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

Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and the Truth of the Human Person with Dr. Scott J. Roniger

About this lecture: Perhaps the most fundamental themes in Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov are the struggle to disclose the truth of human nature and the way in which social life must be rooted in the truth of what it is to be a person. In this lecture, I will argue that the members of the Karamazov family […]

April 10, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Lunch Talk with Dr. Ana Moreland: “Thomas Aquinas on the Scope and Limits of Forgiveness as Seen through Anna Karenina”

Dr. Moreland will examine Anna Karenina through the eyes of Thomas Aquinas on the theological virtue of charity. Dolly, the secondary character and unacknowledged heroine of Tolstoy’s novel, is a paradigmatic example of what it means to see the world through the eyes of self-sacrificial love. Dolly is the literary exemplar of the perfection of charity. […]

March 28, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Unreasonable Searches: What broke the Fourth Amendment and how to fix it

Location: Room GSB 2.126, McCombs Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin Speaker Profile (via Institute for Justice) Joshua Windham is a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice. Windham has litigated in defense of economic liberty and property rights, with a focus on state constitutions. In 2020, he secured a major Pennsylvania […]

March 27, 2025 at 5:15 pm

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