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.

SAAP 2013

Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy

40th Annual Meeting

March 7-9, 2013

The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Stockton Seaview Hotel and Golf Club


http://american-philosophy.org/events/annual_meeting.htm

Call for Volunteer Editor of Royce on PhilPapers

In an effort to improve the visibility of Royce-related scholarship, the JRS is calling for a volunteer editor for the Josiah Royce page of PhilPapers. While this is an uncompensated position, it would contribute greatly to the Society and the profession as a whole through providing a free and unified Royce bibliography.

The summary of editorial responsibility and the application process is available here: http://philpapers.org/browse/josiah-royce/application.html

JRS at Pacific APA

2013 Pacific APA JRS Session

San Francisco, CA  
03/27-03/31


Thursday Evening, March 28
G5C     Josiah Royce Society
6:00-9:00 p.m.
Topic:  Royce in Relation: Loyalty and History
Chair:  Scott L. Pratt (University of Oregon)
Speakers:      

Robert McDermott (California Institute of Integral Studies)
   "Royce’s Philosophy of Loyalty, Sorrow, and Atonement in
    Response to Ecological Devastation"   
          
Francesco Poggiani (Pennsylvania State University)
    "Royce’s Analysis of Nietzsche and J. M. Guyau’s Approach
      to the Ethical Problem"

Kipton Jensen (Morehouse College)
    "The Growing Edges of the Beloved Community: From Royce
     (and James) to Thurman (and King)"

David Vessey (Grand Valley State University)
     "What We Can Learn from Reading Royce’s Interpretations
      of Fichte"

JRS at Central APA

Josiah Royce Society
2013 APA Central Division meeting
The Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, LA
02/20-02/23 2013

Group session 68
Sponsored by the Josiah Royce Society
Tentative time: Thursday, 02/21,  7:30 PM-10:30 PM
Topic: Temporality and Community
 
     Randall E. Auxier (SIUC) chair
   
     John D. Glenn (Tulane University), speaker:
          "Now and Then: Considerations of Two Arguments 
          about Time"

     J. L. Roche (SIUC), speaker:
          "Roycean Interpretation and Temporality in
          Community Disaster"