Harvard Law Professor Mary Ann Glendon will speak on the top
ic 'Politics as a Vocation' Thursday\, Jan. 17\, at 5 p.m. in the lecture
hall of the Ave Maria University academic building.
Professor G
lendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and pres
ident of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences\, She was appointed to
the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in May of 2012. Fro
m 2008 to 2009\, she served as U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See and prior t
o that she was a member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics (2001-200
4). A prolific scholar\, Professor Glendon writes and teaches in the field
s of human rights\, comparative law\, constitutional law\, and political t
heory. Among her works are Abortion and Divorce in Western Law (1989)\, th
e critically acclaimed Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discou
rse (1993)\, and A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Dec
laration of Human Rights (2002). Her lecture Thursday is drawn from her la
test book\, The Forum and the Tower (2011).
Sponsored by a grant f
rom the Stuck with Virtue Conference Series\, the Ernest L. Fortin Lecture
Series is named after Fr. Ernest L. Fortin\, A.A. Fr Fortin taught at Ass
umption College\, Laval University\, and Boston College\, where he held jo
int appointments in the Theology and Political Science Departments and cod
irected the Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion. The author o
f books on Dante and St. Augustine\, his collected essays have been publis
hed in four volumes. Focusing on the intersection of philosophical\, theol
ogical\, and political reflection\, the lectures in this series explore th
e diverse but interrelated themes that animated Fr. Fortin's life as a tea
cher and scholar.
The lecture is free and open to the public. <
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