Sunday, September 15, 2013

JRS at the 2013 Eastern APA

Sunday, 12/29, 11:15 AM - -1:15 PM

GVIII-5. Josiah Royce Society
Topic: Loyalty and War

Chair: Mathew A. Foust (Central Connecticut State University)

Speakers:

William W. Elkins (Drew University)
“Josiah Royce, Robert R. Lee, and the Lost Cause of Loyalty”

Daniel Brunson (Morgan State University)
“The Virtue of Insurance: Loyalty to Loyalty in a Special Community of Interpretation”

Commentator: Mathew A. Foust (Central Connecticut State University)

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

2013 Costello Prize

Jennifer L. Roche (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale) received the Harry Todd Costello Prize for her presentation at the Royce, California, and the World Conference entitled "Josiah Royce on Imagination."

Monday, August 19, 2013

Josiah Royce's Final Written Words

"So long as love and memory and record and monument keep the thought of our dead near to our lives and hearts, so long as ... the spirit of brotherhood enables us to prize what we owe to those who have lived and died for us, the cult of the dead will be an unfailing source to us of new and genuinely religious life."

http://chronicle.com/article/Philosophys-Loss/141119/?cid=cr&utm_source=cr&utm_medium=en

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Royce. California, and the World Conference Schedule



Royce, California, and the World



Friday, August 16


12:00 – 1:30 REGISTRATION

Foyer Outside Arletta Douglas Room


12:30 – 1:20
Room A

Chair: Randall Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

— “Royce’s Problem with Sin: Morbid Obsession or Moral Insight?”
Bette Manter, Curry College


1:30 – 2:45 
Room A

— “On the Secularization of Sin, from Royce to Rawls”
Martin Woessner, City College of New York, CUNY

— “A Beloved Community of Traitors”
Benjamin Craig, Land of Lincoln College

Commentator: Scott L. Pratt, University of Oregon

Room B

— “Josiah Royce on Imagination”
J.L. Roche, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

— “How Provincial Is Wise Provincialism, and How Wise?”
Myron Jackson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale


Commentator: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University

3:00 – 4:45 
Room A

— “The Transitional Importance of Loyalty in the Philosophy of Josiah Royce”
Dave Rodick, Xavier University (Cincinnati)


— “Josiah Royce’s Influence on Charles Sanders Peirce”
David E. Pfeifer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Commentator: Randall Auxier, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Room B

— “Loyalty and Immigration”
David K. Glidden, University of California, Riverside

— “‘All this tale is one disgrace to our people’: Royce’s California as an Exercise of Guilty Identity,”
Kevin Harrelson, Ball State University

Commentator: Jacquelyn Kegley, California State University, Bakersfield

5:00 - 6:15 Book Signing and Readings


Booktown Books, 107 Bank Street

Officiating: Iven Lourie

(First time in print, Pussy Blackie’s Travels, by Josiah Royce)

6:30 BANQUET GATHERING
6:30-7:30 Holbrooke Hotel, Arletta Douglas Room


Officiating: Randall Auxier
Welcome and Recognition, Robin Wallace
Introduction of Speaker, Scott L. Pratt


“Grass Valley to the Great Community”

Jacquelyn A. K. Kegley

CSU Outstanding Professor; Wang Award for Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service; Chair of Philosophy and Religious Studies, California State University, Bakersfield


7:30 Dinner

Saturday, August 17


9:00 – 11:00 REGISTRATION 
Foyer Outside Arletta Douglas Room

8:30 – 9:20

— “Social Division and the Healing Power of the Ethics of Community”
Olav Bryant Smith, California State University, Chico

9:30 – 10:20

— “Royce’s Philosophy of Evil, Loyalty, Sorrow, and Atonement, in Response to Probable Ecological Devastation”
Robert McDermott, California Institute of Integral Studies
10:30 – 11:20 

— “Between or Beyond the ‘Abyss of Abstract Conception’ and the ‘Heaven of Glittering Immediacy’: Did Royce Pull It Off?”
Lucio Privitello, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
11:30 – 12:20 

— “A Deweyan Inspired Roycean Idealism”
Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University (Michigan)


Afternoon Free: Tour of Grass Valley sponsored by Nevada County Historical Society

4:30-6:00 RECEPTION
Grass Valley Library, Royce Branch


6:00 BANQUET GATHERING
151 Union Square


Officiating: Dwayne A. Tunstall
Welcome and Recognition, Iven Lourie
Introduction of Speaker, Jacquelyn A. K. Kegley


“Josiah Royce and the Renewal of the United States: A Challenge to the Royce Community”

Kevin Starr, University Professor of History, Univ. of Southern California; California State Librarian, Emeritus


7:15 Dinner*

Sunday, August 18


8:30 – 9:20

— “Building the Great Community: Assessing Royce’s International Conflict Insurance Proposal in Light of the Collective Security Ideal of the League of Nations and the UN”

Marc Anderson, Montreal, Quebec Canada

9:30 – 10:20 

— “From Provincialism to Bioregionalism: Place and the Saving Community”

Kelvin J. Booth, Thompson Rivers University

10:30 – 11:20

— “There’s Something (Someone) in Between

William Elkins, Drew University

11:30 – 12:20 

— “Royce as Psychologist: A Forgotten Aspect of His Thought”
Jacquelyn A.K. Kegley, California State University, Bakersfield


12:20 – 2:00 Lunch (On one’s own)

2:00 “Beyond Our Mountains,” a reading of a play in two acts*

by Robin A. Wallace

directed by Dinah Smith




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*For persons not attending the banquet, there will be a special presentation of “Beyond Our Mountains” on Saturday evening, August 15 at 7:30, open to the public Arletta Douglas Room, Holbrooke Hotel, $10 at the door. (Both performances open to the public.)

Monday, July 1, 2013

Royce, California, and the World Conference Update

The Royce, California, and the World Conference, to be held at the Holbrooke Hotel in Grass Valley, CA August 16-18, is now open for registration online via PayPal. There is also a form available to download and print for registration via mail. Further information to come.

http://www.roycesociety.org/Meetings/2013-California/RCWConference.html

Saturday, June 22, 2013

CFP: Royce Society at 2014 SAAP



The Josiah Royce Society Session at the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, to take place March 6-8, 2014, in Denver, CO.

This session will include two or three paper presentations and brief commentary on each presentation.

The word limit is 3000 words, and the abstract should be no shorter than 250 words.

Please prepare your paper or abstract for anonymous review. Attach a separate document with the paper title, author name, affiliation, and contact information (email and phone number).

Prospective presenters/commentators are asked to email Tanya Jeffcoat at tjeffcoat@ozarks.edu

Deadline: November 1, 2013

Notification regarding submission status will be made before December 15, 2013.

Thursday, May 30, 2013

CFP for "Science, Religion, and Philosophy: A Commemoration of the World's Parliament of Religions"

"In keeping with one of the themes of the World’s Parliament of Religions, Special Collections Research Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in collaboration with the Hegeler-Carus Foundation invite papers that address any aspect of the relationship between science and religion."

Submissions Deadline is 06/31

Details here:
http://www.spep.org/papers/science-religion-and-philosophy-a-commemoration-of-the-worlds-parliament-of-religions-september-13-15-2013/

Friday, May 17, 2013

SAAP 2014 CFP

The 41st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy will be in Denver, March 6-8, 2014. The Call for Papers is available here, with a submission deadline of September 1, 2013. The conference theme is American Philosophy's Borders: Dialogues and Debates

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Reminder: Royce, California, and the World conference deadline is 06/01

Please send anonymized papers of between 2000 and 3000 words in Microsoft Word format to:


The program committee has special interest in papers on The Problem of Christianity and Royce's life in, and reflections on, California.

www.roycesociety.org/Meetings/2013-California/RCWConference.html