Conferences
Liberty Fund has held more than 4,000 conferences around the world. These small, Socratic-style conferences focus on themes in economics, history, law, political thought, literature, philosophy, religion, and the natural sciences.

Conversations Worth Having
Liberty Fund conferences seek to illuminate individual liberty and responsibility through informal yet serious discussion of ideas that have shaped human civilization and free society. These invitation-only events bring together scholars and professionals from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to explore ideas of liberty.

A Format Designed to Engage
For each conference, Liberty Fund invites a multidisciplinary and diverse group of individuals to participate in a moderated roundtable discussion about perennial issues of liberty and responsibility. Conferees read assigned texts in advance of the sessions and bring their unique perspectives to the table.

Discussions That Refresh Your Thinking
The conference program reflects the conviction that education in a free society requires discussions that freely engage with ideas that have shaped human civilization and a free society. Liberty Fund brings people together to examine, refine, and expand their own ideas in the company of inquiring colleagues.
Sample Conference Topics
- Free Will, Character, Fate, and Dharma in the Mahabharata
- Adam Smith and Alexis de Tocqueville on the Conditions of Individual Freedom
- The Federalists, the Anti-Federalists, and the Constitution They Created
- Trust and Economic Growth in Brazil
- Liberty and the American West in the Films of John Ford
- Virtue, Private Property, and Freedom: East and West
- Big Business and the Free Society
- Liberty, Responsibility, and Intergenerational Justice
- Balzac’s Capitalism: Money, Passions, and Morality in Père Goriot
- Cicero and the Republican Tradition of Liberty
- Liberty under the Tudors in Hume’s History of England
James Otteson
Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame

Chandran Kukathas
Chair Professor of Political Science, Singapore Management University

Dr. Roberto Salinas-León
Executive Director, Center for Latin America, Atlas Network

Global Reach
Co-Sponsored Conference Program
In 2004, Liberty Fund began partnering with other organizations to expand our discussions to their networks. Through these partnerships, over 1,000 co-sponsored conferences have been held in the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe.
Vernon Smith
Nobel Laureate, Chapman University

Ronna Burger
Professor of Philosophy and Economics, Tulane University

David Womersley
Thomas Warton Professor of English Literature, St. Catherine's College Oxford
