“250 Years of Our Declaration of Independence” (September 18, Rhodes College)

The Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities at Rhodes College presents a free public lecture on Thursday, September 18 (6pm, McNeill Concert Hall) by Dr. Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard and director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation.

This event is free and open to the public, but all attendees must pre-register using this link:

https://fs22.formsite.com/webmanagerrhodesedu/4i7kriyth1/index

Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration of Independence with a vivid evocation of the colonial world, Allen’s award-winning book Our Declaration reveals our nation’s founding text as not a catechism to be memorized but an animating force that can and did change the world. Challenging conventional wisdom, Allen boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is “a tour de force of close textual analysis” (Gordon S. Wood).

I hope this event might be of interest to the staff and students of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.

Best,

Scott Newstok

Executive Director

Spence Wilson Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities

https://www.rhodes.edu/academics/spence-wilson-center-interdisciplinary-humanities