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,

I look forward to seeing you at our annual meeting in September as we visit our Canadian neighbors in beautiful Montréal.  This is the first fully in person meeting of our host, APSA, who welcome us to a “post-pandemic political science.” Of course they caution that we remain under the supervision of the Canadian government whose regulations should be monitored by attendees. Thank you for your submissions and proposals which demonstrate that, whatever the state of politics, its study continues in robust health.  It is a testament to your creative scholarship that the Eric Voegelin Society has been able to field the full array of panels we have been allocated. We can only hope that some of the vibrancy and engagement of your discussions will begin to remediate the battered polities we severally inhabit. Please continue to update me with any changes we need to make to the program which will be posted on VOEGELINVIEW. Like many things that come to us for free, VOEGELINVIEW is not actually free and neither is the expenses related to our academic society. Without the demand of dues to part of our association, we rely on your generosity; please consider making a donation for the journal’s continued existence and expansion, which can be found here; or you may contact our treasurer, David Whitney, [email protected], if you wish to give to the Eric Voegelin Society. You should also indicate EVS as your preferred Related Group when you renew your APSA membership and register for the meeting.

David Walsh, [email protected]

Thursday, September 15

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];  University of Colorado at Boulder

Socio-Political Crisis and Transcendent Order in Burke

William F. Byrne, [email protected]; St. John’s University

Ontological Anxiety: Voegelin and Kierkegaard on Consciousness

Joshua Harrison Ayer, [email protected]; University of British Columbia

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

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

12:00-1:30

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

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

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

Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University; [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: David Clinton (Baylor University) [email protected]

Friday, September 16

8:00-9:30

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

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

‘A World Not of Person’: Achieving Personhood in the Plays of T.S Eliot

Ian Tuttle, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

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

From Speech to Dialogue: Voegelin’s Requirements for Political Philia

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

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

12:00-1:30

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

2:00-3:30

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

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

Bruno Latour and Eric Voegelin: Did Voegelin know about the Anthropocene?

Mendo Henriques, [email protected]; The Catholic University of Portugal

Saturday, September 17                                                                         

Business Meeting: Palais, 516 C

7:00-8:00am                                                                      

8:00-9:30

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

Immanual Kant on the Relationship of Ethics to Law

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

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

10:00-11:30

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

Chair: Bjorn Thomassen, [email protected]; Roskilde 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

Panel 11: Rights and Dignity in the Modern Project

Chair: Jeffrey Polet, [email protected]; Hope 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: Jeffrey Polet, [email protected]; Hope College

2:00-3:30

Panel 12: Principles of Dissidence Against European Totalitarianism

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

Jodi Bruhn, [email protected]; Stratéjuste, Canada

Surviving Totalitarian Rule: The Option of Dissidence

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

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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