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

Debate: Is the use of tariffs beneficial to the American economy?

This debate will be on October 15th at the University of Texas, Austin. The resolution for this debate is “the use of tariffs is beneficial to the American economy” Arguing the affirmative is Manisha Singh, Founder and Principal of Sunstone Strategy Group; Former Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs in the U.S. State […]

October 15, 2025 at 5:30 am

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

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