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PFS 2026 Annual Meeting Dates and Program

PFS 2026, the Annual Meeting of the Property and Freedom Society, hosted by Drs. Gülçin & Hans Hoppe, was held from Thursday, September 17, 2026 to Tuesday, September 22, 2026. As the inaugural meeting was held in 2006 and the 2020 meeting was canceled due to covid restrictions, this was  the twentieth annual meeting of the PFS held over the past twenty years.

PFS Members/returning guests, or those interested in obtaining an invitation for future annual meetings of our exclusive annual salon, should write to the PFS secretary Mr. Thomas Jacob ([email protected] or [email protected]) (Administrative Secretary/Membership), regarding conditions, availability, and requirements.

The list of speakers and topics for the 2026 Annual Meeting follows. The presentations and panels below will be released presently on the PFS Youtube channel and on the Property and Freedom Podcast.

Photos and other discussions of the 2026 meeting will follow.

Final Program Schedule 

Speakers and Topics

Thursday, September 17 arrivals and registration
Welcome Dinner 19:30-23:00
Friday, September 18
8:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:15-10:45 Gülçin Imre Hoppe & Hans-Hermann Hoppe (Germany/Turkey), Welcome
10:45-11:15 Andreas Tögel (Austria), The Meaning of Left and Right in Modern Times
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Rahim Taghizadegan (Austria/Switzerland): Paternalism and Liberty in an Age of Infantilization
12:00-12:15 Coffee Break
12:15-12:45 Olivier Richard (Switzerland): Is Darwin Dead?
13:00-14:15 Lunch
15:30-16:00 Tim Haffner (USA/Japan), Japan’s Last Samurai: A Revolution Betrayed
16:00-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-16:45 Thomas J. DiLorenzo (USA), The Avalanche of Lies in “Mainstream” Economics
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:00 Tögel, Taghizadegan, Richard, Haffner, DiLorenzo, Discussion, Q & A
20:00-22:30 Reception and Dinner at the Hotel
Saturday, September 19
8:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:15-10:45 Saifedean Ammous (Palestine/Jordan): The Gold Standard: An Alternative History of the Twentieth Century
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Guido Hülsmann (Germany/France): Can Bitcoin ever be Money?1
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:15 Jeff Deist (USA), Rothbard and the Paleo Right
13:00-14:15 Lunch
15:15-15:45 Michael Esfeld (Switzerland): The Foundation of Freedom: The Transcendental Argument2
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 David Dürr (Switzerland): “Freedom of Will—A Useful Illusion?”3
16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:45 Ammous, Hülsmann, Esfeld, Deist, Dürr, Discussion, Q&A
19:30-19:45 Book Presentation: Rothbard at 100: A Tribute and Assessment (Poolside)
20:00-22:30 Dinner at the Hotel
Sunday, September 20
8:00-10:00 Breakfast
10:45-11:15 Alessandro Fusillo (Italy): Adolf Reinach and his “A Priori Foundations of the Civil Law”4
11:15-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Stephan Kinsella (USA): Adolf Reinach and his “On the Concept of Causality in the Criminal Law”5
13:00-14:15 Lunch
15:30-16:15 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Learning and Revising History: Rothbardian Lessons
16:15-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Hoppe (moderator), Roundtable Discussion: Murray Rothbard at 100
20:30-23:00 Dinner at Karma Restaurant, Marina Blvd.
Monday, September 21
8:00-9:30 Breakfast
11:00 Meet in the Hotel Lobby. Bus transfer to Kempinski Beach Club—Barbarossa Beach-Private Beach Club
11:30-17:00 Kempinski Beach Club: Lunch, Swimming, Relaxation
20:00-23:00 Dinner at the Hotel
Tuesday, September 22 Departure

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REPORTS:

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]6

For further information, see:

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:

  1. See also Hülsmann, The Inflation Trap: The Ethics of Money Creation | Bitcoin 2026; Kinsella: KOL274 | Nobody Owns Bitcoin (PFS 2019). [↩]
  2. See Kinsella, Argumentation Ethics and Liberty: A Concise Guide. [↩]
  3. KOL293 | Faith and Free Will, with Steve Mendelsohn [↩]
  4. See also Adolf Reinach’s “The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law”. [↩]
  5. See also Reinach, “On The Concept of Causality in the Criminal Law”; Stephan Kinsella and Patrick Tinsley, “Causation and Aggression,” Q. J. Austrian Econ. 7, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 97–112; Kinsella, Causation, Aggression, the Law, and Reinach; Hans-Hermann Hoppe, “Property, Causality, and Liability,” Q. J. Austrian Econ. 7, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 87–95, reprinted in Hoppe, The Great Fiction: Property, Economy, Society, and the Politics of Decline, Second Expanded Edition (Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2021); Jörg Guido Hülsmann, “The A Priori Foundations of Property Economics,” Q. J. Austrian Econ. 7, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 41–68; Larry J. Sechrest, “Praxeology, Economics, and Law: Issues and Implications,” Q. J. Austrian Econ. 7, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 19–40; Walter Block, “Austrian Law and Economics: The Contributions of Adolf Reinach and Murray Rothbard,” Q. J. Austrian Econ. 7, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 69–85. [↩]
  6. Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years, The Libertarian Standard (June 10, 2010); published as “My Life on the Right,” ch. 24 in The Great Fiction;,reposted at LewRockwell.com; based on PFP046 | Hans-Hermann Hoppe, The Property And Freedom Society—Reflections After Five Years (PFS 2010).  [↩]

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