PROGRAMME

19 SEPTEMBER

18 :30—CHECK-IN

19:30—DINNER at MARRIOTT HOTEL

20:15-21:30—KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ROBERT GRANT on Oakeshott’s Life and

Biography

CHAIR: TBA

20 SEPTEMBER

8:30-9:00 COFFEE SERVICE

9:00-10:45 PANEL 1: POETRY AND POETS

Chair: Michael Henkel

Eno Trimçev and Dr. Rieke Trimçev: Michael Oakeshott and Jacques Rancière on

Aesthetics, Political Theory and Ideology

James Alexander: The Problem of a Pure Theory of Poetry

Kevin Williams: The Philosophy of Poetry: Soundings in the Work of Michael

Oakeshott and Seamus Heaney

11:00-12:45 PANEL 2: CONSERVATISM AND MODERN POLITICS

Chair: Eric Kos

Carlos Marques de Almeida: A Conservative Landscape – From A Guide to the

Classics to the Claims of Politics

Wendell John Coats : Oakeshott, Strauss and the Romans

13:00- LUNCH AND AFTERNOON BREAK

19:30 DINNER AND EXECUTIVE COMITTEE MEETING

21 SEPTERMBER

8:30-9:00 COFFEE SERVICE

9:00-10:45 PANEL 3: RATIONALISM

Chair: João Pereira Coutinho

Li Haosheng: Out of Rationalist Politics’ Crises: A Comparative

Study of Popper and Oakeshott’s Political Thoughts

Nathan Robert Cockran: Between Scylla and Charybdis:

Oakeshott and Gray

Gene Callahan and Luke Sheahan: C.S. Lewis and Oakeshott’s Critiques of Scien-

tism and Rationalism

11:00-12:45 PANEL 4: AESTHETICS AND EDUCATION

Chair: William Hasselberger

Alex Langstaff: Silence, Poetry and the Vita Contemplativa: Oakeshott and Ar-

endt on the Conversation of Mankind

Michael Rushton: Michael Oakeshott on Poetry, the Arts, and Politics

Kevin Williams: Work, Play And Language Learning: Some Practical Implications Of An Aspect Of Michael Oakeshott’s Philosophy Of Education

13:00-15:00—LUNCH AND BREAK

15:30-17:15 PANEL 5: JUDGMENT, AUTHORITY, PHILOSOPHY

Chair: João Carlos Espada

Gulsen Seven: Appeal Of Montaigne: Michael Oakeshott And Raymond Geuss On

The Character Of Political Judgement

Atilla Molnar: Authority: Fragments Of The Good Regime

Ferenc Horcher: The Poetry Of The Past: Oakeshott’s Uncommon Rhetoric Of

Common Sense Conservatism

17:30 –18:30 - PORT WINE RECEPTION

19:30—CLOSING DINNER AT MARIOTT HOTEL

Registrations until 16 September to

secretariado.iep@iep.lisboa.ucp.pt

Prices:

Lunch at Vila Plana Restaurant (UCP) :

Friday: 13.5€

Saturday: 20€

Dinner at Marriott Hotel 35€