility, and Redemption”
  • Elizabeth Corey, “An Inward Harmony of Soul”
    • 10:45-11:45, Civil Communities
  • Tim Carney in conversation with Jeff Polet
    • 12:00, Catered lunch
    1:00-2:00, Ross Douthat keynote address
    2:30-3:30, Against Dullness
  • Nathan Beacom, “Tocqueville, Mengzi, and Institutions of Goodness”
  • Jason Peters, “The Middle Ground of Wit and Insult, Considered Together With Their Limits”
    • 4:00-5:00, For Roots
  • Kate Dalton, “The Mannerlessness of Power and the Power of Manners”
  • Bill Kauffman, “What’s So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding?”

    • Sponsors

    Plough
    The Ciceronian Society