2012 Session Schedule

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June 12, 2012
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Arrival and Registration
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Opening Reception
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Evening Program: Welcome - A Conversation with Michael Novak
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Hospitality

June 13, 2012
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Session 1
FND Christian Anthropology
de Vitoria and Economic Liberty
ALUM Property Rights in the Old Testament I
The Church and Urban Education
The Threat of Economic Utopianism
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Session 2
FND Christian Vision of Government
East Meets West: Consumerism and Asceticism
21st Century Religion
The Role of the Mega-Church
Why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Matters
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Break
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Session 3
Christianity and Postmodernity
ALUM Communitarianism: Theory and Critique
Corruption
FND Economic Way of Thinking
The Church and God's Economy
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Session 4
19th Century Reflections on Liberty
FND Biblical Foundations of Freedom
Wealth and Poverty in the Gospel of Luke
Tensions in American Conservatism
Value Investing
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Break
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Evening Program
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Hospitality

June 14, 2012
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Session 5
Catholic Social Teaching 101
Christianity and the Scottish Enlightenment
Free Market Thought: Austrian Economics
Orthodoxy, Church, and State
Poverty in the Developing World
The Church and Modern Civilization
Vocational Stewardship and Community Transformation
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Session 6
Biblical Theology and Environmental Ethics
Economic Teaching of the Parables
Job Creation and the Developing World
Liberty and Liberalism
Market Economics and the Family
Marketplace as Social Shalom
Private Charity: A Practitioner's View
The Nature and Function of Money
Wilberforce
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Break
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Session 7
Benedict XVI and the Crisis of Europe
Business as a Moral Enterprise
The Economics of Caritas in Veritate
Fair Trade vs. Free Trade
Free Market Thought: Public Choice Theory
Subsidiarity and Serving the Poor
The Reformation of University Education
Tolkien and the Free Society
Virtue and Liberty in the American Founding
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Session 8
ALUM Why Frederic Bastiat Matters
Family in Economic Development
ALUM Innovation and Divine Creativity
Microfinance and Development
Morality and the Limits of Markets
Steward Leadership
The Ethics of Capital and Interest
Theologians vs. Capitalism
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Break
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Evening Program - Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christian Social Witness
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Hospitality

June 15, 2012
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Session 9
CEO as Creator of Culture
Common Grace in Business
Economics and Ethics of Inflation
Islam, Markets, and the Free Society
Rt. Rev. New Dealer: John A. Ryan
The Rise and Fall of the European Social Market
Stewardship 101
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Session 10
Africa: New Pathways for Development
Business as Mission
ALUM Education and the Free Society
Fertility's Impact on the World Economy
Macroeconomics 101
Edmund Burke: The Economist
The Middle East and the Arab Spring
Statesman: The Thought of Leo XIII
Why John Wesley Matters
12:00 PM - 12:10 PM Break
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Session 11
Distributism: Theory and Critique
Beyond the Sustainability Complex
Envy and Its Discontents
Free Trade and Globalization
Latin America: New Pathways of Development
Work: Productivity and Christian Responsibility
The Federalist Debate: Liberty and Order
Work: Theology of Work
Why Abraham Kuyper Matters
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 PM - 5:00 PM Session 12
Cultural Critiques of Capitalism
Deficits and Debt
Dependency, Church, and Community
The Hidden Costs of Cohabitation
Hansen Fellow Session
Hope for the Inner City
Kern Fellow Working Session
Medieval Economics
Myths about the Market
Social Entrepreneurship
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM Break
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM Closing Reception
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Evening Program - Closing Address
8:30 PM - 10:00 PM Hospitality