Center for Public Choice and Market Process 2025 Spring Schedule of Events

The Center for Public Choice and Market Process is pleased to share its schedule of events for Spring Semester 2025. Please add these programs to your calendars and syllabi for extra credit opportunities to use when the event topics meet your course goals.

FEBRUARY 19^TH, Dept. of History Black History Month Lecture, 5 PM/SSMB 124

“Sexual Violence and American Slavery in Charleston: A Local Examination of the South’s Rape Culture” presented by Dr. Shannon C. Eaves.

FEBRUARY 20^TH, Spaulding Speaker Series, a Free Market Speaker Series partner, 6 PM/Tate 202

THINK DIFFERENTLY FORUM with Dr. Jason Brennan (in partnership with the Student Success Center).

• Dr. Brennan is an American philosopher and business professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

MARCH 17-20^TH: Join us for our 17^TH ANNUAL ADAM SMITH WEEK

Celebrates Smith’s enduring ideas with a week of engaging lectures, discussions, and community activities, and our theme is Civil Society and Economic Freedom. The tentative schedule is as follows:

• Monday, March 17^th

5:30-730 PM – Opening Reception – Randolph Hall

• Tuesday, March 18^th, Wells Fargo Auditorium 

3:30 PM – Jennifer Murtazashvili, the founding director of the Center for Governance and Markets and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, “Conflict, Order, and Political Power.”

Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business at the Citadel

6:00 PM: Anne Bradley, the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and vice president of academic affairs at The Fund for American Studies.

• Wednesday, March 19^th, Wells Fargo Auditorium

6:00 PM – Doug Irwin, John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, “The Eras of Globalization: Learning from Past Experience.”

• Thursday, March 20^th, Wells Fargo Auditorium

4:00 PM – Panel Discussion Women and Economic Freedom with:

• • Rosemarie Fike, Instructor of Economics at Texas Christian University and a Senior Fellow of the Fraser Institute 
  • Anne Bradley, the George and Sally Mayer Fellow for Economic Education and vice president of academic affairs at The Fund for American Studies
  • Meg Tuszynski, Assistant Director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom and a Research Assistant Professor with the Bridwell Institute

Click go.charleston.edu/cpm for detailed information.