Budapest 2023: Programme
Ludovika University of Public Service
Budapest, Hungary
SEPTEMBER 7-10, 2023
“Michael Oakeshott: Liberalism Revisited”
Program
Thursday, September 7th, 2023
18:00-19:00 Reception (Main Building of the Ludovika University of Public Service, Ludovika Square, Zrinyi Hall)
19:00 Keynote address (Timothy Fuller) and Dinner (University restaurant)
Friday, September 8th, 2023
8:45-10:15 Panel I: Oakeshott and Liberal Education (Zrinyi Hall)
- Quinton Peralta-Greenough—‘Liberalism in Liberal Education: An Oakeshottian Contribution’
- Andrew Humphries and Albert Loan—‘Oakeshott and Ostrom on Liberal and Political Education’
- Kevin Williams—‘Extending the Conversation: Decolonizing Oakeshott’s Philosophy of Liberal Education’
- Eno Trimcev—‘An Oakeshottian Defense of European Citizenship in the Postmodern Age’
- Chair: Ken McIntyre
10:30-12:00 Panel II: Oakeshott and Liberalism in the Non-Anglophone World
- Gülşen Seven—‘The Wanting Ideology: Liberalism in Turkey’
- Leszek Nowak—‘Un-Oakeshottian Liberalism in Poland after 1989’
- Chor-yung Cheung—‘Theorizing the Civil Condition: Oakeshott and Chinese Liberalism’
- Chair: Eric Kos
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Panel III: Oakeshott and Continental Thinkers
- James Alexander—‘The Split Personality of the State’
- Michael Adamo—‘The Individual Manqué in Oakeshott and Houellebecq’
- Mathis Bitton—‘An Illiberal Life: Oakeshott, Berlin, and the Counter-Enlightenment’
- Samanta Stecko—‘Oakeshott’s Aristocratic Liberalism and Aristotle’s Conception of Magnanimity’
- Chair: Leslie Marsh
15:15-16:45 Panel IV: Oakeshott and Meta-political Theory and Theorizing
- Attila Molnar—‘Mobilization and Governing’
- Ferenc Hörcher—‘The Idea of ‘the Political’ in Oakeshott and His Criticism of Ideology-Drive Liberalism in His Inaugural Speech’
- Gene Callahan—‘Michael Oakeshott Goes Fishing’
- Nathan Cockram—‘A Note on Oakeshott, Practical Knowledge, and Civil Society’
- Chair: Attila Molnar
17:00 Dinner (John Lukacs Club)
Saturday, September 9th, 2023
8:45-10:15 Panel V: Oakeshott and Public Policy
- Dean Ball—‘Navigating the Meridian: Oakeshott’s Compass for Decentralized Environmental Policy’
- Adam Lovasz—‘Michael Oakeshott on the Dangers of the Welfare State’
- Kenneth McIntyre—‘Value Pluralism and Freedom of Association: Oakeshottian Reflections’
- Chair: Leslie Marsh
10:30-12:00 Panel VI: Oakeshott and Liberalism I
- Jakob Söderbaum—‘Oakeshott—A Pioneer in Turning Conservatism into a Creed of Liberty’
- Agostino Carrino—‘Oakeshott and Aron: A Liberal Conservatism for the 21st Century?’
- Gábor Megadja—‘What’s Wrong with Liberalism?’
- Haosheng Li—‘Beyond an Instrumentalist View of the State?: On Rawls’s “Political” Turn in Oakeshott’s Perspective’
- Chair: Ken McIntyre
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Panel VII: Oakeshott and Liberalism II
- Zoltán Pető—‘The Enemy of the Individual: Michael Oakeshott and the Critique of Mass Politics’
- Michael Jacobs—‘An Oakeshottian Analysis of Stephen Wolfe’s Christian Nationalism: Civil Association vs. The Complete Good’
- Thomas Cheeseman—‘The Joys of Muddling: Oakeshott among the Originalists’
- Carlos Marques de Almeida, “Beyond Liberalism: The English Imagination in the Political Theory of Michael Oakeshott”
- Chair: Eric Kos
19:00 Dinner
Sunday, September 10th, 2023
Depart on individual schedules