UHart’s 2026 Deeds Symposium Spotlights “AI and Our Economic Future”

The annual lecture on free-market principles will be given by Peter Boettke, distinguished university professor of economics at George Mason University.

The event will take place in Wilde Auditorium, located in the Harry Jack Gray Center on the UHart campus, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, Conn.

The symposium is one of many ways conversation about AI has been ubiquitous on the UHart campus this year-from guest speakers to lectures to faculty research. The program is free and open to the public.

Boettke is the director of the George Mason University's F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. He is a leading scholar in Austrian economics, public choice, and institutional analysis, and has authored numerous publications including The Struggle for a Better World, F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy, and Living Economics. Professor Boettke's work reflects a lifelong commitment to advancing the study of political economy and the institutional foundations of a free society.

The Deeds Symposium was established at UHart in 1982 to provide a forum for discussion of free-market principles. Program speakers are internationally known participants in the continuing discussion of free enterprise and government.

For more information about the program, contact the College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Office at [email protected].