MICHAEL OAKESHOTT ASSOCIATION
BAYLOR UNIVERSITY
WACO, TEXAS
NOVEMBER 12-14, 2009
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2009
6:30 PM Check-in—Foyer of Armstrong Browning Library
7:00 PM Dinner in Cox Reception Hall
7:45-9:00 Address—Timothy Fuller
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2009
8:30-9:00 Coffee service
9:00 -10:15 Address—Roger Scruton: “Politics and Conversation”
10:30-12:00 Panel 1: Oakeshott and Strauss on Hobbes
Kang Chen: What Does It Take to Be Modern, and (Why) Should We Care?: Strauss contra Oakeshott on Hobbes
Silviya Lechner: The Morality of Individuality: Oakeshott and Strauss on Hobbes
Quentin P. Taylor: Michael Oakeshott and the Liberal Hobbes
Chair and Discussant: TBA
12:00-2:00 LUNCH AND BREAK
2-3:30 Panel 2: Politics/Political Theory
Roy Tseng: Scepticism in Politics: A Dialogue between Oakeshott and Dunn
M. Jeffrey Rabin: How Michael Oakeshott is the Philosopher for Our Age
Conor Williams: Oakeshott’s On Human Conduct: Connections Between Non-Foundational Politics and Human Cravings for Solidarity
Ferenc Hörcher: The interpretation of the concept of political phronesis in Oakeshott, Strauss and Voegelin
Chair and Discussant: Corey Abel
4-5:30 Panel 3: The Nature of Philosophy and Its Relation to Politics
Michael Henkel and Oliver Lemcke: Against Platonism: An Oakeshottian Critique of Voegelin and Strauss
John Coats: “Theory and Practice” in Oakeshott, Strauss and Voegelin
Till Kinzel: The Place of Politics in a Philosophical Education: Reflections on the Thought of Michael Oakeshott and Leo Strauss
Suvi Soininen: Philosophy and its relationship to politics; some touching points of Oakeshott’s and Strauss’ thinking
Chair and Discussant: David Corey
Dinner: On your own
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2009
8:30-9:00 Coffee Service
9:00-10:15 Address—Robert Grant
10:30-12:00 Panel 4: Tradition and Historical Explanation
Martin Woessner: The Critique of Historical Reason and Its Political Consequences: Heidegger, Oakeshott, and Strauss
Lorraine Krall: Oakeshott: In Defense of Tradition
Chor-Yung Cheung: Skepticism, Poetic Imagination and the Art of Non-Instrumentality: Oakeshott and Chuang Tzu
Kenneth B. McIntyre: ‘What’s Gone and What’s Past Help…’: Oakeshott and Strauss on Historical Explanation
Chair and Discussant: Paul Franco
12:00-2:00 LUNCH AND BREAK
2:00-3:30 Panel 5: Religion; Athens and Jerusalem
Ralph Hancock: Reason, Revelation, and the Problem of Technology in Leo Strauss
Eric Kos: Modernism in Religion: The Idealist’s Approach to Science and Religion
Matthew Sitman: Politics After Babel: Michael Oakeshott, Reinhold Niebuhr, and the Theological Defense of Modernity
Chair and Discussant: Elizabeth Corey
4:00-5:30 Panel 6: Modernity and Politics in the Western World
Noël O’Sullivan: Constitutionalism and modernity in Oakeshott, Strauss and Voegelin
William Mathie: What is Modernity?
Attila Molnar: The problem of political knowledge and action in the criticism of Modernity
Ivo Mosley: The Illusion of Democracy
Chair and Discussant: Richard Friedman
6pm till Closing: Dinner and Reception
at the Coreys’ house, 500 North Park Avenue, Waco
