38th International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society

38th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY

American Political Science Association Meeting

September 15-18, 2022

Montréal, Québec, CANADA

Friends,

Here is the final version of our program with changes up to the beginning of September.  I look forward to seeing you as we gather and return to more convivial exchanges than we have enjoyed in recent years.  Please email your papers to fellow panelists. It is especially important that discussants have adequate time to contemplate your work.  I would also appreciate receiving copies, as would Jim Stoner ([email protected]) who maintains a Society record at the Eric Voegelin Institute.  Please continue to update me with any further changes.  I remind you of our Business Meeting on Saturday morning and reception that evening, as well as the importance of supporting one another’s panels as best you can. Your generosity in support of VOEGELINVIEW is kindly directed to our donate button found here, or you may contact our treasurer, David Whitney, [email protected]. You should also indicate EVS as your preferred Related Group when you renew your APSA membership and register for the meeting. Your support allows for the safeguarding and continued promotion of all the material archived on the journal’s site. I also look forward to putting COVID behind us and, as mentioned, returning to the friendship and social joy we have shared before the pandemic began.

David Walsh, [email protected]

Thursday, September 15: Palais, 512H

8:00-9:30

Panel 1: Encounters and Experiences as a Source of Order

Chair: Dennis Coyle, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America

Henry and Lionel: An Argument in the Metaxy

Abigail L. Rosenthal, [email protected]; Brooklyn College of the City of New York

Taking William James Seriously

Jerry L. Martin, [email protected]t;  University of Colorado at Boulder

Theophanic Experience as Recognition: Miguel de Unamuno’s Recovery of the Person

Enrique Pallares, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Discussants: Thomas Heilke, [email protected], University of British Columbia

Dennis Coyle, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America

12:00-1:30: Palais, 512H

Panel 2: Eric Voegelin, Comparative Political Theory, and Equivalences of Experience

Chair: Barry Cooper, [email protected]

What is Political Theology: The Meaning and Legitimacy of a Political Concept

Eduardo Schmidt Passos, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin-Madison

Understanding Another: Voegelin’s Comparative Political Theory

Holly E. Ching, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin-Madison

The History of Experience

Wolfgang Leidhold, [email protected], University of Cologne

How Political Scientists Can Read Text

Lee Trepanier, [email protected], Samford University

Discussants: Barry Cooper, [email protected]

Geoffrey Sigalet, [email protected]; McGill University

2:00-3:30: Palais, 512H                                                                                                                                      

Panel 3: Liberalism, Nation, and Modern Techne in George Grant

Chair: Tyler Chamberlain, Trinity Western University [email protected]

“George Grant and the return of the nation”
Scott Staring, [email protected], Georgia

George Grant’s Platonist Critique of the American Technological Republic
Jeremy Seth Geddert, [email protected],  Assumption University

Grant, Anglo-Canadian Toryism and the deep critique of liberal modernity
Nathan Cockerham, University of British Columbia, [email protected]

“Grant, Fukuyama, and the Abyss at the End of History”
Andrew Potter, McGill University; [email protected]

 Discussants: Ben Woodfinden, McGill University, [email protected]

Jeremy Seth Geddert, [email protected],  Assumption University

4:00-5:30: Palais, 512H                                                                                                        

Panel 4: Freedom, Empire, and Tyranny: Foreign and Domestic

Chair: Eric Fleury, Connecticut College; [email protected]

It Was Conservative Hegemony All Along: Ideological Sources of US Grand Strategy

Eric Fleury, Connecticut College; [email protected]

Freedom and Empire in the Education of Cyrus

Christopher Ruiz, Baylor University; [email protected]

Empire and Freedom in Shakespeare’s Rape of Lucrece and Antony and Cleopatra

Catherine Craig, Arizona State University; [email protected]

Fear and Loathing in France: How Disillusioned Liberalism May be the Most Humane

Dennis Coyle, The Catholic University of America, [email protected]

Discussant: Eric Fleury, Connecticut College; [email protected]

Friday, September 16   Palais, 512D

8:00-9:30

Panel 5: Persons and the Form of Friendship in a time of Polarization

Chair: Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University

Homologia and the Heuristics of Political Love

James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University

Simone Weil on Collectivities: The Person in Politics

Dunford Sarah E Dunford, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

The How of Order: Eric Voegelin and Martin Heidegger on the Anaximander Fragment

Thomas Wayne Holman, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Discussant: Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University

12:00-1:30: Palais, 512 D

Panel 6:  Divinization of Politics – Politicization of Religion

Chair: Thierry Gontier, [email protected]; University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Radicalization and Immanentization: Questioning Eric Voegelin’s Conceptual Apparatus Suitability on Contemporary Radicalization

Jane Cluzeau, [email protected]; University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Divinization of Thought: Can We Definitely Oppose Rawls to Voegelin?

Pierre-Alain Drien, [email protected];  University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Political Theology: Legitimizing Authority after Secularization

Bruno Godefroy, [email protected]; Erlangen

Christianity as Civil Theology? Erik Peterson and Eric Voegelin

Thierry Gontier, [email protected]; University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Discussants: Dennis Coyle, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America

Bohan Yan, [email protected]; Ecole Normal Supérieur de Lyons

2:00-3:30: Palais, 515C

Panel 7: Principles of Dissidence Against Totalitarianism: Europe and Beyond

Chair: Richard Avramenko, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin-Madison

In the Words of Liu Xiaobo: Wisdom comes through suffering

John McNerney, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Post-Totalitarian Reconstruction: The Case of Venezuela

Francisco Plaza, [email protected]; Palm Beach Atlantic University

Self-Giving and the Constitution of Political Order

John von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

“The Cloven Hoof Under the Cassock: Desecration and Self-Giving in Roger Scruton”

Christopher S. Morrissey, Chris.Morrissey@twu; Trinity Western University

 Discussants: Flagg Taylor, [email protected]; Skidmore College,

David Walsh, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

4:00-5:30: Palais, 512D

Panel 8: Voegelin in His Time and Ours

Chair: David Walsh, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

A Comparison of Gadamer’s and Voegelin’s autobiographical exercises

Ferenc Hörcher,  [email protected]

Eric Voegelin and Albert Camus: A Comparison of Two Philosophers of History

Harald Bergbauer, [email protected]; University of Applied Sciences Munich

The “New Science of Politics,” Gnosticism, and the Exegesis of Our World Today

Micah Harris, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Discussant: Lee Trepanier, [email protected], Samford University

Saturday, September 17                                                      

Business Meeting, 7:00-8:00 am: Palais, 516 C

8:00-9:30: Palais, 514C

Panel 9: Stress and Strain within Liberal Democracy                   

Chair: Thomas Heilke, [email protected], University of British Columbia

Virtue and the Politics of Pluralism in the Thought of Jacques Maritain

Waldorf, [email protected],  University of Chicago

Messianic Trumpism and Woke Evangelicalism: Emergent Political Religions

Paul Corey, [email protected]; Humber College

Unfiltered Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Sovereignty of the People

Kirstin Anderson, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin-Madison

David Walsh and Liberalism

Thomas E. Lordan, [email protected]; Independent scholar

Discussant: Thomas Heilke, [email protected], University of British Columbia

10:00-11:30: Palais, 512H

Panel 10: Political Philosophy in a Pandemic: Albert Camus’ Plague

Chair: William Tilleczek [email protected], Harvard University

Plagues and Pandemics in a Technological World: A Reading of Camus’ Plague

Ron Srigley, [email protected]; University of Prince Edward Island

Physical, Metaphysical, Political: the Plague in Thucydides, Lucretius and Camus

Matthew Sharpe, [email protected]; Deakin University

The Significance of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice in Camus’ Plague

Zdravko Planinc, [email protected]; McMaster University

Freedom of Speech as a Virtue in Mill and Kant

Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University

Discussants: William Tilleczek [email protected], Harvard University

Bjorn Thomassen, [email protected]; Roskilde University

12:00-1:30: Palais, 523A

Panel 11: Rights and Dignity in the Modern Project

Chair: Michael Nafi, [email protected]; John Abbott College

Modernity’s Paradoxical Celebration and Destruction of the “Person.”

Grant Havers, [email protected]; Trinity Western University

Dignity, Civility, and the Truth: Political Reality and Political Rhetoric

Henrik Syse, [email protected]; Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Inherent Dignity and Political Respect

Glenn Hughes, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University

The Ubiquitous Mirror of Artificial Intelligence: Symbolism, Science, and Myth

Micheal Ziegler, [email protected]; University of Victoria,

Discussant: Michael Nafi, [email protected]; John Abbott College

2:00-3:30: Palais, 512H

Panel 12: Principles of Dissidence Against European Totalitarianism

Chair: John von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

The debate on totalitarianism in 2022 – a Central European Perspective

Martin Palouš, [email protected]; Florida International University

Facing the Absurd: Václav Havel’s Plays

Flagg Taylor, [email protected];  Skidmore College

“Resistance to the Lie, Care of the Soul, and the Rebirth of the Polis

Daniel J. Mahoney, [email protected]; Assumption University

Discussants: Francisco Plaza, [email protected]; Palm Beach Atlantic University

James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University

Saturday 7:30-9:00pm

Reception: Westin, Ville Marie A

Sunday, September 18

8:00-9:30: Palais, 512F

Panel 13:  Reconsiderations of the Greeks

Chair: John von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

Voegelin’s Unusual Account of Ancient Greek Anamnesis

Michael Nafi, John Abbott College

“Dialectic of the Cosmos and the Order of the Soul in Plato’s Laws,”

Mark Sinnett, [email protected], St. John’s College, Annapolis

“Plato’s Menexenus: Eulogy for the True Defender of the Polis

McPartland, [email protected], Kentucky State University

Plato on the Virtue of the Small Life

Thomas David Bunting, [email protected]; Shawnee State University

Discussants: John von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary

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