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2007

The Urban Innovator Award Luncheon
Honoring: Jeb Bush, Former Governor, State of Florida
Introduction by: Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, City of New York
November 13, 2007 | New York City

The Third Annual Hayek Lecture
Topic: Hayek on Spontaneous Order and the Mirage of Social Justice
Speaker: John Tomasi, Associate Professor, Political Science & Director, Political Theory Project; Brown University
Introduction by: James Piereson, Senior Fellow, Director, Center for the American University
June 20, 2007 | New York City

Seventh Annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner
Honoring: Hon. Edward I. Koch, 105th Mayor of the City of New York & K. Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Corporation
Introduction: Senator Al D'Amato and Roger Ailes
May 8, 2007 | New York City
Part I: Weismann, Rubenstein |  Part II: D'Amato
Part III: Koch |  Part IV: Ailes |  Part V: Murdoch, Mone

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The Power of the Vote
Speakers: Douglas E. Schoen, Founding and Former Partner, Penn, Schoen, and Berlandy
April 19, 2007 | New York City

Center for the American University
Topic: The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America
Introduction: Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman Emeritus, AllianceBernstein L.P.
Speaker: Martin Kramer, Wexler Fromer Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy; Senior Fellow, Shalem Center, Jerusalem; Senior Fellow, Olin Institute, Harvard University
April 12, 2007 | New York City

2006

Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: Marriage and Caste in America: Separate and Unequal Families in a Post-Marital Age
Speaker: Kay S. Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute, Contributing Editor, City Journal
November 28, 2006 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Wriston Lecture
Topic: Europe and the United States: Past, Present, and Future
Speaker: George Weigel, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
October 24, 2006 | New York City

Center for Medical Progress Forum
Topic: The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care by Dr. David Gratzer Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Introduction by Rodney Nichols, Trustee, Manhattan Institute, and Former President & CEO, New York Academy of Sciences
October 12, 2006 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: THE PAST IS PROLOGUE: WHAT'S NEXT FOR PUBLIC HIGHER EDUCATION
Speakers: Matthew Goldstein, Chancellor, The City University of New York
September 26, 2006 | New York City

Center for Policing Terrorism
Topic: 9/11 FIVE YEARS AFTER First Preventers: The Role of Law Enforcement in the War on Terror
Welcome: Lawrence Mone, President, Manhattan Institute Opening Remarks: Phil Mudd, Associate Executive Assistant Director, National Security Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigations
PANEL I: The Homegrown Terror Threat and the Importance of First Prevention Policing
MODERATOR: Tim Connors, Director, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute
PANELISTS: R.P. Eddy, Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism, Executive Director, Center for Policing Terrorism, Manhattan Institute James A. Marks, Major General, United States Army (Retired); Senior Vice President Intelligence and Language Center, McNeil Technologies Judith Miller, Investigative Reporter, The New York Times (1977-2005); Author with Stephen Engelberg and William Broad, Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, Simon & Schuster, 2001
PANEL II: Police Executive Panel, Best Practices in Fighting the War on Terror
MODERATOR: John Miller, Assistant Director, Office of Public Affairs, US Federal Bureau of Investigation
PANELISTS: William Bratton, Chief, Los Angeles, CA, Police Department Mark Delaney, Superintendent, Massachusetts State Police Dean Esserman, Chief, Providence, RI, Police Department Rick Fuentes, Superintendent, New Jersey State Police Sandra Hutchens, Division Chief, Office of Homeland Security, County of Los Angeles John Timoney, Chief, Miami Police Department
Keynote Address: The U.S. Federal Government's International and Domestic Contributions to the War on Terror The Honorable Alberto R. Gonzalesz, Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
Introduction: Dietrich Weismann, Chairman, Manhattan Institute
September 7, 2006 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Current Events
Introduction: Dietrich Weismann, Chairman, Manhattan Institute
Speaker: Senator John McCain
July 17, 2006 | New York City

Center for Legal Policy Conference
Topic: The Growing Use and Abuse of State Consumer Protection Laws
Panel I: Trends in Litigation Under State Consumer Protection Acts
Moderator: James R. Copland
Paulette J. Morgan, Counsel, Commercial Practices, Pfizer
William S. Ohlemeyer, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, Altria Group
Kenneth J. Parsigian, Partner, Goodwin Procter L.L.P.
Q & A
Panel II: The Road Ahead-Reforming State Consumer Fraud Laws
Moderator: James R. Copland
Kristin Armshaw, Director, Civil Justice Task Force, American Legislative Exchange Council
James A. Henderson, Jr., Frank B. Ingersoll Professor of Law, Cornell University
Walter K. Olson, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Q & A
Keynote Address: Victor E. Schwartz, Partner, Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.; and General Counsel, American Tort Reform Association
Introduction: Sherman Joyce, President, American Tort Reform Association
July 13, 2006 | New York City

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Title: Moving Men Into the Mainstream: The Next Steps in Urban Reform
Panel I: Black Men Left Behind? Reflections on Current Research
Moderator: John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute
Panelists: Larry Mead, New York University, Abby Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute, Hillard Pouncy, Princeton University, Ron Mincy, Columbia University
Panel II: From Recidivism to Redemption: Ending the Cycle of Incarceration
Moderator: Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune
Panelists: Martin Horn, NYC Department of Corrections, Chauncey Parker, NY State Criminal Justice, Vicki Lopez Lukis, Florida Ex-Offender Task Force, Jeremy Travis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, W. Wilson Goode, Sr., Amachi Program
Panel III: Putting Policy to the Test
Moderator: Howard Husock, Manhattan Institute
Panelists: Peter Cove, American Works, Fred Davie, Public/Private Ventures, Brent Orrell, U.S. Dept. Health and Human Services, Mindy Tarlow, Center for Employment Opportunities
June 21, 2006 | New York City

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Title: Creative Approaches to Preserving Affordable Housing
Introduction: Hon. Stephen Goldsmith Director, Innovations in American Government Awards Program, Daniel Paul, Professor of Government, Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Lisa Mallory-Hodge Managing Director, Policy and Consulting, Fannie Mae Foundation
Speakers: Brad Lander, Director, Pratt Center for Community Development, Mercedes Marquez, General Manager, Los Angeles Housing Department
June 15, 2006 | New York City

Center for Medical Progress Forum
Title: Prescription for Progress: The Critical Path for Drug Development
Keynote Speaker: Andrew von Eschenbach, M.D.
Panelists: Jeffrey Cossman, Gualberto Ruano, Robert McBurney, Ph.D., Scott Gottlieb, M.D., Janet Woodcock, M.D., Meryl Comer, Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., Michael Weber, M.D., Steve Usdin
June 8, 2006 | Washington, D.C.

Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (Cato Institute, 2006)
Author: Richard A. Epstein
June 6, 2006 | New York City

Center for Legal Policy Breakfast
Title: Medical Malpractice Awards, Insurance, and Negligence: Which Are Related
Author: Alexander Tabarrok, Amanda Agan
May 18, 2006 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children (Houghton Mufflins, 2006)
Author: E. D. Hirsch
May 4, 2006 | New York City

Sixth Annual Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner
Honoring: Rudolph W. Giuliani, 107th Mayor of the City of New York & Tom Wolfe, Author, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Introduction By:David Brooks
April 25, 2006 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Title: In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (AEI Press, 2006)
Author: Dr. Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
April 12, 2006 | New York City

Center for Legal Policy Forum
Topic: Restoring Democracy: The Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act
Speaker: Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
April 3, 2006 | New York City

Center For Race and Ethnicity Book Forum
Title: Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Gotham Books, 2006)
Author: John McWhorter, Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow
January 12, 2006 | New York City

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Title: Why Are Skilled Cities Getting More Skilled?
Author: Edward L. Glaeser, Director, Taubman Center for State and Local Government; and Director, Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
January 10, 2006 | New York City

2005

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Hon. John R. Bolton, United States Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations
December 7, 2005 | New York City

2005 Wriston Lecture
Speaker: Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence & Dir., James Madison Program, Princeton University
November 29, 2005 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: His new book, Flat Tax Revolution (Regnery Publishing, July 2005)
Speaker: Steve Forbes, President & CEO of Forbes Inc. & Editor-in-Chief, Forbes magazine; and Author, Flat Tax Revolution (Regnery Publishing, July 2005)
September 22, 2005 | New York City

Empire Center For New York State Policy Luncheon Forum
Topic: Breaking the Budget in New York State: What's At Stake in November's Referendum
Keynote Speaker: Hon. Hugh L. Carey (invited)
Panelists: Hon. Edward I. Koch, Dall Forsythe, Diana Fortuna
Moderator: E. J. McMahon
September 20, 2005 | New York City

PANEL I: Intro: E.J. McMahon  |  PANEL I: Hon. Hugh L. Carey & John S. Dyson
PANEL I: Peter Goldmark |  PANEL II: Intro: E.J. McMahon
PANEL II: Hon. Edward I. Koch |  PANEL II: Dall Forsythe
PANEL II: Diana Fortuna |  PANEL II: Q & A

Manhattan Institute Book Forum
Topic: Weekly Standard's 10-Year Anniversary Book
Speakers: William Kristol, Fred Barnes, John Podhoretz, Joseph Bottum (Invited)
September 15, 2005 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Forum
Speaker: Hon. Mitt Romney, Governor of Massachusetts
Intro.: Stephen Goldsmith
September 12, 2005 | New York City

First Annual F.A. Hayek Lecture
Topic: Islam and Democracy
Speaker: Dr. Michael Novak, American Enterprise Institute
May 19, 2005 | New York City

A Manhattan Institute Americans for Tax Reform Event
Topic: Immigration Reform: The Conservative Case for Change
Panelists: Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform; Ed Goeas, President and CEO, The Tarrance Group; John Gay, Co-Chair, Essential Worker Immigration Coalition and Vice President of governmental affairs of the American Hotel & Lodging Association
Moderator: Tamar Jacoby, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
April 8, 2005 | Washington, DC

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: Tax Policy and the Future of Social Security Reform
Speaker: Dr. Edward C. Prescott, Recipient, 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; W. P. Carey Chair of Economics, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
Intro.: Dr. Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University
April 4, 2005 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Evening Symposium
Topic: Interrogating Terror Suspects: A Debate — Did the Administration’s Decision that the Geneva Convention Do Not Apply to Captured Terror Suspects Lead to Prisoner Abuse?
Panelists: John D. Hutson, Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center (Concord, NH) & Former Judge Advocate General, U.S. Navy; Heather Mac Donald, John M. Olin Fellow, Manhattan Institute & Contributing Editor, City Journal
Moderator: Brian Lehrer, Host, Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC-AM
March 28, 2005 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: The CFE Decision and the Future of the City’s Schools”
Panelists: Jay Greene, Ross Sandler, Charles Brecher, Sol Stern
January 27, 2005 | New York City

2004

2004 Wriston Lecture
Speaker: Victor Davis Hanson, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Intro.: Donald Kagan, Sterling Professor of Classics and History, Yale University
November 11, 2004 | New York City

Center For Civic Innovation 2004 Social Entrepreneurship Award Dinner
Master of Ceremonies: Howard Husock, Director of Case Studies, Kennedy School, Harvard University & Contributor Editor, City Journal
Featured Speaker: George McDonald, Founder and President, The Doe Fund
October 19, 2004 | New York City

Manhattan Institute – 25th Anniversary Dinner
Featured Speaker: Tom Wolfe
October 13, 2004 | New York City

Manhattan Institute Lecture on Public Policy
Topic: Can Muslim Nations Acquire Liberal Democracies?
Speaker: James Q. Wilson, Professor of Management & Public Policy, Graduate School of Management at UCLA
Intro.: Max Boot, Senior Fellow, National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
September 30, 2004 | New York City

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Topic: Whither Welfare Reform? Lessons from the Wisconsin Experience
Speakers: Jason DeParle, Author, American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare (Viking, 2004); Lawrence Mead, Author, Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin (Princeton University Press, 2004); and Jason Turner, Former Commissioner, Dept. of Social Services, Human Resources Administration, New York City
September 21, 2004 | New York City
Introduction |  Jason Deparle |  Lawrence Mead |  Jason Turner |  Q & A

2003

Center For Legal Policy Presentation
Presentation of Trial Lawyers Inc.: A Report on the Lawsuit Industry in America, 2003 (Published by MI)
Presented by: Hon. Richard Thornburgh, Former Attorney General of the United States
September 23, 2003 | Washington, DC
Mr. Copland |  Mr. Thornburgh Part I |  Mr. Thornburgh Part II
Mr. Sessions Part I |  Mr. Sessions Part II |  Mr. Olson

2001

City Journal Conference
Topic: “Rebuilding New York: New York City’s Future After September 11th
Participants: Myron Magnet, Editor, City Journal (Moderator); Steve Malanga, Brian Anderson,
Franck Lohsen McCrery
& Alexander Stoddart, Heather Mac Donald, Daniel Pipes.
November 15, 2001 | New York, New York
Part I |  Part II |  Part III

2000

New York City Conference on School Choice
Co-Sponsored with the Office of New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani
Speakers: Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York City; Lawrence Mone, President, MI; Hon. Frank Keating, Governor of Oklahoma; Hon. Gary Johnson, Governor of New Mexico; Hon. John Norquist, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Prof. Robert Reich, Former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Hon. Bret Schundler, Mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey; Hon. William Weld, Former Governor of Massachusetts
December 13, 2000 | New York, New York
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Panel Discussion: Synthesizing the Evidence
Panel Discussion: Report from the Grassroots
Afternoon Remarks, The Honorable John Norquist, Mayor of Milwaukee
The Honorable Bret Schundler, Mayor of Jersey City
Panel Discussion: Choice and the Constitution
Afternoon Remarks
Panel Discussion: The Future of School Choice

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: ”The Mental Illness System: How It Broke and How to Fix It”
Speaker: Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, President, Treatment Advocacy Center, Bethesda, Maryland
September 12, 2000 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Lecture Forum
Topic: “Core Curriculum at CUNY?”
Speakers: Herman Badillo, Chairman, Board of Trustees, City University of New York; Dr. Bernard Sohmer, Chair, University Faculty Senate, City University of New York
July 12, 2000 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: “The University of the Future”
Speaker: Dennis Keller, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, DeVry, Inc. & Keller Graduate School of Management, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois)
April 13, 2000 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Lecture Forum
Speaker: Ward Connerly, Chairman, American Civil Rights Institute; Member, University of California Board of Regents & Author, Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences (Encounter Books, 2000)
March 15, 2000 | New York, New York

Center For Legal Policy Lecture Forum
Topic: "Managed Care Liability"
Speaker: Richard Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
March 7, 2000 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Breakfast Forum
Topic: ”A Free-Market Agenda for High Tech”
Speaker: James K. Glassman, Journalist & American Enterprise Fellow
February 23, 2000 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Symposium and Reception
Speaker: Peter Huber, MI Senior Fellow & Author, Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists - A Conservative Manifesto (Basic Books, 2000)
Commentator: Bill McKibben, Author,
The End of Nature (Doubleday, 1989)
February 15, 2000 | New York, New York

1999

Center for Civic Innovation Forum
Speaker: Hon. Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida.
July 6, 1999 | New York, New York

Manhattan Institute Seminar
Topic: “The New Urban Paradigm”
Keynote Address:
Tom Wolfe
Speakers, introduced by Myron Magnet:
Peter Reinharz, Heather Mac Donald, Sol Stern
Question/Answer Session with above speakers
Luncheon Address:
Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mayor of New York City, introduced by Roger Hertog
June 21, 1999 | New York, New York

Tom Wolfe |  Peter Reinharz
Heather Mac Donald |  Sol Stern
Q & A Session |  Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani

1998

Manhattan Institute Forum
Topic: “Innovation and Opportunity in a Digital Age”
Speaker: William Henry Gates, Chairman and CEO, Microsoft Corporation
December 2, 1998 | New York, New York

 


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