Showing posts with label Roosevelt Center for the Study of CIvil Society and Freemasonry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roosevelt Center for the Study of CIvil Society and Freemasonry. Show all posts

Sunday, February 16, 2014

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.



Friday, January 24, 2014

Conference Update: At a Perpetual Distance

AT A PERPETUAL DISTANCE: UNIVERSAL FREEMASONRY AND ITS HISTORICAL DIVISIONS" AN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC CONFERENCE, MARCH 23, 2014, 1:00 TO 5:00 P.M. (PST)

Although Freemasonry prides itself as being universal, it is divided along historic cultural lines based on sex, religion, and--in some cases--ethnicity, and race.  This conference will examine the uniqueness of these streams of Freemasonry, as well as what they have in common.

• Are the divisions of Freemasonry into a male-only fraternity, a female-only fraternity, and a mixed gender fraternity helpful of harmful to its universality?

• Is it possible for a form of Freemasonry which requires belief in a Supreme Being as a condition of membership to be compatible with a form of Freemasonry which has no such requirement?

• Have historic forms of Freemasonry which originated as a result of racial distinctions, such as Prince Hall Freemasonry, make a possible contribution to the universality of Freemasonry?

• Can there be an organizational Framework within which all expressions of Freemasonry work in harmony?

A Una distancia perpetua: la Francmasonería Universal y sus divisiones históricas " Una Conferencia Internacional Público
23 de marzo 2014, 2:00-5:00 P.M. (PST )

A UNA DISTANCIA PERPETUA : UNIVERSAL MASONERÍA Y SUS DIVISIONES HISTÓRICOS " UNA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL PÚBLICO, 23 de marzo 2014, 1:00 A 5:00 PM (PST )

Aunque la masonería se enorgullece de ser universal, se dividió a lo largo de líneas culturales históricas basadas en el sexo, la religión, y - en algunos casos - la etnicidad y la raza. Esta conferencia examinará la singularidad de estas corrientes de la masonería, así como lo que tienen en común.

• ¿Las divisiones de la masonería en un único varón fraternidad, una fraternidad sólo para mujeres, y una fraternidad de género mixto útil de perjudicial para su universalidad?

• ¿Es posible que una forma de masonería que requiere la creencia en un Ser Supremo, como condición de membresía ser compatible con una forma de masonería que no tiene tal requisito?

• ¿Pueden las formas históricas de la masonería que se originaron como consecuencia de las distinciones raciales, como La Francmasonería Prince Hall, contribuir a la universalidad de la masonería?

• ¿Puede haber una forma de organización en el que todas las expresiones de la masonería trabajan en armonía?


Liberal Arts Lodge Building
2244 Westwood Boulevard
Los Angeles, California
90060

Inquiries may be sent to:
Info@therooseveltcenter.org



Monday, October 14, 2013

At a Perpetual Distance: Universal Freemasonry and Its Historical Divisions - Conference 2014

At a Perpetual Distance: Universal Freemasonry and Its Historical Divisions" An International Public Conference 
March 23, 2014, 2:00 to 5:00 P. M. (PST) 

Roosevelt Center for the
Study of Civil Society and Freemasonry
Los Angeles, California

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Cécile Révauger, University of Bordeaux 
Distinguished Speaker: 
Dr. John Cooper, Grand Master Grand Lodge of California, 2014
Distinguished Speaker:
Dr. Roger Dachez, President Masonic Institute of France 

Although Freemasonry prides itself as being universal, it is divided along historic cultural lines based on sex, religion, and - in some cases - ethnicity and race. This conference will examine the uniqueness of these streams of Freemasonry, as well as what they have in common. 

•Are the divisions of Freemasonry into a male-only fraternity, a female-only fraternity, and a mixed gender fraternity helpful or harmful to its universality?

•Is it possible for a form of Freemasonry which requires a belief in a Supreme Being as a condition of membership to be compatible with a form of Freemasonry which has no such requirement?
•Have historic forms of Freemasonry which originated as a result of racial distinctions, such as Prince Hall Freemasonry, make a positive contribution to the universality of Freemasonry?
•Can there be an organizational framework within which all expressions of Freemasonry work in harmony?

Liberal Arts Lodge Building
2244 Westwood Boulevard 
Los Angeles, California 
90060

Inquiries may be sent to:
Info@therooseveltcenter.org