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Oglethorpe to Host Conference on Civil Society
and Leadership
Atlanta – Oglethorpe University will host a day-long
conference on “Leadership and Civil Society for the New Millennium”
on Thursday, February 17, 2000. The conference begins at 9:30 a.m.
in the Emerson Student Center.
The conference features presentations by Emory University
Professor Merle Black, Governing Magazine’s Executive Editor Alan
Ehrenhalt and Harvard University Professor of Government Harvey
Mansfield.
Admission is free and open to the public.
At 10 a.m. Mansfield will address the topic “Is Manliness a
Virtue?” Mansfield studies and teaches political philosophy at
Harvard University. 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 is one of the world’s
leading experts on Machiavelli. His current research is a book on
manliness and a new translation of Tocqueville’s Democracy in
America. He has been on the faculty at Harvard since 1962.
At 1 p.m. Black will address “Leadership in the Modern South.”
Black became the Asa G. Candler Professor of Politics and Government
at Emory University in 1989. He is a leading student of and
commentator on Southern politics. His writing centers on several
projects in collaboration with his twin brother Earl Black of Rice
University. Black is now working on a book about the impact of the
changing South on congressional politics.
At 3 p.m. Ehrenhalt will speak about “Town Squares, Corner
Stores, and Community.” Ehrenhalt has degrees from Brandeis and
Columbia Universities and was a reporter and writer for the
Associated Press, Washington Star and Congressional Quarterly before
joining Governing in 1988 as political editor. He has been executive
editor since 1991. His books include The Lost City, The United
States of Ambition, and Democracy in the Mirror. He is a regular
contributor to the New York Times Book Review, Washington Post Book
World, the Wall Street Journal and Slate magazine.
For more information contact the Public Relations Office of
Oglethorpe University at (404) 364-8446.
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