Upcoming Events
Get involved with the exciting and engaging lectures, film screenings, workshops and symposiums happening at the Bagwell Center for the Study of Markets and Economic Opportunity in the Coles College of Business.
Fall 2024 Film Screenings
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Mighty Ira
Date: October 23, 2024
Time: 12:00pm - 1:45pm
Location: Student Center, STA 180 BC - Kennesaw CampusDescription: Ira Glasser is one of America鈥檚 unsung champions of civil rights and liberties. As the leader of the American Civil Liberties Union for 23 years, he transformed the organization from a small, 鈥渕om-and-pop鈥 operation on the verge of bankruptcy into a civil liberties juggernaut with offices in every state and a $30 million endowment. As his generation retires from the barricades, Ira reminisces on his life at the forefront of defending the rights of all Americans, from civil rights leaders to neo-Nazis.
His story takes us to his hometown of Brooklyn, New York, where in 1947 Jackie Robinson and the Dodgers broke the color barrier in baseball and inspired a generation of civil rights activists; to the offices of Robert Kennedy, where the U.S. Senator spoke with a young Ira and convinced him to take his first job with the ACLU; and to California, where a 96-year-old Holocaust survivor explains to Ira why he thinks the ACLU was wrong to defend the right of neo-Nazis to demonstrate near his home in Skokie, Illinois, over 40 years ago 鈥 and how recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, evoke painful memories.
Amid high-profile controversies surrounding free speech, racial equality, and antisemitism 鈥 and on the occasion of the ACLU鈥檚 centennial 鈥 Ira Glasser鈥檚 story is as timely and provocative as ever.
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UNDIVIDE US
Date: October 29, 2024
Time: 11:00am - 12:15pm
Location: Engineering Room 202 - Marietta CampusDescription: As news and social media amplify a narrative of an America on the brink of civil war, politicians in Washington, DC stir conflict: red against blue, rich against poor, urban against rural, race against race, and man against woman. They cast us as enemies locked in battle, usurping power and posing as our saviors.
UNDIVIDE US challenges the idea that citizens who disagree are not capable of civil conversation and demonstrates the truth that, even in our differences, the American experiment is still alive and well.
It exposes the power players in Washington DC as the true disruptors of peace, driving our legitimate differences to the brink of disaster. Hear from experts about the roots of this toxic polarization and learn how to counteract it in our local communities and lives.
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Beyond Utopia
Date: November 7, 2024
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Prillaman 1101Description: They grew up believing their land was paradise. Now, they risk everything in escaping it. In an unforgettable documentary, follow families on a treacherous journey to defect from their homeland of North Korea, as the threat of severe punishment and possible execution looms over their passage, revealing a world many have never seen.
Past Events
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Lectures
- Marian Tupy, 10/11/2024
- Brad Humphreys, 9/26/2024
- Daniel Di Martino, 8/29/2024
- Lawrence H. White, 3/29/2024
- Patrick Higgins, 3/25/2024
- Phil Gramm, 3/22/2024
- Erik Randolph, 2/28/2024
- Stanley Goldfarb, 11/10/2023
- Joshua Deutschmann, 10/24/2023
- Zilvinas Silenas, 9/15/2023
- Jonathan Looney, 8/30/2023
- Timothy Mathews, 4/12/2023
- Alex Epstein, 4/7/2023
- Justin Amash, 3/24/2023
- Michael Munger, 2/2/2023
- Cynthia Richie Terrell, 1/25/2023
- Roman Sheremeta, 10/28/2022
- Kevin Hassett, 10/14/2022
- David Teece, 10/3/2022
- Greg Mankiw, 3/22/2022
- Jonathan Looney, 2/18/22
- Stergios Skaperdas, 2/9/2022
- Art Carden, 2/4/2022
- Brian Roberson, 10/29/2021
- Charles Anderton, 10/27/2021
- Will Luther, 10/7/2021
- Joseph Harrington, 10/1/2021
- Andy Puzder, 9/3/2021
- Jeremy Horpedahl, 3/23/2021
- Matthew Mitchell, 3/2/2021
- Phillip Magness, 2/23/2021
- David Skarbek, 2/9/2021
- Chris Coyne, 10/20/2020
- Peter Calcagno, 10/13/2020
- Laura Grube, 10/6/2020
- John Stossel, 3/13/2020
- Robert Lawson, 2/25/2020
- William Trumbull, 1/24/2020
- Abigail R. Hall, 10/28/2019
- Archibald Ritter, 10/24/2019
- Stergios Skaperdas, 10/11/2019
- Shane Sanders, 10/9/2019
- Bryan Riley, 9/18/2019
- Bobbi Herzberg, 9/5/2019
- Ilya Somin, 3/22/2019
- Tom Miceli, 3/18/2019
- Steve Forbes, 3/15/2019
- Alex Maslov, 2/07/2019
- Art Laffer, 10/30/2018
- Larry Reed, 8/23/2018
- John Dove, 8/16/2018
- Joshua Hall, 6/27/2018
- Mark Perry, 3/5/2018
- Daniel Griswold, 1/30/2018
- Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar, 10/30/2017
- George Crowley, 10/19/2017
- Florenz Plassmann, 10/13/2017
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Film Screenings
- In Money We Trust? 4/17/2024
- Throw a Billion Dollars from a Helicopter, 4/10/2024
- Nuclear Now, 11/6/2023
- No Safe Spaces, 10/16/2023
- The Hong Konger, 4/13/2023
- Cool It, 4/6/2023
- The Castle, 11/3/2022
- Innovation Race, 10/20/2022
- Trailblazers: the New Zealand Story, 9/30,2022
- Corporate Welfare: Where鈥檚 the Outrage?, 4/11/2022
- Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World, 2/25/2022
- Invalidated, 10/21/2021
- Can We Take a Joke?, 10/14/2021
- The Providers, 3/11/2020
- Los Ultimos Frikis, 2/27/2020
- The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman, 2/10/2020
- The Singular Story of Unlucky Juan, 11/14/2019
- Work and Happiness: The Human Cost of Welfare, 9/4/2019
- Little Pink House, 3/12/2019
- An Inconvenient Tax, 2/11/2019
- Mao's Great Famine, 11/13/2018
- The Ultimate Resource, 9/13/2018
- Economic Freedom in Action: Changing Lives, 6/25/2018
- The Real Adam Smith: Ideas that Changed the World, 5/16/2018
- The Real Adam Smith: Morality and Markets, 5/15/2018
- Power to the People, 4/19/2018
- American Made Movie, 2/15/2018
- India Awakes, 9/29/2017
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Workshops and Symposia
- Symposium on the Economics of Ridesharing, 1/20/2023
- Symposium on Experimental Economics, 10/12/2022
- Symposium on the Morality of Capitalism, 4/26/2022
- Symposium on the Causes and Implications of Low Real Interest Rates, 3/25/2022
- Does Sweden Have a Socialist Economy, 11/19/2021
- Symposium on the Economics of the Affordable Care Act, 1/13/2020
- The Boundaries of Economics, 10/23/2019
- Free Trade: From NAFTA to USMCA, 9/18/2019
- Symposium on the Foundations and Applications of Game Theory, 3/26/2019
- Release Your Inner Entrepreneur, 2/28/2019
- Economic Impact of the Super Bowl, 1/25/2019
- Symposium on Accountability in K-12 Public Education, 10/12/2018
- Symposium on Criminal Justice and Inmate Reform, 3/2/2018
- Workshop addressing "Is the American Dream Dead?, 2/2/2018
- Symposium on Voting and Election Reforms, 11/15/2017
- Workshop on the Power of Entrepreneurship, 11/10/2017