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The Job Hunt
By Amy Pelletier: "While hiring practices differ among industries, some skills are important in almost any job hunt: writing a good resume and cover letter, interviewing effectively, and networking."
Scaling the Ivory Tower: The Pursuit of an Academic Career
"This collection offers some frank but friendly advice to those of you interested in classical liberalism and considering an academic career. The life of the scholar is a voyage filled with deep and enduring satisfactions, but it is a voyage that requires some skillful navigation and patience."
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Koch Associate Program
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation is now accepting applications for the 2009-10 Koch Associate Program. The Koch Associate Program is a very selective, one year, paid career opportunity for bright, talented young people who are interested in pursuing a career in the non-profit sector. The Associate Program is a great way to jumpstart that career, because we help Associates develop the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for a successful future with free-market think tanks, policy institutes, or other non-profit organizations.
Second Annual International Students For Liberty Conference
Students For Liberty will be hosting its second annual international conference at George Washington University from February 20-22, 2009. The Keynote Speaker is Yon Goicoechea, recipient of the Cato Institute's 2008 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. 100 students from 13 countries have already applied, so make sure you apply soon.
Reason.TV Searle Film Fellowship
Reason.tv-the online video journalism project of the Reason Foundation, the nonprofit publisher of this website-is seeking talented individuals interested in advancing the message of Free Minds and Free Markets through video journalism and related multimedia productions.
Shaping the New Administration's Counterterrorism Strategy
With a new administration in the White House, January 2009 will be the starting point for a new approach to U.S. counterterrorism efforts. This conference presents solid, immensely practical analyses of strategic counterterrorism policies based on the lessons and experiences of the past eight years and earlier, and on what proven strategies will yield the most beneficial results for the United States.
Cato's Annual Monetary Conference: LIVE
Listen live to Cato’s 26th Annual Monetary Conference will provide an in-depth treatment of the Lessons from the Subprime Crisis, which some view as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Leading experts will discuss the underlying causes of the loss of confidence, particularly the policies that contributed to the subprime crisis and the reforms needed to avoid future turmoil in financial markets.
Humane Studies Fellowships
"Scholarships up to $12,000 for undergraduate or graduate study in the United States or abroad. Last year IHS awarded over 165 scholarships to outstanding undergraduate, graduate, law, and professional students who are exploring the principles, practices, and institutions necessary to a free society through their academic work."
IHS Spring Break Seminars Now Accepting Applications
The Institute for Humane Studies, a nonprofit organization that "support[s] the achievement of a freer society by discovering and facilitating the development of talented, productive students, scholars, and other intellectuals who share an interest in liberty", has just announced its new Spring Break Seminars. Free seminars at UC Santa Cruz and Emory University will be held in March for students interested in liberty. Applications are now being accepted.
Make a Video, Win Free Gas
If you think 'World Car-Free Day' is hypocritical and just plain nonsense, then enter our contest to win free gas. 'World Car-Free Day' is coming this Sept. 22, 2008 and CEI is looking for creative individuals to challenge the car-hating hypocracy.
Film a video critique of Car-Free Day and enter it in this CEI contest.
Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce that submissions for the 2008 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition are now being accepted.
2008 Liberty Summer Seminar
"This year's Liberty Summer Seminar [hosted by the Institute for Liberal Studies] will take place from July 26 - 27 this year. Now in its eighth year the Liberty Summer Seminar brings together people interested in discussing the ideas of liberty in a casual, outdoor environment. Our speakers and our attendees span the political spectrum. We'll hope you'll join us for a weekend of camping, singing, eating and thinking."
IHS High School Essay Contest
The Institute for Humane Studies is pleased to announce their first annual essay contest for high school seniors, with a chance to win $3000 in prizes. The essay topic is George Orwell's Animal Farm.
The Bastiat Prize for Journalism
"The prize was developed to encourage and reward writers whose published works promote the institutions of a free society: limited government, rule of law brokered by an independent judiciary, protection of private property, free markets, free speech, and sound science."
Cato.ru Launches Russian Essay Contest
Cato.Ru launches an essay contest for students and recent graduates. Participants are invited to submit their essays on various problems in the area of property rights. Essays must be submitted in Russian (NO English submissions accepted).
Freedom's Campaign in the 21st Century
Would you like to meet like-minded people from all over the world? Or have a spectacular vacation while sharing ideas on how freedom will be advanced, enhanced, and defended? If so, Cato University is definitely for you.
Students for Liberty Conference an Enormous Success
By Joey Coon: "On February 22nd Columbia University saw some of the sharpest minds and most dedicated students from across the country and around the world gather for the first annual Students for Liberty Conference. Over one hundred students from as far west as California and as far east as the Ukraine gathered for a weekend packed with lectures and workshops from some of the libertarian movement’s most prominent scholars and activists."
Stupor Tuesday
"Come out on Tuesday, February 5, and join the staff of Reason [Magazine] as we celebrate what we like to think of as 'Stupor Tuesday,' the concentrated gaggle of laughter-and-tear-inducing presidential primaries that is consuming more oxygen than all the greenhouse gas emissions in the world."
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson
Twilight at Monticello is an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at Thomas Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about him. During the years from his return to Monticello in 1809 until his death in 1826, Jefferson dealt with illness and debt, corresponded with the leading figures of the Revolution, and became a radical decentralist and admirer of the New England townships, where, he believed, the real fire of liberty burned bright.
NATO's New Troubles: Afghanistan, Kosovo and the Future of the Alliance
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is facing a host of new challenges. In Afghanistan, NATO’s forces are being relentlessly attacked by the Taliban, and popular support for maintaining troops there is fading. The proposed deployment of antiballistic missiles, a potential flashpoint in Kosovo, and the growing tension between Russia and some of its neighbors all have the potential to divide members of the alliance. Meanwhile, NATO’s inability to deter a cyber attack that virtually paralyzed NATO member Estonia’s access to the Internet raises questions about the alliance’s ability to protect its newest members.
Students for Liberty Conference
"It is with great pleasure that we would like to invite you to participate in the first ever Students for Liberty Conference (SFLC).Organized by students and for students, the SFLC’s mission is to bring undergraduate and graduate students together to learn more about the cause of liberty an how to best promote liberty on college campuses."
Essay Contest: The Benefits of a Free Market Economy
The Association of Private Enterprise Education invites students 25 years and younger to submit essays on one of three topics. Cash awards totaling over $6,000 will be distributed among the top four finalists!
Humane Studies Fellowships
Awards of up to $12,000 for students interested in a freer society. Deadline: December 31.
IHS Free Summer Seminars
Explore the ideas of liberty while interacting with top faculty and students from around the world. Housing, meals, and books included. Deadline to apply: March 31.
IHS Production Internships
Spring, summer, and fall filmmaking, television and animation internships at major production houses and cutting edge, innovative independents. Deadlines: December 15, March 1, July 31
IHS Broadcast Journalism Internships
Fall, spring, and summer research/writing internships at major news outlets. Deadlines: December 15, March 1, July 31.
IHS Journalism Internships
Reporting/writing internships at daily newspapers across the country. Deadlines: Early Application: November 1, Final: January 31.
Charles G. Koch Summer Fellow Program
Public Policy and non-profit leadership internships in Washington, DC, and at state-based organizations. Deadline: January 31.
IHS Academic Writing Competition
Undergrads: $2,000 in prizes for the best undergraduate submissions on the topic of progress, prosperity, and human flourishing. Grads:Recognizing the best published and unpublished work by graduate students on progress, prosperity, and human flourishing. $2,000 in prizes and the possibility of presenting research at the 2008 Social Change Workshop.
The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation Internship Program
"The Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation Internship Program was established to develop the next generation of liberty-minded leaders and entrepreneurs. Over the course of the program, Interns engage in key Foundation projects while learning and applying Market-Based Management."
Opportunities at Human Rights First
"Human Rights First believes that building respect for human rights and the rule of law will help ensure the dignity to which every individual is entitled and will stem tyranny, extremism, intolerance, and violence."
Join Amnesty International
"When you join Amnesty International, you become part of a worldwide movement. As an individual member, or as part of a local group or a specialist network, your individual voice will join with countless others to build pressure for change."
Opportunities at Human Rights Watch
"Employment at Human Rights Watch means joining a dedicated and diverse staff committed to the protection and preservation of international human rights. Our staff members, all experts in their field, come from over 40 countries around the world and speak over 50 languages. We strive to provide our employees with pleasant and productive working conditions and want to help them derive satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment from their jobs."
Internship at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
"The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them."
IES Europe
IES Europe organizes international events, including its annual summer seminars. A great opportunity for young people to benefit from intercultural and intellectual exchanges, and to learn about classical liberalism.
Freedom House Employment Opportunities
Throughout its history, Freedom House has opposed tyranny around the world, including dictatorships in Latin America, apartheid in South Africa, Soviet domination of Central and Eastern Europe, and religiously-based totalitarian regimes such as those governing Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Freedom House has promoted the growth of freedom by encouraging U.S. policymakers, international institutions, and the governments of established democracies to adopt policies that advance human rights and democracy around the world.
Mont Pelerin Society Hayek Essay Contest
Take part in an essay competition with one of the oldest and most influential classical liberal organizations in the world. Winners receive a travel/registration grant to participate in the next meeting!
International Policy Network Bastiat Prize
The Bastiat Prize for Journalism was inspired by the 19th-century French philosopher and journalist Frédéric Bastiat. The prize was developed to encourage and reward writers whose published works eloquently and wittily elucidate the institutions of a free society: limited government, rule of law brokered by an independent judiciary, protection of private property, free markets, free speech, and sound science.
Cato Institute Internship Program
Work for a leading think tank on cutting edge policy research. Cato interns assist policy staff as researchers; work with the conference department to organize policy conferences, debates, and forums; attend seminars and conferences; and assist Cato's professional staff by copying and filing newspaper articles, distributing materials to congressional offices, and preparing mailings. In addition to their research and other duties, interns take part in regular seminars on politics, economics, law, and philosophy, as well as a series of lectures and films on libertarian themes.
Foundation for Economic Education
Fee interns assist staff in research, development, marketing, and outreach. In addition to their duties interns participate in a special weekly seminar on economics and history of collectivism and classical liberalism. Interns are encouraged to write for the Foundation's magazine The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty and attend all of the Foundation's lectures, programs, and seminars.
Reason
The Reason Foundation "advances a free society by developing, applying, and promoting libertarian principles, including individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law." Here's how you can work for them.
National Center for Policy Analysis
Internship opportunities with the National Center for Policy Analysis
Jeff Metcalf Fellows Program
Paid internship opportunities for students at the University of Chicago
Foundation for Teaching Economics
Internship opportunities from the Foundation for Teaching Economics
Heritage Foundation Young Leaders Program
The Heritage Foundation's Young Leaders program has information about internships and fellowships, together with a job bank
The James Buchanan Center for Political Economy
Graduate research assistantships available to graduate students at George Mason University
Acton Institute University
Acton University is a unique, four-day exploration of the intellectual foundations of a free society. Guided by a distinguished, international faculty, Acton University is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge and integrate rigorous philosophy, Christian theology and sound economics.
Liberty & Society Program
A student program exploring the foundations of a free society, Liberty and Society is a unique conference program for young people who have left school and are aged 18 to 30 and live in Australia, New Zealand or the South Pacific. The goal of the Liberty and Society conferences is to create an intellectual environment where ideas and opinions about what makes a free society can be discussed, argued and learnt.
Property and Environment Research Center
Student programs at the Property and Environment Research Center
Young America's Foundation
The National Conservative Student Conference is the signature college conference of Young America's Foundation. The only event of its kind, the intensive six-day conference brings young people together with conservatism's biggest stars, and provides an entry point into the Conservative Movement.
Cato University
This annual program brings together outstanding faculty and participants from across the country -- business and professional people, retirees, small business owners, high school and college students, employees of large and small firms, families, and many others who share a commitment to liberty and learning.
Mackinac Center for Public Policy Analysis Debate Workshops
The Mackinac Center is a nonpartisan research and educational institute devoted to improving the quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions. The Center is broadening the debate on issues that has for many years been dominated by the belief that government intervention should be the standard solution.
Institute for Justice
The Institute for Justice holds its acclaimed Law Student Conference at the George Washington University each July. The annual conference covers the Institute for Justice's four litigation pillars: First Amendment rights, school choice, economic liberty and private property rights.¬?
Foundation for Economic Education
Every summer for more than forty years, FEE has welcomed students to their noted week-long seminars celebrating the freedom philosophy. With renowned speakers and experienced discussion leaders, FEE seminars are a great opportunity for those who seek a better understanding of the foundations of a free society and the market economy. Students and teachers alike enjoy the unique ambiance of a FEE seminar with its stimulating mix of lively presentations and informal discussions.