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Filmaking, Property Rights, and Public Policy

Ted Balaker, co-founder of Korchula Productions
Feb 4, 2020 at 4:30-9:00p in the Askew Student Life Cinema at FSU

Film Producer to Speak at FSU Screening

Tallahassee, Fla. – Ted Balaker, co-founder of the independent film company Korchula Productions and producer of the acclaimed 2017 drama “Little Pink House,” will introduce a screening of the film at Florida State University and participate in wide-ranging discussions about motion pictures, property rights and urban redevelopment.
The event, “Filmmaking, Property Rights, and Public Policy, which is free and open to the public, takes place:
Tuesday, February 4
4:30 pm - Discussion on “Making Films That Matter”
6:00 pm – Movie Screening
7:45 pm – Experts panel
9:00 pm – Reception
Askew Student Life Cinema, Learning Way, FSU Campus

Students and the general public are welcome to attend all or one of the events. All three events quality for certificate maintenance for the American Planning Association, (1.25 legal credits for the final panel), and continuing legal education (CLE) credits are pending through the Florida Bar.

Event details can be found on Facebook here.
A flyer for the event can be found here.
The full draft program, including bios of the speakers can be found here.
The FSU press release announcing the event can be found here.
American Planning Association CM/L credit information can be found here.

Little Pink House is a feature film describing the real-life trials experienced by Susette Kelo as her local government in Connecticut tried to seize her property for private land development. The case went to the U.S. Supreme Court and triggered a nationwide movement to rein in local government eminent domain powers.

The film was written and directed by Courtney Balaker and stars Academy Award nominee Catherine Keener (Get Out, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) as Kelo. It has won or been nominated for numerous film festival awards.

An April 2018 review in Variety said, “Balaker’s heartfelt film holds attention as a straightforward account of a complicated case, and benefits from the intelligent, careworn presence of Catherine Keener as its human anchor amid all the procedural to-and-fro.”

The screening will be bracketed by discussions designed to illuminate the issues addressed in the film and the process of bringing this true story to the screen.

Prior to the film, Sam Staley, director of FSU’s DeVoe Moore Center, will moderate “Making Movies That Matter,” a discussion with Ted Balaker about filmmaking, dramatizing true stories, and the process of making this movie.

The film screening follows, and then Sal Nuzzo, Vice President of Policy and Director of the Center for Economic Prosperity at the James Madison Institute, will moderate an expert panel discussion, "Private Property Rights, Urban Development and Kelo vs. City of New London.”

The panel includes Gary VanLandingham, Senior Practitioner in Residence with the FSU Askew School of Public Administration and Policy; Kenneth B. Metcalf, certified land planner; and Mark Seidenfeld, the Patricia A. Dore Professor of Administrative Law, FSU College of Law.

The evening will conclude with a social reception after the panel.

The public is welcome to attend any or all of the evening’s events.

The event is sponsored by the FSU DeVoe L. Moore Center, the James Madison Institute, the FSU College of Law Federalist Society, the American Planning Association Florida Capital Area Section and the FSU College of Social Sciences and Public Policy.

Past Events

Spring 2018

Endogenous Amenities and Cities

Research Symposium and Journal of Regional Science Special Issue
Apr 26-28, 2018 in the Turnbull Conference Center at FSU
Co-hosted with the FSU Real Estate Center

Is Bitcoin A Bubble?

William Luther, Assistant Professor of Economics at Kenyon University
Mar 08, 2018 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Do Nuclear Weapons Promote Peace?

Keegan Connally, Policy Analyst at the Government Accountability Institute
Feb 01, 2018 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Social Enterprise Pitch Night

Val Rodriguez, DMC Social Entrepreneurship Manager
Jan 31, 2018 at 7:00pm in the Main Hall of Bellamy Building First Floor
Hosted through the DMC Social Entrepreneurship Program

Fall 2017

An Introduction to Civil Asset Forfeiture

Giovanna Da Silva, DMC Blog Content Editor
Nov 16, 2017 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Basic Time Series Methods for Forecasting

Paul Beaumont, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Nov 14, 2017 at 3:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Using Statistical Software to Perform Empirical Analysis

Anastasia Semykina, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Nov 10, 2017 at 1:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Seminar: Does An Open-Borders Immigration Policy Makes Sense for the U.S.?

Fabio Rojas, Professor of Sociology at Indiana University - Bloomington
Patrick Mason, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Deana Rohlinger, Associate Professor of Sociology at Florida State University
Tim Chapin, Dean of the College of Social Science and Public Policy at FSU
Samuel Staley, Director of the DeVoe L. Moore Center at FSU
Nov 02, 2017 at 7:00pm in HCB Room 102
Co-hosted with the Institute for Humane Studies

Communicating Effectively With Charts and Graphs

Martha Evans, Adjunct Professor of Business at Florida State University
Oct 25, 2017 at 3:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Consumer Protection and Other Economic Fallacies

Joseph Calhoun, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Sep 20, 2017 at 6:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Spring 2017

Who Cares? The Film

Val Rodriguez, DMC Social Entrepreneurship Manager
Apr 26, 2017 at 6:15pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Hosted through the DMC Social Entrepreneurship Program

The Economics of the War On Drugs

Randall Holcombe, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Apr 20, 2017 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Seminar: Can Markets Provide Liberty, Justice, and Kidneys?

John Hasnas, Professor of Law at Georgetown University
James Stacey Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy at College of New Jersey
Brandon Turner, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Clemson University
Apr 14, 2017 at 4:30pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with the Institute for Humane Studies

U.S. Democratization in the Middle East

Christopher Coyne, Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Apr 13, 2017 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Florida Criminal Justice Forum

Deborrah Brodsky, Director of Project On Accountable Justice at FSU
Mar 03, 2017 at 8:30am in the Florida State Conference Center
Co-hosted with the FSU Project On Accountable Justice

Tuskeegee and the Health of Black Men

Marianne Wanamaker, Professor of Economics at the University of Tennessee
Feb 10, 2017 at 3:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with the Institute for Humane Studies
Part of the Hilton Lecture Series

The Economic Case for Immigration

Don Boudreaux, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Feb 09, 2017 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Fall 2016

Redeye Coffee's Social Entrepreneurship Expo

Mark McNees, Director of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation at FSU
Dec 06, 2016 at 7:00pm in the Mail Hall of Bellamy Building First Floor
Hosted through the DMC Social Entrepreneurship Program

Generation Start-Up Film Screening

Val Rodriguez, DMC Social Entrepreneurship Manager
Nov 17, 2016 at 7:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Hosted through the DMC Social Entrepreneurship Program

Conference: Coercion and the Helping Professions

Michael Huemer, Professor of Philosophy at University of Colorado - Boulder
Bruce Alexander, Professor of Economics at Simon Frasier University
Thomas Blomberg, Professor of Criminology at Florida State University
Gary Melton, Director of Community Development at the Kempe Center
Gavin Davidson, Professor of Social Work at Queen's University, Belfast, Ireland
Nov 09, 2017 at 8:00am in the Trumbull Conference Center Second Floor
Co-hosted with the Institute for Humane Studies

An Evening With John Crossman

John Crossman, CEO of Crossman and Company
Oct 13, 2016 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with the James Madison Institute

Spring 2016

The Economics of Why Nations Jail

Daniel D'Amico, Professor of Economics at Brown University
Apr 21, 2016 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Advanced Time-Series Methods

Paul Beaumont, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Apr 06, 2016 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

The Central Limit Theorem

Hugo Montesinos, Economics Graduate Assistant at Florida State University
Mar 23, 2016 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Flaws and Fallacies in Empirical Thinking

Hugo Montesinos, Economics Graduate Assistant at Florida State University
Feb 24, 2016 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Ceter Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Conference: Income Inequality - Boogyman or Menace

Abby Hall Blanco, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of Tampa
Shawn Kantor, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Mark LeBar, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University
Larry Polivka, Executive Director of the Claude Pepper Foundation
Jeff Proctor, CEO of Positive Sum Games, economist, design strategist
Katie Sherron, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Feb 13, 2016 at 10:00am in HCB Room 101
Co-hosted with the Foundation for Economic Education

Spacial Econometrics

Christopher Clapp, Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Feb 10, 2016 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

U.S. Military Expenditures and Drones

Benjamin Friedman, research fellow at the Cato Institute
Jan 14, 2016 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Fall 2015

Special Topic From the Journal of Economics

Paul Beaumont, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Nov 12, 2015 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Policy Writing Workshop

Kevin Gomez, Outreach Coordinator at the DeVoe L. Moore Center
Oct 30, 2015 at 11:30am in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
DMC Intern Training Workshop for the Policy Analysis Research Group

Methodology: The Basics

Christopher Clapp, Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Oct 29, 2015 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Common Problems With Induction

Kevin Willardson, Economics Graduate Assistant at Florida State University
Oct 14, 2015 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Using Statistical Software to Perform Empirical Analysis

Anastasia Semykina, Associate Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Sep 30, 2015 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Data Management and Gathering

Martha Evans, Adjunct Professor of Business at Florida State University
Sep 16, 2015 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

Spring 2015

Economics of Mass Incarceration and the Prison State

Daniel D'Amico, Professor of Economics at Brown University
Apr 09, 2015 at 7:00pm in DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Conference: How the Sharing Economy Is Changing the World

Katie Dawson, Event Organizer, President of Economics Club at FSU
Feb 28, 2015 at 12:00pm in HCB Room 101
Co-hosted with the Foundation for Economic Education

Spacial Econometrics

Kevin Willardson, Economics Graduate Assistant at Florida State University
Feb 10, 2015 at 5:30pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Part of the DMC Public Policy Workshop Series

The Pathology of Privilege: Economic and Social Consequences

Matt Mitchell, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Jan 29, 2015 at 5:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Fall 2014

Civil Rights and the Role of Business

David Jackson, Associate Professor of History at Florida A&M University
Oct 29, 2014 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with African American Studies Program and Jim Moran Inst.

The Economics of Charity versus Government Welfare

Matthew Kelly, Policy Analyst at the DeVoe L. Moore Center
Sep 25, 2014 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Spring 2014

Conference: Creative Teaching Ideas For Your Basic Economics Course

Mary Suiter, Assistant VP at the Economic Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Mark Schug, Professor of Economics at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ninos Malek, Professor of Economics at San Jose State University
Scott Barton, Senior Director of Marketing and Communications at IHS
Feb 07, 2014 at 9:00am in the Augustus Turnbull Conference Center
Co-hosted with Stavros Center and Institute for Humane Studies

The Economics of Political Extortion

Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute
Jan 17, 2014 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

The Failure of the Market Failure Argument

John Hasnas, Professor of Business at George Mason University
Jan 09, 2014 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Fall 2013

Immigration Panel: The American Dream vs. The American Dilemma

Mark Krikorian, Director of the Center for Immigration Studies
Alex Nowrasteh, Policy Analyst at the Cato Institute
Daniel Garza, President of the LIBRE Initiative
Mario Villareal-Diaz, Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State
Nov 12, 2013 at 7:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with the Institute for Humane Studies
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University
Sponsored by the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation

Investing in Humanity and the Environment

Holly Fretwell, Professor of Economics at Montana State University
Nov 07, 2013 at 7:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 023
Co-hosted with the Institute for Humane Studies
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Immigration Restrictions: A Solution In Search of a Problem

Bryan Caplan, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Oct 23, 2013 at 7:00pm in the DeVoe L. Moore Center Conference Room
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Spring 2013

Launching the Innovation Rennaissance

Alex Tabarrok, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Apr 11, 2013 at 6:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

The Bourgeois Deal: Why Some Countries Are Rich and Others Are Poor

Art Caden, Associate Professor of Economics at Samford University
Mar 28, 2013 at 6:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Sweatshops and Economic Growth

Benjamin Powell, Professor of Economics at Texas Tech University
Mar 07, 2013 at 6:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Immigration

Scott Beaulier, Professor of Business at North Dakota State University
Feb 28, 2013 at 6:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Funding the Prison Industrial Complex

Daniel D'Amico, Professor of Economics at Brown University
Feb 07, 2013 at 6:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Fall 2012

Economics of the American Prison State

Daniel D'Amico, Professor of Economics at Brown University
Nov 29, 2012 at 6:00pm in Bellamy Building Room 180
Co-hosted with student organizations at Florida State University

Austrian Economics

Samuel Staley, Professor of Economics at Florida State University
Oct 16, 2012 at 4:30pm at 501 E. Tennessee St. Suite C
Co-hosted with the LCLEC

Events pre-2008

2006-2007 Academic Year

John Stossel Co–Anchor of ABC’s 20/20 “Myths, Lies and Stupidity”
Harry Lerner President of Maxcy Development Group, Tampa, FL

2005-2006 Academic Year

Sam Staley Director of Urban Futures Program, Reason Public Policy Institute “Reducing Congestion and Increasing Mobility: The Road More Traveled”
Casey Dawkins Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Polytechnic Institute “Urban Sprawl and the Transition to First–Time Homeownership”

2004-2005 Academic Year

Joel Embry Representative of Welaunee in Tallahassee, FL “Privatizing Public Policy”
Craig Volden Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University “Policy Diffusion from Cities to States: Anti–Smoking Laws in the U.S.”

2003-2004 Academic Year

Daniel McMillen Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate, University of Illinois at Chicago “The Endogeneity of Zoning and Other Land Use Controls”
Christopher Bollinger Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky “An Introduction to Spatial Econometrics” Edgar Olsen Professor of Economics, University of Virginia “Economics of Housing Assistance for the Poor”
William Niskanen Chairman, Cato Institute “After Enron: The Major Lessons for Public Policy” Brady Baybeck Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri—St. Louis “Urban Politics and Policy”

2002-2003 Academic Year

Richard L. Engstrom Professor of Africana Studies, University of New Orleans “Effects of Electoral Structures on Public Policies in U.S. Cities”
Richard Winters Professor of Government, Dartmouth College “Variability in Charitable Giving Across the U.S. States”
Arthur C. Nelson Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and Director of Graduate Studies, Virginia Polytechnic Institute “Regulatory Models and Their Land Use Implications”

2001-2002 Academic Year

Michael Berkman Professor of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University “School Choice?”
Genevieve Giuliano Director of METRANS Transportation Center, University of Southern California “Land Use and Travel Revisited: The U.S. and Great Britain”
Peter Vander Hoek Professor of Economics, Erasmus University, The Netherlands “Taxation in the European Union”
Michael Mintrom Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University “Educational Entrepreneurship and Charter Schools”
Robert Stein Dean and Professor of Political Science, Rice University “Neighborhood Politics and Local Government”
Douglass North Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics, Washington University “What We Know and Don’t Know About Economic Development”

2000-2001 Academic Year

Mark Schneider Professor of Political Science, SUNY Stony Brook “Information and the Market for School Choice”
Michael McDonald Professor of Political Science, SUNY Binghamton “Understanding Taxpayer Complaints: Self–Interest or Government Mistake?”

1999-2000 Academic Year

James Buchanan Nobel Laureate and Professor of Economics, George Mason University