The Philadelphia Society’s Fall Regional Meeting
oCTOBER 10-11, 2008, tHE mENGER HOTEL - sAN aNTONIO, tEXAS

The Culture of Liberty in the Americas

     Friday
    
4:00 – 5:30  Registration – The Menger Hotel
     5:00 – 5:30  Scholarship Orientation – The Menger Hotel                                                           
    
6:00 – 7:15  Registration / Reception – Southwest School of Art and Craft   
    
7:15 – 9:15  Dinner – Southwest School of Art and Craft

     Steven F. Hayward, American Enterprise Institute, Chairman
     Diana Denman, Welcome to San Antonio
    
Keynote address:  Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute

    Saturday
     8:30 – 10:00 The Culture of Liberty in the Americas

                       
Leonard P. Liggio, The Atlas Foundation, Chairman
                        Juan Javier del Granado, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico D.F.
                        Dario Fernandez-Morera, Northwestern University

10:00 – 11:30 Cycles of Liberalization and Authoritarianism in Latin America

                        Alejandro Chafuen, The Atlas Foundation, Chairman                        
                       
Paul Bonicelli, Provost, Houston Baptist University
   
                     José Luis Sardón, Sociedad de Economia y Derecho UPC, Lima, Peru
                        Chilton Williamson, Senior Book Editor, Chronicles of Culture

Luncheon

12:00 – 1:30     Liberty, Trade, and the Populist Menace
                       William Murchison, Senior Fellow, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Chairman
                      
 G. Philip Hughes, Senior Director, White House Writers Group

2:00 – 3:30  The Intertwined Economies of Latin America and the United States 

                        John C. Goodman, National Center for Policy Analysis, Chairman                        
                       
Gerald O’Driscoll, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
                        Alan Manwaring, Executive Director for the “Consensus of the Americas”
 

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00 - 5:30 The U.S. and Latin America                        

                       
Thomas W. Pauken, Texas Workforce Commission, Chairman
                       
Terry Hallmark, University of Houston   
   
                    Michael Radu, Foreign Policy Research Institute
                        Barbara J. Elliott, The Center for Renewal

Saturday Optional Dinner – 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. San Fernando Cathedral Center Hall, $60

                        Rebellious Improvisers: Education in a Latin American Country
                       
Hosted by Francisco Marroquin University
                       
Giancarlo Ibarguen, President, Francisco Marroquin University, Chairman

                       
Manuel F. Ayau, Speaker