36th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2020
36th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2020
American Political Science Association Meeting,
September 10-13,
San Francisco, CA
David Walsh, Meeting Director
Dear Friends,
This is the preliminary program for what will become a virtual meeting rather than in person. Once APSA receives confirmation of your willingness to participate they will readjust the schedule to roughly mirror the arrangement below. They will however adjust times to Mountain Time and will add a day, to begin on Wednesday. So considerable adjustments will follow. They do, however, need to receive your confirmation in order to begin. EVS will assist in any way we can to make this a good substitute for our customary gathering. Having lived in the Zoom world for the past few months it is evident that some preparation is desirable. We will particularly work with panel chairs on this so that everyone is confident and comfortable with the format. Two obvious advantages are savings in cost of attendance when travel funds are highly constrained, and renewed availability to those who had decided to forgo participation this year. Please let me know if you are in the latter category and would like to be added to the program in any capacity.
Thursday, September 10, 8:00-9:30
Panel 1: Conversion as Personal and Political
Chair: Jerry L. Martin, [email protected]; University of Colorado at Boulder
To Jump the Tenses
Abigail L. Rosenthal, [email protected]; Brooklyn College of the City of New York
The Virtue of Religion: A Defense Against Gnosticism
Macon W. Boczek, [email protected]; Kent State University
Authentic Being in the World:The Return of Socrates and Overcoming of Gnosticism
Stephen Calogero, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Discussant: Carol B Cooper, [email protected]; University of Houston
Thursday, September 10, 8:00-9:30
Panel 2: Music and Poetry as Constitutive of Political Community
Law, Music, and Friendship in Aristotle’s Best Regime
John Boersma, [email protected];
“The Body Itself Balks Account”: Whitman’s Carnal Burkeanism and Democracy
David M. Sollenberger, [email protected]; Penn State University
Glenn Hughes, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Andrew Bove, [email protected]; Villanova University
Thursday, September 10, 10:00-11:30
Panel 3: Election 2020: Analysis and Predictions
Chair: Matthew Green, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Matthew Green, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Mark Rozell, [email protected]; George Mason University
Geoff Pallay, [email protected]; Ballotpedia
George Elliott Morris, [email protected]; The Economist
Thursday, September 10, 12:00-1:30
Panel 4: Person and Polity: Roundtable
Chair: Steven P. Millies, [email protected]; Chicago Theological Union
David J. Walsh, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
John McNerney, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University
Gustavo A. Santos, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Thursday, September 10, 4:00-5:30
Panel 5: Roundtable on Human Dignity, Liberal Education, and Political Society
Chair: Jeffrey Polet, [email protected]; Hope College
James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University
Carol B Cooper, [email protected]; University of Houston
Friday, September 11, 8:00-9:30
Panel 6: Foundations of a Constitutional Order
Chair: David M. Sollenberger, [email protected]; Penn State University
John Locke, the Rise of Parliament, & the Conceptualization of Legislative Power
James Stoner, [email protected]; Louisiana State University
Due Process of Classic Natural Law
Joseph S. Devaney, [email protected]; Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
The Political Whole and Knowledge of Human Nature
Michael Hickman, [email protected]; University of Mary
Discussant: Steven J. Brust, [email protected]; Eastern New Mexico University
Dennis Coyle, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Friday, September 11, 10:00-11:30
Panel 7: Political Theology I: Schmitt, Manent, and Iqbal
Chair: Eduard Schmidt-Passos, Texas State University, [email protected]
Political Theology Beyond Sovereignty: The Concept of the Constitution
Ndifreke Ette, SUNY Potsdam; [email protected]
“Reason and Grace, Prudence and Providence: Pierre Manent on the Necessary Collaboration of the Pride of the Citizen and the Humility of the Christian”
Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College, [email protected]
“The Muslim Political Theology of Muhammad Iqbal”
Scott Philip Segrest, The Citadel, [email protected]
Discussants: Eduardo Schmidt-Passos, Texas State University, [email protected]
Friday, September 11, 12:00-1:30
Panel 8: Political Theology II: Strauss, Balthasar, Voegelin
Chair: David Walsh, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Does Politics Need a Theology? Leo Strauss’s reflections on Hegel
Grant Havers, Trinity Western University, [email protected]
A Credible Politics: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Political Theology of Love
Carol Cooper, University of Houston, [email protected]
A Minimum Wage and Catholic Social Thought
Jeremy Geddert, [email protected]; Assumption College
Discussant: Carol Cooper, University of Houston, [email protected]
Friday, September 11, 2:00-3:30
Panel 9: Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy, by Gregory M. Collins
Chair: Ryan Patrick Hanley, [email protected]; Boston College
Daniel J. Mahoney, [email protected]; Assumption College
Brandon Turner, [email protected]; Clemson University
Steven Hayward, [email protected]; University of California at Berkeley
Gregory Collins, [email protected]; Yale University
Friday, September 11, 4:00-5:30
Panel 10: Voegelin in the 21st Century: New Reflections on “The New Science of Politics”
Chair: Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
Modern Political Existence: The Crisis of Self-Interpretation
Holly Elizabeth Ching, [email protected]; University of Calgary
Handmaids to Representation: Political Science in a Post-Modern Crisis
Kelsey Gordon, [email protected]
Representation in Politics: Transcendental Dreaming and Existential Crisis
Micheal Ziegler, [email protected]; University of Victoria
Discussants: TBA
Saturday, September 12, 8:00-9:30
Panel 11: Paleolithic Paths into the Present
Barry Cooper, Paleolithic Politics
Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
Experience and Symbols in History
Wolfgang Leidhold, [email protected]; University of Cologne
The Role of “metaxy” in the political philosophy of Eric Voegelin
Jaroslaw Marek Duraj, [email protected]; Macau Ricci Institute
Saturday, September 12, 10:00-11:30
Panel 12: Volume V: The Crisis of Civilization and the Next Leap in Being
Voegelin’s Concepts of Politics Manfred Henningsen, [email protected]; University of Hawaii, Manoa
The Truth Quest as an Ordering Response to Ecological Chaos
Andrew Hoffman, [email protected]; Independent Scholar
The It Reality and an Emerging Paradigm in the Ecozoic Era
Masahide Teale Kato, [email protected]; University of Hawaii at West Oahu
The Paradox of Consciousness as an Opening to a New Political Cosmology
Louis Gershon Herman, [email protected]; University of Hawaii
Discussants: Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary; Paul Caringella, [email protected], Hoover Institution.
Saturday, September 12, 12:00-1:30
Panel 13: Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Seventy Years Later
Chair: David Clinton, [email protected]; Baylor University
Graham Greene’s Critique of Ideology and Modern Rationalism in War
Michael Roland Gonzalez, [email protected]; Baylor University
The Moral Imagination of Reinhold Niebuhr
Reed M. Davis, [email protected]; Seattle Pacific University
The Arc of History Bends Toward Justice: Martin Luther King and Eric Voegelin
Daniel G. Lang, [email protected]; Lynchburg College
E. H. Carr’s Twenty Years’ Crisis: Reconciling Realism and Utopia
Greg Russell, [email protected]; University of Oklahoma
Discussant: David Clinton, [email protected]; Baylor University
Saturday, September 12, 2:00-3:30
Panel 15: The Presence of the Past: Roundtable
Chair: Martin Palous, [email protected]; Florida International University
David J. Walsh, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Henrik Syse, [email protected]; Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Glenn Hughes, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
Saturday, September 12, 4:00-5:30
Panel 15: The Question of Empire: China and America
Chair: Barry Cooper
American Empire
Richard J. Bishirjian, [email protected]; American Academy of Distance Learning
Eric Voegelin and the Chinese Context
Muen Liu, [email protected]; Institute for Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Discussants: Barry Cooper
Sunday, September 13, 8:00-9:30
Panel 16: Liberal Order and the Tension of Existence
Chair: Dennis J. Coyle, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
David Hume’s Modern Epicurean Political Theory
Aaron Alexander Zubia, [email protected]; Princeton University
Natural Law and the Tension of Existence
Sarah Thomas, [email protected]
Religious Freedom in Liberalism:Conflict in the Differentiation of Transcendence
Gustavo A. Santos, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
David M. Sollenberger, [email protected]; Penn State University
Saturday, September 12, TBD
Business Meeting
Reception