Freethought Festival

Freethought Festival
Genre freethought, skepticism, atheism, and science
Venue Gordon Dining and Event Center, Symphony Room (2016)
Location(s) Madison, WI
Inaugurated 2012
Attendance 300
Website
www.freethoughtfestival.org

Freethought Festival is a student-run freethinking convention held annually in Madison, Wisconsin by the student group Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Speakers give talks relating to atheism, freethinking, skepticism, and other topics.

2016's fifth annual Festival will be headlined by James Randi and Eugenie Scott. Other speakers include Faisal Saeed Al Mutar, Heina Dadabhoy, Frank and Dan from the Thank God I'm Atheist podcast, and many more. It will also feature two panel discussions. The first will be a discussion about religion on the UW-Madison campus featuring leaders from several campus religious student organizations. The topic of the second panel will be the founding fathers' views on religion. [1]

Description

The Freethought Festival is a free, student-run secular conference held annually in Madison, Wisconsin. It is organized and hosted by Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics (AHA) @ UW-Madison. Authors, bloggers, activists, and scientists from around the country come to speak on secular and scientific issues. Freethought Festival 5 is set to feature 11 speakers over two days. The event is funded by AHA through an annual operations budget received from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.[2]

Past Festivals

Dates Location Venue Attendance Speakers Organizers
April 27–29, 2012 UW-Madison Humanities 3650 310 Richard Carrier, PZ Myers, Matt Dillahunty, Ellery Schempp, JT Eberhard, D. J. Grothe, Hemant Mehta, Darrel Ray, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Andrew Seidel, Dale McGowan, Veronica Drantz, Chris Calvey, Elliott Sober, Valerie Tarico, Phil Ferguson, Lyz Liddell, James Croft, Alix Jules [3] Chris Calvey, AHA Officers, MadCOR
March 8–10, 2013 UW-Madison Lowell Center 330 Dan Barker, JT Eberhard, Eugenie Scott, Hemant Mehta, Darrel Ray. Amanda Knief, Dale McGowan, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Andrew Seidel, Greta Christina, Chris Calvey, Jesse Galef, Debbie Goddard, Desiree Schell, Katherine Stewart, Kathy Goodman Chris Calvey, Michael Ramuta, Dillon Wiesner, AHA Officers
April 11 & 12, 2014 UW-Madison Varsity Hall (Union South) & Social Sciences 6210 550 Dan Savage, Jamie Kilstein, Dan Barker, Dale McGowan, Hemant Mehta, Annie Laurie Gaylor, Jay Rosenstein, Matthew Slick Sam Erickson, Chris Calvey, AHA Officers[4]
March 13-15, 2015 UW-Madison DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 180 Susan Jacoby, Jamie Kilstein, Lindsey Doe, James Croft, Heina Dadabhoy, Candace Gorham, Debbie Goddard, Sam Erickson, Andrew Seidel, Patrick Elliott, Ed Brayton [3] Sam Erickson, Cole Dreier, Mark Pan, AHA Officers

References

  1. ↑ http://freethoughtfestival.org/[ Speakers & Schedule]
  2. ↑ AHA Funding
  3. 1 2 Freethought Festival History
  4. ↑ Freethought Festival Organizers

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