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Adobe Flash Player version 9.0.124 or later required.Monday-Tuesday, May 14-15, 2007
Public Conference in cooperation with the Association for the Study of Free Institutions at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, "The Free Society: Foundations and Challenges"
May 14, 2007
10:00 a.m.
"'The Closing of the American Mind Revisited"
Moderator: Carson L. Holloway, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Panelists: Stanley Kurtz, Ethics and Public Policy Center; Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College; Alan M. Levine, American University; Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame
1:30 p.m.
"The Rule of Law"
Moderator: George W. Dent, Jr., Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Panelists: Gerard V. Bradley, University of Notre Dame Law School; Michael I. Krauss, George Mason University School of Law; Jack Wade Nowlin, University of Mississippi School of Law; Amy Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School
3:45 p.m.
"'The Moral Claims of Capitalism"
Moderator: John D. Mueller, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Panelists: Benjamin Barber, University of Maryland; Stanley C. Brubaker, Colgate University; Charles Griswold, Boston University
5:45 p.m.
"'Keynote Address"
John Agresto, former Higher Education Senior Advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq
May 15 , 2007
9:15 a.m.
"Security, Liberty, and Terror"
Moderator: Bradley C.S. Watson, St. Vincent College
Panelists: William B. Allen, Michigan State University; Angelo Codevilla, Boston University; Matthew Franck, Radford University; Alan R. Gibson, California State University at Chico; John Lenczowski, Institute of World Politics
11:15 a.m.
"Reason, Revelation, and Freedom: Benedict XVI's Regensburg Speech"
Moderator: Robert P. George, Princeton University
Panelists: Hadley Arkes, Amherst College; Charles Butterworth, University of Maryland at College Park; David Novak, University of Toronto; James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University
2:45 p.m.
"The Historical Conditions of Free Institutions"
Moderator: Steven Bullock, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Panelists: Herman Belz, University of Maryland; Joyce Lee Malcolm, George Mason University School of Law; Paul D. Moreno, Hillsdale College; Darren M. Staloff, City College of New York
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