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Friday, May 25, 2007

• 4:30-6:45 pm
  Keynote address, John J. McDermott
  Responses
  Lowell Lecture Hall

• 7-8:30 pm
  Reception at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Saturday, May 26, 2007 

• 8-8:30 am
  Continental Breakfast at Lowell Lecture Hall

• 8:30-9:15 am
  James Versus Royce on the Individual and the Community, Harvey Cormier
  Response

• 9:15-10:30 am
  James's Pragmatism and American Social Thought, 1907-2007, James T. Kloppenberg
  Response

• 10:30-11 am
  Coffee Break

• 11 am-noon
  Community: The Context of Creative Action, Jacquelyn Kegley
  Response

• noon-1 pm
  Boxed lunch at Lowell Lecture Hall

• 1-2:15 pm
  The Jamesian Overflow: Issues and Implications, Sandra Rosenthal
  Response

• 2:15-3:30 pm
  Moral Holidays, John Lachs
  Response

• 3:30-4 pm
  Coffee Break

• 4-5:45 pm
  Panel: Remaining Biographical Frontiers
  John Clendenning, Robert Richardson, Linda Simon, Ignas Skrupskelis, and panel discussion

• 5:45-6:45 pm
  Did Royce Build on a Dream of James?, Frank Oppenheim
  Response

• 7 pm 
  Dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club

Sunday, May 27, 2007

• 8-8:30 am
  Continental Breakfast at Lowell Lecture Hall

• 8:30-9:45 am
  Panel: The Influence of James and Royce on European Thought Then and Now
  Mathias Girel, Felicitas Kraemer, Chris Skowronski, and panel discussion

• 9:45-11 am
  On the Tragic and Tragicomic: The Relevance of Royce, Cornel West
  Response

• 11-11:30 am
  Coffee Break

• 11:30 am-1 pm
  Panel: Observations and Responses to the Conference 
  Peter Hare, David Lamberth, Hilary Putnam, and panel discussion

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