Upcoming Events

Tuesday - Wednesday

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

    Wednesday, April 17 2013
    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

    Tuesday, March 26
    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.

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Student Offerings

The Center is designed to help students explore their interests in democracy and government at home and abroad. Professors at the Center provide a wide range of student activities. These include curricular, internships, special educational events, and community activities.

The Center currently provides support for the democracy studies minor at St. Mary's College, and funds summer internship offerings in local, state, and federal government service. The Center also promotes citizen engagement in the political process by supporting student organizations such as St. Mary's Votes! that advocate student participation in elections.

The Center provides support to student organizations interested in the many languages of democracy by funding activities of interest to them--whether they are speakers, exhibits, debates, literary or artistic performances. We ask you to join the discussions we host on campus and to recommend new speakers and dialogues on contemporary problems we face.

In the past, the Center has also made it possible for students to study abroad by hosting international exchanges between St. Mary's College of Maryland and the developing democratic countries of Senegal, The Gambia, Brazil, and Thailand.