This document provides a schedule for a conference with the theme "Spiritual Fuel: Appreciating Various Forms of Art". It lists general sessions, talks, panels, courses, and social events taking place from Friday July 1st through Sunday July 3rd. Talk topics include various art forms like visual arts, fiction, film, and music, as well as discussions of Objectivism, business, education, science, and politics. The schedule also specifies times for exercise classes, meals, and student-only activities.

1. SCHEDULE
Spiritual Fuel: Appreciating Various Forms of Art
Objectivist Conferences/Ayn Rand®
Institute reserve the right to make necessary adjustments to the schedule.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
EXERCISE AND DANCETALKS AND PANELS
COURSES
Attendee Services opens
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016
Hours: 12–7 PM
GENERAL SESSION
EVENTS AND MEALSSTUDENTS ONLY
Mann and Shaw:
The Value of
the Visual Arts
A. Smith:
What Is Art and
Why Does It Matter?
Milgram:
Finding Fuel in
Short Fiction
Paxton:
Cinema as Art
Perception as the
Base and Standard
of Knowledge
A. Smith:
Objectivism and
Religion
Knowledge
and Reality
Ghate:
Ayn Rand:
Novelist-Philosopher
Concept-Formation
(Part 2)
Journo:
The Virtue of
Selfishness in
Foreign Policy
Course Q&A
Ghate and Salmieri:
Objectivism Q&A
Students-Only
Program
2–5 PM
Daniels:
The Power of Errors
in Childhood
Education
Locke:
How to Think
Long Range
Objectivism’s
Indispensable Value
in Understanding—
and Changing—
the Culture
Journo:
America’s
Bewildering
Mideast Policy
Simpson:
The Value of
Free Speech
Watkins:
Equal Is Unfair:
Writing the
Right Book at
the Right Time
Bernstein:
Giants of
Contemporary
Business
Daniels:
The Self-Made Man
in American Thought
Milgram:
Ayn Rand and
the Atomic Bomb
Movie: Seventy
Years Later
A. Smith:
Selfishness and
Other People
Simpson:
Why Laissez-Faire?
Crawford,
Laren,
Morrill,
Sloss:
Technology,
America and
the Spirit of
Silicon Valley
Shoebotham:
Listening to Music
(Part 1)
Shoebotham:
Listening to Music
(Part 2)
Introduction to
Planned Giving
Lunch (FREE)
Student Lunch
with Speakers
Brook and Ghate:
Objectivism and
Libertarianism
T. Smith:
Being Selfish,
Being Happy
(Part 1)
T. Smith:
Being Selfish,
Being Happy
(Part 2)
Salmieri:
Being Objective
About Objectivism
Moroney:
Understanding the
Subconscious
Martz:
Cardio-Dance
Express
(Limited Availability)
Martz:
Cardio-Dance
Express
(Limited Availability)
Martz:
Cardio-Dance
Express
(Limited Availability)
Ghate:
The Objectivist
Movement 2.0
Saturday
July 2
Friday
July 1
Monday
July 4
Tuesday
July 5
Wednesday
July 6
Thursday
July 7
Sunday
July 3
Atlantis Legacy
Lunch
(By Invitation Only)
Anthem Foundation
and ARI Academic
Lunch
Independence Day
Celebration
Lunch
Community Hour:
Networking Lunch
Perception
Defended
FREE TIME
Board Games
available
Concept-Formation
(Part 1)
Binswanger: The Foundations of Knowledge
An Orientation to Objectivism
Mayhew:
Aristotle: An
Appreciation
—and a Guide for
the Perplexed
SCHEDULE CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE.
Agarwal,
Allison,
Barney:
Objectivism as
a Source of
Superior
Performance in
Business
FREE TIME/
Future of Flight on
Boeing Factory Tour
2–7 PM
11:45 AM–1:30 PM
GROUP LUNCH
OR LUNCH ON
YOUR OWN
8:40–9:40 AM
CONCURRENT
TALKS
7–8 AM
10–11:30 AM
GENERAL
SESSION
TALKS
1:50–3:20 PM
CONCURRENT
TALKS/PANELS
(CONTINUED
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2. Panel:
Science in
the Culture
FREE TIME
Board Games
available
Adalja:
Vaccination:
An Essentialized
History of an
Essential Technology
Maxham:
The Organic Myth
Panel:
2400 Years Young:
A Celebration
of Aristotle’s
Philosophy
Panel:
The Fed’s Role in
the 2008 Crisis
N. Lockitch:
Experience Ballroom:
Swing
(Limited Availability)
6:30–7:30 PM
EVENTS
Objectivist Conferences/Ayn Rand®
Institute reserve the right to make necessary adjustments to the schedule.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Attendee Services opens
FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2016
Hours: 12–7 PM
ARI Board Reception
(By Invitation Only)
8 PM
Opening
Reception
6:30–9 PM Closing Reception,
Dinner and Dance
6:30–11:30 PM
Reception:
OCON 2017
Attendee Talent Show
(FREE)
9–11 PM
Ayn Rand Trivia
(FREE)
9–11 PM
Reception:
Get to Know
First-Timers
Students-Only
Reception
7–9 PM
Nigh Horizon
A Live Concert
FREE TIME/
Get Together
for Fireworks
FREE TIME/
Future of Flight on
Boeing Factory Tour
2–7 PM
9–11:30 PM
EVENTS
8–9 PM
EVENTS
SCHEDULE
Saturday
July 2
Friday
July 1
Monday
July 4
Tuesday
July 5
Wednesday
July 6
Thursday
July 7
Sunday
July 3
Students-Only
Program
2–5 PM
Panel:
How Books Propel
a Philosophic
Movement
Panel:
Objectivism and
Libertarianism Q&A
Panel:
Introspection
N. Lockitch:
Experience Ballroom:
Salsa
(Limited Availability)
N. Lockitch:
Experience Ballroom:
Foxtrot
(Limited Availability)
Barney:
Community Hour:
The Objectivist
Venture Fund
Community Hour:
Objectivist Business
Leader Forum
(By Invitation Only)
Community Hour:
Objectivist Business
Leader Forum
(By Invitation Only)
Students-Only
Debrief
Students-Only
Q&A
Students-Only
Debrief
Students-Only
Q&A
Memorial Gathering
for Dina Schein
Federman
(1969–2016)
Students-Only
Q&A
Community Hour:
Activism
Brook:
ARI in Action
Presentation
with
ARI Reception
(FREE)
3:40–6 PM
Brook:
“What Can One Do?”
3:40–5:10 PM
Bernstein:
The Heroes of
Capitalism
Selgin:
New York’s Bank:
Wall Street’s Role
in the Founding
of the Fed
Selgin:
The Government’s
Role in the Great
Depression
Malewski:
STRIVE and The
Undercurrent:
Student Leadership
on Campus
Moroney:
The Key to
Successful
Cooperation:
Objectivity
5–6 PM
EVENTS
3:40–4:40 PM
CONCURRENT
TALKS/PANELS
Agarwal,
Allison, Barney:
Objectivism as
a Source of
Superior
Performance in
Business
(continued)
Crawford,
Laren, Sloss:
Technology,
America and
the Spirit of
Silicon Valley
(continued)
EXERCISE and DANCETALKS and PANELS
COURSESGENERAL SESSION
EVENTS AND MEALSSTUDENTS ONLY
Book Signing
(FREE)
6:15–7 PM
ARI Benefactors
Dinner
(By Invitation Only)
7–10:30 PM
1:50–3:20 PM
CONCURRENT
TALKS/PANELS
(CONTINUED)