Call For Papers | November 2024 Conference

James J. Londis & Family Lecturer

Dr. Lewis R. Gordon (Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Global Affairs and Department Head, University of Connecticut)

Date: November 21st, 2024 | Venue: Hotel Indigo San Diego-Gaslamp Quarter - 509 Ninth Ave, San Diego, CA 92101.

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*This Year’s Conference is Co-Sponsored by Spectrum Magazine and the Center for Christian Bioethics

8:30 am Welcome and Introductions

8:45 – 10:30 am Session 1: Freedom and Limits

Session Chair – Matthew Korpman

“Freedom For What? Reading Responses to the Covid Crisis with Matthew 25 and C. Fred Alford” - David Barrett

“Freedom in an Ambiguous and Violent World: Re-Reading Eve’s Creation Story with Simone de Beauvoir” - Mathilde Frey

“Were Adam and Eve Free? A Levinasian Reading of the Creation Story”- Abi Doukhan

10:45 – 12:00 pm Session 2: Ethics of Freedom

Session Chair - Anthony Malagon

“Anthropotechnics of Freedom: Training in Objectivity and the Ethics of Epistemic Authenticity “ - Ante Jerončić

“Beginning Anew: Hannah Arendt on Freedom and Revolution” - Daniël Muller

12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 – 3:00 pm Session 3: Metaphysics of Freedom

Session Chair – Roy Benton

“Material Freedom, Spiritual Marronage.” - Nathan Hilton

3:15 – 5:15 pm Session 4: 2024 Londis & Family Lecture

“Freedom Relished, Freedom Feared” - Lewis R. Gordon

Lecture Response - Timothy J. Golden, Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Whitman College