40th International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society
40th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY
American Political Science Association Meeting
September 5-8, 2024
Philadelphia, PA
Friends,
I share the schedule for our annual meeting in Philadelphia over the Labor Day weekend. Thank you for all the submissions that make this program possible. It is an impressive demonstration of the range of interests and intellectual vitality that characterize the membership of the Eric Voegelin Society. Your creativity and good fellowship are the principal reasons we have been able to sustain meetings that are now about to enter their fifth decade. Even our host, the American Political Science Association, has begun to appreciate the contribution we make. Not only have we been elevated to Partner status but, for the first time, we have not been saddled with Sunday morning panels. Let’s hope it’s a trend that continues! In that spirit of cordiality, I remind you to register on the APSA website and indicate EVS as the Partner Association you wish to join. As you know we do not collect any fee, but we do solicit your voluntary contribution if you are in a position to make one. Please remember no gift is too small (or too large) in keeping our operation afloat, especially the ever-expanding profile of VOEGELINVIEW under our energetic editor, Paul Krause. The donate button has moved with Rick Avramenko from the University of Wisconsin to Arizona State University. You may also contact our Louisiana Treasurer, David Whitney ([email protected]). Most of you already know that we lost our beloved founder, Ellis Sandoz, in September. In his honor, LSU has set up a memorial page and his family have established a memorial lecture fund to which friends may contribute if they wish. Please circulate your papers to fellow panelists and include me so that I can forward them to our archives.
With fond good wishes,
David Walsh
Thursday 8:00-9:30
Panel 1. Alternatives to the Liberal Paradigm
Chair: Jeremy Geddert, [email protected]; Assumption University
The Just Polity in Thomas Aquinas’s De Regno
Mary Imperato, [email protected]; Belmont Abbey College
Family and the Person as Relation: Relational Public Policies in Latin America
Gustavo Santos, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Muddling Through Modernity: Experience, Transcendence and Morality in Odd Times
Dennis Coyle, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Liberalism and Its Critics: The Contemporary Debate
Eugen Nagy, [email protected]; Texas A&M- San Antonio
Discussant: Jeremy Geddert, [email protected]; Assumption University
Thursday 10:00-11:30
Panel 2. Art and the Symbolization of Order
Chair: John McNerney, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Politics and the Mesolithic
Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
Art as God’s Grandchild: Dante’s Aristotelian Case against Usury
Monica Jeffery, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Deadwood’s Politics and the Challenge of Modernity
Patrick Nathanael Cain, [email protected]
Voegelin’s Late Reflection on Wisdom and the Magic of the Extreme
Michael Franz, [email protected]; Loyola University-Baltimore
Discussants: John McNerney, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Thomas Heilke, [email protected]; University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Thursday 12:00-1:30
Panel 3. Roundtable on James Greenaway’s A Philosophy of Belonging
Chair: David Walsh; [email protected]; Catholic University of America
James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Steven McGuire, [email protected]; American Council of Trustees and Alumni
John McNerney, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Thursday 2:00-3:30
Panel 4. Enlargement of Liberal Horizons
Chair: Steven McGuire, [email protected]; ACTA
The Absence of a Duty to Rescue: Philosophical Foundations of Liberalism
James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Voegelin’s Ontology of Law
Jan Okoński, [email protected]; University of Lodz,
Othmar Spann and the “Conservative Revolution”
Harald Bergbauer, [email protected]; University of Applied Sciences
Eric Voegelin and Austria’s Authoritarian Regime: A Reappraisal
Bruno Godefroy, [email protected]; University Jean Moulin – Lyon
The Evil of This Time
Abigail Martin, [email protected]; Brooklyn College-CUNY
Discussant: Steven McGuire, [email protected]; ACTA
Thursday 4:00-5:30
Panel 5: Exploring the Foundations of American Constitutional Thought
Chair: James Stoner, [email protected]; Louisiana State University
Constitutional Logic of Separation of Powers
Kevin Burns, [email protected]; Christendom College
Thomas Jefferson v. James Madison on Constitutional Endurance and Constitutional Change
Deborah O’Malley, [email protected]; University of Notre Dame
American Ideational Development
Matthew Reising, [email protected]; Baylor University, and Benjamin Kleinerman, [email protected]; Baylor University.
Madisonian Misrepresentation? The Federalist’s Treatment of the Separation of Powers Reconsidered
Benjamin Slomski, [email protected]; Purdue University Fort Wane
Discussants: Jordan Cash, [email protected]; Michigan State University
Connor Ewing, [email protected]; University of Toronto
Friday 8:00-9:30
Panel 6. Friendship in Conversation with the Ancient Greeks
Chair: John von Heyking; [email protected]; University of Lethbridge
Being, cosmos, and community in Plato
Thomas McPartland; [email protected]; University of Kentucky
Friendship Beyond Being in Plato’s Republic
John von Heyking; [email protected]; University of Lethbridge
True Statesmanship: Aristotle on the Science, Art, and Character of Rule
Michael Promisel, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Aesthetic Determinism: Contemporary Mythopoeic Political Thought
William Miller, [email protected]; Marymount University
Discussant: Steven McGuire; [email protected]; ACTA
Friday 10:00-11:30
Panel 7. In Defense of Civilization: Reflections on the Life and Work of Ellis Sandoz
Chair: David Whitney, [email protected]; Nicholls State University
Glenn Moots, [email protected]; Northwood University
Martin Palouš, [email protected]; Florida International University
Promise Hsu, [email protected]; Emory University
Philip de Mahy, [email protected]; University of Louisiana
Friday 12:00-1:30
Panel 8. July Fourth to Juneteenth: Black Engagement with America’s Founding Principles
Chair: Joe Fornieri, [email protected]; Rochester Institute of Technology
Frederick Douglass’s Antislavery Constitution
Joe Fornieri, [email protected]; Rochester Institute of Technology
The Art of Association in the Thought of Washington and W.E. Du Bois
Gregory Collins, [email protected]; Yale University
Black Nationalism and the Tradition of American Populism
Matthew Young, [email protected]; Elon University
King’s Dream, the American Dream, and the Declaration of Independence
Micah Harris, [email protected]; Duke University
Discussant: James Stoner, [email protected]; Louisiana State University
Friday 2:00-3:30
Panel 9. Justice and Inequality: Democracy and Great Powers
The U.S. as a Great Power: the Long Road to the 19th Century Acceptance of Rank
David Clinton, [email protected]; Baylor University
Kennan the Reactionist
Eric Fleury, [email protected]; Connecticut College
The Political Ethics of Unipolarity and Multipolarity
Stephen Sims, [email protected]; Rochester Institute of Technology
The Ignorance of the Ancients: Al-Farabi’s Critique of Might as Right in The Virtuous City.
Robert L’Arrivee, [email protected]; Furman University
Might Without Right: The Role of Conquest in the Politics of Alfarabi’s Ignorant Cities
Alex Orwin, [email protected]; Louisiana State University
Discussants: Joshua King, [email protected]; U.S. Military Academy
Leo Moradi, [email protected]; Boston University
Friday 4:00-5:30
Panel 10. Latin American Political Thought in the 1800’s: Ideas, Identity, and Institutions.
Chair: Eduardo Schmidt Passos, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin-Madison
Juan-Jacobo’s Paradox: Discourse on the Arts and Sciences in Spanish America
Nayeli Leandra Riano, [email protected]; Georgetown University
Hegemonic Courtship: Latin American Republics and the Panama Congress
Alejandro Casetrillon, [email protected]; University of Notre Dame
Jeremy Graham (non-presenting co-author), [email protected]; National Defense University
Liberalism between Spain and America: The Political Thought of Andrés Bello
Brendon Westler, [email protected]; St. Olaf College
The Political Thought of Joaquim Nabuco and the Abolition of Slavery in Brazil
Eduardo Schmidt Passos, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin-Madison
The deictic theology of the early Jesuits in 16th Century Brazil
Braulia B. Rivers, [email protected]; University of St. Andrews
Discussants: Luke Foster, [email protected]; University of Notre Dame
Gustavo A. Santos, [email protected]; The Catholic University of America
Friday 6:30
Business Meeting
Friday 7:30
Reception
Saturday 8:00-9:30
Panel 11. Centrality of Personal Experience in Political Philosophy
Chair: James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Why we should renounce the conception of moral objectivity: a personalist perspective.
Aistė Noreikaitė, [email protected]; Vilnius University
Voegelin and Schutz on the Order of the Cosmion
Michael Hanke, [email protected]; Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
Does Illumination of Consciousness Affect Reality Per Se?
Bohan Yan, [email protected]; Ecole Normal Superieur de Lyon
Discussant: James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University of Texas
Saturday 10:00-11:30
Panel 12. Politics And Friendship In The Cosmos
Chair: John von Heyking; [email protected]; University of Lethbridge
The Ends of Praxis in Hannah Arendt’s Theory of Action
Thomas Holman; [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Pluralism, Generosity, Charity, and Friendship
Thomas Heilke; [email protected]; University of British Columbia-Okanagan
The Depth of Experience
Jerry Martin, [email protected]; University of Colorado-Boulder
Love, Justice, and Punishment in Kant
Carol B. Cooper, [email protected]; University of Houston
Recapturing ‘Fraternity’ as a Forgotten Dimension of the Political
John McNerney, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Discussant: Eduardo Schmidt Passos; [email protected]
Discussant: Carol Cooper; [email protected]; University of Houston
Saturday 12:00-1:30
Panel 13. The Supreme Court in American Constitutional Development
Chair: Kevin Burns, [email protected]; Christendom College
The Isolated Judiciary: The Marshall Court and the Resiliency of Judicial Constitutional Logic
Jordan Cash, [email protected]; Michigan State University
The Legacy Issues of Justice Joseph Story’s Constitutional Thought
Brigid Flaherty, [email protected]; Baylor University
The Influence of FDR’s Bill of Rights Rhetoric on the Court’s Jurisprudence
Jerome Foss, [email protected]; St. Vincent College,
The Unitary Executive Theory and Supreme Court Removal Power Jurisprudence
Joseph Natali, [email protected]; Baylor University,
Discussants: James Stoner, [email protected]; Louisiana State University
Tony Bartl, [email protected]; Angelo State University
Saturday 2:00-3:30
Panel 14. The Transcendence of Freedom
Chair: Thomas Heilke, [email protected]; University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Quo Vadis? The Transcendence of Freedom
Enrique Pallares, [email protected]; University of Pennsylvania
Beyond Tocqueville?
Raul Rodriquez, [email protected]; Michigan State University
“I am Eternally Equal with the Best,” Walt Whitman’s Egalitarian Liberalism
David Sollenberger, [email protected]; Pennsylvania State University
The Political Region of Being
Michael Hickman, [email protected]; College of Charleston
Discussant: Thomas Heilke, [email protected]; University of British Columbia-Okanagan
Saturday 4:00-5:30
Panel 15. Voegelin’s Reception in China
Chair: Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
The Latest on Voegelin’s Reception in China
Muen Liu, [email protected]; Tsinghua University
Parallel Ecumene: Rethinking Eric Voegelin’s Perspective on Chinese Civilization
Zhen Han, [email protected]
Qianlong Emperor’s Transformation of His Mediator Identity
Anqi Wang, [email protected]; Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
The Beauty of Ritual: The Emergence of Order in Xunzi’s Political Theory
Lincoln Rathnam, [email protected]; Kunshan University
Voegelin and Heidegger on Nature
Xiao Guo, [email protected]; Tsinghua University
Discussant: Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
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