39th International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society at APSA

39th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY

American Political Science Association Meeting

August 31-September 3, 2023

Los Angeles, CA

Friends,

Thank you for your submissions that have made the upcoming program of the Eric Voegelin Society possible.  It is gratifying to see the range of Voegelin and Voegelin related studies that are abundantly on display.  As you know we have continually enlarged our range of interests beyond what an association with a name like ours might suggest.  I can only imagine that Voegelin would approve.  He always wanted to be on the frontiers of science, never merely curating past accomplishments.  We carry on his work by forging ahead along new lines of inquiry that demonstrate we are engaged in a living enterprise.  Yet we are also conscious of the need to appropriate what we have received, and therefore to ensure we possess a sufficiently solid basis on which the forward movement can proceed.  None of us can do this alone.  We rely on the conversation and support of others who are travelling the same road.  This is the principal justification for our annual meetings and one of the main reasons I am pleased to play a small part in facilitating them. I look forward to seeing you in the City of Angels, even as I am well aware that it has not been the most convenient venue for many.  You will notice that we have not been able to fill all our panels completely.  So there is still time to encourage colleagues or students who may wish to participate to get in touch.  In the meantime, do not forget to circulate your papers to me and your fellow panelists well in advance of our meeting.  I remind you also to register with our host, the American Political Science Association, indicating EVS as your preferred Partner Association.  The latter step does not incur any financial obligation, but you should be aware that we too require financial support.  Please consider using our donate button found here, or you may contact our treasurer, David Whitney, [email protected]. Financial donations and support can go to our humanities journal, VOEGELINVIEW, which under the innovative leadership of our new editor, Paul Krause, has seen its readership significantly increased in the past year alongside internal changes; donations can also go to support the Eric Voegelin Society by checks (contact David Whitney) or credit card donations through Nicholls Foundation (please make sure to leave a comment indicating the Eric Voegelin Society or EVS in the comments).  As a closing note I want acknowledge the appearance of vol.2 of Eric Voegelin Studies: Democracy and Representation, edited by Giuliana Parotto, a handsomely produced volume from Brill, with Harald Bergbauer as managing editor of the series.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31

8:00-9:30

Panel 1. Science and American Political Thought

Chair: Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary

Scientism, Liberalism, and the Response to COVID-19 in the United States

David Whitney, [email protected];  Nicholls State University

“Gorgons, Hydras, and Chimeras Dire”: Literary Limits in the Federalist

Matt Cantirino, [email protected]; Assumption University

A Kathechontic Approach to White Christian Nationalism

Juan Pablo Aranda Vargas, [email protected];  Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla

Discussant: Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary

10:00-11:30

Panel 2. Eric Voegelin and his Interlocutors

James R. Stoner, Jr., [email protected];  Louisiana State University

Voegelin and Heidegger: Apocalypse Without Apocalypse

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

Harald Bergbauer, Eric Voegelin’s View of Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Voegelin and Strauss

Daniel Mahoney, [email protected]; Assumption University

Voegelin, Schelling, and Husserl: A Dialogue on Modes and Limits of Consciousness

Gustavo Santos, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Discussants:  Zdravko Planinc, [email protected]; McMaster University

James R. Stoner, Jr., [email protected];  Louisiana State University

12:00-1:30

Panel 3. Rulers and Scholars in Medieval Islamic Political Thought

Chair: Alex Orwin, Louisiana State University; [email protected]

Softening Plato: Alfarabi’s Unplatonic Philosopher Rulers

Alex Orwin, Louisiana State University; [email protected]

Rulership in the Virtuous City: A Comparison between Alfarabi’s Political Regime and the Virtuous City

Leo Moradi, Boston University; [email protected]

Between Divine Law and Human Wisdom: Notes on a Trilogy of Averroes’s Works

Karen Taliaferro, Arizona State University; [email protected]

The Caliphate will Last Thirty Years: Political Debates over a Prophetic Hadith

Han Hsien Liew, Arizona State University; [email protected]

Discussants: Alex Orwin, Louisiana State University; [email protected]

2:00-3:30

Panel 4. Author Meets Critics: The History of Experience by Wolfgang Leidhold

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

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

McPartland, [email protected], Kentucky State University

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

Wolfgang Leidhold, [email protected], University of Cologne

4:00-5:30

Panel 5. The Founding and Refounding of America

Chair: Steve McGuire, [email protected]; American Council for Trustees and Alumni

Natural and Traditional Rights in the American Founding

Scott Robinson, [email protected]; Schreiner University

The Politics of American Pluralism

Samuel Sprunk, [email protected]; Nicholls State University

Politics, More Art than Science: Recovering the Non-Humean James Madison

Aaron Alexander Zubia, [email protected];  Furman University

Discussant: Steve McGuire, [email protected]; American Council for Trustees and Alumni

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

8:00-9:30

Panel 6. Medieval Continuities in Modern Politics

Chair: James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University of Texas

Art as God’s Grandchild: Dante’s Aristotelian Case Against Usury

Monica Jeffery [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Religious Liberty and the Natural Law in the Scholastic Tradition

Steven Waldorf, [email protected];  University of Chicago

Discussant: James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University of Texas

10:00-11:30

Panel 7. Roundtable: Totalitarianism in the Past and Its Echoes in the Present

Chair: Martin Palouš, [email protected]; Florida International University

Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary

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

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

Steve McGuire, [email protected]; American Council for Trustees and Alumni

12:00-1:30

Panel 8. Taking the Pulse of American Politics

Chair: James R. Stoner, Jr., [email protected];  Louisiana State University

“The Compromise of 1850: The Statesmen of the Senate and the Price of Union”

Kevin J. Burns, [email protected]; Christendom College

Escaping Isolation: Harry Truman and the Sources of Modern Presidential Authority

Jordan Cash, [email protected];Michigan State University

Liberalism’s Separationism: Views from Rawls and Tocqueville”

Sarah Gustafson, [email protected];  Harvard University

Deliberation, Negotiation, and the Common Good: What Law Does a Representative Legislature Make?

James R. Stoner, Jr., [email protected];  Louisiana State University

Discussants: Lucas Morel, Washington & Lee University <[email protected]> [on Burns & Stoner]

James Patterson, Ave Maria University <[email protected]> [on Cash & Gustafson]

2:00-3:30

Panel 9.  Ramifications of Voegelin’s Project

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

Political Symbols of the Northeast Neolithic

Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary

Eric Voegelin and Austria’s Authoritarian Regime: A Reappraisal

Bruno Godefroy, [email protected];  Erlangen University

Language in Eric Voegelin’s Thinking

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

Who Owns the Timeline? Covenant in Voegelin, Buber and Ourselves

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

Discussants: Thomas Heilke

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

6:30-7:00 – Business Meeting

7:30-9:00 – Reception

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

8:00-9:30

Panel 10. The Person as the Heart of the Political

Chair: Carol Cooper, The Honors College, University of Houston; [email protected]

The Promise and Vision of Weil’s The Need for Roots

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

Radically Personal? Challenges from Robert Bellah, Charles Taylor, and Linda Zagebski

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

John Bassett Moore and the Modest Virtues of International Law

David Clinton, [email protected] ; Baylor University

Discussants:

Stephen Sims, [email protected];Rochester Institute of Technology

Carol Cooper, The Honors College, University of Houston; [email protected]

12:00-1:30

Panel 11.  Friendship, Universal Love, and Pluralism

Chair: Carol B. Cooper, The Honors College, University of Houston; [email protected]

Pluralism, Generosity, Charity, and Friendship

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

Friendships in a Friendly Cosmos

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

Universal Humanity: History as Belonging in the Cosmos

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

The Forgotten Dimension: Bonhoefferian Perspectives on ‘Fraternity’

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

Discussants: Carol Cooper, The Honors College, University of Houston; [email protected]

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

2:00-3:30

Panel 12. Tocqueville on Religion, Civic Education, and the Nation

Chair: Susan McWilliams, [email protected]; Pomona College

Did Tocqueville’s Catholicism Change America, or Vice Versa?

Jeremy Seth Geddert, [email protected]; Assumption University

Tocqueville’s Catholic Social Science

Richard Avramenko, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin

Discussants: James R. Stoner, Jr., [email protected];  Louisiana State University

4:00-5:30

Panel 13. Prudence and Ethics in Foreign Policy and International Politics

Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University, [email protected]

The Moral Foundations of Isolationism and Empire

Stephen Sims, Rochester Institute of Technology, [email protected]

The Tragedy of Small Power Politics: Statesmanship in Rousseau’s Poland and Corsica

Joshua King, United States Military Academy at West Point, [email protected] 

The Philosophical Problems Posed by Divided Sovereignty in the Annexation of Texas: Sectional Interests and American Foreign Policy

Joseph Natali, Baylor University, [email protected]

Should Like Cases Be Decided Alike?

Richard Jordan, Baylor University, [email protected]

Discussant: David Clinton, Baylor University, [email protected]

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

8:00-9:30

Panel 14. Friendship, Loneliness, and the Philosophical Life

Friendship and Loneliness: What does it mean to be a friend with oneself? 

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

Return To The Cave:  Philia, Eros, And The Erotic-Hermetic Structure Of The Philosophical Life

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

Love and Justice from Aristotle to Abolition

Carol Cooper,The Honors College, University of Houston; [email protected]

What Do We Give When We Give of Ourselves?

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

Discussants:

James Greenaway, University of St. Mary’s

Steve McGuire, [email protected]; American Council for Trustees and Alumni

10:00-11:30

Panel 15. The Primacy of Practice within Theory

Chair: David Sollenberger, [email protected]; Pennsylvania State University

David Walsh as American Philosopher

David Sollenberger, [email protected]; Pennsylvania State University

Immanuel Kant on the Relationship of Law and Morals

Thomas E. Lordan, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Institutions and Persons within Politics

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

Discussants: Steve McGuire, [email protected]; American Council for Trustees and Alumni

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

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