Upcoming JMC Events

JMC Alumni Pizza Night - Wednesday, September 16
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Case Hall, Club Spartan

Madison College alumni are invited to welcome new JMC students and welcome back JMC students at this informal networking event. At this event, alumni serve as role models and provide feedback and information to help students develop their interpersonal skills. It is also a great informal opportunity to catch up with other alumni.

JMC Alumni Law Night - Tuesday, October 6
6:30pm - 9:00pm
JMC Library

JMC Alumni Law Night is an event that brings between 5-7 alumni lawyers back to Case Hall to talk with Madison students about their experience working in the field of law and attending law school. 

Annual Homecoming Tailgate - October 17, 2009
Two hours prior to kick off - Case Hall

Founders Circle Luncheon - Friday, October 23, 2009

Kellogg Center, MSU

Featuring Madison Alumnus and MSU Political Science Professor Steven Kautz

Presenting: "Every Honorable Device": The Democratic Statesmanship of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is justly praised as among the greatest of those associated with the cause of popular government: Lincolns greatness is the greatness of a democratic statesman.  His task was to demonstrate, what many sober observers then doubted, the capability of a people to govern themselves.  The tragedy of American slavery and the horrors of the Civil War tested whether this nation, or any nation “conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” could long endure.  On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, Kautz examines Lincoln's democratic statesmanship, with guidance from Frederick Douglass' penetrating analysis of that statesmanship in his 1876 "Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln."
 
Steven Kautz is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University and an alumnus of James Madison College.  He is the author of Liberalism and Community, a defense of classical liberalism against communitarian critics of liberalism.  In 2005-2007, he was Associate Dean of the Honors College at Michigan State.  He is currently Executive Director of the Symposium on Science, Reason, & Modern Democracy at MSU, a center for research and debate on the theory and practice of modern democracy.  He taught at Emory University from 1988-1999.  Kautz writes and teaches on the political philosophy of liberalism, American political thought, and American and comparative constitutional law.  He is currently working on a book on the political thought of Abraham Lincoln.

Please join James Madison College
In Honor of Katherine O’Sullivan See’s Retirement
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Case Hall and Kellogg Center

Panel Discussions and Buffet Lunch

Case Hall

9:00-10:00 Coffee and pastries
10:00-3:30 Panels and lunch

Everyone Welcome

Celebratory Dinner
Kellogg Center, Red Cedar Room

Cocktails: 6:00 pm
Dinner: 7:00 pm

Contact Donna Hofmeister
email: hofmeist
phone: 517-353-9977
to RSVP or for more information on any of these events.