Events

Past Events

November 16, 2023

CEO Challenge


April 14, 2023

Faculty Research Day

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November 17, 2022

CEO Challenge


October 06, 2022

Christopher Waller


March 24, 2022

Econ Games 2022


October 11, 2021

Tyler Cowen: "Why Big Tech is Underrated"

Video Available!

April 21, 2021

Do Higher Minimum Wages Reduce Poverty?: Joseph J. Sabia
Do Higher Minimum Wages Reduce Poverty?: Joseph J. Sabia


April 16, 2021

Faculty Research Day
Summer Grant Awardees will be Presenting their Research Findings


April 06, 2021

Lewis Honors College Speaker Series: Deirdre McCloskey
Lewis Honors College Speaker Series: Deirdre McCloskey


March 26, 2021

Economics Department Seminar with Keun Lee
Is the Fourth Industrial Revolution a Continuation of the Third Industrial Revolution or Something New under the Sun?: Analysis of their technological regime using the US patent data.


March 18, 2021

"Free Market Medicine: A Working Model" Speaker: G. Keith Smith, MD
College of Charleston Adam Smith Week


February 19, 2021

John Pointer - Director of “Minority Small Business Initiative” Program
Co-Sponsors: Von Allmen Entrepreneurship Center and the University of Kentucky Salesforce Club


November 16, 2020

Economics Department Seminar with Gary Hoover
How You Can Work to Increase the Presence and Improve the Experience of Black, Latinx, and Native American People in the Economics Profession


November 12, 2020

Gary Hoover - Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Racial and Distributional Aspects of Economic Freedom
Co-Sponsored by: The Lewis Honors College and African American & Africana Studies

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November 05, 2020

Innovation and Freedom with Matt Ridley
Sponsored by University of Louisville Center for Free Enterprise


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September 29, 2020

"I Got My Start By Giving Myself a Start: Madam C. J. Walker's Secrets to Business Success” by A'Lelia Bundles
Co-Sponsors: Lewis Honors College Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council and UK Martin Luther King Center

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September 10, 2020

Clifton L. Taulbert: "Tulsa’s Black Wall Street: A Multi-Path Journey"
Co-Sponsored by: Lewis Honors College and UK Martin Luther King Center

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April 15, 2020

Virtual Entrepreneurship - Guest speaker, Nick Mattingly
Co-Sponsored by: The Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship, and The Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise


March 26, 2020

Webinar - Lessons Learned from an Entrepreneur - Guest Speaker : Josh Konowe
Co-Sponsored by: The Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship, and The Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise


February 13, 2020

Steve Forbes - The Case for Freedom and Free Enterprise
Co-Sponsored by: YAF and The Von Allmen Center for Entrepreneurship


February 12, 2020

31st Annual Economic Outlook Conference


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September 26, 2019

William Gale - Fiscal Therapy

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September 13, 2019

Faculty Research Day


October 09, 2018

Optimism and Innovation

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September 20, 2018

Occupational Licensing: The Need to Reform Kentucky

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September 07, 2018

Faculty Research Day

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April 26, 2018

The Little Pink House
She Fought For Her Home. And Yours.

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April 14, 2018

The Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise Research Conference
1st Annual Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise Research Conference

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March 08, 2018

Understanding and Improving the U.S. Organ Donation Market: A Look at Allocation and the Introduction of Exchange
A workshop with Dr. Keith Teltser, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Louisville

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February 07, 2018

What's Ahead for Bitcoin?
A panel discussion with an internationally renowned expert on cryptocurrencies - Dr. Will Luther

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November 30, 2017

Fixing the Organ Donation Market
A workshop with Dr. Ike Brannon, President of Capital Policy Analytics

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October 23, 2017

Victims of Communism - Dr. Murray Bessette
The Hopes of Socialism: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity

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October 18, 2017

“Hidden Debt, Hidden Deficits: How Pension Promises are Swallowing Government Budgets, and What Can Be Done”
A conversation with Stanford pension expert Joshua D. Rauh

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October 05, 2017

Kroger CFO and Gatton Graduate Mike Schlotman

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September 01, 2017

UK Institute Research Day

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March 30, 2017

Panel Discussion: What’s Next for Kentucky Schools?
The Outlook for K–12 under President Trump

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March 30, 2016

Alex Tabarrok: Democracy and Voting in a Free Society
Some Economics of Politics