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Royce's Legacy - A Conference in Honor of Frank Oppenheim 
April 4-6
Xavier University, Cincinnati 

http://www.roycesociety.org/Meetings/2014-Ohio/RLHOConference.html

158 Years of Josiah Royce

"[A community of memory] is any group of persons who individually either remember or commemorate the same dead, - each one finding, because of personal affection or of reverence for the dead, that those whom he commemorates form for him part of his own past existence."
-Josiah Royce, born November 20th, 1855.

CFP: Royce's Legacy - a Conference in Honor of Rev. Frank Oppenheim, SJ

Call For Papers: Josiah Royce Society
Royce's Legacy: A Conference in Honor of Rev. Frank Oppenheim, SJ
April 4-6, Xavier University Cincinnati

In recent years the work of Josiah Royce has drawn increased attention from scholars and thinkers all over the world. Since its formation in 2003, the Josiah Royce Society has promoted scholarly activities related to Royce’s ideas in a far-ranging series of national and international conferences. In recognition of the fact that this recent revival of Royce’s philosophy is due largely to the exemplary work of Frank Oppenheim, the Royce Society has decided to honor Oppenheim with a conference at Xavier University in Cincinnati, where he taught from 1961-2003.

We now invite submissions to this special meeting in honor of Frank Oppenheim. We welcome papers on any aspect of Royce’s philosophy, but we especially encourage papers that deal explicitly with Oppenheim’s contributions to Royce scholarship and to American philosophy.

Please send submissions of 3000 words or less to Kevin Harrelson (philocfp@bsu.edu) by February 1, 2014.

Frank Oppenheim was born in Coldwater, Ohio, in 1925 and studied at Xavier, Loyola, and Saint Louis Universities. He is author of four books on Josiah Royce’s philosophy, the most recent of which (Reverence for the Relations of Life: Re-imagining Pragmatism via Josiah Royce's Interactions with Peirce, James and Dewey) was published in 2004.

http://philevents.org/event/show/11765

JRS at the 2014 Pacific APA

[Specific date and time TBD]

Royce and Agnotology: Loyalty, Community, and Interpretation

Chair:  Jacquelyn Kegley (California State University, Bakersfield)
        
Papers:

Russell J. Duvernoy (University of Oregon)
"Community and Interpretation: Josiah Royce and Epistemologies of Ignorance"

Jon LaRochelle (University of Oregon)
"Royce's Loyalty and the Problem of Value Ignorance"

Dr. Kara Barnette (Westminster College)
"Error, Ignorance, and Interpretation"

Trey Hodges (University of Oregon)
“Religious Loyalty and the Good: Willful Ignorance as a Foundation for an Ethics in Royce”

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)

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."

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

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 Studies10:30 – 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 Jersey11:30 – 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.)

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

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.

Royce, California, and the World Conference CFP Extended

Paper submissions have been extended to June 15th, 2013:

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

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/

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

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:

royceconference2013@gmail.com

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

Reminder: CFP for JRS panel at 2013 Eastern APA

Josiah Royce Society Session at the Eastern APA, to take place December 27-30, 2013, in Baltimore, MD at the Marriott Waterfront

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

Papers should be able to be read in 25-30 minutes (around 3000-3500 words). If submitting an abstract, it should be no shorter than 250 words.

Please prepare your paper or abstract for blind 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 Mathew Foust at: mfoust@lander.edu

Deadline: May 1, 2013

Notification regarding submission status will be made before May 31, 2013.

New Center for Royce Studies in Italy

Announcing the inauguration of an Italian Josiah Royce Studies Center, in collaboration with the Peirce Studies Center based at the University of Milan:

http://www.josiahroycecentrostudi.it/

https://www.facebook.com/CentroStudiJosiahRoyce

Call for Papers - JRS at 2014 Pacific APA

Josiah Royce Society Session at Pacific APA, to take place April 14-19, 2014, in San Diego, CA

This session will include two or three paper presentations and brief commentary on each presentation.
Papers should be able to be read in 25-30 minutes (around 3000-3500 words). If submitting an abstract, it should be no shorter than 250 words.

Please prepare your paper or abstract for blind 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 e-mail Jackie Kegley at: jkegley@csub.edu 

Deadline: December 1, 2013

Notification regarding submission status will be made before February 1, 2014.

JRS at 2013 Eastern APA

Josiah Royce Society Session at the Eastern APA, to take place December 27-30, 2013, in Baltimore, MD at the Marriott Waterfront

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

Papers should be able to be read in 25-30 minutes (around 3000-3500 words). If submitting an abstract, it should be no shorter than 250 words.

Please prepare your paper or abstract for blind 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 Mathew Foust at: mfoust@lander.edu

Deadline: May 1, 2013

Notification regarding submission status will be made before May 31, 2013.

Concerning this summer's conference

http://sierrafoothillsreport.com/2013/03/04/scoop-grass-valley-attracts-another-prestigious-history-related-conference/

Royce Conference 2013 CFP

Royce, California, and the World:

A Conference Sponsored by the Josiah Royce Society and Empirical Magazine

Please direct all replies or questions to: royceconference2013@gmail.com


Royce, California, and the World, a meeting of scholars and communities, will be held August 16-18, 2013, in Royce’s historic birthplace and hometown, Grass Valley, California, in the beautiful Sierra Foothills. The meeting will be held at the Holbrooke Hotel, an important California landmark.

In recent years the work of Josiah Royce has drawn increased attention from scholars and thinkers all over the world. Since its formation in 2003, the Josiah Royce Society has promoted scholarly activities related to Royce’s ideas in a far-ranging series of national and international conferences. In 2013 the Royce Society brings Royce home to his roots and celebrates the 100th anniversary of Royce’s masterwork, The Problem of Christianity. Scholarly papers in any discipline on Royce, applications of Roycean philosophy, and creative extensions of Royce's thought are welcome. Especially sought for this conference are papers on The Problem of Christianity and on Royce’s history of and in California.

PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE:

* John J. McDermott, Texas A&M University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy

* Kevin Starr, University of Southern California: University Professor of History & California State Librarian, Emeritus

ORIGINAL PLAY:

The proceedings will include a reading of a new original play about Royce’s life in California, “Beyond Our Mountains,” by Robin A. Wallace.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Deadline: Submissions are due by June 1, 2013. Notification of acceptance will be made by June 15th.

Format: Submissions should be in MSWord format (do not send pdf files; organizers must code documents for refereeing and pdfs are not suitable).

Length: 2000 to 3000 words; 20-35 minutes reading time.
 
Information: Papers should be prepared for blind review and submitted as an e-mail attachment to royceconference2013@gmail.com. The author's name, institution, e-mail address, eligibility for the Costello Prize (see below), and word count should be indicated only in the body of the e-mail.

Prize: The Harry Todd Costello Prize for the best graduate student or recent Ph.D. paper on Royce, as selected by the Program Committee. Those who are currently graduate students or whose Ph.D. was awarded after August 31, 2008 are eligible for the Costello Prize. Papers will be judged on scholarship, clarity of presentation, excellence of argument, scholarship, and the contribution made to the on-going development of Royce's ideas and Roycean thought.


Royce Society: http://www.roycesociety.org/index.php

Empirical Magazine: http://www.empiricalmagazine.com/

Program Co-Chairs: Randall E. Auxier, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale; Scott L. Pratt, Univ. of Oregon

Grass Valley Organizing Committee: Robin A. Wallace, Iven Lourie, Olav Bryant Smith, Jackie Kegley
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANYONE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED.