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Agenda 

FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024

12:00 p.m.    

Registration Opens

 

1:00 – 2:45 p.m.    

Keynote Conversation and Luncheon

Greg Lukianoff
President and CEO, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

Sherry Street (moderator) 
Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Bradley Impact Fund

 

3:00 – 4:00 p.m.    

Session I: Litigating for Liberty - The Fight for Freedom of Association

Nathan McGrath
President and General Counsel, The Fairness Center

Victor Riches
President and CEO, Goldwater Institute

Aaron Withe
Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Foundation

Gabe Conger (moderator)
President, Bradley Impact Fund

 

4:00 – 5:00 p.m.   

Session II: The Next Generation of Journalism - Opportunities and Threats to Freedom of the Press

Mollie Hemingway
Editor-in-chief, The Federalist,
Senior Journalism Fellow, Hillsdale College, and
Contributor,
Fox News

Mark Hemingway 
Senior Writer, RealClearInvestigations

John Miller
Executive Director, Student Free Press Association, and
Director, Dow Journalism Program, Hillsdale College

Kala Hill (moderator)
Director of Programs and Strategy, Bradley Impact Fund

 

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.    

Welcome Reception 

 

 

 

 

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2024  

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.  

Breakfast Buffet 

 

9:00 – 10:15 a.m.    

Session III: Beyond Red Meat - Advancing Academic Freedom on Campus

James Arthur Pope
Director, The Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation,
Member, University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and
CEO, Variety Wholesalers

Peter Wood
President, National Association of Scholars

Jonathan Barth
Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
and Associate Director of the Center for American
Institutions, Arizona State University

Chris Ciancimino (moderator)
Philanthropic Advisor, Bradley Impact Fund

 

10:30 – 11:30 a.m.    

Session IV: Protecting Religious Freedom - A Strategy for Success

Mark Rienzi
President & CEO, Becket

Richard W. Garnett
Paul J. Schierl / Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
Director, Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society
Concurrent Professor of Political Science

Jason Crye
Program Director, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation

 

12:00 – 1:45 p.m. 

Luncheon

Shelby Steele
Robert J. and Marion E. Oster Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

 

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.   

Session V: A Fisherman’s Tale of the Administrative State -
The Fight Against our Fourth Branch of Government 

Paul Clement
Director, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and
Partner, Clement and Murphy, PLLC

Ryan Owens 
Co-Director, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy
University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.    

Keynote Conversation

Seth Dillon
CEO, The Babylon Bee 

 

6:30 – 8:00 p.m.    

Dinner & Dessert Reception