The Permanent Things

October 4-5, 2013

Atlanta, GA

Program

Friday

7:00-9:00 Dinner

Chairman, Edwin J. Feulner, The Heritage Foundation
Welcoming Remarks by Ed Feulner and Invocation by Annette Kirk

Edwin J. Feulner’s Introduction of Annette Kirk

Annette Y. Kirk on Russell Kirk

Edwin J. Feulner’s Introduction of Bradley Birzer

Keynote Speaker, Bradley Birzer, Hillsdale College

Saturday

8:30-10:00 History and the Permanent Things: Part I, Israel to the Roman Empire

Chairman, Jeffrey Nelson, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

David Lyle Jeffrey, Baylor University, Text

E. Christian Kopff, University of Colorado at Boulder

10:15-11:45 History and the Permanent Things: Part II, Renaissance, Reformation and the Enlightenment

Chairman, Ingrid A. Gregg, Earhart Foundation

Renaissance and Reformation, R.V. Young, Editor, Modern Age, Text

The Enlightenment, Alan Charles Kors, University of Pennsylvani

12:00-1:30 America and the Permanent Things

Chairman, Gerald Russello, Author of The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk, Russello Paper

Ralph Hancock, Brigham Young University, Hancock Paper

1:45-3:15 How Can We Transmit the Permanent Things?

Larry P. Arnn, Hillsdale College

Elizabeth Corey, Baylor University

Bradley C. S. Watson, Saint Vincent College

Michael Jordan, Hillsdale College, Jordan Paper

3:30-5:30 Human Nature and the Permanent Things

Chairman, Bill Campbell, The Philadelphia Society,Intro Human Nature Panel

Larry Arnhart, Northern Illinois University

Peter Lawler, Berry University

Brendan Foht, The New Atlantis,Foht Paper

Sarah Beth Vosburg, Louisiana State University,Vosburg Paper