Schedule
Thursday, June 5, 2008
| 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Registration |
Friday, June 6, 2008
| 8:00 am – 7:00 pm | Registration (Closed during afternoon break) |
| 8:00 am – 8:45 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 am – 9:00 am | Welcome by Jacob G. Hornberger |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | “From Empire and Intervention to Freedom and Republic” by Jacob G. Hornberger (president, The Future of Freedom Foundation) |
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am | “How Major U.S. Neo-imperialist Wars End” by Robert Higgs (Independent Institute) |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | “War and the Future of the Dollar” by Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (president, Ludwig von Mises Institute) |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm | Break |
| 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | “Bush’s War on Civil Liberties” by James Bovard (author of Attention Deficit Democracy) |
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | “Losing Liberty in the War on Terrorism” by Bart Frazier (The Future of Freedom Foundation) |
| 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Break |
| 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | “A Foreign Policy of Freedom” by Ron Paul (Republican Congressman from Texas) |
| 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm | “Regime Change: Promise and Peril” by Stephen Kinzer (New York Times correspondent) |
| 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm | Dinner |
| 7:45 pm – 8:30 pm. | “U.S. Foreign Policy After Iraq” by Andrew J. Bacevich (professor at Boston University) |
| 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Cocktail hour for speakers and Silver and Gold sponsors |
Saturday, June 7, 2008
| 8:00 am – 7:00 pm | Registration (Closed during afternoon break) |
| 8:00 am – 8:45 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 am – 9:00 am | Welcome by Jacob G. Hornberger |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | “Empire, War, and the Greater Good” by Anthony Gregory (Independent Institute) |
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am | “Closing Guantanamo: How to Do It (and How Not to Do It)” by Joanne Mariner (Human Rights Watch attorney) |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | “The Future of Libertarianism” by Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com) |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm | Break |
| 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | “Imperial Crusades: The Corruption of U.S. Foreign Policy” by Alexander Cockburn (Counterpunch.org) |
| 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | “Conscience Over Career: The Prosecution of the American Taliban” by Jesselyn Radack (Government Accountablility Project) |
| 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Break |
| 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm | “The 2008 Candidates and Civil Liberties — A New Path or More of the Same?” by Glenn Greenwald (Salon.com) |
| 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm | Dinner |
| 7:45 pm – 8:30 pm. | “The Rapid Decline of Transparency and Privacy in America” by Jonathan Turley (professor at George Washington University) |
| 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Cocktail hour for speakers and Silver and Gold sponsors |
Sunday, June 8, 2008
| 8:00 am – 7:00 pm | Registration (Closed during afternoon break) |
| 8:00 am – 8:45 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45 am – 9:00 am | Welcome by Jacob G. Hornberger |
| 9:00 am – 10:00 am | “War Is Peace and Other Things the Government Wants You to Believe” by Sheldon Richman (Foundation for Economic Education) |
| 10:00 am – 11:00 am | “A Collapsing Empire — Opportunities for Restoring the Republic” by Karen Kwiatkowski (retired USAF Lt. Colonel) |
| 11:00 am – 12:00 pm | “The Economics of War” by David R. Henderson (Hoover Institution) |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm | Break |
| 1:45 pm – 2:45 pm | “Christianity and War” by Laurence M. Vance (author of Christianity and War) |
| 2:45 pm – 6:00 pm | Break |
| 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm | “From Checks and Balances to Executive Despotism” by Bruce Fein (former associate deputy attorney general) |
| 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm | Dinner |
| 7:45 pm – 8:30 pm. | “U.S. Detentions in the War on Terror: What Was Old Is New Again” by Joseph Margulies (lead counsel in Rasul v. Bush) |
| 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm | Cocktail hour for speakers and Silver and Gold sponsors |