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Freedom Center Workshops

Exploring freedom, responsibility, and justice

These Freedom Center workshops were designed to bring together scholars to discuss topics like freedom, moral agency, and justice. These workshops give scholars opportunities to engage with leading researchers and attend talks on a variety of subjects, contributing to a deeper understanding of the principles that shape freedom.

Upcoming Workshops

Inaugural Freedom Center Workshop on Academic Freedom
September 20, 2024

Featured Speakers & Talks

  • To be Announced

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13th Annual Oxford Studies Workshop
October 23 - 25, 2025

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The workshop will take place at Westward Look in Tucson, Arizona from October 23-25, 2025. Accepting applications now until July 15, 2025; Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy aims to publish some of the best contemporary work in political philosophy and these closely related subfields.

Each year there is a workshop associated with a corresponding volume in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy.

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Previous Workshops

2025 Law, Markets, and Public Policy Workshop
June 19–21, 2025

Hotel Resort La Pineta – Acciaroli, Italy

The 2025 “Law, Markets, and Public Policy Workshop” brought together scholars working at the intersection of law, economics, and policy to explore a range of timely issues.

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Arizona Workshop on Freedom & Responsibility
November 1-2, 2024

Featured Speakers & Talks

  • Keynote Speaker: Monique Wonderly(Johns Hopkins University)

    “Forgiveness, Trust, and Betrayal”

  • Jacob Blitz (University of Arizona)

    “Non-Moral Contempt”

  • August Gorman (Oakland University)

    “ADHD and Blameworthiness for Omissions”

  • Tim Kearl (Wayne State University)

    “Flagler College”

  • Coleen Mcnamara (University of California, Riverside)

    “Praiseworthiness and Required”

Arizona Workshop on Freedom & Responsibility
February 9-10, 2024

Featured Speakers & Talks

  • Keynote Speaker: Santiago Amaya (Universidad de los Andes)

    “Forgiveness as Politics”

  • David Clark (Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona)

    “What’s for Desert?”

  • Jada Strabbing (Wayne State University)

    “Blame and Forgiveness: Two Functional Accounts”

  • Anna Nyman (Uppsala University)

    “What’s Unfair about Moral Luck?”

  • Dana Nelkin (University of California, San Diego)

    “Desert and Degrees of Liability”

Workshop on the Moral Emotions
November 4-5, 2022

Featured Speakers & Talks

  • Keynote Speaker: Macalester Bell (Bryn Mawr College)

    “A Moderate Defense of Derisive Dissent”

  • Anna-Bella Sicilia (University of Arizona)

    “In Defense of Genuine Un-Forgiving”

  • Robert Wallace (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo)

    “Politics, Agency, and Hope”

  • Hannah Tierney (University of California, Davis)

    “The Risky Business of Forgiveness”