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.)
