Upcoming Events
"Should Hamilton Get a Bad Rap? Republic, Empire, and the Constitution"
February 22
Northwood University student seminar
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"The Scottish Enlightenment"
April 23 – 26
ISI graduate student seminar
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"Liberalism and Its Discontents"
May 16
The Society for Law and Culture annual gathering
Judges, attorneys, and professors
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
Past Events
“From Statesmanship to Poetry” Seminar
November 22 – 24
Hope College and Northwood University Students
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"Literature and the American College" Seminar
November 14 – 16
Hillsdale College Honors Students
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
University Bookman Reviewers Gathering
November 7, 6 – 9 p.m.
Reviewers gather with editor Gerald Russello
New York, New York
Release Date for Kirk's "Old House of Fear"
October 29
A new edition of Russell Kirk’s first novel, Old House of Fear, is forthcoming from Criterion Books,
with an introduction on Kirk’s fiction by James Panero, executive editor of The New Criterion.
New York, New York
Society for Law and Culture Gathering
October 21
Attorneys, judges, and law professors
Grand Rapids, MI
"Dystopian Literature and the Moral Imagination"
October 5 – 8
Students from the McConnell Center, The University of Louisville
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
Morton Township Friends of the Library Tour
September 19
Tour of the Kirk Library and Luncheon
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"Burke and Kirk in Modern Japan"
September 7, 10:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Hiro Aida, professor, journalist, and translator of The Conservative Mind into Japanese, will compare conservatism in Japan with Anglo-American conservatism. Luncheon and discussion will follow his lecture.
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
Michigan Historic Marker Dedication
August 17
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"The Politics of Prudence" Seminar
June 24
Michigan interns
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"The American Cause" Seminar
June 22, 2 – 8 p.m.
General audience
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"The Conservative Mind" Seminar
June 13 – 16
Faulkner University graduate students
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
"Tale of Five Cities: Tracing the Roots of American Order" Conference
June 2 – 7
College students
Co-sponsored with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and The Blackstone and Burke Center for Law and Liberty
Faulkner University, Alabama
Book Launch for Michael Brendan Dougherty's "My Father Left Me Ireland"
May 15, 7:30 – 10:30 p.m.
The University Bookman is a co-sponsor of this book conversation event.
The Players, New York City
"Redeeming the Time" Seminar
May 4
Students from Calvin College
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI
Common Ground Initiative Debate
April 12, 12 – 1:45
Hauenstein Center, co-sponsored by the Kirk Center
Richard M. DeVos Center, 401 Fulton St. W., Grand Rapids, MI
"Human Nature, Imperfectibility, and Liberty" Conference
April 11 – 14
ISI graduate students conference
The Kirk Center, Mecosta, MI