NEW DATE-From Sacred Space to the Bunker and the Spaceship

DATE CHANGE

This event was originally scheduled for Thursday, March 5th. Due to inclement weather, it has been rescheduled for Friday, March 6th.

What Campus Libraries Can Teach us about Education, Liberty, Culture and the Divine

Professor Patrick J. Deneen from the University of Notre Dame will explore the transformation in architectural style of libraries over time and what these changes indicate philosophically, pedagogically, and theologically.

Patrick J. Deneen

Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame

Patrick Deneen holds a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University.  From 1995-1997 he was Speechwriter and Special Advisor to the Director of the United States Information Agency.  From 1997-2005 Deneen was Assistant Professor of Government at Princeton University.  From 2005-2012 he was Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, before joining the faculty of Notre Dame in Fall 2012. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles and reviews and have delivered invited lectures around the country and several foreign nations. Published books include: The Odyssey of Political Theory, 2000 (Rowman and Littlefield) Democratic Faith, 2005 (Princeton) Democracy’s Literature (ed.), 2005 (Rowman and Littlefield) The Democratic Soul (ed.), 2011 (University Press of Kentucky) Redeeming Democracy in America (ed.), 2011 (University Press of Kansas).

Professor Deneen is also a lecturer for the Catholic Information Center’s Leonine Forum.