31st International Meeting of The Eric Voegelin Society, San Francisco 2015
The Eric Voegelin Society is a Related Group of the American Political Science Association.
Its Annual Meeting will run concurrently with that of the APSA
on September 3-6 in San Francisco, CA.
Panel 1, Geopolitics and Prudence
Chair: Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma, [email protected]
“Geopolitics And Prudence: Realism In A Twenty-First Century World.” Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma, [email protected]
“The Formation Of Prudence Within The City.” Stephen Sims, Baylor University, [email protected]
“Prudence, National Interest and Counter-Terrorism.” Eric Fleury, College of the Holy Cross, [email protected]
“Barack Obama, Prudence and Presidential War Powers.” Daniel Lang, Lynchburg College, [email protected]
“Prudence Abroad in an Era of Regime Instability at Home: Francois Guizot and the Direction of French Foreign Policy in the 1840s.” David Clinton, Baylor University, [email protected]
Discussant: Tim Fuller, Colorado College, [email protected]
Panel 2, The Problem of Multiple Modernities
Chair: Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Elangen, [email protected]
“Voegelin, the Axial Age and Modernity: The Present and the Future in the Mirror of the Past.” Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University, [email protected] and Rosario Forlenza, Columbia University, [email protected]
“Multiple Modernities.” Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Elangen, [email protected]
“Opposing Perspectives on the Totalitarian Phenomenon: Voegelin and Kelsen.” François Lecoutre, University of Lille 2, [email protected]
“Voegelin and Strauss on Civic Community.” Pierre-Alain DRIEN, University of Lyons 3, [email protected]
“Weimar’s Hyperinflation: A Legacy of War, Struggle for Survival, and the Affirmation of the State.” Todd Myers, Grossmont College, [email protected]
Discussants: Thomas Heilke, University of British Columbia, [email protected] and Tom McPartland, Kentucky State University, [email protected]
Panel 3, Roundtable on Voegelin’s Late Meditations and Essays
Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola University of Baltimore, [email protected]
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University, [email protected]
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary,[email protected]
David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, [email protected]
Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), [email protected]
William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Arkiv, Munich, [email protected]
Michael Franz, Loyola University of Baltimore, [email protected]
Panel 4, Civilization in Extremis: From Collapse to a New Leap in Being
Chair: Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, [email protected]
“The Disintegration of Traditional Civilizations.” Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, [email protected]
“Voegelin’s Understanding of the Leap in Being.” Andrew Hoffman, Independent Scholar, [email protected]
“Hip-Hop Culture and the Primary Community of Being.” Masahide Kato, University of Hawaii at West Oahu, [email protected]
“Transcending Civilizational Collapse in a new Leap of Being.” Louis Herman, University of Hawaii at West Oahu, [email protected]
“Is There a New Spiritual Axial Age?” Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, [email protected]
Discussant: Klaus von Dung, University of Siegen, [email protected]
Panel 5, “Wherefrom Does History Emerge?”
Chair: Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, [email protected]
“Did ‘History’ change its Meaning in Order and History?” Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, [email protected]
“Two Sources of Voegelin’s Vision of History: Platonism and Augustinism.” Thierry Gontier, Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, [email protected]
“History Brought Into Form: Political Storytelling.” John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, [email protected]
“A Continuing Strife Towards Cosmogony: History.” Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, [email protected]
“Polis and Philosophy in the VI century B.C.: the novelty of Voegelin’s reading in ‘The World of the Polis’” Nicoletta Scotti Muth, Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan, [email protected]
Discussants: Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College, [email protected] and Ron Srigley, University of Prince Edward Island, [email protected]
Panel 6, Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times
Chair: Ethan Alexander-Davey, University of Virginia, [email protected]
“Tocqueville and the Shame of Economic Life.” Richard Avramenko University of Wisconsin, [email protected]
“Edmund Burke’s Peerage.” Ian Crowe, Brewton-Parker College, [email protected]
“Friedrich Nietzsche on the Social Function of Aristocracy.” Jeffrey Church, University of Houston, [email protected]
“Richard M. Weaver on Chivalry and Aristocracy in the American South.” Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, [email protected]
Discussants: A.A.M. Kinneging, University of Leiden, [email protected] and Ethan Alexander-Davey, University of Virginia
Panel 7, Spirit and Political Realism
Chair: Rouven Steeves, United States Air Force Academy, [email protected]
“Synderesis and Common Sense.” Macon Boczek, Kent State University, [email protected]
“The Place of the ‘Heart’ in Philosophical Anthropology.” Thomas E. Lordan, Independent Scholar, [email protected]
“Albert Camus’s Political Philosophy of Invincible Summers and Endless Winters.” Sarah Shea, McGill University, [email protected]
“Why Blame Calvin?” John Jamieson, Independent Scholar, [email protected]
“The Two Sides of the Same Coin: Political Realism and Political Philosophy.” András Lánczi, Corvinus University, Budapest, [email protected]
Discussants: Jeremy Geddert, Assumption College, [email protected] and R.J. Snell, Eastern University, [email protected]
Panel 8, Art, Politics and Literature
Chair: Charles Embry, Texas A & M at Commerce, [email protected]
“The Philosopher and the Storyteller: Eric Voegelin and Flannery O’Connor.” David Palmieri SUNY-Plattsburgh, [email protected]
“Pseudoreality Returns: Reading The Man Without Qualities in “Liquid Modern” Times.” Paul Corey, Humber College, [email protected]
“St. Augustine’s Confessio and the Possibility of Reason.” Enrique Pallares, Catholic University of America, [email protected]
“Art as a Symbolic Form: From Paleolithic Murals To Modernity.” Wolfgang Leidhold, University of Cologne, [email protected]
“Lila’s Destiny: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Trilogy.” Paulette Kidder, Seattle University, [email protected]
Discussants: Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, [email protected] and Paul Kidder, Seattle University, [email protected]
Panel 9, Philosophical Anthropology and Authenticity
Chair: David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, [email protected]
“Immanuel Kant and Eric Voegelin on the Immortality of the Soul.” Steven McGuire, Eastern University,[email protected]
“Existence and Transcendence: On Voegelin’s Conception of Authenticity.” Bruno Godefroy, Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, [email protected]
“The Dignity of Human Personality: Martin Luther King, Jr. on Human Nature.” Sarah Beth Vosburg Kitch, Louisiana State University, [email protected]
“Under the primacy of the practical: Habermas’s communicative rationality and Rawlsian reasonableness in light of Kant’s practical reason.” Gustavo Adolfo Santos, Oficina Municipal, Brazil, [email protected]
“Moral debt: Liberty and What We Live Within.” James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, [email protected]
Discussants: Michael Hickman, University of Mary, [email protected] and Eduardo Schmidt-Passos, The Catholic University of America, [email protected]
Panel 10: Re-Encountering Homer: Poetry, Tragedy, and Political Philosophy
Chair: Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, [email protected]
“The Three Songs of Demodokus and the Blind Eye of the Odyssey.” Nalin Ranasinghe, Assumption College, [email protected]
“Music, Memory, and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in Homer’s Odyssey.” Rebecca LeMoine, Florida Atlantic University, [email protected]
“‘Expel the barbarian from your heart’: Intimations of the Cyclops in Euripides’ Hecuba.” Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University, [email protected]
“The uses of Homer in Plato’s Philebus.” Bernat Torres, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, [email protected]
Discussants: Michelle Kundmueller, University of Notre Dame, [email protected] and Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, [email protected]