30th International Meeting of The Eric Voegelin Society, Washington D.C. 2014
The Eric Voegelin Society is a Related Group of the American Political Science Association.
Its Annual Meeting will run concurrently with that of the APSA
on August 28-31, Washington D.C.
Panel 1, Spirituality and Politics
Chair: Macon Boczek, Kent State University, [email protected]
“Learning to Kneel: Etty Hillesum and Simone Weil as Examples of Openness to Reality.” Amanda Achtman, University of Calgary, [email protected]
“Eric Voegelin and Henri de Lubac: Reason Seeking Transcendence, Nature Longing for Grace.” Tom Lordan, Independent Scholar, [email protected]
“Cain and Abel in Torah and Qur’an: Structure, Dialogue, and Meaning.” Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, [email protected]
“Voegelin’s Soteriology and Ours.” Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder (emeritus), [email protected]
“Why Blame Calvin?” T. John Jamieson, Independent Scholar, [email protected]
Discussants: Macon Boczek, Kent State University, [email protected] and Geoffrey Sigalets, Princeton University, [email protected]
Panel 2, Roundtable Honoring Kenneth W. Thompson and Inis. L. Claude
Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University, [email protected]
Gale Mattox, United States Naval Academy, [email protected]
Farhang Rajaee, Carleton University, [email protected]
John Eastby, Hampden-Sydney College, [email protected]
Daniel Lang, Lynchburg College, [email protected]
Reed Davis, Seattle Pacific University, [email protected]
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma, [email protected]
Panel 3, Roundtable: The Timelessness of Proust
Chair: Charles Embry, Texas A & M-Commerce, [email protected]
Charles R. Embry, Texas A & M-Commerce, [email protected]
Michael Henry, St. John’s, [email protected]
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s San Antonio, [email protected]
Paulette Kidder, Seattle University, [email protected]
Tom McPartland, Kentucky State University, [email protected]
Panel 4, New Directions in Voegelinian Thought
Chair: David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, [email protected]
“Faith and Reason in Kant’s Political Thought.” Steven McGuire [email protected]
“Derrida and Voegelin: A Comparison of Religious Perspectives.” Andrew Kaufmann, Catholic University of America, [email protected]
“Art as a Medium of Discourse in the Public Realm.” S. Barret Dolph, Zhen Jiang Chinese Cultural Center, [email protected]
“Voegelin and Islam: Why Bother ?” Michael Nafi, Harvard University, [email protected]
“Voegelin’s Impact on the Italian Response to Modernity.” Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University, [email protected] and Rosario Forlenza, New York University, [email protected]
Discussants: David Walsh and David Schindler, John Paul II Institute, [email protected]
Panel 5, Public Policy of Liberty and Responsibility: Perons, Institutions, and the Social Good
Chair: Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), [email protected]
Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), [email protected]
Martin Palous, Václav Havel Library, [email protected]
Glenn Hughes St. Mary’s University, [email protected]
James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, [email protected]
Franziska Hoppen, University of Kent, [email protected]
Panel 6, the Place of Anti-Catholicism in American National Identity
Chair: Glenn Moots, Princeton University, [email protected]
“Papists and Protestants: Reinterpreting Anti-Catholic Rhetoric in Colonial America.” Glenn Moots, Princeton University, [email protected]
“Anti-Catholicism and the Problem of Religious Liberty in the Early Republic.” Ryan McIlhenny, Providence Christian College, [email protected]
‘The Cross or the Double-Cross’: Catholicism, Anti-Communism, and the Political Theology of Fulton J. Sheen.” James Patterson, Hampden-Sydney College, [email protected]
Discussants: Peter Lawler, Berry College, [email protected] and Matthew Franck, Witherspoon Institute, [email protected]
Panel 7, Shakespeare, Eros, and Politics
Chair: Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University [email protected]
“Toward a Definition of Eros.” Thomas R. Laehn, McNeese State University, [email protected]
“Eros and Politics: the Political Philosophy of Romeo and Juliet.” Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University [email protected]
“Metis, Myth and Metamorphosis in the Metaxy: Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream as Political Philosophy.” Nalin Ranasinghe, Assumption College, [email protected]
“The Trickster Recuperated: The Transitions of Shakespeare’s Falstaff.” Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, [email protected]
Discussants: Matthew D. Dinan, Holy Cross, [email protected] and Julianne Marie Romanello, Tulsa Community College, [email protected]
Panel 8, Crisis as a Lens for Modernity
Chair: Thierry Gontier, Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, [email protected]
“Greek and Modern Enlightenments: A Comparison of Crises.” Thierry Gontier, Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, [email protected]
“Eric Voegelin and Karl Löwith on Nietzsche: Symptom or Solution to the Modern Crisis?” Bruno Godefroy Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3
“Crisis and History in Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin.” Pierre-Alain Drien, [email protected]
“Apocalyptic Violence and the Vision of Global Crisis.” Matthias Riedl, Central European University, [email protected]
“Ambivalent Modernity: A Lefortian Take on Voegelin’s New Science of Politics.” Jan Rohgalf, University of Rostock, [email protected]
Discussants: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, [email protected] and John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, [email protected]
Panel 9, Election 2014: Analysis and Predictions
Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, [email protected]
Kondik, Kyle, Managing Editor, Sabato’s Crystal Ball, University of Virginia Center for Politics, [email protected]
Mark Rozell, George Mason University, [email protected]
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, University of Pennsylvania, [email protected]
Matthew Green, Catholic University of America, [email protected]
Panel 10, Roundtable on Late Published Essays: Overflow from Order and History
Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola University of Baltimore, [email protected]
“Wisdom and the Magic of the Extreme.” Michael Franz, Loyola University of Baltimore, [email protected]
“Reason: The Classic Experience.” James Wiser, University of San Francisco [email protected]
“Gospel and Culture.” William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Arkiv, Munich, [email protected]
“Quod Deus Dicitur.” Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, [email protected]
“Immortality: Experience and Symbol.” Thomas Heilke, University of British Columbia, [email protected]
Panel 11, The Music of Politics
Chair: John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, [email protected]
“Learning to Dance Together: Political Friendship in Plato’s Laws.” John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, [email protected]
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Arts: The Political Impotence of Poetry.” Rene Paddags, Ashland University, [email protected]
“Nietzsche-Zarathustra’s New Song: The Politics of the Dionysian Dithyramb in a World at Once Old and New.” Rouven J. Steeves, United States Air Force Academy, [email protected]
” The Silent Music of Camus: The Authentic Art of Rebellion.” Sarah Shea, McGill University, [email protected]
“In Harmony with Nature: Music and Drama in Hugo Grotius’ Political Education.” Jeremy Geddert, Assumption College, [email protected]
Discussant: Jeff Polet, Hope College, [email protected]
Panel 12, Voegelin and Community Substance
Chair: Tim Fuller, [email protected]
“‘A Fire in Straw’: The Construction of Public Consciousness from Burke to Habermas.” Steven Millies, University of South Carolina at Aiken, [email protected]
“Democracy from Bergson to Voegelin.” Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, VIPOF (Sciences PO), [email protected]
“Voegelin and Talcott Parsons in Correspondence.” Brickey LeQuire, Samford University, [email protected]
“The Dynamics of Morality in Christian Personalism: A Dialogue with Kant’s Practical philosophy.” Gustavo Adolfo P. D. Santos, Oficina Municipal, Brazil, [email protected]
Discussants: Tim Fuller, [email protected] and Jodi Bruhn, Independent Scholar, [email protected]