Harvard University - Graduate Chapter

The graduate chapter of the Thomistic Institute at Harvard University presents a lecture by Prof. Mary Keys of the University of Notre Dame titled “Seeking Peace in the City: Augustine and the Virtue of Humility.”

Thursday, February 23

5:30 PM

Sever Hall 213

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Mary M. Keys holds a BA from Boston College and a MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. Her research and teaching interests span a broad spectrum of political theory, with a special focus in Christianity, ethics, and political thought. She is the author of Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of God (Cambridge) and Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good (Cambridge). Her work includes articles and chapters in the American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought, Perspectives on Political Science, and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's City of God. She has held various fellowships, including a NEH Fellowship supporting her ongoing research project on Humility, Modernity, and the Science of Politics, and she has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the University of Chicago.