Events

We host events that bring together policy experts, business leaders, and students. Learn more about our various series and upcoming events below.

Policy@McCombs

General audience discussions of current policy issues. Click here to see the speaker list.

Policy Lunch Seminar

Academic presentations on policy research from economists, statisticians, political scientists, etc. Click here to see the speaker list.

Causal Inference Seminar

Brings the best researchers from inside and outside UT Austin to present on causal methodology and applications to social science, economics, and policy. Click here to see the speaker list.

Engaging Orthodoxy

Not everything new is good. Click here to see the speaker list.

Past Events

Panel: Free Speech—What It Is and Is Not.

Location: Robert Rowling Hall RRH 4.408 Thursday, October 24th, 4pm – 5.30pm Join four leading Objectivist Intellectuals as they explore the widely misunderstood concept of “Free Speech” and how it applies to some of today’s most pressing controversies: Are attempts to stifle disinformation a threat to free speech? Does it matter if these attempts are […]

October 24, 2024 at 4:00 pm

Debate: ‘Do open borders benefit humanity by reducing poverty and boosting the economy?’ with Bryan Caplan and Sohrab Ahmari

Location: Crum Auditorium, RRH 1.400 Bryan Caplan is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and New York Times Bestselling author. Caplan wrote The Myth of the Rational Voter, named “the best political book of the year” by the New York Times, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, The Case Against Education, Open Borders (co-authored with SMBC’s Zach Weinersmith), Labor Econ Versus the World, How Evil […]

October 9, 2024 at 5:30 pm

The Closing of the American Heart: Why are young adults steering clear of marriage and family, and what can we do to revive the fortunes of the family?

Rowling Hall 4.408, 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd Austin, TX 78712 In this talk, Dr. Brad Wilcox will discuss the anti-family messages and policies that have weakened marriage, which he summarizes in his recent book, “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy The Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization,” and remedies to the […]

September 27, 2024 at 12:00 pm

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