Eric Voegelin Gesellschaft Meeting in Munich: Mapping Empires

LMU München, Eric-Voegelin-Gesellschaft, Università degli Studi di Trieste
ANNUAL MEETING AT LMU MUNICH (Nov. 7.-8., 2025)
Mapping Empires. Patterns Past and Present

 

PART A: Friday, Nov. 7, 2025 (1 p.m.)
1 p.m.: Dr. Harald Bergbauer (Chair of the EVG): Introduction
I) Theory and Typology of Empires
1.15 p.m.: Ass. Prof. Dr. Carol B. Cooper (University of Houston, TX): Empires in History. Patterns, Types, and Theories
1.55 p.m.: Matthias Schmid, M.A. (University of Munich): Power and spirit in the process of history. On Eric Voegelin’s typology of empires
2.35 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Walter Rothholz (University of Greifswald): Translatio imperii in the 3rd Millenium: Philosophy and Theology address Power and Revolution in History
3.15 p.m.: Break
II) Empires of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
4.00 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Raimund Schulz (University of Bielefeld): The Empires of Antiquity and the Ecumenic Age
4.40 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Arpad Szakolczai (University College Cork, IRL): Byzantine Perplexities
5.20 p.m.: Prof. Dr. David Walsh (Catholic University of America, D.C.): Sacrum Imperium as the Empire of the Person
6.00 p.m.: Discussion
6.30 p.m.: Dinner in a nearby Restaurant

 

Part B: Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025 (9 a.m.)
III) The Evolution of Empires and Nationalism in Modernity
9.00 a.m.: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Leidhold (University of Cologne): The Nations and Empires of Modernity – Romantic Ideas and Geopolitical Gambits: A Critical Review
9.40 a.m.: Jan Okoński, M.A. (University of Lodz, Poland): Eric Voegelin and Arnold Toynbee: Empires in the Process of History
10.20 a.m.: Prof. Dr. Thomas Heilke (University of British Columbia, CAN): Athenians at Melos and Mongols to Rome: the Political Theology of Empire
11.00 a.m.: Break
IV) The End of the Imperial Age and the Resurgence of Multiple Empires
11.30 a.m.: Dr. Sebastian Hoppe (University of Berlin): The European Union as Empire. Unwitting, Unwilling or Undoing?
12.10 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert (University of Tübingen): A new “Middle Kingdom”? Neo-imperial aspirations in China
12.50 p.m.: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gebhardt (University of Erlangen): The American claim to world-leadership: the global politics from Wilson and Roosevelt to the semi-imperial Euro-American Transatlantic West and the post-imperial neo-isolationist retreat from Atlanticism
1.30 p.m.: Discussion
2.30 p.m.: End of Conference
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Harald Bergbauer is a Board Member of VoegelinView and has worked for many years as Associate Professor at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the University of Munich. He is President of the German "Eric Voegelin Gesellschaft" and Lecturer of Business Ethics and Social Policy at the University for Applied Sciences. His publications include the books, Eric Voegelin’s Critique of Modernity (2000), Cultural Theorists Think the State: The State in the Work of Selected Cultural Thinkers of the 20th Century (2013), Reshaping the World of States in the 21st Century: How Secession Creates New Political and Economic Structures (2020); the article, "The West and the Rest - Reissue or Metamorphosis of Friend-Foe-Thinking in the Work of Samuel P. Huntington and Roger Scruton" (2020), and the book on Climate Policy and Economic Growth. Analysis of a Reciprocal Relationship of Tension (2024). All his works are published in German.

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