At a Perpetual Distance: Universal Freemasonry and its Historical Divisions: Agenda & RSVP Information

The Roosevelt Center is developing as a network of scholars and students in California and more broadly in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and across the globe. The specific purpose of the Roosevelt Center is to promote research, conversation, education and communication in general around the study of civil society and/or Freemasonry. Support is given to faculty, students and projects related to the study of Freemasonry and democratic civil society around the world. The Roosevelt Center approaches Freemasonry as an association representative historically of civil society as it developed from the eighteenth century onwards. The approach at the globally networked Center is multi-dimensional. It involves a cultural, comparative and global study of civil society. It also concerns the meaning that Freemasonry could assume in private and public life, as well as it examines Masonic thought in a variety of historical and contemporary settings.

Work at the Center/network/forum is intended to engage an array of questions and approaches in the arts, humanities and social sciences relevant to civil society, including cultural studies, the study of symbolism, ritual and theater, aesthetics, affective and cognitive neuroscience, comparative religion, the history and advance of science, moral and political philosophy, new approaches in historical geography, and the 300 year history, and prehistory, of modern Freemasonry since the Enlightenment.

Past lectures and events co-sponsored by the Roosevelt Center:

Distinguished Professor Margaret Jacob, UCLA, in Santa Monica Pacific-Palisades Lodge, California, USA

Tom Jackson gave a paper at Lodge Hollywood, Grand Lodge of Califorinia, Tarzana, California, USA

Professor Eric Pallazo, a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, lectured both in Los Angeles, California and in San Francisco, California USA

Visiting Professor, UCLA, María Vázquez Semadeni presented at Lodge Liberal Arts in Los Angeles, California

John Slifko preesented a paper at Lodge Liberal Arts, Grand Lodge of California, Los Angeles, California.

Dr. John Cooper presented at Lodge Liberal Arts, Grand Lodge of California, Los Angeles, California.

Steve Doan presented at Lodge Liberal Arts, Grand Lodge of California, Los Angeles.


Announcements of future lectures and events including international conferences, projects, and activities supported by the Roosevelt Center.

Here is the agenda and RSVP link for the upcoming March 23, 2014 Conference entitled:

 "At a Perpetual Distance: Universal Freemasonry and its Historical Divisions"

The international gathering is to held at Liberal Arts Lodge Building, 2244 Westwood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90064.

March_23rd_2014_Conf_Schedule.pdf