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    February 2010

        SESSION THEME: Feminism, the Family and Civil Society

        CONFERENCE DIRECTOR: Jean Bethke Elshtain

        CONFERENCE COORDINATOR: Debra Erickson

        CHAIRS: William Schweiker and Michelle Harrington

Participants:

                David Blankenhorn, Founder and President of Institute for American Values

                Don Browning, University of Chicago

                Kristine Culp, Dean, Disciples Divinity House, University of Chicago

                Mary Ann Glendon,  Harvard University

                William Galston, Brookings Institute & University of Maryland

                Richard Garnett, Notre Dame University

                Elizabeth Lasch-Quinn, Syracuse University

                Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan

                Christina Traina, Northwestern University

                John Witte, Jr., Emory University

    October 2011

        SUBJECT: Religion, Civil Society and Democratic Theory

        CONFERENCE DIRECTOR: Jean Bethke Elshtain

Participants:

                Peter Berkowitz, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

                Patrick Deneen, Georgetown University

                Francis Fukuyama, Freeman Spigoli Institute, Stanford University

                Carl Gersham, National Endowment for Democracy

                Ruth Grant, Duke University

                Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania

                Linda McClain, Boston University School of Law

                Hon. Martin Palous, Václav Havel Library (Prague)

                Peter Steinfels, Center on Religion and Culture, Fordham University

                Margaret O’Brien Steinfels,, Center on Religion and Culture, Fordham University

                Nicholas Wolterstorff, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, U. Virginia

2010-2014

    PROJECT TITLE: Jean Bethke Elshtain, The Engaged Mind

    PROJECT LEADER: Jean Bethke Elshtain

    PROJECT DEPUTY: Debra Erickson