July 2
July 3
July 4
July 5
July 6
July 7
Attendee Services
Main Auditorium
Check-in and get your questions answered.
Main Ballroom
Meet and mingle with fellow attendees at the official opening of OCON! The event is casual. We serve a surprise dinner and your fee includes two drinks. A cash bar is available. The opening reception is included in all Week passes. Day pass holders: Cost to attend: $125. The registration deadline is [INSERT DATE].
July 2
July 3
Anacostia Ballroom
If this is your first OCON, come meet other first-timers, OCON speakers and ARI staff at this casual breakfast event.
Potomac Ballroom
If Samuel Alito’s leaked first draft of a potential majority decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization is a reliable indication, the Supreme Court will overturn (and may have already done so by the time of the conference) Roe v. Wade. Onkar Ghate will examine the arguments offered in Roe, good and bad, the vulnerabilities of the decision, and the case being made for its overturn
Anacostia Ballroom
The presentation is an introduction to ARI’s planned giving and Atlantis Legacy programs. Topics include minimizing taxes through charitable giving and providing future support for Ayn Rand’s world-changing ideas while achieving your estate-planning objectives. A casual lunch will be served, compliments of ARI. No RSVP is necessary.
Potomac Ballroom
Dr. Binswanger defends a radical position on immigration: the moral imperative to end all forms of governmental interference with freedom of travel. Crossing a national border, he argues, should be as free, unregulated, and unsupervised as crossing a state border. He takes on all the common objections to open borders, including: “Immigrants take our jobs away,” “Open borders abandon sovereignty,” “Immigration is harmful in a welfare state,” and “Immigrants will vote the wrong way.” He concludes by explaining why freedom of entry is of special importance to Objectivists.
River Birch Ballroom
Tertullian (ca. 160–220) and Thomas Aquinas (13th century) both defended faith as a justification for their Christian beliefs, but whereas Tertullian proudly defended faith even when it clashed with reason, Aquinas argued that there was a harmony between faith and reason — that the two could never clash. In this lecture, Dr. Mayhew will examine the views of each in detail and briefly discuss the continuing influence of their conceptions of faith and reason in the 21st century.
Potomac Ballroom
Ayn Rand’s distinctive view of values gives her a distinctive view of happiness. We will discuss:
- What happiness is
- Why it’s “the normal condition of man”
- The practical steps to move from unhappiness to happiness
Rock Creek Ballroom
Panel: From Students to “New Intellectuals”
The 2022 Ayn Rand Institute Gala will be an opportunity to socialize with like-minded people in an elegant setting, to get an insider look at the most up-to-date happenings at the Institute, to hear from prominent Objectivist intellectuals who are working to change the culture, and to witness the impact of your donations. You’ll have a chance to contribute by bidding on exciting auction items related to Ayn Rand, the Institute, and the Objectivist community. We invite you to join us for this year’s Gala, our annual fundraising event, July 2, 2022, at the Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. For the second year, it will take place alongside the Objectivist summer conference (OCON). We hope you’ll join us for both. Funds raised at our Gala go to support ARI’s mission of fostering a culture whose guiding principles are reason, rational self-interest, individualism, and laissez-faire capitalism.
July 4
Attendee Services
Main Auditorium
Check-in and get your questions answered.
Main Ballroom
Meet and mingle with fellow attendees at the official opening of OCON! The event is casual. We serve a surprise dinner and your fee includes two drinks. A cash bar is available. The opening reception is included in all Week passes. Day pass holders: Cost to attend: $125. The registration deadline is [INSERT DATE].
July 5
Attendee Services
Main Auditorium
Check-in and get your questions answered.
Main Ballroom
Meet and mingle with fellow attendees at the official opening of OCON! The event is casual. We serve a surprise dinner and your fee includes two drinks. A cash bar is available. The opening reception is included in all Week passes. Day pass holders: Cost to attend: $125. The registration deadline is [INSERT DATE].
July 6
Attendee Services
Main Auditorium
Check-in and get your questions answered.
Main Ballroom
Meet and mingle with fellow attendees at the official opening of OCON! The event is casual. We serve a surprise dinner and your fee includes two drinks. A cash bar is available. The opening reception is included in all Week passes. Day pass holders: Cost to attend: $125. The registration deadline is [INSERT DATE].
July 7
Attendee Services
Main Auditorium
Check-in and get your questions answered.
Main Ballroom
Meet and mingle with fellow attendees at the official opening of OCON! The event is casual. We serve a surprise dinner and your fee includes two drinks. A cash bar is available. The opening reception is included in all Week passes. Day pass holders: Cost to attend: $125. The registration deadline is [INSERT DATE].
