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
Prices:
Lunch at Vila Plana Restaurant (UCP) :
Friday: 13.5€
Saturday: 20€
Dinner at Marriott Hotel 35€