The department of Political Science presents
a public lecture on:
The Civic Education of the Spirit of Commerce:
Benjamin Franklin on American Ambition
by
Dr. Geoffrey Kellow, Carleton University
Thursday, November 8, 2018
4:00 pm
Room H1220, Hall Building
1455 de Maisonneuve Boulevard West
Free admission
Dr. Geoffrey Kellow is a historian of political and economic thought and Associate Professor in the College of the Humanities and the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. His work focuses on the political and economic thought of the Enlightenment. He is currently engaged in a long project examining the cultural and philosophic substance and significance of Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. Dr. Kellow is the co-editor of On Civic Republicanism published in 2016 by the University of Toronto Press.