“Europe & Liberty” Summer Seminar in Gummersbach, Germany 2019

When? July 21st-27th 2019

If you’re interested in exploring the ideas of liberty, enriching your knowledge on sound economics, philosophy, political science and history while also making friends from all over the world, the seminar in Gummersbach is a perfect choice for this summer.

The Seminar in Gummersbach had a long tradition and a special meaning for IES-Europe. Every year this seminar is be hosted by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom at the Theodor-Heuss-Akademie in Gummersbach, Germany (near the city of Köln).

Note that for the selected students, accommodations and attendance to the conferences are free. Participants will only need to fund their transportation.

A specific offer for students from the US applying to the Gummersbach seminar is however available:

Thanks to to a specific grant from the Charles Koch Foundation, a number US students that will be selected will be offered an $800 travel stipend. To be eligible, those US students must be finishing their Bachelor’s degree or currently working on their Master’s Degree but not yet enrolled in a PHD program. Students need to have serious plans to pursue a PHD for the purpose of pursuing an academic career.

Faculty will include: Douglas Rasmussen (philosophy), Pierre Garello (economics of law), Steve Davies (history), Krassen Stanchev, (economics) Christian Nasulea (economics). More lecturers to be announced.

The application process starts on 15th of March.

Deadline: 15th of April.

Speakers

Steve Davies

Head of Education, Professor of History

Institute of Economic Affairs

Dr. Steve Davies is the Head of Education at the IEA. Previously he was program officer at the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) at George Mason University in Virginia. He joined IHS from the UK where he was Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Economic History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University, Ohio. A historian, he graduated from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1976 and gained his PhD from the same institution in 1984.

Krassen Stanchev

Professor in Public Choice and Macroeconomic Analysis

Institute for Market Economics

Dr Krassen Stanchev is a Board Chairman, Founder and former Executive Director of The Institute for Market Economics, Bulgaria’s first free market think tank (1993), former member and a committee chairman of the Constitutional Assembly (1990-1991), one of the most quoted Bulgarian observers, best country analyst award for 1996 by Euromoney and a nominee for Bulgaria’s Mr. Ekonomika 2004 as well as laureate of Bulgaria Government Prize – 2002, Templeton – 2006 – as IME Director, and GV Fund for Contribution to the Spirit of Liberty – 2006.

Douglas B. Rasmussen

Professor of Philosophy

St. John's University New York

Douglas B. Rasmussen is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at St. John’s University in NYC and Senior Affiliated Scholar at the Menard Family Institute for Economic Inquiry at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Among the books he has co-authored (with Douglas J. Den Uyl) are: Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order (1991); Norms of Liberty: A Perfectionist Basis for Non-Perfectionist Politics (2006); and The Perfectionist Turn: From Metanorms to Metaethics (2016).

Christian Năsulea

Professor of Economics

University of Bucharest

Christian Năsulea teaches Economics at the Department of International Relations and Universal History at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Studies - Europe and a fellow of the Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues. His areas of research interest include public policy and stimuli for economic development, political and commercial negotiation in international relations, behavioural economics and decision processes.

Pierre Garello

Professor of Economics

Universite Aix-Marseille

President of IES-Europe and Editor-in-Chief of both the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines and Journal des Libertés, Pierre Garello is Professor of Economics at the Faculté d’Economie et Gestion of Aix Marseille University in France. He has published various articles on Austrian economics, law and economics (especially competition law and contract law). He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal des Économistes et des Études Humaines, a scholarly review dealing with economic, legal, philosophical and political issues, in the tradition of the French Classical Liberal School.