2024 Constitution Day & Citizenship Day
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“From Revolution to Constitution”
Featuring Martin Shuster, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor
of Jewish Studies at UNC Charlotte
September 17, 2024, 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. at the Bonnie E. Cone University Center, Lucas Room
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Each election cycle, renewed attention is drawn to the US Constitution — especially after the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol. Talk of revolution is in the air on the national stage, in a way that it had not been previously. Whether in accusations of radicalism or in self-conscious invocations of a “second American revolution,” the concept is omnipresent. Is there something to be learned about the present moment by revisiting the moment from revolution to constitution? Delve deeper by attending the 2024 observation of Constitution Day & Citizenship Day, featuring Martin Shuster, Ph.D.
Thinking about the transition from revolution to constitution in the United States’s founding moment lets us think more deeply about what exactly is central to American democracy and how the present moment does or does not actualize our democratic ideals. Shuster’s talk will offer the audience an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between the American revolutionary moment and the American constitutional moment. Anyone attending will have a deeper appreciation of the stakes and possibilities of the American experiment and the causes of potential missteps.
Martin Shuster, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at UNC Charlotte, where he also founded the Philosophy and Critical Theory Lab (PaCT Lab). He is the author of several books in various areas of philosophy, the most recent of which is Critical Theory: The Basics. Previously, he has also been a visiting professor at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Each year, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte joins organizations across the nation by recognizing Constitution and Citizenship Day with a special presentation for students and community members. The federal holiday was formally established in 2005, to recognize the signing of the US Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, PA. It is an extension of the original holiday, Citizenship Day, which was signed by President Harry S. Truman in 1952 and other state-level observances before that.
Event Facts, Parking and Accessibility
Date: Tuesday, Sept. 17
Time: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m.
Location: Bonnie E. Cone University Center, Lucas Room; 9025 University Road, Charlotte, NC 28223
Parking: pats.charlotte.edu; The two closest parking locations are the Cone Deck and the Union Deck adjacent to the Popp Martin Student Union. (Look for arrows on the map.) Please read about the library’s accessibility support and contact chess-events@charlotte.edu if you have an accessibility issue directly related to Personally Speaking.