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37th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY

 37th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY,

 2021

American Political Science Association Meeting

September 28-October 2

Seattle, WA

 

David Walsh, Meeting Director

walshd@cua.edu

 

 

Friends,

I look forward to seeing you in person or virtually at our annual meeting that will take place mainly in Seattle, a month later than our normal Labor Day weekend.  Our pandemic experience means that we will not simply be returning to business as usual.  We have a mixture of in-person and virtual events.  Panelists have already selected their preferences.  For those who are on an in-person panel, but unable to attend, there is the option of recording your presentation and making it available for the audience.  The chairs will be responsible for facilitating those relatively few cases.  APSA informs us that all of the panels will be either in the Washington State Convention Center or in the adjacent Sheraton Grand Seattle, the headquarters hotel.  Please be sure to distribute your papers to all panelists well in advance of the meeting.  Chairs are responsible for overseeing this and coordinating in advance with the presenters.  To be listed in the program you must register for the meeting.  Members of APSA are kindly requested to also indicate your membership in the Related Group, the Eric Voegelin Society.  This is also a good time to remind ourselves of the imperative of supporting EVS itself.  Without dues, we rely on your generosity and a donate button can be found here, or you may contact our treasurer, David Whitney, david.whitney@nicholls.edu. Wishing you a pleasant and productive summer.

 

Tuesday, September 28                                                    

6:00-7:30 PDT    (9:00-10:30 EDT)                                                         Virtual Roundtable

Panel 1. Eric Voegelin Political Readings: from the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

Chair: Bernat Torres Morales, btorres@uic.es; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona

Zdravko Planinc, planincz@mcmaster.ca; McMaster University

Barry Cooper, bcooper@ucalgary.ca; University of Calgary

Nicoletta Scotti Muth, nicoletta.scotti@unicatt.it; Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan

Thierry Gontier, thierry.gontier@gmail.com; University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Bjorn Thomassen, bthomas@ruc.dk; Roskilde University

 

 Wednesday, September 29

 10:00-11:30 PDT  (1:00-2:30 EDT)                                        Virtual Roundtable

Panel 2: Symbols of Historical Order in Eric Voegelin’s “Israel and Revelation”

Chair: Nicoletta Scotti Muth, nicoletta.scotti@unicatt.it; Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan
Ignacio Carbajosa, icarbajosap@hotmail.com; San Dámaso University
David J. Walsh, walshd@cua.edu; Catholic University of America
Giorgio Buccellati, buccella@ucla.edu; UCLA
Peter Machinist, machinis@fas.harvard.edu; Harvard University
William M. Thompson-Uberuaga, Boise43@msn.com; Duquesne University

John Milbank, john.milbank@nottingham.ac.uk; University of Nottingham

 

 

Thursday, September 30

  8:00-9:30 PDT        (11:00-12:30 EDT)                                   In-Person Panel

Panel 3. Civil Religion, International Pluralism, and Statesmanship

 Chair: Greg Russell; grussell@ou.edu

Montesquieu’s Right of Nations
Author: Christopher Ruiz; christopher_ruiz@baylor.edu

War and Civil Religion in St. Augustine’s De civitate dei
Author: Michael Gonzalez; Michael_Gonzalez1@baylor.edu

The Lessons of Irony: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Philosophy of History
Author: Daniel Lang; lang@lynchburg.edu

Reinhold Niebuhr and the Reconciliation of Justice and Power
Author: Reed Davis; rdavis@spu.edu

Discussant: David Clinton; David_Clinton@baylor.edu

 

 

12:00-1:30 PDT         (3:00-4:30 EDT)                    In-Person Panel

Panel 4: Intersecting Themes in Classical Political Thought

Chair: Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

Voegelin’s Unusual Account of Ancient Greek Anamnesis

Michael Nafi, mwnafi@gmail.com

Augustine’s Confessions XII as a Response to Plato’s Republic

John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

The Modern Frontier: An Inevitable Crisis?
Joshua Ayer, jayer97@mail.ubc.ca; University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Household Management in Plutarch’s Lives of Aristides and Marcus Cato

Rodolfo K Hernandez, rodolfokhernandez@yahoo.com; University of Missouri

Discussants: Thomas Heilke, thomas.heilke@ubc.ca; University of British Columbia

Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

 

2:00-3:30 PDT       (5:00-6:30  EDT)                                Virtual Roundtable

Panel 5: Roundtable: Constitutional Stress Tests in an Age of Populism

Chair: Michael Franz, MFranz@loyola.edu; Loyola University, Baltimore

Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University
James R. Stoner, poston@lsu.edu; Louisiana State University
John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge
Tony P. Spanakos, spanakos@gmail.com; Montclair State University

 

4:00-5:30 PDT            (7:00-8:30 EDT)              In-Person Roundtable

Panel 6: Kierkegaard and Democratic Theory: David Walsh’s Priority of the Person

Chair:Robert Wyllie, rwyllie@ashland.edu; Ashland University
 

Christopher Justin Brophy, cbrophy1@providence.edu; Providence College

Matthew D. Dinan, matt.dinan@gmail.com; St. Thomas University
David J. Walsh, walshd@cua.edu; Catholic University of America

Steven P. Millies, smillies@ctu.edu; Catholic Theological Union

 

Friday, October 1

8:00-9:30  PDT     (11:00-12:30 EDT)                     In-Person Panel

Panel 7: Living Life as the Disclosure of Order

Chair: Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

Sin as Rupture in Voegelin and Levinas

Abigail Rosenthal, alr.martin@verizon.net; Brooklyn College of the City of New York

My Station and Its Duties, and Then What?

Jerry Martin, jerry.martin@verizon.net; University of Colorado at Boulder

On the Felt Sense of Being: An Approach to Contemplative Psychotherapy

Robin Seiler, rsseilerjrmsw@gmail.com; Robert S. Seiler, Jr., LCSW-C

Where Anxiety Leads: A Map within the Tension of Existence

Brad Gilmore, penshigh5@gmail.com

Discussants:  Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

 

10:00-11:30 PDT      (1:00-2:30  EDT)                             Virtual Author Meets Critics

Panel 8: Roundtable on Glenn Hughes’s “From Dickinson to Dylan: Transcendence in Modernist Literature”  

Chair: John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

Glenn Hughes, drchiptex@gmail.com; St. Mary’s University
Henrik Syse, syse@prio.org; Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Paul E. Kidder, pekidder@seattleu.edu; Seattle University
James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s University
Thomas J. McPartland, t_mcpartland@msn.com; Kentucky State University

 

2:00-3:30 PDT     (5:00-6:30 EDT)                      Virtual Roundtable

Panel 9: Nalin Ranasinghe’s Odyssey

Chair: Zdravko Planinc; planincz@mcmaster.ca

Predrag Cicovacki; pcicovac@holycross.edu College of the Holy Cross
Gwenda-lin Grewal; grewalg@newschool.edu; New SchoolNew School

Michelle Kundmueller; mkundmue@odu.edu Old Dominion University

Bernat Torres Morales; btorres@uic.es Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

 

Saturday, October 2

8:00-9:30  PDT            (11:00-12:30  PDT)                  In-Person Panel

Panel 10: Natural Law and Natural Rights

Chair: James R. Stoner, poston@lsu.edu; Louisiana State University

 

Due Process of Classic Natural Law

Joseph S. Devaney, jdevaney@abac.edu; Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Natural Law and Natural Right in Hugo Grotius and Gabriel Vásquez

Steven Waldorf, sdwaldorf@gmail.com; University of Chicago

Eric Voegelin on Law

Thomas E. Lordan, tomlordan@q.com; Independent scholar

Rights of Native Peoples in the New World Post Conquest: A Spanish Perspective

Diego Alejandro Lopez, diegolopez86753@gmail.com; University of Houston

 

Discussant: James R. Stoner, poston@lsu.edu; Louisiana State University

Ralph Hancock, ralph_hancock@byu.edu; Brigham Young University

 

12:00-1:30 PDT                  (3:00-4:30  EDT)               In-Person Panel

 Panel 11: Political Theory as a Resource for Political Challenges

Chair: John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

George Santayana and the Psyche as Aesthetic Arbiter of Politics

Nayeli Leandra Riano, nlr46@georgetown.edu; Georgetown University

Thomas More on Religious Toleration and the Common Good

Mary Clare Imparato, maryimparato@bac.edu; Belmont Abbey College

Tocqueville’s relevance for modern democracy

Hans-Martien ten Napel, h.m.t.d.tennapel@law.leidenuniv.nl; Leiden University

‘The People’ of the Tenth Amendment: Social Authority and the Limitation of Government Power

Luke Sheahan, luke.sheahan@gmail.com; Duquesne University

Discussants: John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

 

4:00-5:30 PDT    7:00-8:30 EDT                 In-Person Panel

 Week 12: Thinking with Voegelin Today

Chair: Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

Comparing “Ecumene” and “Tianxia”: A Case Study

Muen Liu, muenormoon@gmail.com; Institute for Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Science or Scientism? COVID 19 and the United States

David N. Whitney, david.whitney@nicholls.edu; Nicholls State University

The Notion of Home: Politics and Primordiality

James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s University

Eric Voegelin’s relation with (and critique of) Arnold Toynbee

Harald Bergbauer, dr.hb@web.de; University of Applied Sciences Munich

Discussants: Richard Avramenko, avramenko@wisc.edu; University of Wisconsin

Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

 

Sunday, October 3

 6:00-7:30  PDT       (9:00-10:30 EDT)      Virtual Panel

 Panel 13: The Influence and Reception of Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy in Brazil

Chair: Gustavo A. Santos, gadolfo1917@gmail.com; Catholic University of America

Lima Vaz and Eric Voegelin: Roots and Meanings of Modernity

Alvaro Pimentel, alvaro_pimentelsj@yahoo.com.br; Faculdade Jesuita de Filosofia e Teologia

The reception of Voegelin and Arendt in Brazil: Meira Penna and Celso Lafer

DAIANE ECCEL, daianeeccel3@gmail.com; UFSC – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Nihilism in Gustavo Corção and Eric Voegelin

Rodrigo Coppe Caldeira, rodrigocoppe@gmail.com; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais and Rodrigo de Abreu Oliveira, rodrigodeao@gmail.com

Discussants: Eduardo Schmidt Passos,  69passos@cua.edu; Texas State University, San Marcos

Gustavo A. Santos, gadolfo1917@gmail.com; Catholic University of America

 

10:-11:30   PDT       (1:00-2:30 EDT)              In-Person Panel

Panel 14: The Economic Thought of Eric Voegelin

Chair: Gregory Collins, gregory.collins@yale.edu; Yale University

National Personality and International Trade

Scott Robinson, msrobinson@king.edu; Houston Baptist University

Voegelin, Marx, and the “Evils” of Capitalism
Grant Neil Havers, havers@twu.ca; Trinity Western University
Eric Voegelin and the Austrian School of Economics
Todd Myers, todd.myers@gcccd.edu; Grossmont College
Voegelinian and Röpkean Perspectives
John McNerney, john.mcnerney@ucd.ie; Catholic University of America

Discussant: Eduardo Schmidt Passos, 69passos@cua.edu; Texas State University, San Marcos

Gregory Collins, gregory.collins@yale.edu; Yale University

 

Business Meeting (In-Person)                                                       Saturday, October 2, 6:30-7:30

Reception (In-Person)                                                                    Saturday, October 2, 7:30-9:00

 

 

 

 

David Walsh is the Chair Board Member of VoegelinView, President of the Eric Voegelin Society, and Professor of Political Science at Catholic University of America. He is the author of a three-volume study of modernity: After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (Harper/Collins, 1990), The Growth of the Liberal Soul (Missouri, 1997), and The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence (Cambridge, 2008). His latest book is Politics of the Person and as the Politics of Being (Notre Dame, 2015).

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