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A frequent contributor to major mass media and professor at the University of Chicago, Jean Bethke Elshtain, will lecture at Hamilton College, on Thursday, Feb. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel, as part of an initiative on Religion and Public Affairs.

The talk, "What's God Got To Do With It? Religion and Public Life in America," is sponsored by the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center and is free and open to the public.

Elshtain joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1995 as the first Laura Spelman Rockefeller professor of social and political ethics. She currently teaches in the Divinity School, as well as serving in the political science department, and the committee on international relations.

She has contributed works on several topics such as feminist theory, theology, international relations, war, the family, and political theory. Elshtain received her Ph.D. from Brandeis University and is the author of Democracy on Trial (1995) and Real Politics: at the Center of Everyday Life (1997), as well as numerous other books and articles, including Public Man, Private Women: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981) and Augustine and the Limits of Politics (1996).

Elshtain writes for journals of civic opinion and lectures both domestically and abroad. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair of the Council on Civil Society, and a member of the board of trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and the National Humanties Center.

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