The SMU Tower Center in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics and Public Policy, Bush School, TAMU presents:

Jno. E. Owens Conference 70th Anniversary: Shifting Patterns of Globalization: Trade, Migration and North American Integration.

 

Dates:

Thursday, April 11, 2024, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. SMU Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd., Dallas, TX 75205

Friday, April 12, 2024, 8:00 – 3:00 p.m.  Federal Reserve Bank, 2200 N. Pearl St., Dallas, TX 75201

 

The event is free and open to the public.

Registration is required. Please click below for registration. Register by April 4st.

 

Thursday, April 11, 2024 - Meadows Museum

6:00 p.m. -   Keynote Dinner Program

8:00 p.m.

· Michael A. Clemens, George Mason University (invited)

  Moderator: Pia Orrrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

   

Friday, April 12, 2024 – Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

8:00 a.m.  Registration begins.

 

8:30 a.m.  Welcome remarks: Mark A. Wynne, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

 

8:40 a.m.  Panel 1: Global Trade and Industrial Policy 

· Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School

· Derek Scissors, American Enterprise Institute

· Caroline Freund, UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy

Moderator: Thomas Osang, Southern Methodist University

 

10:10 a.m.  Break

 

10:20 a.m.  Panel 2: North American Trade and Integration

· Eugene Beaulieu, University of Calgary

· Hale Utar, Grinnell College

· Manuel Sánchez González, Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Mexico  

Moderator: Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University

 

11:50 a.m.  Break

 

12:00 p.m.  Keynote Lunch Program

· Adam Posen, Peterson Institute

Moderator: Kathleen Cooper, Senior Fellow Tower Center

 

1:30 p.m.  Break

 

1:35 p.m.  Panel 3: Migration

· Jeanne Batalova, Migration Policy Institute

· Nicole Simpson, Colgate University

· Pia Orrrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas & Raymond Robertson, Texas A&M University

Moderator: Jim Hollifield, Southern Methodist University

 

3:05 p.m.  Closing remarks and end of event.