Front Porch Republic

Our 2025 conference will be held in Waco, TX at Baylor University on October 10 and 11. Below is the tentative schedule. Please make plans to join us for the weekend!

Friday, October 10

4:00 Matthew Crawford

Saturday, October 11

8:30-10:00 Working Well and Resting Well

• Garth Brown
• Elizabeth Newman
• Leah Libresco Sargeant

10:30-11:30 From the Farm to the Academy

• David Lyle Jeffrey, in conversation with Jeffrey Bilbro

11:30-12:30 Lunch

12:30-1:30 Matthew Crawford

2:00-3:30 America’s Pastime

• Jeremy Beer
• Jason Peters
• Bill Kauffman

4:00 Those with tickets for dinner will convene at a nearby farm for Texas BBQ, Texas beer, and Texas music

Please register here. Note that there are only 100 tickets available for the farm dinner, so if you want those, purchase them soon! 

Student tickets and the “conference sessions only” tickets include Saturday lunch, but not the evening meal at the farm.

Friday afternoon’s keynote lecture and all the talks on Saturday will be held at Baylor University.