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

The Culture of Liberty in the Americas

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    Friday
    
Steven F. Hayward, (4 minutes) American Enterprise Institute, Chairman
    Diana Denman, (6 minutes) Welcome to San Antonio
    
Keynote address:  Michael Novak, (40 minutes) American Enterprise Institute

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

                       
Leonard P. Liggio, (6 minutes) The Atlas Foundation, Chairman
                        Dario Fernandez-Morera, (27 Minutes) Northwestern University 
                        Juan Javier del Granado, (17 minutes) Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico D.F.
                        Q&A, First Panel  (30 minutes)

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

                        Alejandro Chafuen, (7 minutes)The Atlas Foundation, Chairman
                        Paul Bonicelli, Provost, Houston Baptist University
   
                     José Luis Sardón, (20 minutes) Sociedad de Economia y Derecho UPC, Lima, Peru, PDF File of Presentation
                        Chilton Williamson, (18 minutes) Senior Book Editor, Chronicles of Culture
                        Q&A, Second Panel  (30 minutes)

Luncheon

12:00 – 1:30     Liberty, Trade, and the Populist Menace
                       William Murchison, (15 minutes) Senior Fellow, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Chairman
                      
 G. Philip Hughes, (38 minutes) Senior Director, White House Writers Group

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

                        John C. Goodman, (19 minutes) National Center for Policy Analysis, Chairman                        
                       
Gerald O’Driscoll, (20 minutes) Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
                        Alan Manwaring, (23 minutes) Executive Director for the “Consensus of the Americas,” Text of Presentation
 
                        Q&A, Third Panel (13 minutes)

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

                       
Thomas W. Pauken, (12 minutes) Texas Workforce Commission, Chairman, Text of Presentation   
   
                    Michael Radu, (18 minutes) Foreign Policy Research Institute
                        Barbara J. Elliott, (17 minutes) The Center for Renewal 
                        Terry Hallmark, (14 minutes) University of Houston
                        Q&A, Fourth Panel (21 minutes)