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FPR’s 2025 Conference on “Work and Leisure”

2025 Conference

Work and Leisure

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Friday, October 10

4:00 Matthew Crawford

Saturday, October 11

8:30-10:00 Working Well and Resting Well
  • Garth Brown
  • Elizabeth Newman
  • Leah Libresco Sargeant
10:30-11:30 From the Farm to the Academy
  • David Lyle Jeffrey, in conversation with Jeffrey Bilbro
11:30-12:30 Lunch
12:30-1:30 Matthew Crawford
2:00-3:30 Homo Ludens
  • Jeremy Beer, “Hoosiers at 40.”
  • Jason Peters
  • Bill Kauffman, “Kill the (Robot) Ump!”
4:00 Farm Dinner

Those with tickets for dinner will convene at a nearby farm for Texas BBQ, Texas beer, and Texas music.

Registration

Please register here. Note that there are only 100 tickets available for the farm dinner, so if you want those, purchase them soon!

Student tickets and the “conference sessions only” tickets include Saturday lunch, but not the evening meal at the farm.

Location

Friday afternoon’s keynote lecture and all the talks on Saturday will be held at Baylor University.

Sponsors

Plough
The Ciceronian Society
Honors College, Baylor University