2018
8th Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
Christopher Surprenant, Univ. New Orleans | Mass-Incarceration and its Alternatives |
Karl McDermott, Univ. of Illinois, Springfield | Contours of Capitalism |
William Kline, Univ. of Illinois, Springfield | Markets and Minorities |
Stephen Hicks, Rockford Univ. | The Ethics of Liberty |
James Harrigan, Univ. of Arizona | Rediscovering Limited Government |
Marilyn Moore, Atlas Society | A Novel Approach to Business Literature: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged |
George Smith, Author and Essayist libertarianism.org |
The Fallacies of Socialism |
Natalia Gray, South East Missouri State Univ. | Reflections on the novel “We” |
2017
7th Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
Alexander McCobin, CEO Conscious Capitalism | Conscious Capitalism |
Adam Moore, Univ. of Washington | The Importance of Privacy |
Stephen Hicks, Rockford Univ. | Why You Should Read Ayn Rand |
Greg Bishop, Illini News Network | Liberty in Illinois |
George Smith, Author and Essayist libertarianism.org |
Two Pillars of Libertarianism |
Adam Moore, Univ. of Washington | Intellectual Property and Liberty |
Kenneth Owen, Univ. of Illinois Springfield | Free Speech on Campus |
William Kline, Univ. of Illinois Springfield | Minorities and Markets |
2016
6th Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
Kenneth Owen | Liberty and the US Constitution |
Matthew Brown | Economic Freedom in the World |
Peter Boltuc | Experiments in Living |
William Kline | Value, Wealth, and Liberty |
Gianna Englert | Two Types of Liberty |
Kenneth Owen | Free Speech on Campus |
James Harrigan | Minority Rights and the Expansion of Liberty? |
Stephen Hicks | Does Free Market Liberalism make you a better person? |
2015
5th Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
Michael Douma | Liberty and the Historical Imagination |
Natalia Gray | Healthcare and Liberty |
James Harrigan | Experiences in Iraq |
David Bertaina | Religious Liberty |
Kamau Kemayo | Freedom and Consciousness in Contemporary Society |
Kenneth Owen | Liberty and Power: The Making of the US Constitution |
Antony Davies | Liberty, Equality, and Prosperity |
Aimee Barbeau | Liberalism and its Discontents: Theories and Practices of Associational Freedom |
2014
4th Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
James Ermatinger | Rome and Liberty |
Stephen Hicks | Thirteen Arguments for Free Market Liberalism |
David Bertaina | Freedom of Religion |
Aimee Barbeau | Ancient and Modern Liberties |
William Kline | The Libertarian Ideal |
Film and Discussion | “Freedom’s Fury” |
2013
3rd Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
Alexei Marcoux | Liberalism’s Conflicting Conceptions of Justice |
Matthew McCaffrey | Economics of the New Golden Age of Television |
Eric Roark | Coercion and Exploitation |
William Kline | Why Liberty? |
Kenneth Owen | Liberty and the US Constitution |
Kevin Currie-Knight | Three Libertarian Views of Children’s Rights |
Geoffrey Lea | Liberty and the Wealth of Nations |
2012
2nd Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
William Kline | Why Liberty? |
Matthew Brown | Economic Freedom, Well-being, and Peace |
Michael Douma | Individualism |
Eric Roark | Self Ownership |
Karl McDermott | Liberty and Capitalism |
Geoffrey Lea | Limits of Government |
Shoon Lio | Liberty and Community |
Kenneth Owen | Liberty and the Constitution |
2011
1st Annual Weekend Exploring Liberty
William Kline | What is Libertarianism? |
Eric Roark | Self Ownership |
Peter Boltuc | Vice, Virtue, and Liberty |
Michael Douma | Individualism and Self Reliance |
Geoffrey Lea | The Limits of Government: Public Choice |
Michael Douma | Education and Liberty |
Geoffrey Lea | What is a Free Market? |
Eric Roark | Left and Right Libertarianism |