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Cato University Fall 2005

The Art of Persuasion: Skills for Everyone

Schedule

| Fall 2005 Schedule | Fall 2005 Faculty |

Thursday, October 20 Friday, October 21 Saturday, October 22 Sunday, October 23
  7:30-8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast
8:00-9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast
 
8:30-10:00 a.m

Gene Healy

Winning Arguments with
Logic and Evidence
9:00-10:30 a.m

Tom G. Palmer

Becoming a Better Public Speaker
9:00-10:30 a.m.

Breakfast

Nick Gillespie

Show and Tell for Grownups:
Demonstrating the Benefits of Freedom
10:00-10:15 a.m.

Break
10:30-10:45 a.m.

Break
 
10:15-11:45 p.m.

Don Boudreaux

The Use and Abuse of Statistics
10:45-12:15 p.m.

Gene Healy

Persuasive Writing for Citizens
12:00-12:45 p.m.

Lunch (No speaker)

12:45-1:30 p.m.

Transfer to Mount
Vernon for
afternoon schedule
12:15-1:15 p.m.

Lunch

(No speaker)
1:30-2:45 p.m.

Will Wilkinson

Using Identity to Address Beliefs
1:30-3:00 p.m.

Elective Workshops:

Don Boudreaux

Using Economics in Argumentation

David Kelley

Using Philosophy in Argumentation
2:45-3:00 p.m.

Break
3:00-3:15 p.m.

Break
4:00-6:00 p.m.

Registration
3:00-4:15 p.m

Dan Griswold

Property & Stewardship
--How to Explain
Markets to Religious People
3:15-4:45 p.m

Michael Moses

Supplementing Logic and Evidence with Stories to Explain Principles
4:15-4:30 p.m.

Break
 
4:30-5:30 p.m.

Tour of Mount Vernon
Mansion
4:45-6:00 p.m.

Free time
6:00-9:00 p.m.

Reception and Dinner

Tom G. Palmer

From Pericles to the
Digital Age: Why Liberty
Rests on Persuasion
5:45-9:00 p.m.

Reception and Dinner

David Boaz

How Citizens Can
Make a Difference
for Freedom
6:00-9:00 p.m

Reception and Dinner

Deroy Murdock

The Power of the Word:
Simple Lessons in Persuasion


| Fall 2005 Schedule | Fall 2005 Faculty |



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