Name: Adam Smith's Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Death of Nations
Start: 2025-04-04T16:30:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-04T17:30:00-04:00
Location: James Madison College, South Case Hall, Club Spartan (3rd Floor)

Adam Smith's Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Death of Nations

Fife Fellows Lecture co-sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies and James Madison College
About this Event

Featured Speaker: Ryan Patrick Hanley is Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, he was the Mellon Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, and held visiting appointments or fellowships at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago.

A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009) and Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge, 2017) and Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton, 2019).