Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2017

 

33rd International Meeting of The Eric Voegelin Society, 2017

American Political Science Association Meeting,

August 31-September 3

San Francisco, CA

 

David Walsh, Meeting Director

walshd@cua.edu

 

Dear Friends,

This is our program as it currently stands at the beginning of May.  Please continue to update me with any changes that become necessary.  At this point I do not have the times or locations as APSA assigns them.  When we have the information the program will be updated and posted on VoegelinView.com, the homepage for the Society, as well as a superb outlet for the best in Voegelin inspired reflection on the great and small questions.  It is also carries the very best in book reviews. Lee Trepanier, our highly efficient and energetic editor, welcomes your submissions, and John von Heyking, our formidable book review editor, tirelessly searches out the latest scholarship.  For your convenience, a donate button is included in “About Us” so that we can receive your tax deductible contributions.  Jim Stoner (poston@lsu.edu) at the Eric Voegelin Institute in LSU will continue to host the papers for the preceding three decades and would welcome your submissions, not just for this year but for any year you have missed. If you send me a copy of your paper I will see that it gets transmitted. However, please make sure that the papers are distributed to the panel members by August 1, so that everyone will have adequate time to read and reflect.

 

Panel 1, Revolutionary Political Thought with a Concentration on the Political Sermons of the Revolutionary Era

Sat, September 2, 8:00 to 9:30am, Westin St. Francis, California East

Chair: Macon Boczek, Kent State University, maconboczek@aol.com

 

John Witherspoon’s Moderate American Revolution

Scott Segrest, The Citadel, prof.scott@yahoo.com

 

Moses and David as Models and Metaphors

Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, sealy@libertyfund.org

 

The Political Sermons in the Context of the General Sermons of the Founding Era

Glenn A. Moots, Northwood University, moots@northwood.edu

Thomas Connerty, Vanderbilt Law School, tconerty@yahoo.com

 

The Christian Paradox and the American Regimes

Tom Lordon, Independent Scholar, tomlordan@q.com

 

Discussants: Macon Boczek

Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University

Sarah Beth Vosburg-Kitch, Northern Illinois University, sbkitch@princeton.edu

 

Panel 2, Contours and Implications of Living in Tension toward the Transcendent

Thu, August 31, 8:00 to 9:30am, Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan C

Chair: Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, jerry.martin@verizon.net

 

The Linguistic Tension Toward the Divine

Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, jerry.martin@verizon.net

 

Lassitude and the Love of Life in Albert Camus

Sarah Shea, McGill University, sarah.shea2@mail.mcgill.ca

 

Spoiling Your Story: The Case of Hannah Arendt

Abigail Rosenthal, Author, alr.martin@verizon.net

 

Preference or an Experience?: The Paradox of Religion and Social Science

James Patterson, Ave Maria University, james.patterson@avemaria.edu

 

Discussants: Rouven Steeves, United States Air Force, derdenker@comcast.net

Eduardo Schmidt Passos, Catholic University of America, 69passos@cua.edu

 

Panel 3, Solzhenitsyn’s RED WHEEL: Critical Reflections on a Masterwork 

Fri, September 1, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan C

Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College, dmahoney@assumption.edu

 

David Walsh, Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu

 

Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University, ldtrepan@svsu.edu

 

James Pontuso, Hampden-Sydney College, jpontuso@hsc.edu

 

Brendan Purcell, Notre Dame University, Sydney Campus,  and St. John’s College, University of Sydney, brendanpur@gmail.com

 

Panel 4, Roundtable on The Failure of Transcendence in Major Modern Literature 

Sat, September 2, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Westin St. Francis, Georgian

Cosmic Indifference and the Failure of Transcendence in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

Charles Embry, Texas A & M Commerce; crembry.ce@gmail.com

 

Samuel Beckett, Transcendent Reality and Krapp’s Last Tape

Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University, ghughes@stmarytx.edu

 

George Eliot,

Paulette W. Kidder, Seattle University, pwkidder@seattleu.edu

 

The Second Realities of Madame Bovary

Paul E. Kidder, Seattle University, pwkidder@seattleu.edu

 

Aesthetic Epiphany and Transcendence in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University, tom.mcpartland@kysu.edu

 

Panel 5,  Origins of Apocalyptic Activism

Fri, September 1, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan C

Chair: Michael Franz

 

The Spiritual Wellsprings of Apocalyptic Activism

Michael Franz, Loyola University Maryland,  mfranz@loyola.edu

 

Apocalypticism and the Disintegration of Traditional Civilizations

Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawai’I at Mānoa,  hennings@hawaii.edu

 

What is Extreme and What is Not? A Voegelinian Analysis of ‘Healthy’ and ‘Pathological’ Spirituality and Activism

Henrik Syse, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Nobel Committee, henrik@prio.no

 

Existential Roots of Apocalyptic Violence

Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen,  vondung@germanistik.uni-siegen.de

 

Discussant: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, bcooper@ucalgary.ca

 

 

Panel 6, The Person and the Common Good

Sat, September 2, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Westin St. Francis, Georgian

Chair: James Greenaway

 

Matrimony in the Order of Being as Political Agon

James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu

 

Consciousness and the sexual human body: attempts at bridging the gap within the dualist modern view of the human subject

Gustavo Santos, Oficina Municapal, gadolfo1917@gmail.com

 

The Artist’s Reality: As an Exploration of the Truth of Existential Order

John McNerney, University College Dublin, John.McNerney@ucd.ie

 

“Only the Soul is of Itself”: The Soul of the Person in Whitman’s Politics

David Sollenberger, The Catholic University of America, 54sollenberg@cua.edu

 

Discussant: Carol B. Cooper, University of Houston, carol.b.cooper@gmail.com

 

 

Panel 7, Democracy Impassioned, Democracy Tamed: On Passions, Virtues, and Judgment

Thu, August 31, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Hilton Union Square, Golden Gate 2

Chair: Teresa M. Bejan, University of Oxford, Teresa.bejan@oriel.ox.ac.uk

 

From Impudence to Magnanimity

Juman Kim, University of Pennsylvania, jumankim@sas.upenn.edu

 

Tasteful Citizenship: Hume on the Role of Emotional Judgment in Politics

Brianne Michelle Walsh Wolf, University of Wisconsin, bwolf5@wisc.edu

 

The Property of Liberal Virtue

Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin, avramenko@wisc.edu

 

The Audacity of Anonymous

Ashley Elizabeth Gorham, agorham@sas.upenn.edu

 

Discussant: Jennet Kirkpatrick, Arizona State University, jennetk@asu.edu

 

 

Panel 8, A Theory of History and Experience

Fri, September 1, 10:00 to 11:30am, Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan C

Chair: Eugen L Nagy, Central Washington University, e.l.nagy@gmail.com

 

History and Experience

Wolfgang Leidhold, University of Cologne, wolfgang.leidhold@uni-koeln.de

 

Burke’s Unconventional Historiography of Commercial Development

Gregory Collins, Catholic University, gregcollins11@gmail.com

 

Voegelin’s Interpretation of Vico

Harald Bergbauer, Bavarian School of Public Policy, dr.hb@web.de

 

Intrahistory: The Tensional Structure of Existence

Enrique Pallares, 00pallares@cardinalmail.cua.edu ,Catholic University of America

 

Discussants: Eugene Webb, University of Washington, ewebb@u.washington.edu

Eugen L Nagy

Macon Boczek, Kent State University, maconboczek@aol.com

 

 

Panel 9, Friendship and the Political

Fri, September 1, 8:00 to 9:30am, Westin St. Francis, Hampton

Chair: Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo, henrik@prio.no

 

Charter 77 and Friendship

Martin Palous, Florida International University, martin.palous@gmail.com

 

Friendship, Self-Love and a Tale of Three Cities: Augustine, La Boétie and Montaigne

Christophe Litwin, University of California at Irvine, Christophe.litwin@uci.edu

 

The Figure of the Gentleman in Voegelin, Strauss and Löwith

Bruno Godefroy, Erlangen, bruno.godefroy@gmx.de

 

Voegelin and Kelsen

Francois Lecoutre, University of Lille,  francois.lecoutre@univ-lille2.fr

 

Discussants: Orlando Guttierez Boronat, Florida International University, orlando4952@hotmail.com

Thierry Gontier, University of Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, thierry.gontier@gmail.com

 

Panel 10, Philosophy and Prudence in International Thought

Fri, September 1, 12:00 to 1:30pm, Westin St. Francis, Elizabethan C

Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University, David_Clinton@baylor.edu

 

Joshua Boucher (Baylor University, Joshua_boucher@baylor.edu ), “Morality in the Foreign Policy of Alexander Hamilton”

Eric Fleury, (College of the Holy Cross, efleury@holycross.edu ), “The Application of the Public Force: Grand Strategic Theory and Political Practice”

Marjorie Jeffrey (Baylor University, Marjorie_Jeffrey@baylor.edu ), “Winston Churchill’s Historical Philosophy”

Greg Russell (University of Oklahoma, grussell@ou.edu ), “Philosophy and Prudence in Hans Morgenthau’s Political Realism”
Discussant: David Clinton, Baylor University, David_Clinton@baylor.edu

Panel 11, Science, Rhetoric, and Understanding in Dialogue

Sat, September 2, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Westin St. Francis, California East

Chair: Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, bailyai@sfasu.edu

 

“The Ancient Science of Rhetoric and the Modern Rhetoric of Science”

Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, bailyai@sfasu.edu

 

“Aristotle on Anger and the Problem of Political Speech”
Alexander Duff, College of the Holy Cross, aduff@holycross.edu

 

“Does the Orator Need Moral Virtue? Comparing Demosthenes and Cicero in Plutarch’s Lives”

Rodolfo Hernandez, Texas State University, rkh42@txstate.edu

 

“Through a Keyhole or an Open Door? Rhetoric and Pedagogy in Aristotle’s Politics”

Jeremy Mhire, Louisiana Tech, jmhire@latech.edu

 

Discussant: Mary Beth Sullivan of Central Arkansas University

-Guillaume Bogiaris of Texas A&M University

 

 

Panel 12,  Promise-Cramm’d: The Poetics and Politics of Hamlet

Sun, September 3, 8:00 to 9:30am, Hotel Nikko, Mendocino II

Chair: Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, oona.eisenstadt@pomona.edu
Denmark as Troy and Carthage:  The Ghosts of Virgil and Marlowe in Hamlet

Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University, planincz@mcmaster.ca

 

Something Rotten in the Soul of Hamlet: Legitimizing this Renaissance Man without licensing his Furies?

Nalin Ranasinghe, Assumption College, nranasin@assumption.edu

 

Dialogos and Soliloquy: Thinking Through Ion and Hamlet

Charlie Gustafson-Barrett, Tulane University, cgustafs@tulane.edu

 

Hamlet and the Affective Roots of Decision

Glenn (Chip) Hughes, St. Mary’s University, ghughes@stmarytx.edu

 

Discussants: Oona Eisenstadt

James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, greenaway@stmarytx.edu

Panel 13, Roundtable on John Von Heyking’s, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship

Thu, August 31, 4:00 to 5:30pm, Westin St. Francis, Colonial

Steve McGuire, Villanova University,  sfmcguire@gmail.com

Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, bcooper@ucalgary.ca

Thierry Gontier, University of Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, thierry.gontier@gmail.com

John Von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca

 

Panel 14, Challenging and Extending Voegelin’s Account

Thu, August 31, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Westin St. Francis, California East

Chair: Steven Millies, University of South Carolina at Aiken, smillies@usca.edu
The Symbolic Order of English and American Revolutionary Movements; Revisiting Voegelin’s Analysis of the Glorious Revolution
Scott Robinson, King University, msrobinson@king.edu
On the Origins of Scientism
David Whitney, Nicholls State, david.whitney@nicholls.edu
Eric Voegelin on Science and Scientism

Shaun Rieley, 35rieley@cua.edu
John Calvin on Social Hierarchy: Natural or Arbitrary?

Stephen Wolfe, swolfe5@lsu.edu,  Louisiana State University

 

Discussants:  Jeremy Geddert, Assumption College, jgeddert@assumption.edu

Gregory Collins, Catholic University of America, gregcollins11@gmail.com

 

 

 

Business Meeting, Saturday, September 2, 6:30-7:15 pm, Hilton Union Square, Continental Parlor 7

Reception, September Saturday, 2, 7:30-to 9:00pm, Hilton Union Square, Continental Parlor 8