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
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