Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2015
San Francisco, CA, Sept. 3-6, 2015
111th APSA Annual Meeting, 31st EVS Annual International Meeting
Organizer: David Walsh, Catholic University
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PROGRAM DETAIL – 10 panels
Panel 1, Geopolitics and Prudence Friday 9:30-11:00
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Greg Russell
Geopolitics and Prudence: Realism In A Twenty-First Century World
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma, grussell@ou.edu
The Formation of Prudence Within The City
Stephen Sims, Baylor University, stephen_sims@baylor.edu
Prudence, National Interest and Counter-Terrorism
Eric Fleury, College of the Holy Cross, efleury@holycross.edu
Barack Obama, Prudence and Presidential War Powers
Daniel Lang, Lynchburg College, lang@lynchburg.edu
Prudence Abroad in an Era of Regime Instability at Home: Francois Guizot and the Direction of French Foreign Policy in the 1840s
David Clinton, Baylor University, david_clinton@baylor.edu
Discussant: Martin Palous, Florida International University, martin.palous@gmail.com
Panel 2, The Problem of Multiple Modernities Sunday 8:00-9:45
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Jürgen Gebhardt
Voegelin, the Axial Age and Modernity: The Present and the Future in the Mirror of the Past
Bjørn Thomassen, Roskilde University, bthomas@ruc.dk
Rosario Forlenza, Columbia University, rf2534@columbia.edu
Multiple Modernities,
Jürgen Gebhardt, University of Elangen, jngebhar@extern.lrz-muenchen.de
Opposing Perspectives on the Totalitarian Phenomenon: Voegelin and Kelsen,
François Lecoutre, University of Lille 2, francois.lecoutre@univ-lille2.fr,
Voegelin and Strauss on Civic Community
Pierre-Alain DRIEN, University of Lyons 3, pierre-alain.drien@wanadoo.fr
Weimar’s Hyperinflation: A Legacy of War, Struggle for Survival, and the Affirmation of the State
Todd Myers, Grossmont College, Todd.Myers@gcccd.edu,
Discussants: Thomas Heilke, University of British Columbia, thomas.heilke@ubc.ca
Tom McPartland, Kentucky State University, tom.mcpartland@kysu.edu
Panel 3, Roundtable on Voegelin’s Late Meditations and Essays Saturday 8:00-9:45
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Michael Franz
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University, ghughes@stmarytx.edu
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary,bcooper@ucalgary.ca
David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu
Paul Kidder, Seattle University, PEKIDDER@seattleu.edu
William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Arkiv, Munich, william.petropulos@web.de
Michael Franz, Loyola University of Baltimore, MFranz@loyola.edu
Panel 4, Civilization in Extremis: From Collapse to a New Leap in Being Friday 7:30-9:00
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Manfred Henningsen
The Disintegration of Traditional Civilizations
Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawaii at Manoa, hennings@hawaii.edu
Voegelin’s Understanding of the Leap in Being.
Andrew Hoffman, Independent Scholar, andyhoffman2@yahoo.com
Hip-Hop Culture and the Primary Community of Being
Masahide Kato, University of Hawaii at West Oahu, mtkato@hawaii.edu
Transcending Civilizational Collapse in a new Leap of Being
Louis Herman, University of Hawaii at West Oahu, louisher@hawaii.edu
Is There a New Spiritual Axial Age?
Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, jerry.martin@verizon.net
Discussant: TBD
Panel 5, “Wherefrom Does History Emerge?” Thursday 10:15-12:00
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Tilo Schabert
Did `History´ change its Meaning in Order and History?
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, bcooper@ucalgary.ca
Two Sources of Voegelin`s Vision of History: Platonism and Augustinism
Thierry Gontier, Université Jean Moulin – Lyon 3, Thierry.gontier@gmail.com
History Brought Into Form: Political Storytelling
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca
A Continuing Strife Towards Cosmogony: History
Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, tilo.schabert@fau.de
Polis and Philosophy in the VI century B.C.: the novelty of Voegelin’s reading in ‘The World of the Polis’
Nicoletta Scotti Muth, Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan, nicoletta.scotti@unicatt.it
Discussants: Daniel Mahoney, Assumption College, Mahoney@assumption.edu
Ron Srigley, University of Prince Edward Island, rsrigley@upei.ca
Panel 6, Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times Thursday 2:00-3:45
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Ethan Alexander-Davey, University of Virginia, ea8x@virginia.edu
Tocqueville and the Shame of Economic Life
Richard Avramenko University of Wisconsin, avramenko@wisc.edu
Edmund Burke’s Peerage
Ian Crowe, Brewton-Parker College, icrowe@bpc.edu
Friedrich Nietzsche on the Social Function of Aristocracy
Jeffrey Church, University of Houston, jchurch@central.uh.edu
Discussants:
A.A.M. Kinneging, University of Leiden, andreaskinneging@xs4all.nl
Ethan Alexander-Davey, University of Virginia
Panel 7, Spirit and Political Realism Sunday 10:15-12:00
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Rouven Steeves, United States Air Force Academy, derdenker@q.com
Synderesis and Common Sense
Macon Boczek, Kent State University, maconboczek@aol.com
The Place of the “Heart” in Philosophical Anthropology
Thomas E. Lordan, Independent Scholar, tomlordan@q.com
Albert Camus’s Political Philosophy of Invincible Summers and Endless Winters
Sarah Shea, McGill University, sarah.shea2@mail.mcgill.ca
The Two Sides of the Same Coin: Political Realism and Political Philosophy
András Lánczi, Corvinus University, Budapest, andras.lanczi@uni-corvinus.hu
Discussants: Jeremy Geddert, Assumption College, j.geddert@assumption.edu
R.J. Snell, Eastern University, rsnell@eastern.edu
Panel 8, Art, Politics and Literature Thursday 4:15-6:00
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Charles Embry, Texas A & M at Commerce, crembry.ce@gmail.com
The Philosopher and the Storyteller: Eric Voegelin and Flannery O’Connor
David Palmieri SUNY-Plattsburgh, david.palmieri8@gmail.com
Pseudoreality Returns: Reading The Man Without Qualities in “Liquid Modern” Times
Paul Corey, Humber College, Paul.Corey@humber.ca
St. Augustine’s Confessio and the Possibility of Reason
Enrique Pallares, Catholic University of America, 00pallares@cardinalmail.cua.edu
Lila’s Destiny: Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead Trilogy
Paulette Kidder, Seattle University, PWKIDDER@seattleu.edu
Discussants:Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, alan.baily@gmail.com
Paul Kidder, Seattle University, PEKIDDER@seattleu.edu
Panel 9, Philosophical Anthropology and Authenticity Friday 11:30-1:00
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu
Immanuel Kant and Eric Voegelin on the Immortality of the Soul
Steven McGuire, Eastern University,smcguire@eastern.edu
Amanda Achtman, University of Calgary, amanda.achtman@gmail.com
Totalitarian Elements in Environmentalism
Sarah Beth Vosburg Kitch, Louisiana State University, svosbu2@tigers.lsu.edu
The Dignity of Human Personality: Martin Luther King, Jr. on Human Nature
Under the primacy of the practical: Habermas’s communicative rationality and Rawlsian reasonableness in light of Kant’s practical reason
Gustavo Adolfo Santos, Oficina Municipal, Brazil, gadolfo1917@gmail.com
Moral debt: Liberty and What We Live Within
James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, greenaway_james@hotmail.com
Discussants:Michael Hickman, University of Mary, micforhic@fastmail.com
Eduardo Schmidt-Passos, The Catholic University of America, 69passos@cardinalmail.cua.edu
Panel 10, Re-Encountering Homer: Poetry, Tragedy, and Political Philosophy Saturday 10:15-12:00 Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Chair: Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, Oona_Eisenstadt@pomona.edu
The Three Songs of Demodokus and the Blind Eye of the Odyssey
Nalin Ranasinghe, Assumption College, nranasin@assumption.edu
Music, Memory, and the Politics of Cultural Diversity in Homer’s Odyssey,
Rebecca LeMoine, Florida Atlantic University, rlemoine@fau.edu
‘Expel the barbarian from your heart’: Intimations of the Cyclops in Euripides’ Hecuba
Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University, planincz@mcmaster.ca
The uses of Homer in Plato’s Philebus
Bernat Torres, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, btorres@uic.es
Discussants: Michelle Kundmueller, University of Notre Dame, mkundmue@nd.edu
Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, Oona_Eisenstadt@pomona.edu
Business Meeting Saturday 6:30-7:30
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin II
Reception Saturday 7:30-9:00
Parc 55, Cyril Magnin III