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26th Annual KJSNA Meetings (2004-2005)
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Association

Winter
2004
Eastern
December 27-30, 2004, Boston, MA
Boston Marriott Copley Place
Spring
2005
Pacific
March 23-27, 2005, San Francisco, CA
Westin St. Francis Hotel, Union Square
Spring
2005
Central
April 27-30, 2005, Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL

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”