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The 2021 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,

This is the final form of our program for the Seattle meeting of EVS in conjunction with our host, APSA.  Whether you make your way in person or in virtual reality I wish you safe travels. For room allocations you will have to consult the APSA program, where you should also be able to enter the virtual sessions.  Thank you for all the preparations you have made to ensure our meeting remains a fruitful and enjoyable experience.  I know there have been disappointments and frustrations with the shifting regulatory landscape and look forward to the relaxation of conditions as we think about Montreal next year. We continue to be the largest Related Group at APSA primarily because of the outstanding work you do and the spirit in which it is presented. 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.

 

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 (Pre-Recorded)
Author: Christopher Ruiz; christopher_ruiz@baylor.edu

War and Civil Religion in St. Augustine’s De civitate dei (Pre-Recorded)
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

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

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

 

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

Virtual Roundtable

Panel 8: 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

 

4:00-5:30 PDT      (1:00-2:30  EDT)                            

In-Person Author Meets Critics

Panel 9: 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

 

Saturday, October 2

8:00-9:30  PDT            (11:00-12:30  PDT)                 

In-Person Panel

Panel 10: Natural Law and Natural Rights

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

 

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

 

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

James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s 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: Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

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 (Pre-Recorded)

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

Tocqueville’s relevance for modern democracy (Pre-Recorded)

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:  Philip Bunn, pbunn@wisc.edu; University of Wisconsin
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

The Notion of Home: Politics and Primordiality

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

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; National Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Brazil

 

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

 

National Personality and International Trade

Scott Robinson, mrobinson@hbu.edu; Houston Baptist University

 

Ideology, representation and totalitarianism: Galvão de Sousa reader of Voegelin

Flávio Daltro Lemos de Alencar, falencar@id.uff.br; Leiden University

 

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

Gustavo A. Santos, gadolfo1917@gmail.com; National Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Brazil.

 

 

Business Meeting (In-Person)                                                      

Saturday, October 2, 6:30-7:30                                                                   

Willow A

 

Reception (In-Person)                                                                    

Saturday, October 2, 7:30-9:00                                                                        

Aspen

 

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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