Michael Oakeshott Association: Budapest

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Ludovika University of Public Service

Budapest, Hungary

SEPTEMBER 7-10, 2023

“Michael Oakeshott: Liberalism Revisited”

Program

Thursday, September 7th, 2023

18:00-19:00  Reception (Main Building of the Ludovika University of Public Service, Ludovika Square, Zrinyi Hall)

19:00  Keynote address (Timothy Fuller) and Dinner (University restaurant)

Friday, September 8th, 2023

8:45-10:15  Panel I: Oakeshott and Liberal Education (Zrinyi Hall)

  • Quinton Peralta-Greenough—‘Liberalism in Liberal Education:  An Oakeshottian Contribution’
  • Andrew Humphries and Albert Loan—‘Oakeshott and Ostrom on Liberal and Political Education’
  • Kevin Williams—‘Extending the Conversation:  Decolonizing Oakeshott’s Philosophy of Liberal Education’
  • Eno Trimcev—‘An Oakeshottian Defense of European Citizenship in the Postmodern Age’
  • Chair: Ken McIntyre

10:30-12:00  Panel II: Oakeshott and Liberalism in the Non-Anglophone World

  • Gülşen Seven—‘The Wanting Ideology:  Liberalism in Turkey’
  • Leszek Nowak—‘Un-Oakeshottian Liberalism in Poland after 1989’
  • Chor-yung Cheung—‘Theorizing the Civil Condition:  Oakeshott and Chinese Liberalism’
  • Chair: Eric Kos

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00  Panel III: Oakeshott and Continental Thinkers

  • James Alexander—‘The Split Personality of the State’
  • Michael Adamo—‘The Individual Manqué in Oakeshott and Houellebecq’ 
  • Mathis Bitton—‘An Illiberal Life:  Oakeshott, Berlin, and the Counter-Enlightenment’
  • Samanta Stecko—‘Oakeshott’s Aristocratic Liberalism and Aristotle’s Conception of Magnanimity’
  • Chair: Leslie Marsh

15:15-16:45  Panel IV: Oakeshott and Meta-political Theory and Theorizing

  • Attila Molnar—‘Mobilization and Governing’
  • Ferenc Hörcher—‘The Idea of ‘the Political’ in Oakeshott and His Criticism of Ideology-Drive Liberalism in His Inaugural Speech’
  • Gene Callahan—‘Michael Oakeshott Goes Fishing’
  • Nathan Cockram—‘A Note on Oakeshott, Practical Knowledge, and Civil Society’
  • Chair: Attila Molnar

17:00 Dinner (John Lukacs Club)

Saturday, September 9th, 2023

8:45-10:15  Panel V: Oakeshott and Public Policy

  • Dean Ball—‘Navigating the Meridian:  Oakeshott’s Compass for Decentralized Environmental Policy’
  • Adam Lovasz—‘Michael Oakeshott on the Dangers of the Welfare State’
  • Kenneth McIntyre—‘Value Pluralism and Freedom of Association:  Oakeshottian Reflections’ 
  • Chair: Leslie Marsh

10:30-12:00  Panel VI: Oakeshott and Liberalism I

  • Jakob Söderbaum—‘Oakeshott—A Pioneer in Turning Conservatism into a Creed of Liberty’
  • Agostino Carrino—‘Oakeshott and Aron:  A Liberal Conservatism for the 21st Century?’ 
  • Gábor Megadja—‘What’s Wrong with Liberalism?’
  • Haosheng Li—‘Beyond an Instrumentalist View of the State?:  On Rawls’s “Political” Turn in Oakeshott’s Perspective’
  • Chair: Ken McIntyre

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00  Panel VII: Oakeshott and Liberalism II

  • Zoltán Pető—‘The Enemy of the Individual:  Michael Oakeshott and the Critique of Mass Politics’
  • Michael Jacobs—‘An Oakeshottian Analysis of Stephen Wolfe’s Christian Nationalism: Civil Association vs. The Complete Good’
  • Thomas Cheeseman—‘The Joys of Muddling:  Oakeshott among the Originalists’
  • Carlos Marques de Almeida, “Beyond Liberalism:  The English Imagination in the Political Theory of Michael Oakeshott”
  • Chair: Eric Kos

19:00 Dinner

Sunday, September 10th, 2023

Depart on individual schedules

Christopher Peacocke on David Wiggins

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“Intellectual empathy can transform philosophical conversation and teaching. If you understand from the other’s point of view their doubts, concerns, their philosophical hinterland, you will be able to communicate ideas in ways not otherwise available”. — David Wiggins: A Personal Philosophical Memoir (open access).