Oslo Objectivist Conference 2012 will take place on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th of May 2012.
Please register at our website:
http://objektivisme.no/oocon/2012/
Several excellent speakers has been booked, including Andrew Bernstein, Greg Salmieri, Tore Boeckmann and John Tamny.
Schedule:
Saturday the 19th of May:
09:00 – 09:55 Registration & coffee
10:00 – 10:05...
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Oslo Objectivist Conference 2012 will take place on Saturday the 19th and Sunday the 20th of May 2012.
Please register at our website:
http://objektivisme.no/oocon/2012/
Several excellent speakers has been booked, including Andrew Bernstein, Greg Salmieri, Tore Boeckmann and John Tamny.
Schedule:
Saturday the 19th of May:
09:00 – 09:55 Registration & coffee
10:00 – 10:05 Introductory remarks
10:05 – 11:05 Dag Inge Fjeld, "Steve Jobs was an Atlas. What can Objectivists learn from the way he chose to move the world?"
11:20 – 13:20 Andrew Bernstein, ”Villainy--An Analysis of the Nature of Evil.”
13:20 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 16:15 Martin Johansen, “Charles Babbage and the Invention of the Computer”
16:30 – 18:15 John Tamny, ” Government Barriers to Economic Growth”
19:00 Dinner
Sunday the 20th of May:
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee
10:00 – 11:15 Harald Waage, “The World we have lost: John Locke’s theory of rights”
11:30 – 13:15 Tore Boeckmann, “Ayn Rand’s Anthem and Ibsen’s Peer Gynt: Two Psychological Fantasies”
13:15 – 14:45 Lunch
14:45 – 16:15 Gregory Salmieri, “The Human Form of Life in the ethics of Ayn Rand and Aristotle.”
16:30 – 18:30 Andrew Bernstein, “Capitalist Solutions to Contemporary Moral Problems.”
19:00 Dinner
The conference is organized by the The Norwegian Objectivist Association (Foreningen for Studium av Objektivismen).
I hope this event is of interest, and that you will reserve the dates of May the 19th and 20th for this conference.