Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2011
Seattle, Washington , Sept. 1-4, 2011
107th APSA Annual Meeting, 27th EVS Annual International Meeting
Organizer: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
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PROGRAM DETAIL – 12 panels
Panel 1. Mysticism & Politics in Voegelinian Theory
Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
Papers:
What is a Mystic Philosopher and Why does it Matter?
Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University
“The Philosophical Basis for Belief: Some Voegelinian Reflections”
Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
The Voice of Revelation in the Conversation of Mankind
Steven Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.
The Scandal of Divine Presence
Jerry L. Martin, American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) (emeritus)
Disc:
William Petropulos, Voegelin Archiv Munich
Macon Boczek, Kent State University
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
Panel 2. Religious Experience and Politics: Eric Voegelin and Beyond
Chair: Claudia Kinkela, National Endowment for the Humanities
Papers:
“Politics” and”’Religion” in the Upper Paleolithic: A Voegelinian Analysis of Some
Selected Problems
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Nietzsche’s Most Abysmal Thought
Michael Gillespie, Duke University
The Noetic Turn: From Zarathustra to the Wisdom of Salomon
Wolfgang Leidhold, University of Cologne, Germany:
Communicating Mystical Experience: The Problem of Secondary Symbolism
Eugene Webb, The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies University of Washington
Disc:
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas
Panel 3. The Languages of Eric Voegelin
Chair: Tilo Schabert, University of Erlanen-Nuremberg (emeritus)
Papers:
Eric Voegelin and the Languages of Science and Common Sense
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Voegelin`s Uses of Metaphor
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary`s University–San Antonio
Language and the Evocation of Order – Toward a Linguistic Theory of the Political
Matthias Riedl, Central European University–Budapest
Voegelin`s Voyages in Languages between Consciousness and Reality
Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Disc:
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary
Steven McGuire, Eastern University, St. David’s
Panel 4. The Range of Human Memory
Chair: Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii Manoa
Papers:
The Origins of Evil and the Banality of its Perpetrators: Some Thoughts on Reflections
by Kant, Schelling, Freud, Arendt, Voegelin and Others
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii Manoa
American Forgetting: Abraham Lincoln, the Conquest of the West and the Removal of
Indians
Patrick Johnston, University of Hawaii at Mānoa
The Khmer Rouge and the Re-Visioning of the Khmer Empire: Buddhism encounters Political
Religion
Steven De Burger, University of Hawaii at Mānoa:
Southern African Bushmen and Voegelin’s “New Science of Politics”
Louis Herman, University of Hawaii at West-O‘ahu
Disc:
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland
Panel 5. Order and Disorder in International Politics: From Pacem in Terris to the Regensburg Address
Chair: Timothy Fuller, Colorado College
Papers:
Pacem in Terris and the Just War Tradition
David Corey, Baylor University
21st Century International Politics: The Philosophical Perspective from the Small
States
Martin Palouš, Czech Republic Ambassador to the United Nations
Joseph de Maistre’s Insufficient Response to the Crisis(Spoken Remarks version)
John T. Jamieson, independent scholar
Disc.:
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
William Thompson-Uberuaga, Duquesne University (emeritus)
Panel 6. Is there a Clash of Civilizations? Geopolitics and Globalization. Roundtable
Chair: Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
Parts:
Tim Lomperis, Saint Louis University
Michael Desch, Notre Dame University
Peter von Sivers, University of Utah
David Clinton, Baylor University
Dan Lang, Lynchburg College
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma
Panel 7. What does mass man do with his soul? Popular arts in democracies
Chair: Charles R. Embry, Texas A & M University Commerce (emeritus)
Papers:
The Original Port Huron Statement: The Big Lebowski and the Religion of Laughter
Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University
Lord of the Rings: Mythopoesis, Heroism, and Providence
Tom McPartland, Kentucky State University
Justice and the Western Perception of Dostoevsky: Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point Michal Kuz, Louisiana State University
Doing What Comes Unnaturally: The Gnostic Zombie in Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead
Peter Y. Paik, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Disc.:
Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University
Rodney Kilcup (retired)
Panel 8. Realism in Political Philosophy
Chair: Matthias Riedl, Central European University
Papers:
Spiritual Realism, Phenomenalism and the Current Crisis Discourse
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (emeritus)
A Renaissance of Realism? Recent Contributions to the Realist Tradition in Political
Philosophy
Hans-Jörg Sigwart, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Hobbes and Spinoza. The Realist Reaction to Religious Warfare
Maxwell Staley, University of California, Berkeley
Rousseau in the Philosophy of Eric Voegelin
Carolina Armenteros, University of Groningen
Disc.:
Peter Brickey LeQuire, University of Chicago
Michael A. Gillespie, Duke University
Panel 9. Voegelin and Personalism
Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Papers:
Karol Wojtyla’s personalism and Kantian idealism: Parallel Avenues of Reason within
the Tension towards the Ground of Existence
Gustavo Santos, Catholic University of America
The Primacy of the Personal in Kant and Voegelin
Steven F. McGuire, Eastern University
The Concept of the Person in Eric Voegelin’s Early Philosophy (1922-1934)
William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv–Munich
Lonergan’s Voegelin: Why Voegelin Is and is Not an Existentialist
Sarah Shea, McGill University
Disc:
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge
Athanasios Moulakis, American University in Iraq
Panel 10. Perspectives on the Crisis of Modernity
Chair: Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Centre de Recherches en philosophie politique. Sciences Politiques (CEVIPOF)–Paris
Papers:
Hunting the Devils: Eric Voegelin and Simone Weil
Sylvie Courtine-Denamy, Centre de Recherches en philosophie politique. Sciences Politiques–Paris
Modernity and secularisation in The Legitimacy of the Modern Age of Hans Blumenberg
Thierry Gontier, University of Lyon
Voegelin and Arendt Religion and Politics
Robert Virdis, McMaster Univrsity
On the Centrality of the Jewish Experience in the Political Theory of Hannah Arendt
Jennifer Richard, Louisiana State University
Disc.:
Dan Larabie, University of Calgary
David Walsh, Catholic University of America
Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
Panel 11. A Republic if You can Keep it: Constitutionalism in Crisis? Roundtable
Chair: James R. Stoner, Louisiana State University
Parts:
Hadley Arkes, Amherst College
Matthew Franck, Witherspoon Institute
Ralph Rossum, Claremont McKenna College
James Stoner, Louisiana State University
David C. Brown, Loyola University of New Orleans
Panel 12. Voegelin Studies and East Asian Politics: The Silent Brush–Politics & Art in China
Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution Stanford
Papers:
Calligraphy as Restoration of Meaning
Jiang Li Qun, Jiang Su Technology and Science University
The Silent Brush
S. Barret Dolph, Zhen Jiang Culture Center
The Reception of Hannah Arendt in China Today
Benjamin Li, Jian Su University
Disc.:
Timothy J. Lomperis, Saint Louis University
Eugene F. Webb, University of Washington
Zhang Xu-Rui, JingNan Morning Newspaper
Jiang Tiang, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics