Events and News from Atlas Award Winners!

Below is a list of events and news items from think tanks in our network!

Read more information about each of these listings after the jump.

Breakfast Discussion

Business in the Social Doctrine of the Church will be the topic of discussion at an education breakfast held by the Asociacion Cristiana de Dirigentes de Empresa (ACDE). The Templeton Award winner periodically organizes informal breakfast gatherings to discuss topics of currents relevance.

The event will be held at 9:00am on August 6, 2008 at the ACDE headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more information, click here.

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Urban Crime: Social Degradation and its Consequences

Osvaldo H. Rolleri of Fundacion Atlas1853 will be holding a talk on exactly this topic on August 13th . Some of the questions that will be explored include: On which side is justice? Are drugs a necessary participant? Is being a delinquent a business?

For further details, please visit the event website.

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Acton Lecture Series

Jay W. Richards, Research Fellow and Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute, will lead a discussion on The Birth of Freedom: A look at Judeo-Christian Tradition to the Rise of Political and Economic Freedom in the West a theme that stem from Acton’s new documentary of the same name.

The event will take place August 14 from 12-1:30pm at the St. Cecilia Music Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

For further information, please click here.

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Licensed to Hug

Licensed to Hug is the newest publication from the Institute for the Study of Civil Society (CIVITAS). The book discusses the negative repercussions of the increasing number of adults who have been instructed to register with the Criminal Records Bureau, certifying that they are safe to be with children. Among them, the authors describe a false sense of security, increasing mistrust, and an unwillingness to interact with children that are not ones own. Licensed to Hug argues for a more common-sense approach to adult/child relations, based on the assumption that the vast majority of adults can be relied on to help and support children, and that the healthy interaction between generations enriches children’s lives.

For more information about the book, click here.

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