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LIBERTARIAN INTERNATIONAL AND LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE
FALL CONVENTION 2003.
Read here below and you will be convinced this is going to be a great
happening
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Agenda.
Saturday 22 November - Sunday 23 November, 2003
Saturday: 10.00am-6.00pm
Banquet: 8.00pm-11.00pm
Sunday: 10.00am-7.00pm
The National Liberal Club
Whitehall Place
London
SW1A 2HE
England
Speakers.
- Agwu Amogu
- "Africa and the Globalisation Controversies"
- Dr David Conway
- "Zionism and Classical Liberalism: Friends or Foes?"
- Scott Tipps
- "The Codex Alimentarus and the Worldwide War Against Freedom of Medicine"
- Alberto Mingardi & Carlo Stagnari
- "The Politics of The Lord of the Rings: J. R. R. Tolkein Versus Socialism and Fascism"
- Dr. Larry O’Hara
- "The Secret State in Britain"
- Professor David Marsland
- "The State of Social Theory: Error and Lack of Ambition"
- Dr. Dennis O’Keeffe
- "The Crisis of Compulsory State Education and the Case for Voluntary Attendance"
- Dr. Stephen Davies
- "Alternatives to the Nation State: Pluralism and Liberty"
- Dr. Bill Thompson
- "The Paedophile Scam: False Allegations and Special Interest Groups"
- Paul Coulam
- "The Myth of Sexual Ethics"
- David Carr
- "The Coming Threat to Internet and Digital Freedom From Governments and Corporations"
- Dr. Phil Collins
- Banquet Speech
Other Features:
- Special Banquet:
- Including distinguished Guest Speakers and the presentation of the Libertarian
Alliance's "Liberty Awards" for 2003
- The "Think Tank Room":
- Displays and sale of publications by major British think tanks and political journals: Adam Smith Institute; Institute of Economic Affairs; CIVITAS; FOREST; Social Affairs Unit; Independent Healthcare Association; Social Market Foundation; Centre for the New Europe; Spiked; Demos; The Fabian Society; The European Foundation; LIBERTY; Salisbury Review; Lobster and others.
About The Speakers:
- Agwu Amogu
- is the national co-ordinator of the Individual Liberty Network of Nigeria. He is also the country representative in Nigeria for the International Society for Individual Liberty (http://www.isil.org). He has also written 'The Poverty Problem: Will Nigeria Ever Get It Right?' for the Libertarian Alliance.
- David Carr
- is the Libertarian Alliance's Legal Affairs spokesman and a senior member of the Samizdata.net team (http://www.samizdata.net/blog/). A graduate in law from Trent Polytechnic, he is today a practising solicitor. He is the author of a number of LA publications, including 'Don't Trust Me, I'm a Lawyer: The Operation, Scope and Possible Effects of the Government's War on Money Laundering', 'Why Is the Creative World So Socialist and What, if Anything, Can We Do About It?', 'DIY Hollywood: Independent Film-Making and How Cheap Digital Technology Will Transform It', 'Let's Start World War Three: Ideas are Our Bombs and Words are Our Bullets', and 'Between 'Slaves of Ruffians' and 'The
Decision of the Sword': In Support of the Common Law Tradition of Self- Defence'.
- Dr. Phil Collins
- is Director of the Social Market Foundation an influential voice in recent health, education, welfare and pensions policy reform. Its current work reflects a commitment to understanding how individuals, society and the state can work together to achieve the common goal of creating a just and free society. (http://www.smf.co.uk). He was educated at the universities of Birmingham, London and Cambridge in History, Politics and Political Theory respectively.
Immediately before joining the SMF he was Head of UK Equity Strategy at
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and before that at HSBC James Capel and Fleming Investment Management. He has also had spells working at the BBC, LWT, the Institute of Education and for Frank Field MP. His main research interests are in the fields of education and race and nationhood and his first novel, 'The Men From The Boys' was published 2002.
- Dr. David Conway
- is Senior Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies at Roehampton University of Surrey, and formerly Professor of Philosophy at Middlesex University. He is the author of 'A Farewell to Marx', 'Classical Liberalism: The Unvanquished Ideal', 'Free Market Feminism', 'Equal Opportunity: A Feminist Fallacy' and 'The Rediscovery of Wisdom: From Here to Antiquity in Search of Sophia', and, for the LA, 'The Ethical Justification of Nuclear Deterrence', as well as articles in other books and scholarly and other journals.
- Paul Coulam
- is a graduate of Leicester University, and has an Msc in Political Philosophy from the London School of Economics. He is Commissioning Editor for Philosophy for the academic publisher Ashgate Publishing (http://www.ashgate.com/), and is the author, for the LA, of 'For a New Libertarianism: Problems and Perspectives in Friedman, Rothbard and Rand' and 'Do We Chose To Do What We Do?'
- Dr. Stephen Davies
- is Lecturer in History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-editor of 'A Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought', and has contributed to a wide range of journals and books including 'Economic Affairs', 'Cato Journal', 'The Journal of Social Philosophy and Policy', 'Critical Review', 'The ‘New Right’ Enlightenment', 'The State or the Market', and 'Crime and the Law'. His first book, 'Empiricism and History', has just been published by Palgrave. For the LA he has written 'Globalisation Is Good', 'Libertarian Feminism in Britain', and 'Towards the Remoralisation of Society'.
- Professor David Marsland
- is Professor of Health Informatics at Brunel University. Amongst his many books are 'Seeds of Bankruptcy: Sociological Bias Against Business and Freedom', 'Welfare or Welfare
State: Contradictions and Dilemmas in Social Policy', 'Public Sector
Enterprise: A Contradiction in Terms', 'Work and Employment in Liberal Democratic Societies', 'Education For Defeat', 'Cradle to Grave: Comparative Perspectives on the State of Welfare', 'Education and Youth', 'Self Reliance: Reforming Welfare in Advanced Societies', 'Understanding Youth: Issues and Methods in Social Education'. He has also contributed to many scholarly and political journal including 'The British Journal of Sociology', 'The American Sociologist', 'Society', 'Economic Affairs', and 'Salisbury Review'. For the LA he has written 'In Defence of British Values', 'Beyond the Welfare State', and 'After Empire'. In 1991 he was the first recipient of The Thatcher Award, in recognition of his research and writing on individualism and freedom.
- Alberto Mingardi
- is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the New Europe (http://www.cne.org) in Brussels, having formerly been Visiting Fellow at the Atlas Research Foundation (Fairfax, Virginia). He is one of the Editors of 'Libero: Opinioni Nuove' (Milan), Editorial Director of Leonardo Facco Editore (Treviglio), and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Foundazione Liberal (Rome). His articles have appeared in a wide range of scholarly and political journals and websites, including 'The Wall Street Journal Europe', 'The Wall Street Journal Asia', 'Economic Affairs', 'Markets and Morality', 'National Review On Line', 'Anti-State.com', and 'LlewRockwell.com'. His study of the great Thomistic-Aristotelian philosopher Antonio Rosmini-Serbati (1797-1855) will shortly be appearing in 'Markets and Morality'. He is also the author of '1999 Fuga Dall Stato', co-editor of 'Il Coraggio della Libertà' (a Festschrift in honor of Italian economist Sergio Ricossa) and is co-author, with Carlo Stagnaro, of a forthcoming book on J. R. R. Tolkien's political thought. His website (in Italian)
is: http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/rassegna/mingardi.htm
- Dr. Larry O’Hara
- is the UK’s leading expert on contemporary fascist and nazi movements and a leading investigatory journalist on the secret state and "parapolitical" issues. A socialist, he is the editor of the investigatory journal, 'Notes From the Borderland', and author of a number of monographs, including 'Searchlight For Beginners', 'Turning Up the Heat: MI5 After the Cold War', and 'Paradise Referred Back: A Radical Look at the Green Party'. A number of his essays have also appeared in 'Lobster', including "British Fascism, 1974-1992", "Combat 18 and MI5: Some Background Notes" and "The 1986 National Front Split". As a result of his research he has been the target of smear campaigns, violence, and provocations to violence and murder by both nazis and the pseudo-Marxist espionage, disinformation and violence group 'Searchlight'.
- Dr. Dennis O’Keeffe
- is Senior Research Fellow in Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Social Science at the University of Buckingham. His many books and monographs include 'The Wayward Elite', 'Homage to Orwell', 'Truancy in English Schools', 'School Attendance and Truancy', 'Education and Indoctrination', 'Political Correctness and Public Finances' and he has contributed to numerous journals, including 'Salisbury Review', 'The World and I', 'Encounter', 'Economic Affairs', and the LA’s 'Free Life'. Also for the LA he has written 'The Follies of Multiculturalism'. He is author of two forthcoming works, 'Economy and Virtue: Essays on Markets and Morality' and (with David Marsland) 'Reform or Stagnation in British Universities'. His translation - the first - of Benjamin Constant’s 'Principe du Politique' will be published by Liberty Press in January 2004. He is also the Editor of 'Salisbury Review'.
- Carlo Stagnari
- is a free-lance journalist based in Italy, co-editor of the libertarian magazine Enclave (Treviglio, Italy), and a Fellow of International Policy Network (London, UK). His articles have been published in a wide range of magazines, in Italy and abroad, including 'Il Giornale' (Milan), 'Il Domenicale' (Milan), 'Ideazione' (Rome), 'Fondazione Liberal' (Rome), 'National Review Online' (New York), 'LewRockwell.com' (Auburn, Alabama), 'Chronicles' (Rockford, Illinois), and 'The Journal of Firearms and Public Policy' (Bellevue, Washington). He was editor of the book 'Waco: Una Strage di Stato Americano', is contributor to a book on global warming and the costs of the Kyoto Protocol, the co-author, of a forthcoming book on Giovannino Guareschi, and, with Alberto Mingardi, of a forthcoming book on the politics of J. R. Tolkein. His website (in English) is:
http://www.forces.org/stagnaro/index_eng.htm
- Dr. Bill Thompson
- is former Lecturer in Human Sexuality at the University of Reading, and one of Britain's leading experts on pornography and child abuse. His books include 'Soft Core: Moral Crusades Against Pornography in Britain and America' and 'Sadomasochism: Painful Perversion or Pleasurable Play?' For the LA he has written 'Moral Crusades and Media Censorship'. He has contributed to many scholarly books including 'Ill-Effects: The Media Violence Debate', 'Charismatic Politics: The Social and Political Impact of Renewal', 'Child Sex Abuse and the Internet', 'Religion and Contemporary Issues', and to scholarly journals including 'Politics and Society', 'The International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society', and 'Franco-British Studies'. He is a frequent expert witness in both UK and international legal cases involving pornography and sexual offences and also appears frequently on the British media.
- Scott Tipps
- is the former Managing Editor of the 'California Law Review' and a successful attorney with clients in both the US and Europe. He is a recognized expert and leader in the fields of FDA law, drug law, pharmaceutical law, trademarks, and tax shelter law and also general counsel to the National Health Federation, the USA’s leading nonprofit consumer health-rights organization. The National Health Federation (http://www.thenhf.com/) has thousands of members
who share the Federation's goal of providing United States citizens with full and complete access to all types and varieties of health products, supplements, and treatments without undue government interference.
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Accommodation
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New and Improved! By popular demand we have also scheduled a number of free-time networking sessions during the conference.
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