2026 Date and Location Coming Soon
Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2025
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Previous conferences have included scholars and practitioners from classics, agriculture, ministry, philanthropy, political science, law, sociology, linguistics, religious studies, architecture, art, philosophy, theology, history, economics, literature, and more!
We’ve seen papers on Wendell Berry, Aquinas, Bob Dylan, Philip Rieff, Hayek, Albert Jay Nock, Thoreau, Aristotle, Cormac McCarthy, the American Founders, Tocqueville, Kant, MacIntyre, Walker Percy, Adam Smith, Raymond Chandler, C.S. Lewis, Edmund Burke, Dante, Lincoln, Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Machiavelli, Nietzsche, Augustine, T.S. Eliot, Mises, Seneca, Shakespeare, Robert Nisbet, Hawthorne, and, of course, Cicero.
Our presenters have covered an enormous range of topics, including constitutionalism, farming, political theology, American political development, friendship, aristocracy, religious liberty, moral theory, agrarianism, Biblical hermeneutics, historiography, Catholic social teaching, rights, conservatism, liberalism, virtue, pedagogy, literary criticism, race, democracy, natural law, hospitality, ideology, conservation, and imagination.