Join Students For Liberty at the University of Florida in Gainesville, FL on Saturday, October 13 for the 2012 Students For Liberty Florida Regional Conference. Florida is home to some of the strongest pro-liberty student groups and the Florida Regional Conference will bring together these strong student leaders for an incredible event.
- Where: University of Florida, Smathers Library Room 1A. Click here to download the 2012 Florida SFL Conference Map.
- Schedule: Click here to download the 2012 Florida SFL Conference Schedule.
- Parking: A map of parking options can be found here: http://www.park
ing.ufl.edu/map . the Smathers Library is on the northeast corner of campus off of the Plaza of the Americas near the intersection of W University Ave and SW 13th St.s/2012SpringPar kingMap_Web.pdf - Host: University of Florida College Libertarians
- When: October 13, 2012
- Conference: 9am – 8pm
- Social: 8pm – 10pm
- Cost: FREE of Charge
Keynote Speaker – Lawrence W. Reed, President of the Foundation for Economic Education
Lawrence W. Reed became president of FEE in 2008. He was a founder and president for twenty years of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. A champion for liberty, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, dozens of articles in magazines and journals 
in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. His interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 69 countries on six continents. Lawrence W. Reed holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He holds two honorary doctorates from Central Michigan University (Public Administration—1993) and Northwood University (Laws—2008). He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, chairman of the board of the Prometheus Institute, a member of the board of Just Facts, an advisor to numerous organizations around the world, and a weekly columnist for The Newnan Times-Herald, the local paper in Newnan, Georgia where he resides. His spare-time interests include reading, travel, fly-fishing, hiking, skydiving, and animals of just about any kind.
Keynote Speaker – Tom G. Palmer, VP of the Atlas Network & Cato Senior Fellow
Tom G. Palmer is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and director of Cato University, the Institute’s educational arm. Palmer is also the executive vice president for international programs at the Atlas Economic Research Foundation, and is responsible for 
establishing operating programs in 14 languages and managing programs for a worldwide network of think tanks. Before joining Cato he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford University, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He frequently lectures in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, India, China and throughout Asia, and the Middle East on political science, public choice, civil society, and the moral, legal, and historical foundations of individual rights. He has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in publications such as Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Die Welt, Caixing, Al Hayat, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London. He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, published in 2009, and the editor of The Morality of Capitalism, published in 2011. Palmer received his B.A. in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and his doctorate in politics from Oxford University.
Professor Nikolai Wenzel
Institute for Humane Studies Speaker Series
Nikolai G. Wenzel is Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida Gulf Coast University (Fort Myers, Florida); he formerly held the Wallace and Marion Reemelin Chair in Free-Market Economics at Hillsdale College (Hillsdale, Michigan). His research focuses primarily on constitutional political economy (comparative and theoretical), philosophy and economics, the work of F.A. Hayek, and wine economics. Dr. Wenzel sits on the Executive Committee of the Association of Private Enterprise Education and the Board of Scholars for the Foundation for Economic Education. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, and the American Association of Wine Economists. Dr. Wenzel is a former Foreign Service Office (by competitive examination) with the US State Department, where he served as Vice Consul and Special Assistant to the US Ambassador at the US Embassy in Mexico City. He is also former Director of Academic Programs for the Atlas Economic Research Foundation. Dr. Wenzel holds a BSFS cum laude in International Affairs from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, as well as an MA and PhD in Economics from George Mason University, where he wrote under Professor Richard E. Wagner.
Professor Harold Orndorff
Institute for Humane Studies Speaker Series
Dr. Harold “Trey” Orndorff III attended Northern Kentucky University (NKU) for his undergraduate degree. In 2006 he wrote his undergraduate thesis on Theism and Ethics in Contemporary Philosophy and was graduated Suma Cum Laud. After NKU he was accepted into Miami University’s Political Science graduate program. In 2007 he received his Masters with a thesis entitled Religion and Democratization in Latin America. While pursuing his doctorate at Miami University he co-taught the Inside Washington Program, where he worked with Chad Pergram of FOX News. While living in Washington D.C., he was awarded for graduate teaching, and was President of the Graduate Student Association. In 2011 he would receive his Doctorate from Miami University with a dissertation entitled The Social Media Presidency. He currently is an Assistant Professor at Daytona State College where he teaches, continues his research in presidential new media and the pedagogical uses of new media, writes science fiction and is known affectionately by his students as Dr. Trey.
Sharon Harris, Advocates for Self-Government
Sharon Harris is President of the Advocates for Self-Government, a nonprofit educational organization, founded in 1985, which specializes in libertarian communication and outreach. Prior to being chosen as President of the Advocates, Sharon was owner and manager of a successful book indexing business for 17 years. She also has worked as a free-lance writer, a magazine-article-writing instructor, managing editor of the Journal of the Medical Association of Georgia, and as a team-building trainer for businesses and organizations. Sharon has been active in the libertarian movement since the early 70s. In 1972, she was a founding member of the Libertarian Party of Georgia (LPGA) and cast one of a handful of Georgia write-in votes for 1972 Libertarian Party presidential candidate John Hospers. The Advocates for Self-Government is also creator, publisher and distributor of the world-famous, eye-opening World’s Smallest Political Quiz; creator of Operation Politically Homeless (OPH)booths; sponsor of Lights of Liberty awards for libertarian activism, and much more.
More great speakers to be announced soon! Check back for updates.
Register for the 2012 Florida Regional Conference HERE!
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Additional Features, Perks & Information
We will have a host of partner organizations for attendees to network with including
• The James Madison Institute
• The Libertarian Party
• The Institute for Humane Studies
• Advocates for Self-Government
• The Foundation for Economic Education
• And more!
Parking: There are many parking lots and garages you can use on Saturday for free. See the map for available parking locations: http://
Disregard the color coding; that only applies during the school week.
How to Pack: The dress code for the conference is business casual. If you’re unsure of what to wear, take a look at this website: http://www.career.vt.edu/
Lodging: If you are looking for a place to stay for the night, contact kbarber@studentsforliberty
Register for the 2012 Florida Regional Conference HERE!
After registering for the conference make sure to invite all your friends to the facebook event!