Furman’s Tocqueville Program Announces 2012 Lecture Series

First of three lectures takes place Wednesday, Feb. 22 inUniversity Center

GREENVILLE, SC – Furman University’s Tocqueville Programannounces its 2012 Lecture Series, “Liberal Education & Liberal Democracy.”The first of three lectures takes place Wednesday, Feb. 22 at 4:30 p.m. inWatkins Room of University Center and is presented by author, lecturer anduniversity administrator John T. Agresto.

His lecture, “Do American Colleges Today Serve Any PublicFunction?” is free and open to the public as are the other Tocqueville lectures.The lecture series is sponsored by Furman’s department of politicalscience.

The Tocqueville program brings prominent scholars and publicintellectuals to campus with the aim of encouraging open engagement with themoral questions at the heart of political life. The series is named for Alexisde Tocqueville, widely known as the first philosopher of moderndemocracy.

Agresto served as president of St. John’s College in SantaFe, Chancellor and provost at the American University of Iraq at Sulaimani, andas assistant chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. His booksinclude Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of GoodIntentions, The Supreme Court and Constitutional Democracy, and The Humanist as Citizen: Essays on the Uses of theHumanities.