Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2020
36th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2020
American Political Science Association Meeting,
September 10-13,
Scheduled for San Francisco, Moved Online
David Walsh, Meeting Director
Dear Friends,
This is our modified EVS meeting that is significantly adjusted from what was distributed earlier in the summer. Please take note that the times here are listed as MT (Mountain Time). You will have to calculate the time for your own time zone. Eastern Time is obtained by adding two hours to the times listed below. This was a convention selected by APSA to accommodate a meeting that takes place nowhere, just like St. Thomas More’s Utopia. So while you too will not be travelling, you will be visiting that strange island. Registration is required by our host and they will oversee the login authentications. Much will depend on the good offices of our panel chairs who should familiarize themselves with videoconferencing basics. Please consult the guidelines distributed by APSA.
As always it is very important that the panelists receive your paper or remarks in advance of the meeting. Discussants should be given the opportunity to prepare responses and fellow panelists may wish to make comments as well. For many years the Eric Voegelin Institute has posted papers and maintained an archive. I strongly encourage you to forward your papers to Jim Stoner (poston@lsu.edu) who will preserve this record of our proceedings.
Another item of note is that APSA wishes to include the Related Groups among their listed divisions. This means that we need to have all who are APSA members indicate the Eric Voegelin Society among the divisions to which they belong. Simply login as a member, click on your name at the top, look over the Related Groups boxes, and click EVS. Nothing more is required at this time, although this may purport other changes in the relationship which is now 36 years old! The only requirement is that Related Groups have at least 35 members, which is definitely not a problem for us. For now this may merely be a housekeeping exercise, but one that I strongly urge you to take care of as soon as you can.
Finally, I remind you of the continued importance of your contributions. Unlike the residents of Utopia we have not been entirely able to dispense with the need for money. In particular we have continuing needs in the area of digital support. VoegelinView may be virtual but it is not free. Even with the volunteer labor on which it exists there are recurrent expenses of a professional nature. We depend on the generosity of contributors and donors who should send their remittances by clicking the Donate button.
Publications
As everyone knows, the Eric Voegelin Society seeks to occupy the frontiers of science, even as those boundaries lie further back in time. The launch of a new series at the University of Notre Dame Press, under the editorship of James Stoner and David Walsh, is emblematic of our aspiration to think about politics in the most comprehensive horizon. With a Voegelinian nod it is titled THE BEGINNING AND THE BEYOND OF POLITICS. We are pleased to be associated with the fine work of the Press under its Director, Steve Wrinn, and to be listed alongside Solzhenitsyn, Manent, and other luminaries. The first two volumes of the series have just appeared, Barry Cooper, Paleolithic Politics: The Human Community in Early Art, and David Walsh, The Priority of the Person: Political, Philosophical, and Historical Discoveries. Other members who have recently published books include Trevor Shelley, Globalization and Liberalism: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Manent (also Notre Dame), James Greenaway (ed.), Human Dignity, Education, and Political Society: A Philosophical Defense of the Liberal Arts (Lexington), and our indefatigable Lee Trepanier (ed.), Eric Voegelin’s Asian Political Thought (Lexington). Finally, please note our author-meets-critics panel devoted to Greg Collins’s, Commerce and Manners: Edmund Burke’s Political Economy.
Notes on the Virtual Format
The Eric Voegelin Society has at this point weathered many a storm and I’m sure we will overcome this pandemic migration to an online format. Like most things in life we learn what we need mainly by doing it. Riding a bicycle cannot be mastered by reading the manual. So for those who have not had the exposure to virtual communication many of us have endured in recent months, please take courage. Our panels will not be like Zoom meetings to which you respond from an invitation. They will be simpler than that. Just go to the program, sign in with your name and password when you registered, find your panel or the panel you want to observe, click on it and you’re in. You can even go there right now, although no one else is likely to be present. Don’t worry, we will all arrive at the appointed day and time. Your room is already open. The times listed on the APSA website correspond to your time zone. Make sure you have the correct time for your panel. Technical support is available throughout. Please note that the Business Meeting and Reception on Saturday will be a Zoom meeting, which you can find under the APSA Panels and Receptions or by searching for it.
Wednesday, September 9, 2:00-3:30
Panel 1: Roundtable on Human Dignity, Liberal Education, and Political Society
| Chair: Jeffrey Polet, polet@hope.edu; Hope College |
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James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s University |
| Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University |
| Carol B Cooper, carol.b.cooper@gmail.com; University of Houston |
Andrew Bove, andrew.j.bove@villanova.edu; Villanova University
Thursday, September 10, 8:00-9:30
Panel 2: Music and Poetry as Constitutive of Political Community
Chair: Thomas Heilke, thomas.heilke@ubc.ca; University of British Columbia
Law, Music, and Friendship in Aristotle’s Best Regime
John Boersma, jboers1@lsu.edu; Louisiana State University
“The Body Itself Balks Account”: Whitman’s Carnal Burkeanism and Democracy
David M. Sollenberger, dms7445@psu.edu; Penn State University
The Political Theory of Flannery O’Connor: Displacement and Community
Lorraine Krall McCrary, mccraryl@wabash.edu; Wabash College
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Discussants: Brad Gilmore, brad@bradgilmorecasting.com; Independent Scholar Andrew Bove, andrew.j.bove@villanova.edu; Villanova University
Thursday, September 10, 10:00-11:30
Panel 3: Election 2020: Analysis and Predictions |
Chair: Matthew Green, greenm@cua.edu; The Catholic University of America
Matthew Green, greenm@cua.edu; The Catholic University of America
Mark Rozell, mrozell@gmu.edu; George Mason University
Geoff Pallay, geoff.pallay@ballotpedia.org; Ballotpedia
George Elliott Morris, elliottmorris@economist.com; The Economist
Thursday, September 10, 12:00-1:30
Panel 4: Person and Polity: Roundtable
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Chair: Steven P. Millies, smillies@ctu.edu; Chicago Theological Union
David J. Walsh, walshd@cua.edu; Catholic University of America |
| John McNerney, john.mcnerney@ucd.ie; Catholic University of America |
| Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University |
| Gustavo A. Santos, gadolfo1917@gmail.com; Catholic University of America
Friday, September 11, 8:00-9:30
Panel 5: Foundations of a Constitutional Order
Chair: David M. Sollenberger, dms7445@psu.edu; Penn State University
John Locke, the Rise of Parliament, & the Conceptualization of Legislative Power James Stoner, poston@lsu.edu; Louisiana State University |
Due Process of Classic Natural Law
Joseph S. Devaney, jdevaney@abac.edu; Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
The Political Whole and the Knowledge of Human Nature in Aristotle
Michael Hickman, micforhic@fastmail.com; University of Mary
Hadley Arkes and the Natural Law
Thomas Lordan, tomlordan@q.com; Independent Scholar
Discussant: Steven J. Brust, stevenbrust@erols.com; Eastern New Mexico University
Dennis Coyle, coyle@law.edu; The Catholic University of America
Friday, September 11, 10:00-11:30
Panel 6: Political Theology I: Schmitt, Manent, and Iqbal
Chair: Eduard Schmidt-Passos, Texas State University, edusp82@hotmail.com
Political Theology Beyond Sovereignty: The Concept of the Constitution
Ndifreke Ette, SUNY Potsdam; ettenm@potsdam.edu
“Reason and Grace, Prudence and Providence: Pierre Manent on the Necessary Collaboration
of the Pride of the Citizen and the Humility of the Christian”
Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College, dmahoney@assumption.edu
“The Muslim Political Theology of Muhammad Iqbal”
Scott Philip Segrest, The Citadel, ssegrest@citadel.edu
Discussants: Eduardo Schmidt-Passos, Texas State University, edusp82@hotmail.com
Friday, September 11, 12:00-1:30
Panel 7: Political Theology II: Strauss, Balthasar, Voegelin
Chair: David Walsh, walshd@cua.edu; The Catholic University of America
Does Politics Need a Theology? Leo Strauss’s reflections on Hegel
Grant Havers, Trinity Western University, havers@twu.ca
A Credible Politics: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Political Theology of Love
Carol Cooper, University of Houston, cbcooper@uh.edu
A Minimum Wage and Catholic Social Thought
Jeremy Geddert, j.geddert@assumption.edu; Assumption College
Discussant: Carol Cooper, University of Houston, cbcooper@uh.edu
Friday, September 11, 2:00-3:30
Panel 8: Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political Economy, by Gregory M. Collins
| Chair: Ryan Patrick Hanley, ryan.hanley@bc.edu; Boston College |
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Daniel J. Mahoney, dmahoney@assumption.edu; Assumption College |
| Brandon Turner, bturne2@clemson.edu; Clemson University |
| Steven Hayward, hayward487@aol.com; University of California at Berkeley |
| Gregory Collins, gregory.collins@yale.edu; Yale University
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Saturday, September 12, 8:00-9:30
Panel 9: Paleolithic Paths into the Present
Chair: David M. Sollenberger, dms7445@psu.edu; Penn State University
Paleolithic Politics
Barry Cooper, bcooper@ucalgary.ca; University of Calgary
Religious Toleration and the Consent of the Governed in the Early Modern Age: The Case of Francisco Suarez and Marsilius of Padua
Steven Waldorf, sdwaldorf@gmail.com; University of Chicago
Revisiting the Charge of Historicism: Voegelin, Strauss, and Collingwood
Philip DeMahy, philip.demahy@louisiana.edu; University of Louisiana
Eric Voegelin and the Chinese Context
Muen Liu, muenormoon@gmail.com; Institute for Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Discussants: John von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca, University of Lethbridge
- Lee Cheek, lcheek@ega.edu; East Georgia State University
Saturday, September 12, 10-11:30
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Panel 10: Conversion as Personal and Political
Chair: James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s University |
Love and Other Conversions
Jerry L. Martin, jerry.martin@verizon.net; University of Colorado at Boulder
To Jump the Tenses
Abigail L. Rosenthal, alr.martin@verizon.net; Brooklyn College of the City of New York
The Virtue of Religion: A Defense Against Gnosticism
Macon W. Boczek, mboczek1@kent.edu; Kent State University
| Authentic Being in the World:The Return of Socrates and Overcoming of Gnosticism |
Stephen Calogero, scalogero@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s University
Discussants: James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary’s University
Timothy Fuller, tfuller@coloradocollege.edu; Colorado College
Saturday, September 12, 12:00-1:30
Panel 11: Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Seventy Years Later
| Chair: David Clinton, David_Clinton@baylor.edu; Baylor University
Graham Greene’s Critique of Ideology and Modern Rationalism in War Michael Roland Gonzalez, Michael_Gonzalez1@baylor.edu; Baylor University
The Moral Imagination of Reinhold Niebuhr Reed M. Davis, rdavis@spu.edu; Seattle Pacific University
The Arc of History Bends Toward Justice: Martin Luther King and Eric Voegelin Daniel G. Lang, lang@lynchburg.edu; Lynchburg College
E. H. Carr’s Twenty Years’ Crisis: Reconciling Realism and Utopia Greg Russell, grussell@ou.edu; University of Oklahoma
Discussant: David Clinton, David_Clinton@baylor.edu; Baylor University
Saturday, September 12, 2:00-3:30
Panel 12: The Presence of the Past: Roundtable
Orlando Guttierez-Boronat, Cuban Democratic Directorate, Miami, orlando4952@hotmail.com
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Sunday, September 13, 8:00-9:30
Panel 13: Liberal Order and the Tension of Existence
Chair: Dennis J. Coyle, coyle@law.edu; Catholic University of America
David Hume’s Modern Epicurean Political Theory
Aaron Alexander Zubia, azubia@princeton.edu; Princeton University
Natural Law and the Tension of Existence
Sarah Thomas, sthomas3@alumni.stanford.edu
Religious Freedom in Liberalism: Conflict in the Differentiation of Transcendence
Gustavo A. Santos, gadolfo1917@gmail.com; Catholic University of America
David M. Sollenberger, dms7445@psu.edu; Penn State University
Sunday, September 13, 12:00-1:30
Panel 14: Voegelin in the 21st Century: New Reflections on “The New Science of Politics”
Chair: Thomas Heilke, thomas.heilke@ubc.ca; University of British Columbia
Modern Political Existence: The Crisis of Self-Interpretation
Holly Elizabeth Ching, holly.ching1@ucalgary.ca; University of Calgary
Handmaids to Representation: Political Science in a Post-Modern Crisis
Kelsey Gordon, kelsey.gordon@ucalgary.ca
Representation in Politics: Transcendental Dreaming and Existential Crisis
Micheal Ziegler, michealziegler@uvic.ca; University of Victoria
Discussants: Thomas Heilke, thomas.heilke@ubc.ca; University of British Columbia
Timothy Fuller, tfuller@coloradocollege.edu; Colorado College
Saturday, September 12
Business Meeting 4:30-5:30
Reception (BYOB) 5:30-7:00