41st International Meeting of the Eric Voegelin Society
41st International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY
American Political Science Association Meeting
September 11-14, 2025
Vancouver, BC
Dear Friends,
Thank you for all your submissions and assistance in standing up the program now in place for our 41st annual meeting. Our host, APSA, has assigned panel times designed to avoid participant conflicts. This will enable you to arrange your own travel plans for our gathering in Vancouver, an appropriately international venue. For those who may have concerns about travel difficulties and other issues I suggest you continue to consult the APSA update page. We will do all we can to accommodate the challenges as they arise. Improvising, adapting and prevailing have become synonymous with our annual gatherings. I look forward to seeing you in Vancouver for what promises to be a rich and varied program. All of it is a testament to the high quality of the scholarship on which our members are engaged. Mutual support and conviviality are not an afterthought but a true culmination of your efforts. Please keep me posted on changes as they inevitably come along. I remind you that EVS has neither member dues nor an endowment but depends on your generosity. This is especially the case for our online presence in Voegelinview.com that under our tireless editor, Paul Krause, continues to grow and flourish. 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]). No gift is too small or too large!
Wishing you a wonderful summer,
David
Thursday, September 11
8:00-9-30
Panel 1. Accounting for Canadian Education: A Reappraisal of Bankrupt Education: The Decline of Liberal Education in Canada
Chair: John von Heyking, [email protected], University of Lethbridge
John Stuart Mill and the Canadian Founding Debates
Jarrett A. Carty, [email protected], Concordia University
From “Politically Correct” to “Woke”: Bankrupt Education and the Decline of Academic Freedom
Paul Corey, [email protected], Humber College
Marshall McLuhan, George Grant, and the Ancient-Modern-Protestant Quarrel in Canada
Grant Havers, [email protected], Trinity Western University
Discussants: Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, [email protected]
Steve McGuire, [email protected], American Council of Trustees and Alumni
10:00-11:30
Panel 2. Using Voegelin to Understand the Present Moment
Chair: Eduardo Schmidt Passos, [email protected], Arizona State University
Who or what is the katechon? From Peter Thiel, Aleksandr Dugin, Carl Schmit, back to the
Eduardo Schmidt Passos, [email protected], Arizona State University
Trump and the Americans. Making Sense of the 2024 US Presidential Election with Voegelin’s Tools
Bruno Godefroy, [email protected], University of Tours
Perpetual Peace and Imperialism: Voegelin’s Reflections on American Hegemony
Boru Chen, [email protected], Louisiana State University
Discussant: Thomas Heilke, [email protected], University of British Columbia
Panel 3. Action and Relation
Chair: Carol Cooper, [email protected], University of Houston
Pierre Manent on Christianity, Politics, and Virtue
Ralph C. Hancock, [email protected], Brigham Young University
Community and Criminal Justice in Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals
Carol Cooper, [email protected], University of Houston
Phil Klay and War as a Window into The Soul
John Kitch II, [email protected], Texas State University
Discussants: Carol Cooper, [email protected], University of Houston
Thomas Holman, [email protected], Princeton University
2:00-3:30
Panel 4. Art, Music and Politics
Chair: John McNerney, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
A Who and not a Watt: Beckettian perspectives on the person
John McNerney, [email protected], Catholic University of America
Music & Politics: An Interdisciplinary Investigation
Eugen Nagy, [email protected], Texas A and M — San Antonio
Art as Politics and Politics as Art
Pedro Cerquiera, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
Discussant: Jeremy Geddert, [email protected], Assumption University
4:00-5:30
Panel 5. Arendt and the Acting Person
Chair: Thomas Holman, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
Hannah Arendt on Totalitarianism, Action, and the Person
Thomas Holman, [email protected], Princeton University
Responsibility and Natality
Sarah Beth Kitch, [email protected], University of Texas at Austin
The Notion of Personal Reality
Aistė Noreikaitė, [email protected],Vilnius University
Discussants: Martin Palous, [email protected]; Florida Atlantic University
Carol Cooper, [email protected], University of Houston
Friday, September 12
8:00-9:30
Panel 6. Religion and Statecraft in the Twentieth Century
Chair: John von Heyking, [email protected], Arizona State University
A Non-Liberal Liberalism: Abraham Kuyper Neo-Calvinism and Liberalism’s Malaise
Bryan McGraw, [email protected], Wheaton College
Islam as Liberal Cosmopolitanism: How Persuasive are Iqbal’s Reform Proposals?
Alexander Orwin, [email protected], Louisiana State University
“The Macabees Warred on Sabbath”: David Ben-Gurion on Biblical Politics
Neil Rogachevsky, [email protected], University of Florida
Democracy, Human Rights, and Legislation in the Thought of John Paul II
James Stoner, [email protected], Louisiana State University
Discussant: John von Heyking; [email protected], Arizona State University
10:00-11:30
Panel 7. Putting Voegelin’s Categories to Work
Chair: Scott Segrest, [email protected], The Citadel
Thomas Reid’s Connection of Moral Principles and Moral Experience
Scott Segrest, [email protected], The Citadel
The Role of Metaxy in the Political Philosophy of Eric Voegelin
Jareslaw Marek Duraj, [email protected], Macau Ricci Institute and University of St. Joseph
Approaching Authority . . . the Other Way Around
William Miller, [email protected], Marymount University
Voegelin, Schelling, and Political Theology
Chris Morrisey, [email protected], Trinity Western University,
Discussant: Barry Cooper, [email protected], University of Calgary
2:00-3:30
Panel 8. Roundtable In Memoriam for Chip Hughes: The Man and the Work
Chair: Thomas McPartland; [email protected]; Kentucky state University
Chip Hughes on Inherent Human Dignity
James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Voegelin, Hughes, and the Politics of Poetry
Paul Kidder, [email protected]; Seattle University
The Tension of Existence: Chip Hughes’s Mediation and Meditation
Thomas McPartland,, [email protected] ; Kentucky State University
What does It Mean that Dignity is ‘Inherent’? Chip Hughes’s Meditations on Dignity and Human Rights.
Henrik Syse, [email protected]; Peace Research Institute Oslo
Martin Palous, [email protected]; Florida International University
4:00-5:30
Panel 9. Roundtable on David Walsh’s The Growth of the Liberal Soul (1997 and 2025)
Chair: Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
Joe Fornieri, [email protected]; Rochester Institute of Technology
Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary
John von Heyking; [email protected]; University of Lethbridge
David Walsh, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
Friday 6:30
Business Meeting
Saturday, September 13, 2025
8:00-9:30
Panel 10. The Nation and the Cosmos: George Grant’s Lament for a Nation at 60
Chair: Jeremy Geddert, [email protected], Assumption University
The Influence of Simone Weil on George Grant
George Dunn, [email protected],
Ontology, Democracy, and Totalitarianism in George Grant
Tyler Chamberlain, [email protected], Trinity Western University
A Love of One’s Own: How the Good Touches Ground in National Belonging
Toivo Koivukoski, [email protected], Nipissing University
Is Conservatism Pessimistic? George Grant and W.L. Morton
Jeremy Geddert, [email protected], Assumption University
Discussants: Jeremy Geddert, [email protected], Assumption University
Grant Havers, [email protected]; Trinity Western University
10:00-11:30
Panel 11. Thinking About the Political
Chair: Michael Promisel, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
Education and Leisure in Aristotle’s Politics
Michael Promisel, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
AI, Immortality and the Politics of Reality: A Voegelinian Perspective
Zhen Han, [email protected], University of Florida
The Wound of Modernity: A Voegelinian
Interpretation of the 1789 French Revolution
Felipe Mosquera Blanco, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
Toward the Definition of a Social Group
Luke Sheahan, [email protected], Duquesne University
Discussants: Steve McGuire, [email protected], American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Harald Bergbauer, [email protected], University of Applied Sciences, Munich
12:00-1:30
Panel 12. Martin Luther King Jr. and Non-Violence
Chair: Thomas Heilke, [email protected], University of British Columbia
Martin Luther King’s Theory of Justice
Micah Harris, [email protected], Duke University
Understanding Martin Luther King’s Strategy of Nonviolence
Isak Tranvik, [email protected], Metropolitan State University
Douglass’s Moral Reading of the Constitution
Joe Fornieri, [email protected], Rochester Institute of Technology
Discussant: Thomas Heilke, [email protected], University of British Columbia
2:00-3:30
Panel 13. Origins and Symbols
Chair: James Greenaway, [email protected], St. Mary’s University
Recent Work on Neolithic Political Symbols
Barry Cooper, [email protected], University of Calgary
Mythos and Metaxy: Belonging Between the Height and the Depth
James Greenaway, [email protected], St. Mary’s University
Radically Personal: God and Ourselves in the New Axial Age
Jerry Martin, [email protected], University of Colorado at Boulder
Why the Jews?
Abigail Martin, [email protected]; Brooklyn College-CUNY
Discussant: John McNerney, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
4:00-5:30
Panel 14. Early Voegelin
Chair: Thomas Holman, [email protected], Princeton University
Science of Order, Young Voegelin’s Engagement with the Geistkreis
Muen Liu, [email protected], Tsinghua University
Universalism in the Philosophy of Othmar Spann
Harald Bergbauer, [email protected], University of Applied Sciences, Munich
Voegelin’s State Theory Against the Background of Kelsen’s Pure Legal Theory
Jan Okoński, [email protected], University of Lodz
Discussant: Thomas Heilke, [email protected], University of British Columbia
Sunday, September 14, 2025
8:00-9:30
Panel 15. Author Meets Critics: Eamonn O’Higgins, Person Centered Politics
Chair: David Walsh, [email protected], The Catholic University of America
John McNerney, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Aistė Noreikaitė, [email protected], Vilnius University
Thomas Holman, [email protected], Princeton University
Eamonn O’ Higgins, [email protected], Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
10:00-11:30
Panel 16. Defending Democracy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics
Chair: John von Heyking; [email protected], Arizona State University
Mosaic Democracy? Harrington and Spinoza on the Biblical Origin of the Democratic Regime
Ronald Beiner, [email protected], University of Toronto-Missauga
Our City is an Education to Greece
David Tabachnick, [email protected], Nipissing University
Aristotle’s Corrective to Democracy and Our Technological Fate
John von Heyking, [email protected], University of Lethbridge
Discussants: Jacqueline Pfeffer-Merrill, [email protected]
Toivo Koivukoski, [email protected], Nipissing University
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