AMERICAN
PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION MEETINGS IN 2004-2005
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Winter
2004
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Eastern
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December
27-30, 2004, Boston, MA
Boston Marriott Copley Place
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Spring
2005
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Pacific
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March
23-27, 2005, San Francisco, CA
Westin St. Francis Hotel, Union Square
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Spring
2005
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Central
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April
27-30, 2005, Palmer House Hilton Hotel,
Chicago, IL
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These programs are sponsored
and supported by the following organizations:
Committee for International
Cooperation,
American Philosophical
Association
Karl Jaspers Society
of North America
The Hannah Arendt
Circle
Averroës and
Enlightenment International Association (Cairo)
The Paideia Project
at Boston University
The Baumgardt Fund
(APA)
“PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION,
AND POLITICS”
APA EASTERN DIVISION
ANNUAL MEETING (BOSTON)
TUESDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER
28, 2004
Cape Cod/Hyannis 2:00 - 5:00
PM (Fourth Floor)
SESSION ONE: “PHILOSOPHY,
RELIGION, AND POLITICS”
Chair: George Pepper (Iona College)
Speaker: Leonard Ehrlich (University
of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“Jaspers, Arendt and the Jewish
Question”
Speaker: Arthur Kennedy (University
of Saint Thomas, Saint Paul MN)
“Jaspers and Voegelin on Religion
and Culture”
Speaker: David Steiner (Boston
University; Director, Education, National
Endowment for the Arts)
“The Continuing Crisis in Education:
Arendt's Enduring Insights”
Commentator: Raymond Langley (Manhattanville
College)
TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER
28, 2004
Cape Cod/Hyannis 7:30 - 10:30
PM (Fourth Floor)
SESSION TWO: “PHILOSOPHY,
RELIGION, AND POLITICS”
Chair: Alan M. Olson (Boston University)
Speaker: Lydia Voronina (US Department
of State)
“To What Extent are Hannah Arendt's
Ideas on Power and Violence Applicable in
the Analysis of Contemporary Religious
Ideologies?”
Speaker: Andrew Buchwalter (University
of Northern Florida)
“Philosophy, Religion, and Politics:
A Hegelian Perspective on Arendt and Jaspers”
Speaker: Helena Gourko (Boston
University and Belorussian University)
“Arendt and Jaspers on Karl Marx”
Commentator: Raymond Langley (Manhattanville
College)
KNSNA Business Meeting Following
Evening Session
APA PACIFIC DIVISION
ANNUAL MEETING (SAN FRANCISCO)
MARCH 23-27, 2005
“PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION,
AND POLITICS”
SESSION ONE: FRIDAY AFTERNOON,
MARCH 25
Chair: Dianne Taylor (John Carroll
University)
Speaker: Joseph Margolis (Temple
University)
“Moral Philosophy After 9-11”
Speaker: Tomoko Iwasawa (Kogakuin
University, Tokyo, Japan)
“Politicizing Cultural and Religious
Mythology”
Speaker: Helgard Mahrdt (University
of Oslo, Norway)
“Freedom in Politics is not a Phenomenon
of the Will:
Hannah Arendt on Thinking, Opinion,
and Acting”
Commentator: Gillian Brock (University
of Auckland, New Zealand)
“PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION,
AND POLITICS”
SESSION TWO: FRIDAY EVENING,
MARCH 25
Chair: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Speaker: Tom Rockmore (Duquesne
University)
“Jaspers, Heidegger, and Hannah
Arendt”
Speaker: Glen Pettigrove (Santa
Clara University)
“Arendt on Forgiveness”
Speaker: Malek Khazaee (California
State University, Long Beach)
“The Looming Clouds of a Stateless
Totalitarianism of the Spirit”
Commentator: Joseph Prabhu (California
State University, Los Angeles)
TWO THREE-HOUR PANELS COSPONSORED
BY:
APA COMMITTEE FOR INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
AVERROËS AND ENLIGHTENMENT
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION (CAIRO)
“PHILOSOPHY, RELIGION AND
POLITICS:
THE PROBLEMATICS OF CHANGE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST”
PANEL ONE: SATURDAY AFTERNOON,
MARCH 26
PANEL TWO: SATURDAY EVENING,
MARCH 26
Chairs: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Gillian Brock (University of Auckland,
New Zealand)
Panelists:
Judith Kipper (Director, Middle
East Forum, Council on Foreign Relations)
Mona Abousenna (Ain Shams University,
Cairo)
John Silber (Boston University)
David Rasmussen (Boston College)
Paul Kurtz (SUNY/Buffalo)
Mourad Wahba (Ain Shams University,
Cairo)
David George (University of Newcastle,
UK)
Krzysztof Michalski (Boston University
and University of Warsaw)
Acknowledgement: The APA Committee
on International Cooperation wishes to thank
the
Averroës and Enlightenment
International Association for its support of
this program.
APA CENTRAL DIVISION
ANNUAL MEETING (CHICAGO)
APRIL 27-30, 2005
SESSION ONE: “PHILOSOPHY,
RELIGION, AND POLITICS”
Chair: Dianna Taylor (John Carroll
University)
Speaker: Ljubov Bugaeva (Saint
Petersburg University and University of Salzburg)
“Arendt and Jaspers on Social Crisis
and Political Technology”
Speaker: Mashuq Ally (University
of South Africa)
“Collective Responsibility and
Race Cognizance as Bases for Restorative (Re)conciliation:
Karl Jaspers's Contribution to Transformation in
Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Speaker: Krystyna Gorniak (Southern
Connecticut State University)
“Freedom and Virtuality: Jaspers
and Arendt on Freedom in the Age of InformationTechnology”
SESSION TWO: “PHILOSOPHY,
RELIGION, AND POLITICS”
Chair: Alan Olson (Boston University)
Speaker: Jacob Elster (University
of Oslo, Norway)
“Simone Weil on the Purificational
Role of Atheism and Amoralism”
Speaker: Ulla Holm (University
of Gõteborg, Sweden)
“ Common Sense : Hannah Arendt
on Judgment in Dark Times”
Speaker: Dianna Taylor (John Carroll
University)
“Eichmann in Jerusalem: Contradiction
and Clarification
in Arendt and Jaspers”
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