The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society was recently held from Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 to Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019, in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess.
Information about the 2020 Annual Meeting, to be held in September 2020, will be released presently [update: the 2020 meeting was canceled due to state-created covid-related chaos]. Those interested in attending future meetings should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.
Media for the talks listed below are being added gradually to the growing PFS 2019 YouTube Playlist. Audio is available at the Property and Freedom Podcast.
The finalized list of speakers and topics for the 2019 meeting follows below:
Final Program Schedule
Thursday, September 12 arrivals and registration
Friday, September 13
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcome and Introductions
- Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria), Homo Austriacus [PFP203]
- Karl-Peter Schwarz (Austria), The Nationality Question in the Late Habsburg Empire [PFP204]
- Andreas Tögel (Austria), The First Republic: The Rest is Austria – Between Inferiority Complex and Arrogance [PFP205]
- Frank Karsten (The Netherlands), Discrimination: Inescapable and Prudential [PFP206]
- Schwarz, Tögel, Taghizadegan, Karsten, Discussion, Q&A [PFP207]
Saturday, September 14
- Cristiano Chiocca (Brazil), The ‘Old Republic’ and the ‘New’ [PFP208]
- Antony Müller (Germany/Brazil), Class, Ethnicity, and Power [PFP209]
- X (England), How Inquisitive was the Inquisition? [PFP210]
- Matteo Salonia (Italy/England), Private Wealth and Self-Defense in Medieval Genoa [PFP211]
- Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) (England/France), Murder Mysteries then and now: Agatha Christie and Ian Rankin [PFP212]
- Chiocca, Müller, X, Salonia, Daniels, Discussion, Q&A [PFP213]
Sunday, September 15
- Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France), Less (Marcel) Mauss, More (Ludwig) Mises [PFP214]
- Stephan Kinsella (United States), Nobody Owns Bitcoin [PFP215]
- David Dürr (Switzerland), Rights of Way – Ways out of the State [PFP216]
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), The Failure of ‘Ontological Naturalism’ [PFP217]
- Hülsmann, Kinsella, Dürr, Hoppe, Discussion, Q & A [PFP218]
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The Property and Freedom Society (Facebook page) was established in May, 2006 at the initiative of world-renowned libertarian philosopher and Austrian economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe. The Inaugural Meeting and subsequent annual meetings have been held at the Hotel Karia Princess in Bodrum, Turkey. Programmes and video of previous presentations are available here. The PFS is an international society for the promotion of “Austro-Libertarianism,” the economic and social philosophy most prominently represented during the 20th century by the Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises and his leading American student Murray N. Rothbard, and tying back to the 19th century French economists Frederic Bastiat and Gustave de Molinari. As such, the PFS stands for an uncompromising intellectual radicalism: for justly acquired private property, freedom of contract, freedom of association—which logically implies the right to not associate with, or to discriminate against—anyone in one’s personal and business relations—and unconditional free trade. It condemns imperialism and militarism and their fomenters, and champions peace. In the words of Professor Hoppe in 2010, at the Fifth Annual Meeting:
After the first meeting, 5 years ago, here at the Karia Princess, my plan became more specific still. Inspired by the charm of the place and its beautiful garden, I decided to adopt the model of a salon for the Property And Freedom Society and its meetings. The dictionary defines a salon as “a gathering of intellectual, social, political, and cultural elites under the roof of an inspiring hostess or host, partly to amuse one another and partly to refine their taste and increase their knowledge through conversation.” Take the “political” out of this definition—and there you have it what I have tried to accomplish for the last few years, together with Gülcin, my wife and fellow Misesian, without whose support none of this would be possible: to be hostess and host to a grand and extended annual salon, and to make it, with your help, the most attractive and illustrious salon there is. [Video here and streamed below]
For further information, see:
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- PFS, History and Principles
- Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, The Libertarian Standard (June 10, 2010)
- Hoppe, The Role of the Property and Freedom Society in a Crazy World (May 21, 2009, Property and Freedom Society 2009 Annual Meeting Introductory Speech, Bodrum, Turkey)
- Hans-Hermann Hoppe & Gulcin Imre Hoppe, 2006–2015: PFS, Now and Then
- Sean Gabb, 10 Years of PFS
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PFS 2010 – Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcoming Remarks. The PFS – After Five Years
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For further information about the PFS and its previous meetings, see the Press & Offsite Material page, and various articles such as:
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- Kinsella, “Property, Freedom, and Defiance: The PFS Returns” (Oct. 1, 2021)
- Sean Gabb: The Inaugural Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: An Incidental Record, Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 148 (June 14 2006)
- Doug French: Hoppean Property and Freedom, LewRockwell.com (June 21st 2006)
- Rahim Taghizadegan: Report on the second PFS conference in Bodrum [local copy], liberty.li (June 4th 2007; in German)
- Stephan Kinsella: “Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report,” The Libertarian Standard (June 16, 2010)
- Sean Gabb: “Reflections on the 2010 Conference of the Property and Freedom Society,” Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 194 (June 17, 2010)
- Andy Duncan: “Outside the Asylum: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2011,” Cobden Centre (June 8, 2011; republished as “A Few Days outside the Asylum,” Mises Daily, June 15, 2011)
- Sean Gabb: “The Third Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, May 2008: A Brief Record,” Free Life Commentary No. 173 (July 4, 2008)
- Sean Ring: The Chief Event (Oct. 4, 2012)
- Andy Duncan: Inside the conspiracy: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2012 (Oct. 3, 2012)
- Doug French on PFS 2012: The World’s Greatest Haircut (Oct. 2, 2012)
- Jeff Tucker on PFS 2012: The Center of the Conspiracy (Sep. 29, 2012)
- X: The Only Conference Worth Attending: A Personal Account of the 11th Conference of the Property & Freedom Society (Sept. 10, 2016)
- Gabb: Notes from the Eleventh [2016] Conference of the Property and Freedom Society (Sept. 7, 2016)
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