This year’s SILVER ANNIVERSARY meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society will beheld in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in conjunction with the 104th APSA convention. The program is given below but should be updated by consulting the APSA Web site www.apsanet.org/mtgs/ 

N.B.: Times of the panels are given below and ALL our panels will be located in the Sheraton, exact rooms to be announced in Conference Room B/C. 
You now need a valid passport to travel to Canada.
25th Annual International Silver Anniversary EVS Meeting Program (Toronto, Sept. 3-6, 2009)

Program At a Glance:

Thursday, Sept. 3
            8 AM    Panel 4. Voegelin’s The Form of the American Mind and American Pragmatism as a
                            Significant Contribution to  World Philosophy
                10:15 AM Panel 7. Revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr in the 21st Century
                  2 PM    Panel 8. Anamnetic Literature
                   4:15 PM    Panel 11. The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Theory
Friday, Sept. 4
            8 AM    Panel 13. The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence-Roundtable
                   10:15AM    Panel 1. Mysticism and Politics in Voegelin’s Philosophy
            2 PM    Panel 2. Conscience, Expression & Liberty: Pitfalls of Political Correctness–Roundtable
            4:15PM    Panel 6. Assessing Voegelin’s Critique of Hegel
Saturday, Sept. 5
             8 AM    Panel 3. Voegelin and the Ancients
             10:15AM    Panel 5. Voegelin’s The Political Religions After 70 years
             2PM    Panel 9. Theorists, Theologians, and Littérateurs: Evil and Modern Political Thought
            4:15PM    Panel 10. Voegelin in Toronto, the DVD: The 1978 York
                        University “Hermeneutics and  Structuralism” Conference–Roundtable
Sunday. Sept. 6
             8 AM    Panel 12. Languages of Political Order: Experience & Symbolization in Non-Western Modes of Thought

PROGRAM DETAIL–13 panels

Panel 1.  Mysticism and Politics in Voegelin’s Philosophy    Friday, Sept. 4, 10:15 AM
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:     William James’ Pure Experience and the Creative Potential of the Metaxy
     Macon Boczek, Kent State
    Joachim of Fiore and Gnosticism
    Matthias Riedl, Central European University–Budapest mailto:matriedl@yahoo.de
    How far is it from Voegelin’s reflective distance to mysticism?
    Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
    Plato as Mystic Philosopher: The Voegelin – Strauss Impasse
    Henrik Syse, International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
    Voegelin and Basil of Caesarea’s Teaching on Discernment
Anne G. Keidel, Boston College mailto:agkeidel@earthlink.net
Disc.:      Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio
    William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv–Munich

Panel 2.  Conscience, Expression & Liberty: Pitfalls of Political Correctness–Roundtable    Friday, Sept. 4, 2 PM
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Parts:     David Warren, Ottawa Citizen mailto:otiosus@sympatico.ca
    Jodi Bruhn, Office of the Federal Interlocutor mailto:jodi.bruhn@yahoo.ca
    John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
    Robert P. George, Princeton University
    Travis D. Smith, Concordia University

Panel 3:  Voegelin and the Ancients    Saturday, Sept. 5, 8:00AM
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution–Stanford University
Papers:    "The Gnostic and the Spoudaios: Voegelin, Aristotle, and the Art of Pneumotaxonomy"
    Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin–Madison
    Voegelin's Reading of Plato's Philebus
    Bernat Torres Morales, University of Barcelona mailto:bernattorres@gmail.com & Co-author:
    Josep Monserrat Molas, University of Barcelona mailto:jmonserrat@ub.edu
    Aristophanic Themes in the Republic
    Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University
    Voegelin on Aristotle's “Science of the Polis”
    Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, St. John’s Collegemailto:jacqueline.merrill@comcast.net
Disc:      Ronald Srigley, Thorneloe University
    Timothy Fuller, Colorado College

Panel 4. Voegelin's Form of the American Mind & American Pragmatism as a Significant Contribution to Philosophy     Thurs., Sept. 3, 8:00 AM
Chair: Macon Boczek, Kent State Universitymailto:mboczek1@kent.edu
Papers:      The American Open Self:  Exploring Voegelin’s Experience of Peircian Philosophy
     Clancy Smith, Duquesne University mailto:smithc4@duq.edu
        Science and Paradox: Peirce and Voegelin on the Practice of Language amid God, Man, World, and Society
    Rhydon Jackson, Independent Scholar < rhydonj@embargmal.com>
    Two Pragmatic Moral Universes: James vs. Dewey and the Later Pragmatists
    Scott Segrest, United States Military Academy at West Point < prof.scott@yahoo.com>
Disc.:    Macon Boczek, Department of Philosophy, Kent State University
    Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
    Thomas J. McPartland, Kentcky State University

Panel. 5. Voegelin’s The Political Religions After 70 Years     Saturday, Sept. 5, 10:15 AM
Chair:  Matthias Riedl, Central European University–Budapest mailto:visriedl@ceu.hu
Papers:     A Secular Age as a Religious Age? Voegelin & Taylor on Defining Modern Times
     Rodney Kilcup, Linfield College (emeritus)
    The Concept of the State in Political Religions
    Maxwell Staley, independent scholar 
    Fascism as Political Religion: The case of the Roumanian Iron Guard
    Ionut Biliuta, Oxford University mailto:anahoretu\\hich\\af0\\dbch\\af31505\\loch\\f0 sd@gmail.com
    The Concept of Evil in The Political Religions
    Alin Vara , Central European University–Budapest mailto:alin.vara@gmail.com
Disc:        Peter Brickey LeQuire, University of Chicago mailto:pbl@uchicago.edu
    Thierry Gontier, University of Lyon mailto:thierry.gontier@laposte.net

Panel 6. Assessing Voegelin’s Critique of Hegel     Friday, Sept. 4, 4:15 PM
Chair:  Timothy Fuller, Colorado College mailto:tfuller@coloradocollege.edu       
Papers:      Decrypt: Voegelin and Kojeve’s Hegel
      Barry Cooper, U. of Calgary mailto:bcooper@ucalgary.ca   
      Reflections on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
  Timothy Fuller, Colorado College mailto:tfuller@coloradocollege.edu   
      History as Freedom? Voegelin’s Hegel
      Horst Mewes, University of  Colorado–Boulder mailto:horstmewes@yahoo.com   
     Hegel Today
     Cyril O’Regan, University  of Notre Dame  mailto:Cyril.J.O'Regan.1@nd.edu
     Understanding the Revolution in Philosophy
      David Walsh, Catholic University of America mailto:walshd@cua.edu       
Disc.:         Harald Bergbauer, Munich School of Politics
     Michael Gillespie, Duke University mailto:Daylinks@aol.com

Panel. 7. Revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr in the 21st Century Thursday, Sept. 3, 10:15 AM
Chair: Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
Papers:       Fire In Their Hearts: Christian Realism and Democracy Promotion
     Eric Patterson, Georgetown University
Pilgrims’ Progress: The Disenchanted Destinations of Reinhold Niebuhr and Raymond Aron        
     Reed Davis, Seattle Pacific University
    Reinhold Niebuhr on Tragedy and Politics
    Daniel G. Lang, Lynchburg College
    Niebuhr’s Christian Realism and Dewey’s Pragmatism: The Faith Experience
    Vibeke Schou Tjalve, Danish Institute For Military Studies
Disc:       David Mayers, Boston College
    David Clinton, Baylor University

Panel 8. Anamnetic Literature      Thursday, Sept. 3, 2:00 PM
Chair: Charles Embry, Texas A&M University–Commerce (emeritus)    mailto:charlesrembry@embarqmail.com
Papers:        A Heaven-Gram for World Politics: Hillesum, Heschel and Rilke rescuing God in exile
    Meins Coetsier, Ghent University EHOC mailto:meinscoe@hotmail.com
        J. M. Coetzee and Eric Voegelin on Remembrance and the Private and Public Dimensions of Guilt. 
    Polly Detels, Texas A & M University-Commerce  mailto:pollydetels@embarqmail.com
W.B. Yeats and the Formation of the National Consciousness 
    Patrick Dowdall, independent scholar  mailto:pdowdall@co\\hich\\af0\\dbch\\af31505\\loch\\f0 mcast.net
    Anamnesis in the Work of Stefan George
    William Petropulos,   Eric Voegelin Archiv–Munich  mailto:William.Petropulos@web.de
    The Persistence of Symbol and Sacrament in Albert Camus
    Matthew Connell, Louisiana State University
Disc.:    David Palmieri.  Auburn University  mailto:dwp0003@auburn.edu
    Ron Srigley.  Thorneloe Universitymailto:rsrigley@laurentian.ca

Panel 9.  Theorists, Theologians, and Littérateurs: Evil and Modern Political Thought    Saturday, Sept. 5, 2:00 PM
Chair:     Martin Palouš, Charles University & Czech Ambassador to the United Nations
Papers:       Brutality, Vulgarity, and Evil in Chekhov’s Three Sisters
     Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University
    F.W.J. Schelling on the Metaphysics of Evil
    Steven F. McGuire, Catholic University of America
    Reinhold Niebuhr, Modernity, and the Problem of Evil
    Matthew Sitman, Georgetown University
    Psychologists of  Evil: Nietzsche and Dostoevsky on the Darkness of the Soul
    Rouven Steeves, United States Air Force Academy
    Voegelin’s Nietzsche: Overcoming the Problem of Evil in Zarathustra
    Sarah Shea, McGill University mailto:sarah.shea2@mail.mcgill.ca
Disc.:      Michael Henry, St. John’s University
    Paul Corey, Humber College mailto:Paul.Corey@humber.ca

Panel 10.  Voegelin in Toronto, the DVD: The 1978 York "Hermeneutics and Structuralism" Conference–Roundtable     Saturday, Sept. 5, 4:15 PM
Chair:  Zdravko Planinc. McMaster University
Parts:    Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Joseph Gonda, York University–Glendon Campus
    Frederick Lawrence, Boston College mailto:frederick.lawrence@bc.edu
    John O'Neill, York University

Panel. 11.  The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Theory    Thursday, Sept. 3, 4:15 PM
Chair: Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas
Papers:    Can Power be Creative? Evidence and Theory
Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas.
    Friendship as Precondition and Consequence of Creativity in Politics
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
    The Hidden Power for the Creation of Order
Peter Nitschke, Hochschule Vechta,
    The true form of a government: The constitutional movements of power
    Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen,

Panel 12. The Languages of Political Order: Experience and Symbolization in Non-Western Modes of Thought    Sunday, Sept. 6,   8:00 AM
Chair:  Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Papers:       Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature:  Susan Abulhawa’s The Scar of David
Samah Elhaj ibrahim, University of Pennsylvania
    Styles of Truth in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
    Religion and Politics in the Constitutions of Japan
Kyoko Inoue, University of Illinois, Chicago (Emerita)
The Politics and Geopolitics of the Two Koreas and the United States
Yu Nam Kim, Dankook University (Emeritus)   
Disc:     John Robert “Haj” Ross,  University of North Texas
    Timothy J. Lomperis, Saint Louis University
    Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University

Panel 13. The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence–Roundtable    Friday, Sept. 4, 8:00 AM
Chair:     Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Parts:     Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas
    Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University–San Antonio
    Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin (emeritus)
    Henrik Syse, Int’l Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
    Cyril O'Regan, Notre Dame
    Rouven J. Steeves, USAF Academy
Respondent:  David J. Walsh, Catholic University of America

Eric Voegelin Society Business Meeting    Saturday, Sept. 5, 6:15-7:15 PM
Eric Voegelin Society Dutch Treat Reception    Saturday, Sept. 5, 7:30-8:30 PM