The Congress on Fraternalism, Social Capital, and Civil Society is coming back to Paris in 2022!
Everyone attending is presumed to be fully vaccinated and in strict compliance with public health requirements.
As we sadly postponed the June 5th event in 2020 in Washington DC, we are now looking forward to the next edition of the congress in 2022 at the Grand Orient de France, in Paris. We are happily rewriting to our pre virus schedule. The Paris congress will alternate with the Washington DC congress, and thus in 2023 we will convene in Washington DC during the first week in June and will be back in Paris in the first week of June in 2024. We warmly welcome ideas for enhancing these events. We would be enthusiastic about premiers of music and other arts as well as book launches. Panels as well as individual papers are always a priority.
The congress is about fraternalism and social capital. To submit a proposal please contact Daniel Gutierrez at dgutierrezs@ipsonet.org. There is no attendance fee but registration is needed for catering and other arrangements. The preliminary list of speakers below will be continusously updated as we receive proposals.
If you had a paper in mind, our journal on Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society (RSCS) is at https://www.rscsjournal.org/ and warmly welcomes your submissions.
The Policy Studies Organization launched a tradition of presenting a special gift to the Library of the Grand Orient of France to commemorate each congress. The gift in 2019 was a celebrated 18th century exposure of the Craft. A discussion of the gift and research into its mysterious author appear in Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society. Vol.9 No.1, 45-52, available at https://www.rscsjournal.org/rscs-9-1-spring-2022.html
The PSO’s Westphalia Press Library of Freemasonry and Ritualism is at: https://westphaliapress.org/freemasonry-and-ritual-library/
The ninth congress will be held in Paris in June 2024. with the topic “The Grand Architect and Regularity”. The intervening congress will be held as usual in Washington DC in June 2023 with the topic “Women and Fraternalism”. Topics are only suggestions as papers on any appropriate theme are welcome. Both meetings will be hybrid.
Presenters at the 2023 Washington DC meeting and the 2024 Paris conference will be awarded life membership of Iota Alpha Nu, the honor society for scholars presenting at Policy Study Organization meetings.
8th Congress on Fraternalism, Social Capital, and Civil Society:
Fraternal Art and Music
June 9-11, 2022
Grand Orient de France and Bibliothèque nationale de France
Paris, France
Everyone attending is presumed to be fully vaccinated and in strict compliance with public health requirements.
Program
IMPORTANT NOTES:
- Interpretation English <> French is offered in rooms 1 and 2 on Friday, and at the BnF on Saturday. Please note that no interpretation is offered in room 3 on Friday.
- Four awards will be given at the reception on Friday: the Bartholdi Award for Distinguished Scholarship, the Regulus Award for Distinguished Service to the Scholarly Community, and the Kilwinning Award for Lifetime Contributions to Research and Scholarship.
- If you had a paper in mind, our journal on Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society (RSCS) is at https://www.rscsjournal.org/ and warmly welcomes your submissions.
- Professor Margaret Jacob had to fly home abruptly because of a family situation. Her paper can be read here.
Please click on each room below to display the schedule for each. We are running three concurrent rooms on Friday at rue Cadet, and one room on Saturday at the BnF.
Friday, June 10 / Vendredi 10 Juin
Three Rooms: Temple GROUSSIER (Room 1), Temple LAFAYETTE (Room 2), and Temple CORNELOUP (Room 3)
(Grand Orient de France, 16 rue Cadet, 75009 Paris)
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9h30
Opening
Paul Rich, Policy Studies Organization
Georges Serignac, Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France
Philippe Guglielmi, TSPVG of the GCG of the GODF
9h45
Social Capital, Bowling Alone, and the Freemasons
Paul Rich, Policy Studies Organization
The French Rite and the Culture of the Enlightenment.
Chair: Pierre Mollier, Grand Orient de France
10h15
General introduction. From early English freemasonry to the French rite, the culture of the Enlightenment
Cécile Révauger, Emeritus Professor Bordeaux Montaigne University and member of the Chambre administration of the GCG of the GODF
10h45
Dialogue on Freemasonry and the Enlightenment
Arturo de Hoyos and Joe Wages
11h20 – PAUSE
11h40
Europe française, cosmopolitisme des Lumières et Franc-maçonnerie
Chair: Philippe Foussier, ancien Grand Maitre du Grand Orient de France
Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire, Université de Nice
12h05
Que reste-t-il de la culture des Lumières?
Chair: Philippe Foussier, ancien Grand Maitre du Grand Orient de France
Stéphanie Roza, CNRS, Political Philosophy
12h30-14h – PAUSE déjeuner
1723-2023: Before the tricentenary of the Anderson’s Constitutions
Chair: Guillermo De Los Reyes, University of Houston
14h
The Genesis of the 1723 Book of Constitutions
Andrew Prescott
14h30
The Religious Thought of James Anderson
Susan Mitchell Sommers, St. Vincent College
15h
William Smith and his Pocket Companions of 1735
John Belton
see presentation slides
15h30 – 16h – PAUSE
Francken Manuscript’s Origins
Chair: Pierre Mollier, Grand Orient de France
16h
Le Kadosh en France avant son départ pour Saint-Domingue
Lauren Segalini
16h30
The 1769 Francken Manuscript
Arturo de Hoyos
See the presentation
17h
Old Myth and New Insights: Frederick the Great and the Scottish Rite
Arved Hübler
18h
Visite de l’actuelle exposition du Musée de la franc-maçonnerie
Initiations Egyptiennes: De Cagliostro à Memphis-Misraïm
Visit of the Museum of Freemasonry’s present exhibition of the
Egyptian Initiations: From Cagliostro to Memphis-Misraïm
19h
Reception
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Table ronde organisée par l’IDERM (Institut d’Etudes et de Recherches Maçonnique): Franc-maçonnerie et couleur: de l’esclavage à la libération (XVIII-XXesiècle)
9h30
Accueil et présentation
Pierre Mollier and Eric Saunier
10h
Les Francs-maçons portugais entre esclavagisme et anti-esclavagisme
Fernando Marques da Costa
10h25
Les positions des francs-maçons espagnols sur la race et l’esclavage (XIXe-XXesiècle)
Yvan Pozuelo
10h50
Les loges françaises à l’épreuve de la traite des noirs et de l’Abolition (1770-1848)
Eric Saunier, Maitre de conferences Université Le Havre, Director of IDERM (Institut d’Etudes et de Recherches Maçonniques)
11h15
Prince Hall Freemasonry Reconsidered: Mistakes Historians Make
Paul Rich, Policy Studies Organization
11h40
The civility mosaïc (lecture ou vidéo)
Russ Charvonia, Past Grand Master of Mason in California
12h30-14h – PAUSE déjeuner
The Development of the French Rite
Chair: Jean Christophe Garrigues, Président de la Commission histoire du Grand Chapitre Général Rite Français du Grand Orient de France
14h
Le Rite Français Dans La Maçonnerie Espagnole du XXIesiècle
Luis Pla Alos, Grand Secrétaire des Affaires Intérieures de la Chambre d’Administration du GCG d’Espagne Rite Français
14h20
Le rite français au féminin, en France et à l’international: l’héritage des Lumières
Laure Caille, ancienne TSPGV (Très Sage et Parfaite Grande Vénérable) du GCGFF (Grand Chapitre Général Féminin de France), Grande Maîtresse d’honneur de la Grande Loge Féminine de Bulgarie
Chair: Rui Lopes, Grand Secrétaire aux Affaires Extérieures du Grand Chapitre Général Rite Français du Grand Orient de France
14h40
Rite Français et Lumières dans les Archives de l’Inquisition Portugaise
Joachim Grave Dos Santos, Masonic author, Portugal
15h
The Calm Before the Storm: The French Rite in Saint Domingue
Joe Wages
15h20
Discussion
16h – PAUSE
Chair: Christophe DEVILLERS, rédacteur en chef d’Humanisme, membre de la Chambre d’Administration du Grand Chapitre Général Rite Français du Grand Orient de France
16h15
Les principes des Lumières au cœur de la refondation du GCG du GODF
Paul Leblanc, Chancellor of the Vth degree, GCG du GODF
16h35
Le Rite français : des repères pour la construction d’une société laïque
Didier Molines, Membre de la Chambre d’Administration du GCG du GODF
16h55
Le Rite français, une grammaire pour l’action citoyenne
Gérard Contremoulin
17h15
Penser le Rite Français
Stéphane Brunel, maitre de conférences INSPE Bordeaux, member of the Grand Chapitre Général Rite Français
18h
Visite de l’actuelle exposition du Musée de la franc-maçonnerie
Initiations Egyptiennes : De Cagliostro à Memphis-Misraïm
Visit of the Museum of Freemasonry’s present exhibition of the
Egyptian Initiations: From Cagliostro to Memphis-Misraïm
19h
Reception
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*Please note there is no translation offered in this room
9h30
The History of Freemasonry in Turkey
Emanuela Locci, Assegnista Università degli Studi di Torino
10h45
Washington’s Masonic Cave and Lafayette’s Masonic Apron: What’s the connection?
Jason Williams
14h
Treasures of the Library of the Grand Orient de France
Lauren Segalini
15h
On the outskirts of the First French Empire: Freemasons and the “Frenchification” of Piedmont (1802-1814)
Demetrio Xoccato, University of Nice – Côte d’Azur, France
16h
Freemasonry: Our Future
Chair: John Belton
In Memoriam to Bro John Acaster (d.2019) Delivered by Bro. Mike Munro and Introduced by Bro. Alan Turton
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Saturday June 10 / Samedi 11 Juin
Petit Auditorium (Room 1)
(Bibliothèque nationale de France – Site François Mitterrand, Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris)
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9h30
Overture de la conference/Opening talk
Georges Sérignac, Grand Master of the GODF
The French Rite: Indebted to the Enlightenment
Chair: Cécile Revauger
9h45
Le Rite Français, quintessence de l’humanisme
Philippe Foussier, former Grand Master, Grand Orient de France
10h15
Les Lumières, une méthodologie de l’émancipation
Charles Coutel, Professor of Philosophy
10h45
Des maçons en quête de modernisation et de raison. Le voyage de Bode à Paris en 1787
Jean Mondot, Emeritus Professor, Université de Bordeaux Montaigne
11h15 – PAUSE
Chair: Charles Coutel, Professeur émérite en philosophie du droit à l’université d’Artois
11h30
Roëttiers de Montaleau et le travail de la Chambre des Grades. Les grades symboliques
Pierre Mollier, Director of the Musée de la Franc-maçonnerie, Paris
12h
Nouvelles lumières sur les rites de réception chez les compagnons tailleurs de pierre français avant l’influence de la franc-maçonnerie
Jean-Michel Mathonière, Historian of the Compagnonages
12h30
Les premiers chapitres au Rite français entre rationalisme et culture de la distinction
Eric Saunier, Maitre de conferences Université Le Havre, Director of IDERM (Institut d’Etudes et de Recherches Maçonniques)
13h – 14h30: PAUSE (free lunch/déjeuner libre)
The Development of the French Rite
Chair: Guillermo De Los Reyes, University of Houston
14h30
Enlightened Ideas, Renaissance Culture: Syncretism and Emblems in Eighteenth Century’s English Freemasonry
Felipe Corte Real de Camargo, University of Bristol and Cardiff University
15h
L’apparition des Maitres Ecossais (1740-1750) : les premières pierres du Rite Françai
Roger Dachez, Director of the IMF (Institut Maçonnique de France)
15h30
Des 81 grades de l’Arche du Cinquième Ordre aux quatre ordres de sagesse du GCG : l’influence des Lumières
Colette Léger, auteure d’un ouvrage sur le Rite Français
16h – PAUSE
Chair: Jean Francis Dauriac, Grand Secrétaire aux Affaires Intérieures du Grand Chapitre Général Rite Français du Grand Orient de France
16h15
Le Rite Français, rite des Lumières à visée sociale et universelle
Héléna Troncard, TSPGV (Très Sage et Parfaite Grande Vénérable) du GCGFF (Grand Chapitre Général Féminin de France
16h45
Le Rite français en Belgique
Michel Pary, TSPGV of the GCG of Belgium
Marcel Rooze, former TSPVG of the GCG of Belgium
17h30
Conclusion du colloque: L’esprit des Lumières, les enjeux du Rite Français aujourd’hui
Philippe Guglielmi, TSPGV du Grand Chapitre Général du GODF
18h
Cocktail de clôture du colloque/Closing cocktail of the conference
(BnF, Foyer du Petit Auditorium)
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