Dr. Stephen Hicks was invited to speak at three conferences over the past few months. In September, he was a special guest speaker at the Fiserv Connect Forum in Orlando, Florida, where he discussed “Innovation, Ethics, and ‘Creative Destruction.’” In July, he delivered two lectures on “Capitalism and Art in Contemporary America” at The Atlas Society’s summer seminar in Portland, Oregon. And in June he gave a talk on “The Role of Outside Donors in the College Curriculum,” at the International Association for Business and Society’s 2008 conference in Tampere, Finland.

On April 5, Professor Stephen Hicks spoke at the annual conference of the Association for Private Enterprise Education on the topic “What Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.” The conference was held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Philosophy Professor Matt Flamm, author of the essay on George Santayana in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy and co-editor of Under Whatever Sky—Contemporary Readings of George Santayana, will be speaking in Indianapolis on “The Impious Naturalism of the New Atheists.” The conference is sponsored by the Santayana Seminar Series and The Institute for American Thought.

Philosophy Professor Shawn Klein, co-editor of Harry Potter and Philosophy, will be speaking at a colloquium at Tufts University in Massachusetts, his alma mater, on the theme Why Take Harry Seriously?

Update: Here’s a Tufts Daily article about the talk and Professor Klein’s web log entry.

Philosophy professor Stephen Hicks gave two invited talks this month. On November 13th, he spoke at the University of Texas, Austin, on the impact of Galileo Galilei and John Locke; the title of his talk was “Philosophy and the Early Modern Revolution in Religion.” On November 15th, he spoke at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia on the topic of the fiftieth anniversary of Ayn Rand’s philosophical novel, Atlas Shrugged; the theme of the conference was “The Continuing Relevance of Atlas Shrugged.”