Eric Voegelin Gesellschaft Meeting

Eric-Voegelin-Gesellschaft

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

– Largo A. Gemelli 1, 20123 Milano –

Dipartimento di Scienze politiche

Dipartimento di Filosofia

Dipartimento di Scienze giuridiche

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International Conference – UCSC Milan, 3-4 December 2026

Orders of Consciousness, Orders of Political Societies

**Eric Voegelin’s Anamnesis 60 Years Later**

3 December 2026

10:00 – 10:15 Welcome Address

10:15-12:45 (180 min.)

Panel 1: Anamnesis as Recollection (140 min. + 20 pause/discussion)

William Tullius (American Public University) A Philosophy of Consciousness beyond Intentionality and Immanence: Eric Voegelin’s Radicalization of Phenomenological Philosophy

David Walsh (Catholic University of America) Anamnesis as the Personal Journey of Eric Voegelin

Bernat Torres (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) From Recollection to Consciousness: Voegelin’s Reinterpretation of Platonic Anamnesis and Metaxy

Panel 2, 14:30-16:15 – Orders of Consciousness (120 min.)

Giorgio Buccellati (UCLA) Contrastive anamnesis and their impact on Voegelin’s concept of Historiogenesis

Nicoletta Scotti Muth (UCSC) Time of Consciousness, Time of History: A Gap to Be Bridged. The Turning Point in Voegelin’s ‘Anamnesis’

Tommaso Mauri (Istituto Universitario Sophia) Philosophy of Myth in Schelling and Voegelin

Jan Okonski (University of Lodz) The Problem of Consciousness in the Thought of Eric Voegelin: A Perspective of Perennial Philosophy

16:15-16:45 – pause/discussion

Panel 3, 16:45-18:30 – History and Experience (120 min.)

Lorenza Violini (Università Statale di Milano) Politics and Justice in the Voegelin-Kelsen Debate: Reflections Based on the Concept of Nature

Giacomo Samek Lodovici (UCSC) The ‘spoudaios’ as a Unit of Moral Measure. Brief Notes Based on Voegelin

Nicolangelo D’Acunto (UCSC) Mongol Order and European Powers: How Voegelin Stumbled upon the Ecumenical Empires

Matthias Riedl (CEU-Vienna) Eric Voegelin, Political Reality, and Higher Education”

18:30-19:00 Discussion

4 December 2026 (210 min.)

Panel 4, 9:00-13:00– Orders of Political Societies

9:00-10:45

Vassilios Paipais (Panteion University – Athens) Theology and International Relations: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight, and Nicholas Rengger on the crisis of modern international relations

Dario Caroniti (Università di Messina) Eric Voegelin’s Interpretation of Bakunin’s Revolutionary Existence

Nicoletta Stradaioli (Università di Perugia) The Voegelin of Gerhart Niemeyer: Reading Anamnesis and Beyond

Giovanni Bombelli (UCSC) Representativeness and Representation: some remarks between Voegelin and Schmitt

(Pause/Discussion 10:45-11:15)

11:15-12:45

Matteo Negro (Università di Catania) Consciousness, Transcendence and Politics

Bernard Bourdin (Institut catholique de Paris) Aux antipodes des religions politiques: une théologie du politique comme nouvelle ‘symbolisation’ de la démocratie

12:45-13:15 Discussion

Chairs

Harald Bergbauer – EVG, Damiano Palano – UCSC, Gianfrancesco Zanetti – Università MoRe

Harald Bergbauer

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.