Events
Oakeshott Memorial Lecture, LSE, 19th October 2011
Are adverbial rules enough? Michael Oakeshott famously distinguished the character of a state, as opposed to an enterprise association, as something that derives from the imposition of adverbial constraints on action rather than the adoption of social goals. Oliver Letwin [explores] the extent to which this is, and the extent to which it is not, [...]
2011 MOA Conference Program
The program for this month’s tenth Michael Oakeshott Association conference is now available for download as a PDF.
MOA Conference Travel Grants now open
The George Feaver Young Scholars Fund, administered by the Michael Oakeshott Association (MOA), is seeking applications for grants enabling attendance at the fifth MOA conference to be held at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma from October 13-16, 2011 on the theme of “Religion, Politics and the Future of Liberal Education“. The focus of [...]
A second Oakeshott conference
It looks like this year’s tenth anniversary MOA conference, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is not going to be the only conference devoted to Oakeshott this October. A joint Spanish-American effort has announced its own colloquium on Oakeshott, to be held at California State University.
2011 MOA Conference: Call for Papers
Religion, Politics and the Future of Liberal Education The Tenth Anniversary Meeting of the Michael Oakeshott Association, 2001-2011 UNIVERSITY OF TULSA OCTOBER 13-16, 2011 2011 marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Michael Oakeshott Association, a group established to encourage the critical study of one of the twentieth century’s most important political philosophers. [...]