Stephanie Slade will be drawing on her recent book, Fusionism: Power, Knowledge and Freedom, to examine what it means to be a conservative in the American context and how the movement has changed over time.

Mark Pennington will draw on his book Foucault and Liberal Political Economy to explore how combining Foucauldian critical theory with Hayekian liberalism yields a "post-modern liberalism" for identifying and challenging un-freedom and oppressive "over-government" in contemporary societies.