The Hope Center Plano, TX
February 29 – March 2, 2024
The deadline for proposals has now passed.
Thank you to the nearly 85 people who sent in their proposals!
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**We are hoping to notify the authors of every proposal of our program decisions no later than October 1, 2023. If you have not heard from us by then, check your Junk Mail. If you still don’t see anything, email info@ciceroniansociety.org.
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Previous conferences have included scholars and practitioners from classics, agriculture, ministry, philanthropy, political science, law, sociology, linguistics, religious studies, architecture, art, philosophy, theology, history, economics, literature, and more!
We’ve seen papers on Wendell Berry, Aquinas, Bob Dylan, Philip Rieff, Hayek, Albert Jay Nock, Thoreau, Aristotle, Cormac McCarthy, the American Founders, Tocqueville, Kant, MacIntyre, Walker Percy, Adam Smith, Raymond Chandler, C.S. Lewis, Edmund Burke, Dante, Lincoln, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Augustine, T.S. Eliot, Mises, Seneca, Shakespeare, Robert Nisbet, Hawthorne, and, of course, Cicero.
Our presenters have covered an enormous range of topics, including constitutionalism, farming, political theology, American political development, friendship, aristocracy, religious liberty, moral theory, agrarianism, Biblical hermeneutics, historiography, Catholic social teaching, rights, conservatism, liberalism, virtue, pedagogy, literary criticism, race, democracy, natural law, hospitality, ideology, conservation, and imagination.
Call for Papers (PDF)
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