Lindau Residency in Conservative Thought

Gustavus Religion Department hosted Dr. Robert George as the 2017 Lindau Resident in Conservative Thought. During his visit he led discussions in classes, met formally and informally with students and student organizations, and held office hours as a resource for student projects and assignments.
Schedule for Dr. George's Visit
Thursday, March 2, 2017
12 - 1 p.m.
Lunch with the College Republican
Location: Presidents Dining Room

3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Office hours: An informal time for students to have conversation or ask questions
Location: Courtyard Cafe

Friday, March 3, 2017
10:30 - 11:30 a.m.
Office hours: An informal time for students to have conversation or ask questions
Location: Courtyard Cafe

11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch with religious student organizations and religion majors

3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Open House Reception for faculty and staff
Location: Konferencerum

Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is also the Herbert W. Vaughan Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton, and is frequently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School.

In addition to his academic service, Dr. George has served as chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, served on the President’s Council on Bioethics (2002-2009), as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1993-1998), and as the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. He is a former judicial fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States.

Professor George is author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (Oxford University Press, 1993), In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford University Press, 1999), The Clash of Orthodoxies (ISI, 2001) and Conscience and Its Enemies (ISI, 2013). He is co-author of Conjugal Union: What Marriage Is (Cambridge University Press, 2014), Embryo: A Defense of Human Life (2nd edition, Doubleday, 2011), Body-Self Dualism in Contemporary Ethics and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2008), and What is Marriage? (Encounter, 2012). He is editor of several volumes and written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, First Things, the Boston Review, and the Times Literary Supplement.

A graduate of Swarthmore College, Dr. George holds degrees from Harvard University and Oxford University. 

He is a recipient of the United States Presidential Citizens Medal, the Honorific Medal for the Defense of Human Rights of the Republic of Poland, the Bradley Prize for Intellectual and Civic Achievement, the Philip Merrill Award of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, the Paul Bator Award of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, a Silver Gavel Award of the American Bar Association, the Charles Fried Award of the Harvard Law School Federalist Society, the Irving Kristol Award of the American Enterprise Institute, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton.