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The 2021 37th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY

 

 

37th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2021

 

American Political Science Association Meeting

 

September 28-October 2

Seattle, WA

 

David Walsh, Meeting Director

[email protected]

 

 

Friends,

This is the final form of our program for the Seattle meeting of EVS in conjunction with our host, APSA.  Whether you make your way in person or in virtual reality I wish you safe travels. For room allocations you will have to consult the APSA program, where you should also be able to enter the virtual sessions.  Thank you for all the preparations you have made to ensure our meeting remains a fruitful and enjoyable experience.  I know there have been disappointments and frustrations with the shifting regulatory landscape and look forward to the relaxation of conditions as we think about Montreal next year. We continue to be the largest Related Group at APSA primarily because of the outstanding work you do and the spirit in which it is presented. Without dues, we rely on your generosity and a donate button can be found here, or you may contact our treasurer, David Whitney, [email protected].

 

Tuesday, September 28                                                    

 

6:00-7:30 PDT    (9:00-10:30 EDT)  

Virtual Roundtable

Panel 1. Eric Voegelin Political Readings: from the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

Chair: Bernat Torres Morales, [email protected]; Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona

Zdravko Planinc, [email protected]; McMaster University

Barry Cooper, [email protected]; University of Calgary

Nicoletta Scotti Muth, [email protected]; Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan

Thierry Gontier, [email protected]; University of Jean Moulin – Lyon 3

Bjorn Thomassen, [email protected]; Roskilde University

 

Wednesday, September 29

10:00-11:30 PDT  (1:00-2:30 EDT)                                       

Virtual Roundtable

Panel 2: Symbols of Historical Order in Eric Voegelin’s “Israel and Revelation”

Chair: Nicoletta Scotti Muth, [email protected]; Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan
Ignacio Carbajosa, [email protected]; San Dámaso University
David J. Walsh, [email protected]; Catholic University of America
Giorgio Buccellati, [email protected]; UCLA
Peter Machinist, [email protected]; Harvard University
William M. Thompson-Uberuaga, [email protected]; Duquesne University

John Milbank, [email protected]; University of Nottingham

 

Thursday, September 30

8:00-9:30 PDT        (11:00-12:30 EDT)                                   

In-Person Panel

Panel 3. Civil Religion, International Pluralism, and Statesmanship

Chair: Greg Russell; [email protected]

Montesquieu’s Right of Nations (Pre-Recorded)
Author: Christopher Ruiz; [email protected]

War and Civil Religion in St. Augustine’s De civitate dei (Pre-Recorded)
Author: Michael Gonzalez; [email protected]

The Lessons of Irony: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Philosophy of History
Author: Daniel Lang; [email protected]

Reinhold Niebuhr and the Reconciliation of Justice and Power
Author: Reed Davis; [email protected]

Discussant: David Clinton; [email protected]

 

12:00-1:30 PDT         (3:00-4:30 EDT)                   

In-Person Panel

Panel 4: Intersecting Themes in Classical Political Thought

Chair: Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University

Augustine’s Confessions XII as a Response to Plato’s Republic

John F. von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

The Modern Frontier: An Inevitable Crisis?
Joshua Ayer, [email protected]; University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Household Management in Plutarch’s Lives of Aristides and Marcus Cato

Rodolfo K Hernandez, [email protected]; University of Missouri

Discussants: Thomas Heilke, [email protected]; University of British Columbia

Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University

 

 2:00-3:30 PDT       (5:00-6:30  EDT)                               

Virtual Roundtable

Panel 5: Roundtable: Constitutional Stress Tests in an Age of Populism

Chair: Michael Franz, [email protected]; Loyola University, Baltimore

Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University
James R. Stoner, [email protected]; Louisiana State University
John F. von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge
Tony P. Spanakos, [email protected]; Montclair State University

 

4:00-5:30 PDT            (7:00-8:30 EDT)              

In-Person Roundtable

Panel 6: Kierkegaard and Democratic Theory: David Walsh’s Priority of the Person

Chair:Robert Wyllie, [email protected]; Ashland University
 

Christopher Justin Brophy, [email protected]; Providence College

Matthew D. Dinan, [email protected]; St. Thomas University
David J. Walsh, [email protected]; Catholic University of America

Steven P. Millies, [email protected]; Catholic Theological Union

 

 

Friday, October 1

8:00-9:30  PDT     (11:00-12:30 EDT)                     

In-Person Panel

Panel 7: Living Life as the Disclosure of Order

Chair: Carol Cooper, [email protected]; University of Houston

Sin as Rupture in Voegelin and Levinas

Abigail Rosenthal, [email protected]; Brooklyn College of the City of New York

My Station and Its Duties, and Then What?

Jerry Martin, [email protected]; University of Colorado at Boulder

On the Felt Sense of Being: An Approach to Contemplative Psychotherapy

Robin Seiler, [email protected]; Robert S. Seiler, Jr., LCSW-C

Discussants:  Carol Cooper, [email protected]; University of Houston

 

2:00-3:30 PDT     (5:00-6:30 EDT)                      

Virtual Roundtable

Panel 8: Nalin Ranasinghe’s Odyssey

Chair: Zdravko Planinc; [email protected]

Predrag Cicovacki; [email protected] College of the Holy Cross
Gwenda-lin Grewal; [email protected]; New SchoolNew School

Michelle Kundmueller; [email protected] Old Dominion University

Bernat Torres Morales; [email protected] Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

 

4:00-5:30 PDT      (1:00-2:30  EDT)                            

In-Person Author Meets Critics

Panel 9: Roundtable on Glenn Hughes’s “From Dickinson to Dylan: Transcendence in Modernist Literature”  

Chair: John F. von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

Glenn Hughes, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Henrik Syse, [email protected]; Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Paul E. Kidder, [email protected]; Seattle University
James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University
Thomas J. McPartland, [email protected]; Kentucky State University

 

Saturday, October 2

8:00-9:30  PDT            (11:00-12:30  PDT)                 

In-Person Panel

Panel 10: Natural Law and Natural Rights

Chair: John F. von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

 

Due Process of Classic Natural Law

Joseph S. Devaney, [email protected]; Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

 

Natural Law and Natural Right in Hugo Grotius and Gabriel Vásquez

Steven Waldorf, [email protected]; University of Chicago

 

Eric Voegelin on Law

Thomas E. Lordan, [email protected]; Independent scholar

 

Rights of Native Peoples in the New World Post Conquest: A Spanish Perspective

Diego Alejandro Lopez, [email protected]; University of Houston

 

Discussants: John F. von Heyking, [email protected]; University of Lethbridge

James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University

 

 

12:00-1:30 PDT                  (3:00-4:30  EDT)               

In-Person Panel

Panel 11: Political Theory as a Resource for Political Challenges

Chair: Carol Cooper, [email protected]; University of Houston

George Santayana and the Psyche as Aesthetic Arbiter of Politics

Nayeli Leandra Riano, [email protected]; Georgetown University

Thomas More on Religious Toleration and the Common Good (Pre-Recorded)

Mary Clare Imparato, [email protected]; Belmont Abbey College

Tocqueville’s relevance for modern democracy (Pre-Recorded)

Hans-Martien ten Napel, [email protected]; Leiden University

‘The People’ of the Tenth Amendment: Social Authority and the Limitation of Government Power

Luke Sheahan, [email protected]; Duquesne University
Discussants:  Philip Bunn, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin
Carol Cooper, [email protected]; University of Houston

 

4:00-5:30 PDT    7:00-8:30 EDT                 

In-Person Panel

Week 12: Thinking with Voegelin Today

Chair: Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University

Comparing “Ecumene” and “Tianxia”: A Case Study

Muen Liu, [email protected]; Institute for Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

The Notion of Home: Politics and Primordiality

James Greenaway, [email protected]; St. Mary’s University

Discussants: Richard Avramenko, [email protected]; University of Wisconsin

Steven McGuire, [email protected]; Villanova University

 

Sunday, October 3

6:00-7:30  PDT       (9:00-10:30 EDT)     

Virtual Panel

Panel 13: The Influence and Reception of Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy in Brazil

 

Chair: Gustavo A. Santos, [email protected]; National Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Brazil

 

Lima Vaz and Eric Voegelin: Roots and Meanings of Modernity

Alvaro Pimentel, [email protected]; Faculdade Jesuita de Filosofia e Teologia

 

The reception of Voegelin and Arendt in Brazil: Meira Penna and Celso Lafer

DAIANE ECCEL, [email protected]; UFSC – Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

 

Nihilism in Gustavo Corção and Eric Voegelin

Rodrigo Coppe Caldeira, [email protected]; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais and Rodrigo de Abreu Oliveira, [email protected]

 

National Personality and International Trade

Scott Robinson, [email protected]; Houston Baptist University

 

Ideology, representation and totalitarianism: Galvão de Sousa reader of Voegelin

Flávio Daltro Lemos de Alencar, [email protected]; Leiden University

 

Discussants: Eduardo Schmidt Passos,  [email protected]; Texas State University, San Marcos

Gustavo A. Santos, [email protected]; National Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Brazil.

 

 

Business Meeting (In-Person)                                                      

Saturday, October 2, 6:30-7:30                                                                   

Willow A

 

Reception (In-Person)                                                                    

Saturday, October 2, 7:30-9:00                                                                        

Aspen

 

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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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