The Philadelphia Society's Regional Meeting
September 21-22, 2001--Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans  


  Taming Leviathan: The Decentralist and Regionalist Vision

Friday

      7:00 - 9:00 The Leviathan State: Origins and Prospects 

            Claes Ryn, Catholic University of America, Chairman
            M. Stanton Evans, National Journalism Center
            William F. Campbell, The Philadelphia Society           

Saturday

    8:30 - 10:00 Decentralism and Statism in the Experience of Greece, Rome, and Christendom

                         James Stoner, Louisiana State University, Chairman  
                         E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado, Boulder
                         John P. McCarthy, Fordham University  

    10:15- 11:45 What Does the South Have to Teach Us? 

Michael Jordan, Hillsdale College, Chairman
            Ted J. Smith, Virginia Commonwealth University
            Mark R. Winchell, Clemson University
 

Luncheon

12:00 - 1:30   The South and Conservatism

Thomas Landess, Attorney General's Office, S.C.,
            Chairman                      

            
             Eugene D. Genovese, Author
 

   2:00 - 3:30   Federalism and Subsidiarity in the Modern World

Ross Lence, University of Houston, Chairman
            George Carey, Georgetown University

            Bruce Frohnen, Russell Kirk Center
            Marshall De Rosa, Florida Atlantic University

   3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break 

   4:00 - 5:30   Can the Leviathan State be Tamed?
 

                        Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University, Chairman, 
                        Paul Gottfried, Elizabethtown College
                        Allan Carlson, The Howard Center