Libertarian Scholars Conference 2025 | Mises Institute

The Mises Institute will host a one-day Libertarian Students Convention on March 20, 2025 in Auburn, Alabama. 

The primary Libertarian Students Convention was held in New York Metropolis in 1972 underneath the aegis of the Heart for Libertarian Research. The convention was held yearly (apart from 1973) all through the Nineteen Seventies in New York or Princeton, New Jersey (1977, 1978), with the eighth and final “nationwide” convention going down on the Resort Diplomat in New York. Within the early Nineteen Eighties regional Libertarian Students Conferences had been held in Chicago and different cities. The conferences featured papers by the founding fathers of contemporary libertarian scholarship, together with Murray Rothbard, Leonard Liggio, Walter Block, Ralph Raico, Ron Hamowy, Roy Childs and Walter Grinder. Different outstanding students who offered papers had been Henry Veatch, Leland Yeager, Hillel Steiner, Douglas Rasmussen, David Calleo, Bruce Russett, and Samuel Brittain.

The Libertarian Students Convention was initially conceived as a discussion board for students from totally different disciplines to fulfill and change concepts on the research of liberty. The last word purpose was to combine their various insights and approaches right into a broad interdisciplinary perspective on liberty, what Murray Rothbard referred to as “the self-discipline of liberty.” The founders of the convention hoped that this self-discipline or systematic physique of information would give form and path to the rising ideological motion of contemporary libertarianism, a lot as British classical and French liberal political economic system had guided the motion of classical (laissez-faire) liberalism. This sequence of conferences succeeded admirably in stimulating scholarly analysis from a libertarian perspective and attracting many new students, younger and outdated, to the scientific research of liberty.

The libertarian motion has grown tremendously because the early Nineteen Eighties and so has the necessity for mental steerage from specialists within the social sciences and humanities, whose a number of disciplines assist elucidate the character of human liberty and its significance in nurturing and sustaining the social order that allows human civilization to flourish.

Schedule and Charges:

The convention begins on Thursday, March 20, 2025 on the Mises Institute at 1:00 p.m. central time. Registration will embrace refreshments, a keynote lecture, breakout periods, and a closing reception on the Auburn College Resort. 

Please notice: registration for LSC 2025 is separate from registration for AERC 2025. 

E-mail Felicia Jones with questions, felicia@mises.org.

Submissions:

Proposals for particular person papers, full paper periods, and symposia are inspired. Papers must be properly developed, however at a stage the place they will nonetheless profit from the group’s dialogue. Desire shall be given to latest analysis papers which might be meant for submission to scholarly journals and haven’t been given at main conferences. All matters associated to libertarian themes within the social sciences and humanities are welcome. Abstracts must be restricted to 250 phrases. All proposals are peer reviewed by the Libertarian Students Convention Program Committee.

Transportation:

Most attendees fly into the Atlanta airport, which is an hour and 45 minutes north of Auburn. Atlanta is within the japanese time zone and Auburn is an hour behind within the central time zone. 

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