Harvard Professor Harvey Mansfield to discuss “Manliness” at March 28 Pope Lecture
March 15, 2006 - Harvey C. Mansfield, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Government at Harvard University, will present the second annual J.W. Pope Lecture at NC State on Tuesday, March 28, 2006. His topic is entitled “Manliness and the Defense of Liberty.”
The lecture will be held at 7:00 p.m. in 3400 Nelson Hall, on the NC State main campus in Raleigh. It is free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the Dan Allen Parking Deck off Dan Allen Drive on the NC State campus. The Society of Politics, Economics and Law, a student organization at NC State University, will host a meeting with Mansfield at 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Mar. 29, in 2403 Nelson Hall.
Mansfield’s lecture will be based on his new book, Manliness. Mansfield poses that America has “embarked on a radical experiment to make a society never before seen in history—a gender-neutral society in which your sex matters as little as possible and does not give you your rights, your duties, and your place. Manliness, a quality that prevails in one sex, stands in the way of this aspiration. My book shows what manliness brings to a free society: confidence in the face of risk and trouble from those who love risk too much.”
Mansfield has been on Harvard’s faculty since 1962. He has written on Edmund Burke and the nature of political parties, on Machiavelli and the invention of indirect government, in defense of a defensible liberalism and in favor of a Constitutional American political science. He has also written on the discovery and development of the theory of executive power, and has translated Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and Machiavelli. Mansfield is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard, and Times Literary Supplement.
The J.W. Pope Lecture at NC State is the second of five annual programs being hosted jointly by the College of Humanities and Social Science’s Department of Political Science and Public Administration and the College of Management’s Department of Economics.
The lecture series is part of a program funded by a grant from the Pope Foundation to support education and research in public policy and economics in the two colleges at NC State. “Quality interaction with undergraduate students is a key component of the Pope Lecture Series,” says Andy Taylor, assistant professor of political science, and chair of the committee that invited Harvey Mansfield to visit NC State. “Dr. Mansfield will offer a public lecture, but will also teach several classes and seminars for some of our political science students.”
Media note:
Reporters are welcome to attend Harvey Mansfield’s public presentation on March 28.
He also will be available for interviews between 1:30 and 3:30 on March 29. Telephone interviews can be arranged, time permitting. Please contact Lauren Kirkpatrick, director of communications, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 919.961.0205; lauren_kirkpatrick@ncsu.edu to schedule an interview.
For directions to Nelson Hall: http://www.mgt.ncsu.edu/about/directions.php