Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2010
Washington, D.C. , Sept. 2-5, 2010
106th APSA Annual Meeting, 26th EVS Annual International Meeting
Organizer: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Posted by permission of the respective authors. Copyright 2010.
All rights reserved.
PROGRAM DETAIL – 15 panels
Panel 1. Voegelin and Strauss: Roundtable [co-sponsored with Claremont Institute]
Chair: Catherine H. Zuckert, Notre Dame
Parts:
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremburg (emeritus)
Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
John Grant, University of Dallas
Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas
Robert P. Kraynak, Colgate University
Panel 2. Mysticism and the Politics of Resistance in Voegelin’s Philosophy
Chair:Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:
“Cosmos and the “Leap in Being” in Voegelin’s Philosophy” – Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado–Boulder
“The First Mystics? Some Recent Accounts of Neolithic Shamanism” – Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
“Does God Have a History?” – Jerry Martin, University of Colorado–Boulder (ret.)
“No God on the Horizon? Voegelin, Buber and Bonhoeffer & the Moment of Surrender” -Meins Coetsier, Ghent University
Disc.:
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Macon Boczek, Kent State University
William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv – Munich
Panel 3. The 2010 Election and Beyond: Roundtable
Chair: Larry J. Sabato, University of Virginia
Parts:
Michael Barone, American Enterprise Institute
Alan Abramowitz, Emory University
Susan MacManus, University of South Florida
Isaac Wood, University of Virginia
Panel 4. Moral Crusades, Totalitarianism, and a Post-National World
Chair: Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
Papers:
“American Foreign Policy in the Age of Obama” – Mackubin Owens, U.S., Naval War College
“Ideological Temptations and Moral Crusading in Politics and Diplomacy: Reminders
From Voegelin and Morgenthau” – Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
“The New Faces of Totalitarianism: The Case of Venezuela” – Francisco Plaza, Palm Beach Atlantic University
“The Debate on Totalitarianism Revisited in 2010” – Martin Palouš, Permanent Representative to the United Nations for the Czech Republic
“Natural Law versus the Idea of Sovereignty” – Andreas Kinneging, University of Leiden Law Faculty
Disc:
David Clinton, Baylor University
David Mayers, Boston University
Panel 5. The Road to Serfdom in the 21st Century: Roundtable
Chair: Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
Parts:
- Lee Cheek, Athens State University
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
Claire Morgan, George Mason University
Panel 6. Rawls as Neo-Orthodox Theologian of Liberalism: Roundtable
Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Parts:
Eric Gregory, Princeton University
Bruce Douglass, Georgetown University
Professor David Thunder, Villanova University
Angelo Valente, Catholic University of America
Panel 7. De-Culturation and Civic Consciousness in America: Roundtable
Chair: Glenn Moots. Northwood University
Parts:
Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee at Chatanooga
Bradley C. S. Watson, St. Vincent College
Joseph Fornieri, Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael Federici, Mercyhurst College
Panel 8. Philosophies of History in Comparison: Voegelin and Rosenstock-Huessy
Chair: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University of San Antonio
Papers:
“Diagnosis and Salvation: Revolution. History, and Augustine in Eric Voegelin and Rosenstock-Huessy” – Wayne A. Cristaudo, University of Hong Kong
“Rereading Rosenstock-Huessy’s Philosophy of History in the Era of God’s Return” – Michael B. McDuffee, Moody Bible Institute, Chicago
“How Not to ‘Immanentize the Eschaton’: Apocalypse, Gnosis, and History in Voegelin and Rosenstock – Huessy” – Gregory Kaplan, Rice University
“Metaxy or Metanoia? – Revolutions, and the Order of History” – Andreas Leutzsch, Universität Bielefeld
Disc:
Thomas Hollweck, University of Colorado–Boulder
Norman Fiering, Director & Librarian, Emeritus, John Carter Brown Library
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University at San Antonio
Panel 9. Race, Ethnicity and Politics: Voegelin’s Early Concerns
Chair: Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Papers:
Opening the Gate Through Dialogue – Samah Elhajibrahim, University of Pennsylvania
Social Darwinism and Race Consciousness in Japanese-American Relations – Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Changes to the Early US Regime and Race – Forrest Nabors, University of Oregon
Eric Voegelin’s Untimely Thoughts on the Idea Race – William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv – Munich
Disc.
Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University – San Antonio
Panel 10. China and Political Philosophy in the 21st Century
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution
Papers:
Jaded Mandarin? Mo Yan’s Search for Order in the People’s Republic – Todd Myers, San Diego State University
Legalism and Confucianism in Marxism and Confucianism – Benjamin Li, School of Law, Jiang Su University
Order and Society: Musil and China – Hazel Summer, Jiang Su University
Revolution and Revolutions in China – S. Barret Dolph, Zhen Jiang Chinese Culture Center
Disc.:
Daniel Yue [Zhiyao Xu], Fudan University
Timothy Lomperis, Saint Louis University
Panel 11. Voegelin and Oakeshott on Political Education
Chair: Elizabeth Corey, Baylor University
Papers:
“Montesquieu, Oakeshott and Voegelin: On Political Education” – Matthew Sitman, Georgetown University
“Oakeshott and Voegelin on the University” – Elizabeth Corey, Baylor University
“Education and the Open Soul” – Julianne Romanello, Baylor University
Disc:
Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
David Whitney, Louisiana State University
Panel 12. Contemporary Political Philosophy: Theme and Variations
Chair: Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University
Papers:
Lonergan and Voegelin on Political Authority – Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University
Radical Islam and Modern Ideology – Scott Segrest, United States Militaary Acdemy–West Point
“Moral Insanity and Spiritual Disorder : Conceptualizing the Terrorist Mind” – Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Politics and the Soldier: On the Limits of Nation-building as a Political & Military Objective – Celestino Perez, Jr., U. S. Army Command and General Staff College
Disc:
Steven McGuire, Catholic University of America
Trevor Shelley, Louisiana State University
Panel 13. Issues in Religion, Politics & Theory
Chair: Rouven Steeves, U. S. Air Force Academy
Papers:
“Eric Voegelin on the Early Christianity: Philosophical, Theological, and Political Implications” – Harald Bergbauer, Munich School of Political Science
“Voegelin’s Debt to Augustine: The Mortgage of the City of God” – David Beer, Catholic University of America
“Albert Camus, Augustine, and the Origins of Modernity”– Ron Srigley, University of Prince Edward Island
“Voegelin’s Theory of Religion Experience” – Craig A. Baron, Saint John’s University
“Renovation of Spirituality: A Voegelinian Interpretation of Saint Francis” – Nicoletta Stradaioli, University of Perugia
Disc:
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Robert Virdis, McMaster University
Panel 14. American Political Thought in Comparative Context
Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Papers:
“Political Hermeneutics in the Writing of John Dewey and Hannah Arendt” – Hans-Jörg Sigwart, Erlangen-Nuremberg
“The Centrality of Memory in James’s Epistemology & the Implications for Voegelin’s Theory of Anamnesis” – Macon Boczek, Kent State University
“Barack Obama and the Religious Voice of American Liberalism” – Todd Breyfogle, The Aspen Institute
“We do not know from where”: Transcendence and Openness in Burke & Voegelin – Steven Millies, University of South Carolina–Aiken
Disc:
Scott Segrest, U. S. Military Academy–West Point
Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Panel 15. Constitutional Issues in the Age of Obama: Roundtable [Co-sponsored w/ Claremont:
EVS primary sponsor]
Chair: James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State University
Parts:
Randy E. Barnett, Georgetown University Law Center
David Barron, Harvard Law School
Michael Greve, American Enterprise Institute
Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
Charles Kesler, Claremont McKenna College