Upcoming Events
Tuesday - WednesdayApril 23 - 24Patuxent Defense Forum 2013:
"Rivalries and Conflicts
in the South China Sea:
How Can the U.S. Promote
Greater Stability?8:00 am Cole Cinema
Recent Events:
Thursday, April 18 2013
The Legitimate Role of Government
in a Free Society
Lectures on Liberty
Lecture by Walter E. Williams
George Mason University
4:00 pm | Cole Cinema
Co-sponsored with
Lectures and Fine Arts Committee
Departments of Economics,
Political Science, History
and the Economics Club
2013 Maryland
Legislative Wrap-Up
1:00 pm
Daughtery Palmer Commons
St. Mary's County delegates
John Bohanan (D) and
Anthony O'Donnell (R)
will offer their assessment of
the 2013 Session of the
Maryland General Assembly
Friday, April 5 2013
Margaret Brent Lecture:
"Notes to My Daughter: On Becoming A Woman"
Lecture by Elsa Walsh
Author, New Yorker contributor
5:30 pm | St. Mary's Hall
Co-sponsored with
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Thursday, March 28
Free Trade vs. Fair Trade:
Where Economists
Get it Right, and Wrong
Lecture by George DeMartino
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
University of Denver
6:00 pm | Cole Cinema
Global Economic Integration
After the Great Recession,
and the
Importance of Free Trade
with Simon Lester
of the CATO Institute
5:30 pm | Cole Cinema
Monday, February 25
The Future of Fracking
in the Chesapeake
5:30 PM | St. Mary's Hall
Co - sponsored with the
St. Mary's River
Watershed Association
League of Women Voters
of St. Mary's County
and the
Natural Science and
Mathematics Colloquium
A discussion of gas
extraction on the
East Coast and the
new gas revolution
associated with fracking
Program Highlight
William Donald Schaefer
Internship for Government Service
A tribute to Governor Schaefer's many contributions to St. Mary's College and the State of Maryland, the Schaefer Internship for Government Service aims to allow undergraduates hands on experience in public policy with the hope that they will be inspired to choose public service as a calling.
Student Spotlight
St. Mary's Votes!
Since its inception in 2004, the club has registered over 850 young people to vote in State and National elections. In 2008, the club expanded its role in civic engagement to include working as election and poll judges during primary and general elections.
Occasional Paper Series
The First Wall Between Church and State
Thomas Penfield Jackson
Volume 3, Number 1, Fall 2008
Spiro Agnew and the Golden Age of Corruption in Maryland Politics:
An Interview with Ben Bradlee and Richard Cohen of The Washington Post (PDF)
Edited by Charles J. Holden and Zach Messitte
Volume 2, Number 1, Fall 2006
From Necessity, Not Choice:
Lessons in Democracy from Maryland's Past (PDF)
Jane Calvert and Anthony K. Lake
Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2005
White Papers
NASA and the Navy: Reviewing Collaborations and Developing Mutual Opportunities Volume III, Number I May 2012
Consequences of Robotic Progress for Society, Markets and U.S. Defense Volume I, Number I June 2010 
Energy, Climate, and National Security Challenges and Opportunities for America Volume II, Number I January 2011
Events Material
Can America Lose Its Addiction to Debt
Harry Zeeve, National Field Director of the Concord Coalition discussed the causes and consequences of America's growing debt.
A Government of Laws and Not of Men: Accountability and the War on Terror
On October 14, 2010 the Center for the Study of Democracy at St. Mary’s College of Maryland hosted a panel discussion of U.S. interrogation and incarceration policies related to the “War on Terror.” The panelists were Scott Horton, a constitutional expert and author of the “No Comment” blog at Harper's online, Tom Wilner, attorney with the DC law firm Shearman & Sterling, and counsel to the Guantanamo detainees in Rasul v Bush and counsel of record in Boumediene v Bush, both landmark Supreme Court decisions repudiating U.S. detention policies, and Marine Lieutenant Col. Stuart Couch, veteran military pilot and prosecutor who refused an assignment to prosecute a prisoner at Guantanamo because he concluded that the interrogation of that prisoner had been “morally repugnant.” The discussion was moderated by Sherry Jones, award winning documentary filmmaker.
