Call for Papers: 5th MOA Conference

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Michael Oakeshott Association Conference
November 12-14, 2009
Baylor University
Waco, Texas

2009 marks the fifth meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, a
group founded in 2001 to encourage the study of one of the 20th
century’s most important political philosophers. Previous conferences
have taken place at the London School of Economics, Colorado College,
and the University of Jena in Germany.

This year, Baylor University will host the conference, broadening its
scope to include the thought of Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin.
Because Oakeshott, Strauss and Voegelin overlapped so extensively in
their interests and yet differed sharply on certain points of method
and teaching, comparisons among them often prove fruitful and
enlightening. This is why readers of one thinker often become serious
readers of the others. And yet we rarely if ever have an occasion to
come together as a group and to benefit directly from each other’s
insights.

We thus especially invite papers on topics that all three thinkers
address, such as the function and place of liberal education, the
fruitful tensions between reason and revelation, the relationship of
religion and politics, the meaning of political philosophy, the crisis
of modernity, and the role that studying the ancients may play in
better understanding our modern situation. This list is not
exhaustive, but we strongly encourage potential presenters to engage
such comparative topics.

Abstracts, no more than 500 words, should be sent by April 30, 2009 to
Elizabe...@baylor.edu. Abstracts should also include: title of
paper, full name(s), affiliation, current position, and an email
address.

The conference will take place at the Armstrong Browning Library at
Baylor University in Waco, Texas.