Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2019

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35th International Meeting of The Eric Voegelin Society, 2019

American Political Science Association Meeting,

August 29-September 1

Washington, DC

 

David Walsh, Meeting Director

walshd@cua.edu

 

Dear Friends,

I look forward to our annual gathering in late August.  It does not appear that our host, APSA, has assigned rooms but most of our panels will be in the Omni Shoreham with a couple in Marriott Wardman.  We have a full program with an interesting mix of topics and panels.  All of this is to your credit as it reflects the fascinating work you are engaged on. I thank you for your submissions and encourage you to support one another by attending as many of the sessions as you can. I will post the final version of the program on Voegelinview where our intrepid editor, Lee Trepanier, also welcomes your best work. As always, your continuing financial support of EVS, in contributions small or large, is always appreciated (for donations email nfuller@ericvoegelin.org).  I remind you that APSA requires your registration in order to be listed on their program.

 

Thursday, August 29

8:00-9:30

 

Panel 1, Anti-Utopian Thought in International Relations

Chair: Greg Russell, grussell@ou.edu; University of Oklahoma

 

A Reevaluation of Scientific International Theories

Christopher Daniel Ruiz, christopher_ruiz@baylor.edu; Baylor University

 

Christian Realism, Pacifism, and the Beloved Community

Daniel G. Lang, lang@lynchburg.edu; Lynchburg College

 

Winston Churchill and the Crisis of Zionism

Marjorie Louise Jeffrey, Marjorie_Jeffrey@baylor.edu; Baylor University
Michael S. Kochin, kochin@post.tau.ac.il; Tel Aviv University

 

The Anti-Utopianism of Raymond Aron

Nathan Orlando, Nathan_Orlando@baylor.edu

 

Discussant: David Clinton, David_Clinton@baylor.edu; Baylor University

 

 

Panel 2,Grounding the Political

10:00-11:30

 

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

 

Aristophanes, Freud, and the Politics of the Non-transcendent

Justin Brophy,cbrophy@nd.edu; University of Notre Dame

 

The Nation, Metaxy, and the Order of Being

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

 

Lincoln’s Romantic Political Thought: Law, Political Religion, and Slavery

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

 

Philosophy of Consciousness as Philosophy of the Person

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

 

Discussant: Steven McGuire, Villanova University, sfmcguire@gmail.com

Josh Bowman, bowmanjosh@hotmail.com, Heidelberg University

 

 

Panel 3,  Russell Kirk: A Reevaluation of His Life and Work after his Centenary

12:00-1:30

 

Chair: Jeffrey Polet, Hope College, polet@hope.edu

 

Russell Kirk and the Literary Imagination

Gary L. Gregg, University of Louisville, ggregg@louisville.edu

 

Russell Kirk and Catholic Social Teaching

Richard M. Reinsch, Liberty Fund, rreinsch@libertyfund.org

 

Russell Kirk and an Educated Public

Jeffrey Polet, Hope College, polet@hope.edu

 

Discussants: Gregory S. Butler, New Mexico State University,gbutler@nmsu.edu

Eric Schmidt, Louisiana State University, eschmidt47@gmail.com

 

 

Panel 4,Consciousness and Politics by Barry Cooper

2:00-3:30

 

Chair: John von Heyking

 

Participants:

 

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

Henrik Syse, syse@prio.org, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Sarah Beth V. Kitch, kitchsb@missouri.edu, University of Missouri

Paul Caringella, paulcaringella@sbcglobal.net

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

 

 

Panel 5, What is Political Theory? Methods, Schools, and Disciplines: Roundtable

4:00-5:30

 

Chair: Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State Univeristy, ldtrepan@svsu.edu

 

Participants

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

David D. Corey, Baylor University, David_D_Corey@baylor.edu

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

Jeremy J. Mhire, Louisiana Tech University, Jeremy.j.mhire@gmail.com

 

 

 

Friday, August 30

 

Panel 6, The Initial Reception of Eric Voegelin in Brazil

8:00-9:30

 

Chair: Eduardo Schmidt Passos, Texas State University, San Marcos, 69passos@cua.edu

 

Guerreiro Ramos as a Reader of Eric Voegelin: Postcolonial Theory and the Alternatives to Liberal Modernity

Christian E. Cyril Lynch, State University of Rio de Janeiro, clynch3@hotmail.com

Eric Voegelin and Mario Vieira de Mello´s Search for the Order of the Soul in Brazilian Culture.
Matim Vasques da Cunha, Fundacão Getúlio Vargas FGV-SP, martim.vasques@gmail.com

Voegelin’s Reception in Brazilian Catholic Political Thinkers: History and the Political Community in the Redefinition of the Modern Brazilian Nation.
Gustavo Santos, Oficina Municipal, gadolfo1917@gmail.com

Oliveira Vianna, Gilberto Freyre, and Eric Voegelin on the Idea of Race and its Political Consequences.

Eduardo Schmidt Passos, Texas State University, San Marcos

 

Discussants: Nathalia Henrich, The Catholic University of America, henrich@cua.edu

Gustavo Santos

 

 

Panel 7,  Life as a Spiritual Journey

10:00-11:30

 

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

 

Aspects of Evil

Abigail L. Rosenthal, alr.martin@verizon.net; Brooklyn College of The City University of New York

 

Avenues on the spiritual

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

 

Altruism: The Renouncement of Self

Stephen Calogero, scalogero@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s University

 

The Political Philosophy of Josef Pieper

Thomas E. Lordan, tomlordan@q.com; Independent scholar

 

Discussants: Macon Boczek

Olivia O’Donnell, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, odonnego@plattsburgh.edu

 

 

Panel 8,  Pierre Manent’s Practical Natural Law and the Problem of Transcendence

12:00-1:30

 

Chair: Ralph C. Hancock, Brigham Young University. ralph_hancock@byu.edu

 

Manent’s Natural Law and the Revival of Liberal Democracy

Jenna Silber Storey, Furman University, jenna.storey@furman.edu

 

The Contribution of Montaigne to the Eclipse of Natural Law

Peter P. Seaton, St. Mary’s Seminary and University. seaton_paul2004@yahoo.com

 

Manent’s Renewal of Natural Law and Christian Conscience

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

 

Manent’s Practical Natural Law and the Problem of Transcendence

Ralph C. Hancock

 

Discussants: Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University, h_mansfield@harvard.edu

Robert Kraynak, Colgate University, rkraynak@colgate.edu

 

 

 

 

Panel 9, The Political Theory of Slavery and Abolition

2:00-3:30

 

Chair: Gregory Collins, Yale University, gregory.collins@yale.edu

 

John Marshall, Slavery, and Anti-Nationalist Constitutional Decision-Making

Paul Finkelman, Gratz College, paul.finkelman@yahoo.com

 

Natural Right and Anti-Natural Right Arguments in Antebellum America

Alan Levine, American University, alevine@american.edu;
Daniel S. Malachuk, Western Illinois University-Quad Cities, ds-malachuk@wiu.edu

 

The Enlightenment Roots of American Anti-Abolitionism

Joshua Aaron Lynn, Eastern Kentucky University, josh1854@gmail.com

 

Lincoln, Majority Rule, and the ‘Ultimate Extinction of Slavery’

James H. Read, St. John’s University / College of St. Benedict, jread@csbsju.edu

 

Discussants: James R. Stoner, poston@lsu.edu; Louisiana State University

Robinson Woodward-Burns, Howard University, robinson.woodward@howard.edu

 

 

Panel 10,  Literature, Persons and Modern Politics

4:00-5:30

 

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

 

Eric Voegelin and Walker Percy: The Political Problem of “Post-Christian” Life,

Matalyn Vander Bleek, The Catholic University of America, vanderbleek@cua.edu

 

The Inward Turn of the Transcendentalists: Hawthorne’s Inscapes Into the Person

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

 

Karol Wojtyla and Vaclav Havel

Carly Jones, The Catholic University of America, 86jonesc@cua.edu

 

Deplorable Political Consciousness in Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground

Thomas Hutchinson, tff6@wildcats.unh.edu

 

Discussants: Carol Browning Cooper, University of Houston, carol.b.cooper@gmail.com

David Sollenberger

 

 

 

 

Saturday, August 31

 

 

Panel 11, Liberal Politics and Liberal Education

8:00-9:30

 

Chair: Dennis Coyle

 

Is a Moral Basis of Political Science Possible?

Robert M. Schaefer, rschaefe@westga.edu; University of West Georgia

 

Person and Common Good in Yves Simon

Bradley Lewis, lewisb@cua.edu; Catholic University of America

 

Those Were the Days: The Current Relevance of the Liberal/Communitarian Debate

Dennis J. Coyle, coyle@law.edu; Catholic University of America

 

Discussants: Graham Walker, Independent Institute, gwalker@indepent.org

Samuel Goldman, George Washington University, swgoldman@gwu.edu

 

 

Panel 12, The Politics of Wit I

10:00-11:30

 

Chair: Travis D. Smith, travis.smith@concordia.ca; Concordia University

 

Jesting with Giants: Rabelais on the Political Uses of Wit

Zak Black, University of Toronto, zak.black@mail.utoronto.ca

 

The Creating Person: God, Art and Action in the Work of Miguel de Unamuno

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

 

Discussants:  Taylor Putnam, University of Toronto, taylor.putnam@mail.utoronto.ca

 

 

Panel 13,  Integralism and the American Constitutional Tradition: Roundtable

12:00-1:30

 

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

 

Participants:

Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, Texas State University, amenchaca@txstate.edu

James R. Stoner, Louisiana State University, poston@lsu.edu

Gladden J. Pappin, University of Dallas, pappin@gmail.edu

Bradley Lewis, The Catholic University of America, lewisb@cua.edu

Jeffrey Polet, Hope College, polet@hope.edu

 

 

 

Panel 14, The Politics of Wit II                                                           Marriott Wardman Park

Division 1: Political Thought and Philosophy: Historical Approaches

12:00-1:30

 

 

Panel 15, Unlearning Liberalism and Conservatism

2:00-3:30

 

Chair: Aaron D. Hoffman, Bellarmine University, ahoffman@bellarmine.edu

 

Trump the Aberration

1. Lee Cheek, East Georgia State College, lcheek@ega.edu

 

Reconsidering Conservatism: Challenges to a Failing Ideology

Eugene J. Halus, Immaculata University, ehalus@immaculata.edu

 

New Thinking on the Right

Daniel McCarthy, The American Conservative, mccarthydp@gmail.com

 

Whose Liberalism? Which Failure?

Steven P. Millies, Chicago Theological Union, smillies@ctu.edu

 

Discussant: Aaron D. Hoffman

Dennis Coyle, The Catholic University of America, coyle@law.edu

 

 

 

 

Panel 16, Voegelin as a Reader of Political Philosophers: Roundtable

4:00-5:30

 

Chair: Bernat Torres Morales, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, btorres@uic.es

 

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

Nicoletta Scotti Muth, Catholic University of Sacro Cuore, Milan, Nicoletta.scotti@unicatt.it

Harald Bergbauer, University of Applied Sciences, Munich, dr.hb@web.de

Bernat Torres Morales, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, btorres@uic.es

Shaun Rieley, Catholic University of America, 35rieley@cua.edu

 

 

 

Sunday, September 1

 

Panel 17, Ideology and History

8:00-9:30

 

Chair: Jodi Bruhn, Stratéjuste Canada, jbrun@stratejuste.ca

 

Observations on a Political Dimension of Karl Löwith’s Philosophy of History

Stan Molchanov, 10molchanov@cua.edu; Catholic University of America

 

Art and Ideology: The Struggle for Independence

Eugen L. Nagy, e.l.nagy@gmail.com; University of Southern Mississippi

 

Númenórean Gnosticism: A Voegelinian Interpretation of Tolkien

Zachary Yost, zyost81@gmail.com; Catholic University of America

 

The Myth of the Social Contract: Bossuet and Leo XIII

Dennis Nilsen, Catholic University of America, dennis.nilsen.rvc@gmail.com

 

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

Jodi Bruhn, jbrun@stratejuste.ca

 

 

 

Panel 18,  Regions of the Political: Territoriality, Sovereignty, and the Body Politic

10:00-11:30

 

Chair: Ellen L. Kennedy, ekennedy@sas.upenn.edu; University of Pennsylvania

 

 

Schmitt in Jerusalem

Nathaniel Shils, nshils@sas.upenn.edu; University of Pennsylvania

 

The Enduring Partisan State: A Commentary on the DPRK chez Carl Schmitt

Juman Kim, jumank@uoregon.edu; University of Oregon

 

Dissenting Opinion: Carl Schmitt and the Problem of Power in US Legal Theory

Rheuben Bundy, rbundy@uoregon.edu; University of Oregon

 

Power in the Blood: Politics and Martyrdom in Augustine’s Civitate Dei

Ian Tuttle, iptuttle4513@gmail.com; Catholic University of America

 

Discussant: Eduardo Schmidt Passos, 69passos@cua.edu; Texas State University, San Marcos

 

 

 

Business meeting    

Marriott, Virginia B

Saturday, August 31, 6:30-7:30

Marriott Wardman

 

 

Reception

Saturday, August 31, 7:30-9:00

Marriott Wardman