Eric Voegelin Society 2021 Mini-Conference Final Program

Sunday, January 3, 2021

Zoom ID: https://uleth.zoom.us/j/96881593776

Participation requires a password that will be publicized a few days before the meeting primarily via email to [email protected]. Please contact forum moderator Steven McGuire ([email protected]) to get added to the distribution list.

If you have any questions, email John von Heyking: [email protected]

All times Eastern US = 1 hour earlier in Chicago, 2 hours earlier in Alberta, 3 hours earlier in San Francisco; 2 hours later in São Paulo, 6 hours later in Berlin, 13 hours later in Shanghai)

12:00 pm – Welcome [6:00 pm in Berlin].

John von Heyking (University of Lethbridge) and Harald Bergbauer (University of Applied Sciences, Munich)

12:00-1:15 pm EST – Panel One (Modernity and the Gnosticism Question) [6:00-7:15 pm in Berlin]

Chair: Harald Bergbauer, University of Applied Sciences, Munich ([email protected])

“Eric Voegelin and Revolutionary Gnosticism in ‘The Matrix’ Franchise (1999-2003).”— Fryderyk Kwiatkowski, University of Groningen ([email protected]),

“Gnosticism and Modern Democracy: Nicolás Gómez Dávila, Reader of Eric Voegelin”— Michaël Rabier, UPEC (Paris-Est Créteil) University ([email protected])

“Augusto del Noce’s Interpretation of Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy”— Giuliana Parotto, Università di Pavia ([email protected]),

Discussants: Victor Bruno, Universidade Federal do Piauí ([email protected]), Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University ([email protected])

Break

1:30-2:45 pm EST – Panel Two (The Rule of Greek Nous and its Legacy) [7:30-8:45 pm in Berlin]

Chair: Steven McGuire, Villanova University ([email protected])

“Death, Knowledge, and Rule in Plato’sSeventh Letter”— Tony Spanakos, Montclair State University ([email protected])

“Slavery and the Emergence of the Polis in Aristotle’s Politics”— John Boersma, University of Wisconsin-Madison ([email protected]),

“Reading Aristotle on Right by Nature With Eric Voegelin and Ibn Rushd (Averroes)”— Michael Nafi, John Abbott College ([email protected])

Discussants: Bernat Torres Morales, Universitat Internacional Catalunya Barcelona ([email protected]), Julianne Romanello, University of Tulsa ([email protected])

Break

3:00-4:15 pm EST – Panel Three (Historical Order and Pneumatic Experience) [9:00-10:15 pm in Berlin]

Chair: Macon Boczek, Kent State University ([email protected])

“The Charge of Historicism in Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy of History”— Philip de Mahy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette ([email protected])

“Man’s Supernatural End and the Givenness of Being in Modernity”— Steven Waldorf, University of Chicago ([email protected]),

“Theorizing Orders: Working through Eric Voegelin and Cornelius Castoriadis”— Alan Kramer, Independent Scholar ([email protected]),

Discussants: Macon Boczek, Kent State University ([email protected]), Gustavo Santos ([email protected])

Break

4:30-6:00 pm EST – Book Launches and Reception [10:30 pm – midnight in Berlin]

Chair: Nayeli Riano, Georgetown University ([email protected])

Victor Bruno Universidade Federal do Piauí ([email protected]), The Broken Image – Brief essay on realism, nominalism and philosophy

Nathan Harter, Christopher Newport University ([email protected]), Leadership Across Boundaries: A Passage to Aporia

Ferenc Hörcher, University of Public Service (Budapest) ([email protected]), A Political Philosophy of Conservatism. Prudence, Moderation and Tradition

Veronica Roberts Ogle, Assumption College ([email protected]), Politics and the Earthly City in Augustine’s City of God

Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University ([email protected]), From Dickinson to Dylan: Visions of Transcendence in Modernist Literature

Promise Hsu, Founding Editor, Kosmos ([email protected]), China’s Quest for Liberty: A Personal History of Freedom

Agnes Horvath, Arpad Szakolczai, Manussos Marangudakis, Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery

Lee Trepanier (ed.), Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought

Tilo Schabert and John von Heyking (eds.), Wherefrom Does History Emerge? Inquiries in Political Cosmogony

Conference Organizing Committee: Paul Caringella, Harald Bergbauer, John von Heyking. Special thanks too to Eric Voegelin Society Director David Walsh and Eric Voegelin Institute Director James Stoner.

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