The Philadelphia Society’s 43rd National Meeting
April 27-29, 2007
Loews Hotel – Philadelphia

Challenges to Conservatism  
(To see the speakers' biographical 
information and papers, click on links)

Friday: 6:00-7:00 Reception
             7:00-9:00 Keynote Dinner
                            George H. Nash, President, Chairman
   
                         Invocation: Annette Y. Kirk, President, The Russell Kirk Center

                           
Adrian Wooldridge, Author and Washington Bureau Chief of The Economist
   

Saturday

10:00 - 11:30       Science and the Future of Conservatism
                            
Chairman, Robert Heineman, Alfred University
                            
Larry Arnhart, Northern Illinois University
                            
John G. West, Discovery Institute
                            
James Peterson, McMaster Divinity College
                             

Luncheon
                                                                                                                               

12:00 - 1:30        The Role of Conservative Ideas in Practical Politics
                           
Chairman, Steve Hayward, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
   
                         Invocation: Gleaves Whitney, Director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies
                           
M. Stanton Evans, Education and Research Institute

   2:00 - 3:30       Religion and the Future of Conservatism
                          
William Murchison, Baylor University, Chairman

                          
Darryl Hart, ISI, author of A Secular Faith

                          
Robert George, Princeton University
                          
Robert Royal, Faith and Reason Institute
                                          

   3:30 - 4:00        Coffee Break                   

   4:00 - 5:30       The Challenges of Globalisation
                           
Chairman, Nicholas Capaldi, Loyola University
                           
John Fonte, The Hudson Institute
                           
Roger Kimball, The New Criterion
                           
George Gilder, Discovery Institute

Sunday Breakfast                                                                                                                   

8:30 - 11:00        Roundtable Discussion - The Challenges to the Younger Generation
                          
Chairman, Lee Edwards, The Heritage Foundation

                           
Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review   
                          
Christopher Coyne, Hampden-Sydney College
                           Amanda Carpenter, Human Events 
                          
Ryan Sager, Author

                          
Gerald Russello, The University Bookman