PFS 2025 Annual Meeting—Announced; Speakers and Topics

PFS 2025, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, will take place in Bodrum, Turkey, at the Hotel Karia Princess from Thursday, September 18, 2025 to Tuesday, September 23, 2025. This is the nineteenth annual meeting of the PFS held over a nineteen year period, starting in 2006 (the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions).

To seek an invitation to our exclusive annual salon, please write to the PFS secretary Mr. Thomas Jacob (jacob@pfs-zurich.ch) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements. For information about previous annual meetings, see here, the PFS Youtube channel and the Property and Freedom Podcast.

The list of speakers and topics for the 2025 Annual Meeting follows:

Speakers and Topics

• Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey): On Democratic War and Democratic Peace-Making
• Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): Monarchy, Democracy, and Time Preference in the Arab World
• Anthony Daniels (Dalrymple) (England): The worldly Adventures of a Skeptical Doctor
• Jeff Deist (USA): The Linguistic Vandals: How the Left Controls Words
• David Dürr (Switzerland): A Brief History of Swiss Anarchism
• Alessandro Fusillo (Italy): The Pirates of the Caribbean as Forebears of the Libertarians and of the American Revolution
• Sean Gabb (England): Roman Law and Contractual Slavery
• Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): The Universities and the State
• Stephan Kinsella (USA): “Where The Common Law Goes Wrong,”
• Thorsten Polleit (Germany): Stanislav Andreski’s Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972): Known Errors, Deceptions And Intellectual Corruption That Endure
• Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria/Switzerland): Bitcoin from the Viewpoint of the Austrian School¹

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About the PFS

The Property and Freedom Society (Facebook; Twitter) 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:

• • • 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

PFP046 | Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years (PFS 2010)

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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:

• • Doug French, “The Turkish Way,” Mises Wire (Oct. 11, 2022)
    • Stephan Kinsella, “Doug French on “The Turkish Way” (PFS 2022)“
  • Stephan Kinsella, Property, Freedom, and Defiance: PFS 2021 in a Covid World (Oct. 1, 2021)
  • Sean Gabb: The Twelfth Conference of the Property and Freedom Society (PFS 2017) (22 Sept. 2017)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • June 8, 2011: “Outside the Asylum: Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2011,” by Andy Duncan, Cobden Centre (republished as “A Few Days outside the Asylum,” Mises Daily, June 15, 2011)
  • June 17, 2010: “Reflections on the 2010 Conference of the Property and Freedom Society,” by Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 194
  • June 16, 2010: “Bodrum Days and Nights: The Fifth Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: A Partial Report,” Stephan Kinsella, The Libertarian Standard
  • July 4, 2008: “The Third Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, May 2008: A Brief Record,” Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary No. 173
  • June 4th 2007: Report on the second PFS conference in Bodrum [local copy], by Rahim Taghizadegan, liberty.li (in German)
  • June 21st 2006: Hoppean Property and Freedom by Doug French, LewRockwell.com
  • June 14th 2006: The Inaugural Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society: An Incidental Record, by Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary, Issue Number 148

1. For those who complain that some Austrian groups do not give enough attention to, are or even hostile to, bitcoin (See Robert P. Murphy, Bitcoin and the Theory of Money, Mises Wire (04/29/2020); Kinsella, KOL401 | Sazmining Twitter Space: Bitcoin & Property Rights; Bitcoin Confiscation vs. Gold Confiscation; On Coinbase, Bitcoin, Fractional-Reserve Banking, and Irregular Deposits; LIBERTARIAN ANSWER MAN: Smart Contracts.), keep in mind that for many years PFS has accepted donations by bitcoin; we have featured Saifedean Ammous many times, often touching on bitcoin (PFP222 | Saifedean Ammous: Hard Money and Time Preference (PFS 2021) ); years ago Roman Skaskiw was here and gave an informal lecture and handed out cards with $5 worth of bitcoin, as I recall, to attendees (which would be worth $4200 or so today, June 28, 2025; see PFS 2013 Annual Meeting—Speakers and Presentations); Professor Hoppe has never spoken out against it, unlike other Austrians (in fact, see his comments at PFP251 | Van Dun, Hoppe, Dürr, Discussion, Q&A (PFS 2022) and Hoppe on Germany, East and West, Russia/Ukraine, and US-NATO (PFS 2022). ); I spoke on it (KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019) ); Šimašius’s comments in [Interview] Libertarian Mayor of Vilnius Speaks!; and so on. [↩]