Eric Voegelin Society Barcelona Conference

ERIC-VOEGELIN-GESELLSCHAFT 

JAHRESTAGUNG DER ERIC-VOEGELIN-GESELLSCHAFT

ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ERIC-VOEGELIN-GESELLSCHAFT

BODY IDEAS AND POLITICAL COMMUNITIES IN VOEGELIN’S EARLY WORK

BARCELONA, 16TH AND 17TH DECEMBER 2022

Coordination: Bernat Torres ([email protected])
Friday, December 16th, (Venue: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, room Nicolau d’Olwer [1]):
Online session: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86319486679?pwd=MTg3MitrczE4N2NJdXdUQ1dBdm9nQT09
16:00-16:15. Opening remarks: Harald Bergbauer (president of the Eric-Voegelin-Gesellschaft e.V.).
Introduction: Nicoletta Scotti (Eric-Voegelin-Gesellschaft e.V. / Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy) and Bernat Torres (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya / Societat Catalana de Filosofia).
16:15-17:00 The Context of Voegelin’s Race Books, Barry Cooper (University of Calgary, Canada).
17:00-17:45 Eric Voegelin and the Ständestaat: The Political Background of his Early Work, Bruno Godefroy (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France).
Break
18:00-18:45 Voegelin’s Methodological Approach to Kant’s Concept of “Race”, Gualtiero Lorini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy).
18:45-19:30 The idea of race in the Catalan culture of early 20th century, Pompeu Casanoves (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia; La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia)
Saturday, December 17th, 2022 (Venue: Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, room A501 [2]):
Online session: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82701564861?pwd=Y2pjbFNXZEVWL05tT2M1ejFNNm85dz09
9:45-10:00 Welcome words Judith Urbano (Dean of Humanities Department, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya).
10:00-10:45 Race ideas and political communities in Eric Voegelin’s early work, Alessandra Gerolin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Italy).
10:45-11:30 The triad of body, soul and spirit. Political and historical existence in Eric(h) Voegelin’s work, Matthias Schmid (Independent researcher, Munich, Germany).
Break
11:45-12:30 Racist ideology and race science in Paul Ludwig Landsberg, Xavier Escribano (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalonia).
12:30-13:15 Race Idea and Political Thought in Postcolonial Societies: Gilberto Freyre, José Vasconcelos, and the idea of racial miscegenation, Eduardo Schmidt Passos (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA).

NOTES ON VENUES:

[1] Venue: Carrer del Carme, 47, Barcelona. <https://goo.gl/maps/JNY7wLRA6K37VWL69>
[2] Venue: Carrer de la Immaculada, 22, Barcelona. <https://goo.gl/maps/yrnktCBdKw1XKoFB7>
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David Walsh is the Chair Board Member of VoegelinView, President of the Eric Voegelin Society, and Professor of Political Science at Catholic University of America. He is the author of a three-volume study of modernity: After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (Harper/Collins, 1990), The Growth of the Liberal Soul (Missouri, 1997), and The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence (Cambridge, 2008). His latest book is Politics of the Person and as the Politics of Being (Notre Dame, 2015).

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