Audio from Atlas’s December International Thursday
Listen in on Atlas’s December International Thursday event featuring the following speakers : The Chilean Presidential Election- commentary by Alex Chafuen, Atlas Economic Research Foundation, with up to date analysis by phone from Cristián Larroulet at Libertad y Desarollo in Chile. Ray Walser- Senior Policy Analyst for Latin America, Heritage Foundation. Topic: the recent elections in [...]
International Thursday, October
On October 15th, Atlas hosted it’s monthly International Thursday event Speakers this month included Eudardo Massieu- CEDICE (Venezuela), “A Campaign for Liberty” Bernhard Adamec- Europainstitut (Austria), “The Free Market Movement in Austria“ Victoria Stokova- Herrnando de Soto Fellow, Property Rights Alliance, “International Property Rights Index“ Audio of the event is available below.
Off to the Atlas Experience
Atlas’s staff is off to The Atlas Experience in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. If you’re coming along we look forward to seeing you soon! If you aren’t able to join us, be sure to check back to this space often, we’ll be posting updates and video from many of the sessions and excursions, in addition (so long [...]
Secure Freedom Radio
By the name of the title, you would think that the SFS program is going to host our own radio program. I only wish! Actually, this is the name of the new radio program by the Center for Security Policy, which will broadcast every weekday evening from 9-10pm on WTNT in Washington DC. Secure Freedom [...]
Jeevika: Asia Livelihood Documentary Competition and Festival 2009
On a recent trip to India, I had the chance to sit down with Manoj Mathew of New Delhi’s Centre for Civil Society and learn about their Jeevika documentary competition. Founded in 2003, the competition originally focused on Indian-themed films, but expanded to South East Asia in 2005 and this year welcomes entries from all [...]
Atlas Podcast: May International Thursday
On May 21st, Atlas hosted it’s monthly International Thurdsay event Speakers this month included: Emmanuel Martin, Unmondlibre.org, on Freedom in France Jason Miko-Independent Consultant, Laurus Group on The Sruggle in Macedonia Ghulam Mohammad Mir- former president of Jammu Kasmir Plebiscite Forum on the Dispute in Kashmir Christopher Lingle- adjunct scholar at the Centre for Independent [...]
Introducing The Freedom Network
Atlas is pleased to introduce, The Freedom Network, our latest product. This site will serve as Atlas’s new and improved Think Tank Directory of Free Market Think Tanks. Here, you can search and find think tanks around the world by location, age, or research topic. In addition, you can interact with these organizations, by making [...]
Liberty Forum Starts April 24th!
This year’s Atlas Liberty Forum begins this Thursday, April 24th in Los Angeles, California. We’re very excited about this year’s program, which features keynote speeches from former Mexican president Vicente Fox, and former Bolivia president, Jorge Quiroga. In addition, Atlas will award the winners of the Fisher Memorial Awards, and announce 2009′s Fisher Venture Grant [...]
Atlas Podcast: April International Thursday
On April 16th, Atlas hosted it’s monthly International Thursday meeting. Our speakers this week were: SERBIA- Aleksandar Novakovic- Katalaksija Magazine- Liberty Camps in Slovenia CHINA- Feng Xingyuan- Cathay Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) – current programs and initiatives ARGENTINA-Marcos Victorica, Consultacom S.A. Argentina USA- Fred Smith- President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute- “NGO [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFI Keynote Speech by Jeff Sandefer
On April 5th Atlas held a half day conference, “Improving Students’ Appreciation of Free-Market Thinking Through the Academy”, just prior to the APEE meeting in Guatemala. The keynote speaker for this meeting was Jeff Sandefer, Professor and CO-Founder of Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship. His speech was entitled, An Alternative Model for Educating Business Leaders. In [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFI Keynote Speech by James Otteson
On March 27th Atlas’s Teach Freedom Initiative hosted a half-day conference on the topic Free Enterprise and the Commercial Republic: Teaching Students about America’s Economic Foundations. This meeting took place in New Orleans, Louisiana just prior the Philadelphia Society’s Annual Meeting. Listen in to hear James Otteson, Visiting Professor of Government from Georgetown University, as [...]
Atlas Podcast: International Thursday
On February 19th Atlas hosted it’s monthly International Thursday event. Joining us on the panel were, Steve Johnson-Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs. Will address the Looming Security Challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean Guillermo Yeatts- Founder of Fundacion Atlas1853 (Argentina). Will speak on their current policy programs as well [...]
Atlas Podcast: Management Tip with Nicole Williams
At this years Atlas Liberty Forum, in Philadelphia Nicole Williams who works with the State Policy Network, spoke on a panel about incorporating ” New Media” projects into your organizations work. Nicole offers some of the newest tools for reaching a wider audience, and gives advice about how to best to make these types of [...]
Atlas Podcast: January International Thursday
This week listen in to Atlas’s monthly International Thursday event, which took place January 22nd. Atlas was pleased to welcome the following panelists: Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad- Minaret of Freedom Institute-on the escalating situation in Gaza. Bart Woord- Secretary General- International Federation of Liberal Youth- on youth and student programs dedicated to spreading liberal values. Diogo Costa- Editor [...]
Atlas Podcast: January International Thursday
This week listen in to Atlas’s monthly International Thursday event, which took place January 22nd. Atlas was pleased to welcome the following panelists: Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad- Minaret of Freedom Institute-on the escalating situation in Gaza. Bart Woord- Secretary General- International Federation of Liberal Youth- on youth and student programs dedicated to spreading liberal values. Diogo Costa- Editor of www.ordemlivre.org- on the current [...]
Atlas Podcast: Network News Highlights from 2008
This week guests Colleen Dyble, Allegra Hewell, Yiqiao Xu and Ziba Ayeen join Cindy Cerquitella to discuss the many exciting accomplishments by think tanks this past year, and to share new think tank initiatives in 2009. The Atlas Podcast series appears weekly with a new theme each week of the month: Week 1: Network News [...]
Atlas Podcast: International Thursday
This week, Atlas hosted it’s monthly International Thursday event. Joining us was and Roman Ortiz, current president of the Senate on the board of Fundacion Nueva Democracia, and Pete Boettke of George Mason University. Dr. Boettke discussed the current economic environment and the U.S. Bailout to financial institutions. You can read more about Pete’s views [...]
Atlas Podcast: Network News with Regional Managers
This week Atlas’s regional managers, Colleen Dyble (Africa & North America), Yiqiao Xu (Asia), Allegra Hewell (Latin America) and Cindy Cerquitella (Europe) share network news from around the world. Join us as we discuss new think tanks in China and Mongolia, the terror attacks in Mumbai, updates in the Montreal Economic Institute, riots in Greece, [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFA Award Conference Part II
Last week, Atlas hosted a 1/2 conference honoring the winners of this year´s Templeton Freedom Awards. Today we are featuring the second panel discussion, Innovations in Promoting Liberty. Speakers Include: Richard Durana ( Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Slovakia) Michael Moynihan ( ReasonTV, USA) John Tomasi ( Political Theory Project at Brown University, USA) [...]
Atlas Podcast: TFA Award Conference
Last week, Atlas hosted a 1/2 conference honoring the winners of this year’s Templeton Freedom Awards. Today we are featuring the first panel discussion, The Moral Imperative of Economic Freedom. Speakers include: William Weiant ( American Center for Civic Character, USA) Gabriel Calzada ( Instituto Juan de Mariana, Spain) Pablo Arosemena Marriott ( Fundacion Ecuador [...]
Atlas Podcast: Network News with Regional Managers
This week Atlas´s Regional Managers, Colleen Dyble (North America & Africa), Allegra Hewel (Latin America), Yiqiao Xu (Asia) and Cindy Cerquitella (Europe) share free market news from around the world. The Atlas Podcast series appears each Friday with a new theme each week of the month: Week 1: Network News with Regional Officers Week 2: [...]
Atlas Podcast: Management Tip from Franklin Cudjoe
This week Imani- Ghana’s director, Franklin Cudjoe discusses his suggestions for running a think tank in a difficult environment. This discussion took place at Atlas’s Liberty Forum this past April in Atlanta, Georgia. Franklin offers advice to think tanks operating in Africa, and highlights strategies that have worked well for him. You can hear more [...]
Atlas Podcast: October International Thursday
Listen in on this month’s International Thursday. Our October event had a special focus on security issues and introduced Atlas’s program, Think tanks for A Secure Free Society. This month’s guests: Peter Brookes – Senior Fellow, National Security Affairs and Chung Ju-Yung Fellow for Policy Studies, Heritage Foundation – Will offer a domestic perspective on [...]
Altas Podcast: An Interview with Alexander McCobin
This week Cindy Cerquitella talks with Alexander McCobin, co-founder and executive director of Students for Liberty, a young student-based group that promotes free market student organizations on campuses across the United States. Students for Liberty will be holding conferences throughout the country this fall, check out their upcoming events, here. The Atlas Podcast series appears [...]
