Conference and Event Videos
The 2019 Telos Conference
The 2019 Telos Conference was held on February 15–17, 2019, in New York, NY. Further details about the conference, including the conference program, are available here.
Welcome:
Anthony Tamburri, Maria Piccone, and David Pan
Plenary 1:
David Pan, "Interpretation and Decision: The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt"
With Wayne Hudson, Marcia Pally, and Eugene Rivers
Moderated by Adrian Pabst
First Keynote Presentation by Wayne Hudson:
Rethinking Political Theology
Moderated by Adrian Pabst
Plenary 2: "Political Theology, Civilization, and Ideology"
With Joseph Bendersky, Dustin J. Byrd, and Greg Melleuish
Moderated by Tim Luke
Parallel Session 1: "Faith, Populism, and Liberal Democracy"
With Brendan Mullen, Giada Scotto, Marcin Składanowski, and Pekka Sulkunen
Moderated by Marcia Pally
Parallel Session 3: "Color and Creed: Political Theologies in Pentecostal and Evangelical Churches"
With Kenneth D. Johnson and Luis Aránguiz Kahn
Moderated by Jay Gupta
Second Keynote Presentation by Eugene F. Rivers III:
"Religion and the Intellectuals: From Partisan Review to Telos"
Moderated by Russell A. Berman
Plenary 3: "Critical Theory of Liberalism as Secular Political Theology"
With Edward Hadas, Márton Hoványi, Austin Kopack, Marcia Pally, and Kohei Nagashima
Moderated by Tim Luke
Plenary 4: "Nature and Nihilism: The Political Theology of the 'Dark Enlightenment'"
With Courtney Hodrick, Tim Luke, Adrian Pabst, and Peter Y. Paik
Moderated by David Pan
The 2018 Telos Europe Conference
The 2018 Telos Europe Conference was held from August 31 to September 2, 2018, in Ragusa, Sicily. Further details about the conference, including the conference program, are available here.
Session on "Order, Power, and Empire"
With Lars Erslev Andersen, Jay A. Gupta, and Samir Puri
Moderated by David Pan
Plenary Debate: "(Why) Are Empires Enduring?"
With Wayne Hudson, Adrian Pabst, and Adam K. Webb
Moderated by Russell A. Berman
Session on "Empires of the Orient?"
With Loren Goodman, Marco Antonio Patriarca, and Andrew M. Wender
Moderated by Richard Sakwa
Session on "Liberalism and the Fall of Empires"
With Robert Reuschlein, Matthew Dal Santo, and Timothy Stacey
Moderated by Tim Luke
Session on "Russia and the Shadow of Empire"
With Maria Teresa Giusti, Paul Grenier, and Richard Sakwa
Moderated by Russell A. Berman
Session on "Otherness, Imperialism, and Ideology"
With Steven Ekovich, Silvana Kandel Lamdan, Gideon Rossouw, and Luis Valenzuela-Vermehren
Moderated by David Pan
Session on "New Empires: Hegemony and Warfare"
With Martin Bolle, Haeun Kim, and Jo Ann Oravec
Moderated by Tim Luke
Session on "Empire in Question"
With Wayne Hudson, Tim Luke, Adam K. Webb, and David Pan
Moderated by Adrian Pabst
Plenary Debate: "Empires of the Future, Empires of the Mind?"
With Russell Berman, Jay A. Gupta, David Pan, and Richard Sakwa
The Telos 50th Anniversary Event
On Friday, June 8, 2018, Telos celebrated its 50th anniversary at a special event held at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York, NY.
Maria Piccone, Publisher of Telos Press
Russell Berman, Editor of Telos
David Pan, Executive Director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
Tim Luke, Book Line Editor at Telos Press Publishing
Adrian Pabst, Associate Editor of Telos
Jacob Siegel speaks on "Telos, Post-liberal Politics, and a Veteran’s Reading of Ernst Jünger"
The 2018 Telos Conference
The 2018 Telos Conference was held on February 16–18, 2018, in New York, NY. Further details about the conference, including the conference program, are available here.
Keynote Presentation by Bernhard Schlink:
Minimal Constitutionalism
Moderated by David Pan
Keynote Presentation by Paul Kahn:
A Constitutional Culture: Between Law and Power
Moderated by Russell A. Berman
Session on "Tradition and State Structure"
With Xudong Zhang, John Yu Zou, Andrea Gadberry, and Greg Melleuish
Moderated by Marcia Pally
Session on "U.S. Political Movements"
With Tim Luke, Mark Weiner, David Pan, and Russell Berman
Moderated by Joseph Bendersky
Session on "Japanese Constitutionalism in World-Historical Context"
With Takahiro Nakajima, Qin Wang, and Loren Goodman
Moderated by Xudong Zhang
Session on "Cultural Foundations of Political Life"
With Marcia Pally, Adrian Pabst, Joseph Bendersky, and Aryeh Botwinick
Moderated by David Pan
The 2017 Telos Conference
The 2017 Telos Conference was held on January 14–15, 2017, in New York, NY. Further details about the conference, including the conference program, are available here.
Keynote Presentation by Steven Metz:
Future Conflict and the Conceptual Prison of Asymmetry
Moderated by Joseph W. Bendersky
Keynote Presentation by Kenneth Anderson:
Situating Asymmetrical Warfare among Forms of Emerging Conflict in the Post–New World Order World
Moderated by David Pan
The 2016 Telos Conference
The 2016 Telos Conference was held on January 16–17, 2016, in New York, NY. Further details about the conference, including the conference program, are available here.
David Pan on Upcoming Telos-Paul Piccone Institute conferences
At the 2016 Telos Conference in New York, David Pan discussed the Institute's plans for upcoming conferences.
Plenary:
Ethical Solidarity in Political Difference
Moderated by David Pan, the plenary session included Adrian Pabst, Russell A. Berman, Wayne Hudson, and Joseph Bendersky.
Roundtable:
What is the Global Dimension of Ethical Life
Moderated by Russell A. Berman, the roundtable included Wayne Hudson, Adrian Pabst, Jay Gupta, David Pan, and Marcia Pally.
Keynote Presentation by Samuel Tadros:
Islamism and the Crisis of Modernity
Moderated by Russell A. Berman
Roundtable:
The Ethical State: Is Liberal Democracy the Only Game in Town?
Moderated by Adrian Pabst, the roundtable included Samuel Tadros, Russell Berman, Aryeh Botwinick, Greg Melleuish, Paul Gottfried, and Joseph Bendersky.
The 2015 Telos Conference
The 2015 Telos Conference was held on February 13–15, 2015, in New York, NY. Further details about the conference, including the conference program, are available here.
Roundtable:
Universal History, the West, the East, and the Rest
Moderated by Marcia Pally, the roundtable included Russell A. Berman, Adrian Pabst, Ulrike Kistner, Jay Gupta, Christopher Coker, and Wayne Hudson.
Keynote Presentation by Jonathan Israel
The Enlightenment Reconsidered: A Contemporary Controversy
Keynote Presentation at the 2015 Telos Conference. The presentation was chaired by Wayne Hudson.
Roundtable:
The Future of History: A New Universal Vision or Dissolving into Particularities?
Moderated by Adrian Pabst, the roundtable included Wayne Hudson, Joseph Bendersky, Greg Melleuish, Aryeh Botwinick, Jonathan Israel, and Tim Luke.