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Attend Cato University
Wanting to get away this summer? Looking to learn about ideas and meet cool people while having a great time? You're in luck! There is still time to register for Cato University, the premier educational conference hosted annually by the Cato Institute. The conference boasts an excellent lineup of speakers, including David Boaz, Don Boudreaux (www.cafehayek.com), Lynne Kiesling (www.knowledgeproblem.com), Ed Crane, Radley Balko (www.theagitator.com), Robert McDonald, and many more. Make the most of your summer by registering today.
FEE Summer Seminars
FEE Summer Seminars provide an opportunity for students to learn about the ideas of liberty, from the basics to advanced topics, with scholars who have studied the ideas of liberty for years. Seminar attendees participate in discussions, attend lectures, and build relationships with other students. Seminars take place in locations across the country. Check out the places, topics, and details to find out how you can jump-start your understanding of liberty this coming summer.
The deadline has been extended to April 10th.
A Weekend of Updates -- Follow Us
This weekend is the largest annual gathering of liberty-oriented students in the world, at Students For Liberty's (@sfliberty) international conference (#isflc). Cato On Campus staff will be live on site, tweeting tid-bits and news from the many scholars and other speakers at the event, including John Stossel (@fbnstossel), Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo), Tom Palmer (@tomgpalmer), and more. Stay tuned and follow us @CatoOnCampus to keep up to speed all weekend, whether you're in DC or elsewhere.
Cato, John Stossel, and Students For Liberty!
Students For Liberty has just announced that John Stossel will be the keynote for their international conference, coming up in February. In fact, he will be taping a special edition of The Stossel Show at the conference, interviewing Cato executive vice president David Boaz and involving the audience of the expected 400+ students to be in attendance. The student liberty movement is well on its way to making a national and international impact. Find out today how to get involved, and register for the International Students For Liberty Conference here!
Why Attend a Students For Liberty Regional Conference?
As this video persuasively explains, Students For Liberty regional conferences are a fantastic opportunity worth considering. The good people at SFL have organized nine seminars this fall, which take place all across the country. Each weekend conference features impressive libertarian speakers, ready to engage students on a wide variety of important issues and ideas. Check here to find a conference near you, and get involved with this exciting network of young libertarians.
Event: A Darker Shade of Green
"Green" policies are often advertised as good for the environment and cost-efficient; we are bringing together a few scholars who will address these claims economically and scientifically, painting a picture that shows otherwise. This event will focus on the increasing push by the federal government to go "green," and how such policies on energy and environment negatively impacts society, especially young people. Please join us!
Come to Cato, or watch the event online here: http://www.cato.org/events/100723sf.html
NEW: Student Conferences
Students For Liberty has just announced the schedule for their regional conference line-up. This Fall, they will be hosting nine conferences across the country -- at university campuses ranging from New York to Texas to California. Check out the details and find a conference at a campus near you!
European Libertarian Students Summit
Will Europe be a dynamic continent of Liberty, or will it slide into Statism, Inertia, and Intolerance? Come to the European Libertarian Students Summit to work with other young European liberals and share ideas about promoting freedom, peace, toleration, free trade, free markets, and limited government.
How Will ObamaCare Affect Young Adults?
Starting in 2014, the federal government will require nearly all Americans to obtain health insurance. How will that requirement, and other elements of President Obama's new health care law, affect the incomes, employment opportunities, and health care of young adults?
Cato On Campus and the Galen Institute are partnering to host a panel discussion to address these questions.
The event is open for all interns in the DC-area, and those online via an online video stream. Please plan to attend, and tell your friends. Take advantage of this opportunity to broaden your knowledge on a policy that will dramatically impact the rest of your life!
2010 Bureaucrash Student Contest & Conference
Bureaucrash, with the Competitive Enterprise Institute, is hosting an advanced training conference for student activists. Ten students with the best response to the question: “How can students best communicate the message of liberty to the next generation?” will be invited to a two-day activism conference at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and given a $500 stipend. Also, accommodations will be provided at the The Quincy – Downtown DC Boutique Suite Hotel. Other contestants will win other prizes. Find out more details here.
Free Seminars on Liberty
Join students around the world at a seminar sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies to deepen your knowledge of individual rights and free markets and consider innovative policy solutions. Choose from 11 week-long interdisciplinary seminars held on college campuses across the US. There is no cost to attend. Apply today, as the application deadline is March 31.
Student Forum: Climate Fantasies and Realities
Cato On Campus and the DC Forum for Freedom partner to bring a student forum to the Cato Institute on January 22, 2010 at 4pm. Pat Michaels, resident climatologist and scholar at Cato, will present on the topic of global warming, Climategate, and his 30+ years in the scientific research community. Please join us for an engaging presentation, discussion, and reception to follow. (Pat Michaels was prominent in the Climategate e-mails hijacked from the University of East Anglia in late 2009, cited in one e-mail as someone one scientist wanted to "beat the crap out of.”)
If you cannot attend the event in person, please watch the event online and participate by submitting your questions via the live online discussion board, here.
Student For Liberty 2010 International Conference
The International SFL Conference is the premiere event of the year for students dedicated to liberty and advancing freedom on campus. The largest crowd of pro-liberty students will gather in Washington, D.C. for a weekend of learning about liberty from contemporary leaders in liberty, discussing best practices for promoting liberty on campus, and getting more involved in the larger movement for liberty. Ed Crane, the Founder & President of the Cato Institute, will deliver a Keynote Address at the Conference, and a reception hosted by Cato On Campus will follow. Visit Students For Liberty's website for scholarship opportunities.
DC Forum for Freedom: Mad About Trade
The DC Forum for Freedom, in conjunction with Cato On Campus, will host Dan Griswold at the monthly forum on November 20th. Griswold is the director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, and will present on the topic of international trade and why it's good for the whole world. Politicians and pundits can rage against free trade and globalization, but much of what they convey is myth. Griswold embraces the global marketplace and shows how free trade is the most beneficial system ever to exist. He will address competition, jobs, foreign investment, poverty reduction, and several other topics. The event will be followed by an end-of-year celebration social at Capitol City Brewery.
Cato Conference: Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depression
With the economy in a deep recession and policymakers turning to massive government intervention in an attempt to create jobs and bolster the financial system—it feels like the 1930s all over again. Today’s new New Deal is rapidly unfolding, with the Obama administration and many lawmakers making it clear that any question of the success of FDR’s New Deal policies was resolved long ago: government intervention worked, and history bears repeating. Join us at the Cato Institute on June 1 to be a part of a highly informative half-day conference. Recognized national experts will discuss the economic and legal impact of the New Deal, and how its legacy is being used and misused to shape policy responses to current economic hardships.
Cato Institute Conference on Health Care Reform
The Cato Institute invites you to participate in a one-day conference, featuring health care experts from across the political landscape, on the state and future of health care reform in America. Even before the results of the 2008 elections were known, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., were preparing some of the most sweeping health care reforms America has seen in decades. The question is: will the reforms being crafted in Congress improve this picture, or make these problems even more acute?
Student Event: The Cult of the Presidency in the Age of Obama
Cato is pleased to welcome DC students to our campus for a special lecture by Cato's Vice President, Gene Healy on "The Cult of the Presidency in the Age of Obama". The speech will start at 4pm on Friday, April 10, and will be followed by a reception afterwards. As the first official event of the newly formed DC Forum for Freedom, a coalition of pro-liberty student groups, this is sure to be a great event for all students dedicated to liberty!
Cato University 2009: Economic Crisis, War, and the Rise of the State
Cato University is the Cato Institute's premier educational event of the year. This annual program brings together outstanding faculty and participants from across the country and, often, from around the globe - business and professional people, retirees, small business owners, high school and college students, employees of large and small firms and many others who share a commitment to liberty and learning. Be sure to apply for the Bastiat Scholarship exclusively for students!
Second Annual Students For Liberty Conference a Tremendous Success
This past weekend, Cato on Campus attended the Second Annual International Students For Liberty Conference, which was a tremendous success. At the end of the inaugural conference last year, the founding Executive Board announced that Students For Liberty would become an organization with year-round resources for students and opportunities for students to promote liberty. This year's conference demonstrated the organization's growth and the bright future of freedom.
International Students For Liberty Conference
The Second Annual International Students For Liberty Conference will be held from February 20-22, 2009, at George Washington University. This will be the premiere event of the year for students dedicated to liberty, bringing hundreds of students from around the world together to discuss liberty and learn how to promote liberty on campus.
Ivy League Alliance for Liberty Formed
The Ivy League Alliance for Liberty ratified its Constitution on Saturday, January 31st, forming a coalition of the student organizations dedicated to liberty within the Ivy League. Congratulations to the Brown Students for Liberty, Columbia University Libertarians, College Libertarians of Cornell University, Harvard Libertarian Forum, University of Pennsylvania Libertarian Association, and Princeton College Libertarians.
Second Annual International Students For Liberty Conference
Students For Liberty will be hosting its second annual international conference at George Washington University from February 20-22, 2009. The Keynote Speaker is Yon Goicoechea, recipient of the Cato Institute's 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. 100 students from 13 countries have already applied, so make sure you apply soon.
Shaping the New Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy
With a new administration in the White House, January 2009 will be the starting point for a new approach to U.S. counterterrorism efforts. This conference presents solid, immensely practical analyses of strategic counterterrorism policies based on the lessons and experiences of the past eight years and earlier, and on what proven strategies will yield the most beneficial results for the United States.
Cato's Annual Monetary Conference: LIVE
Listen live to Cato’s 26th Annual Monetary Conference will provide an in-depth treatment of the Lessons from the Subprime Crisis, which some view as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Leading experts will discuss the underlying causes of the loss of confidence, particularly the policies that contributed to the subprime crisis and the reforms needed to avoid future turmoil in financial markets.
IHS Spring Break Seminars Now Accepting Applications
The Institute for Humane Studies, a nonprofit organization that "support[s] the achievement of a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of talented, productive students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty", has just announced its new Spring Break Seminars. Free seminars at UC Santa Cruz and Emory University will be held in March for students interested in liberty. Applications are now being accepted.
2008 Liberty Summer Seminar
"This year's Liberty Summer Seminar [hosted by the Institute for Liberal Studies] will take place from July 26 - 27 this year. Now in its eighth year the Liberty Summer Seminar brings together people interested in discussing the ideas of liberty in a casual, outdoor environment. Our speakers and our attendees span the political spectrum. We'll hope you'll join us for a weekend of camping, singing, eating and thinking."
Freedom's Campaign in the 21st Century
Would you like to meet like-minded people from all over the world? Or have a spectacular vacation while sharing ideas on how freedom will be advanced, enhanced, and defended? If so, Cato University is definitely for you.
Students for Liberty Conference an Enormous Success
By Joey Coon: "On February 22nd Columbia University saw some of the sharpest minds and most dedicated students from across the country and around the world gather for the first annual Students for Liberty Conference. Over one hundred students from as far west as California and as far east as the Ukraine gathered for a weekend packed with lectures and workshops from some of the libertarian movement’s most prominent scholars and activists."
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Twilight at Monticello is an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at Thomas Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about him. During the years from his return to Monticello in 1809 until his death in 1826, Jefferson dealt with illness and debt, corresponded with the leading figures of the Revolution, and became a radical decentralist and admirer of the New England townships, where, he believed, the real fire of liberty burned bright.
NATO's New Troubles: Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Future of the Alliance
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is facing a host of new challenges. In Afghanistan, NATO’s forces are being relentlessly attacked by the Taliban, and popular support for maintaining troops there is fading. The proposed deployment of antiballistic missiles, a potential flashpoint in Kosovo, and the growing tension between Russia and some of its neighbors all have the potential to divide members of the alliance. Meanwhile, NATO’s inability to deter a cyber attack that virtually paralyzed NATO member Estonia’s access to the Internet raises questions about the alliance’s ability to protect its newest members.
Students for Liberty Conference
"It is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to participate in the first ever Students for Liberty Conference (SFLC).Organized by students and for students, the SFLC’s mission is to bring undergraduate and graduate students together to learn more about the cause of liberty an how to best promote liberty on college campuses."
IHS Free Summer Seminars
Explore the ideas of liberty while interacting with top faculty and students from around the world. Housing, meals, and books included. Deadline to apply: March 31.
IES Europe
IES Europe organizes international events, including its annual summer seminars. A great opportunity for young people to benefit from intercultural and intellectual exchanges, and to learn about classical liberalism.
Acton Institute University
Acton University is a unique, four-day exploration of the intellectual foundations of a free society. Guided by a distinguished, international faculty, Acton University is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge and integrate rigorous philosophy, Christian theology and sound economics.
Liberty & Society Program
A student program exploring the foundations of a free society, Liberty and Society is a unique conference program for young people who have left school and are aged 18 to 30 and live in Australia, New Zealand or the South Pacific. The goal of the Liberty and Society conferences is to create an intellectual environment where ideas and opinions about what makes a free society can be discussed, argued and learnt.
Property and Environment Research Center
Student programs at the Property and Environment Research Center
Young America's Foundation
The National Conservative Student Conference is the signature college conference of Young America's Foundation. The only event of its kind, the intensive six-day conference brings young people together with conservatism's biggest stars, and provides an entry point into the Conservative Movement.
Cato University
This annual program brings together outstanding faculty and participants from across the country -- business and professional people, retirees, small business owners, high school and college students, employees of large and small firms, families, and many others who share a commitment to liberty and learning.
Mackinac Center for Public Policy Analysis Debate Workshops
The Mackinac Center is a nonpartisan research and educational institute devoted to improving the quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions. The Center is broadening the debate on issues that has for many years been dominated by the belief that government intervention should be the standard solution.
Institute for Justice
The Institute for Justice holds its acclaimed Law Student Conference at the George Washington University each July. The annual conference covers the Institute for Justice's four litigation pillars: First Amendment rights, school choice, economic liberty and private property rights.¬?
Foundation for Economic Education
Every summer for more than forty years, FEE has welcomed students to their noted week-long seminars celebrating the freedom philosophy. With renowned speakers and experienced discussion leaders, FEE seminars are a great opportunity for those who seek a better understanding of the foundations of a free society and the market economy. Students and teachers alike enjoy the unique ambiance of a FEE seminar with its stimulating mix of lively presentations and informal discussions.