The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI) is pleased to announce its co-sponsorship of the Annual Undergraduate Conference on the American Polity.  It will be held March 28-29 at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.  Undergraduate students from elite colleges across the country will attend.  Skidmore’s Benjamin Franklin Forum will co-sponsor the event.  Select students from Cincinnati Country Day School, an elite college preparatory school, will also participate and receive a special tour of Skidmore College.

Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton

The conference will open on Friday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m., with a dinner at Surrey Inn, Skidmore College.  At 8:00 p. m., following the dinner, Dr. Carl Scott, Center for American Studies, Christopher Newport University, will lecture at Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall on “Five Kinds of American Liberty.”

Conference sessions will begin on Saturday, March 29, at 9:00 a.m., and all three panels will be held in banquet rooms 1 and 2, 2nd floor, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall.  Following the days panel discussions, the conference will conclude with a dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m., banquet room 4, Murray-Aikins Dining Hall. Following dinner, at 8:00 p.m., Professor Scott will lead a concluding conversation with students on the meanings of liberty. A final schedule will be released shortly and can be found on the AHI’s website www.theahi.org.  For additional information, please contact Robert Paquette at bob@theahi.org, or by telephone at (315) 292-2267.