“Europe & Liberty” Summer Seminar in Gummersbach, Germany 2023

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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 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.

Theodor Heuss Akademie, Gummersbach, Germany

 

August 6 – 12, 2023

 

Sunday, August 6th

03:00 to 05:00 pm:      Registration. 

06:00 to 007:00 pm:    Presentation of the seminar by Christian Nasulea and Lorenz Deutsch

07:00 pm:                    Welcoming Dinner

 

Monday, August 7th

07:30 to 08:15 am       Breakfast

08:30 to 09:30 am       Prof. Radu Nechita: The Economic Way of Thinking

09:30 to 09:45 am       Short break

09:45 to 10:30 am       Discussion with the moderator

10:30 to 11:00 am       Coffee break 

11:00 to 11:45 am       Dr. Rick Wendler: The Social Contract: Law, Legitimacy and Liberty

11:45 to 12:15 am       Preparation of questions, small groups

12:15 to 01:00 pm       Discussion with the lecturer

01:00 pm                     Lunch

02:00 to 04:30 pm      Free time

04:30 to 05:15 pm      Prof. Douglas Rasmussen: Liberalism and Individual Rights

05:15 to 05:45 pm       Preparation of questions, small groups

05:45 to 06:30 pm      Discussion with the lecturer

06:30 to 07:00 pm      Discussion groups about the readings 

07:00 pm                     Dinner 

 

 

Tuesday, August 8th

07:30 to  08:15 am     Breakfast

08:30 to  09:15 am     Dr. Christian Nasuela: International Aid and Prosperity

09:15 to  09:45 am     Preparation of questions, small groups

09:45 to 10:30  am     Discussion with the lecturer

10:30 to 11:00 am       Coffee break 

11:00 to 11:45 am       Prof. Douglas Rasmussen: The Conservative Challenge to Liberalism

11:45 to 12:15 am       Preparation of questions, small groups

12:15 to 01:00 pm       Discussion with the lecturer

01:00 pm                     Lunch

02:00 to 03:00 pm       Free time

03:00 to 03:45 pm       Prof. Radu Nechita: The Path to an Orderly Monetary System

03:45 to 04:15 pm      Preparation of questions, small groups

04:15 to 05:00 pm       Discussion with the lecturer 

05:00 to 07:00 pm       Round table about “Crisis Management”

07:00 pm                     Dinner 

 

 

Wednesday, August 9th

07:30 to 08:15am       Breakfast

08:30 to 09:15 am      Prof. Douglas Rasmussen: Liberalism, Rights and Welfare

09:15 to 09:45 pm      Preparation of questions, small groups

09:45 to 10:30 pm       Discussion with the lecturer

10:30 to 11:00 am       Coffee break 

11:00 to 11:45am        Dr. Rick Wendler: Law as a Spontaneous Order: the Interactive Evolution of Society

11:45 to 12:15am        Preparation of questions, small groups

12:15 to 01:00pm        Discussion with the lecturer

01:00pm                      Lunch

02:00 to 07:00pm        Free afternoon. Visit of Köln

07:00pm                      Dinner 

 

 

Thursday, August 10th

07:30 to 08:15 am       Breakfast

08:30 to 09:15 am       Prof. Radu Nechita: How the State Works

09:15 to 09:45 pm      Preparation of questions, small groups

09:45 to 10:30 pm       Discussion with the lecturer

10:30 to 11:00 am       Coffee break   

11:00 to 11:45 am       Dr. Christian Nasulea: TBA

11:45 to 12:15 am       Preparation of questions, small groups 

12:15 to 01:00 pm       Discussion with the lecturer

01:00pm                      Lunch

02:00 to 04:00 pm      Free time

04:00 to 04:45 pm       Dr. Rick Wendler: Theories of Justice: Use and Abuse of a fundamental Concept

04:45 to 05:15 pm       Preparation of questions, small groups

05:15 to 06:00 pm      Discussion with the lecturer 

07:00 pm                     Dinner

09:00 pm                     Invited lecturer: Hans Stein (Managing Director of the Innovation & Europe Agency of the North Rhine-Westphalia for medium-sized companies ZENIT.) 

 

Friday, August 11th

07:30 to 08:15 am      Breakfast

08:30 to 09:15am      Dr. Christian Nasulea: Great Intentions, Bad Economics, Terrible Outcomes

09:15 to 09:45am       Preparation of questions, small groups

09:45 to 10:3am          Discussion with the lecturer

10:30 to 11:00 am       Coffee break   

11:00 to 11:45 am      Dr. Rick Wendler: Polycentrism, Forum Shopping and European Integration: An Alternative Path to Freedom and Prosperity

11:45 to 12:15 am       Preparation of questions, small groups

12:15 to 1:00 pm         Discussion with the lecturer

1:00 pm                       Lunch

2:00 to 4:30 pm           Preparation of regional groups: The liberal perspective on our region 

5:00 to 07:00 pm         Regional presentations.

07:00pm                      Farewell Dinner 

 

Saturday, August 12th

08:00 to 09:00 am       Breakfast

09:00 to 10:00 am       Preparation for check-out

10:00 to 11:30 am       Christian and Diana Nasulea: Evaluation and short concluding remarks

12:00 pm                     Lunch and Departure  Lunch and Dep

Rick Wendler
Rick Wendler studied law at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena and as a visiting student at Trinity College Dublin with a specialization in legal philosophy and legal history. He was a research assistant at the Chair for Public Administrative Law, Legal and Constitutional History and Legal Philosophy at Friedrich Schiller University of Jena.
Radu Nechita
Associate Professor of Economics
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Radu Nechita is an associate professor who teaches Microeconomics, Globalization and Development, European Economic Integration at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (Department of European Studies). His general topics of interest gravitate around the institutional factors of development, with emphasis on regulations, monetary and fiscal policies.
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.

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