September 3, 2026, 6:00 pm
Dinner Seminar with Julia Adams
Buckley Fellows are invited to a dinner seminar with Yale Professor Julia Adams.
Date & Time
December 7, 2026, 6:00 pm
Location
TBD
Details
In 2006, The Lives of Others was released to critical acclaim, winning Best Foreign Language Film at the 79th Academy Awards. The film is a tense, deeply human drama about an East German secret police officer whose surveillance of a playwright gradually awakens his conscience under the oppressive communist regime. William F. Buckley, Jr. described it as "the best movie I ever saw."
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Buckley Fellows are invited to a dinner seminar with American University's Guy Burnett, who will lead a discussion on the film's enduring themes of freedom and moral courage in the face of totalitarianism.
Participants are asked to view the film ahead of time to ensure a robust discussion.
Guy Burnett is an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University and the Chief of Staff and Academics for the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation.* Previously, he was a senior advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice, department chair and associate professor at Hampden-Sydney College, and an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Burnett is the author of The Safeguard of Liberty and Property: The Supreme Court, Kelo v. New London, and the Takings Clause (Lexington Books, 2014). His writing has appeared in Society, Political Behavior, Claremont Review of Books, Law & Liberty, and City Journal. He holds a BS from Utah State University, an MA from the University of Utah, and a PhD from Claremont Graduate University.
*Dr. Burnett does not represent the views of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation or the U.S. federal government.
In honor of its 20th anniversary, Buckley Fellows are invited to a dinner seminar with American University's Guy Burnett, who will lead a discussion on the film's enduring themes of freedom and moral courage in the face of totalitarianism.
Participants are asked to view the film ahead of time to ensure a robust discussion.
Guy Burnett is an adjunct professorial lecturer at American University and the Chief of Staff and Academics for the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation.* Previously, he was a senior advisor in the U.S. Department of Justice, department chair and associate professor at Hampden-Sydney College, and an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Burnett is the author of The Safeguard of Liberty and Property: The Supreme Court, Kelo v. New London, and the Takings Clause (Lexington Books, 2014). His writing has appeared in Society, Political Behavior, Claremont Review of Books, Law & Liberty, and City Journal. He holds a BS from Utah State University, an MA from the University of Utah, and a PhD from Claremont Graduate University.
*Dr. Burnett does not represent the views of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation or the U.S. federal government.