Eric Voegelin Society Meeting 2021

American Political Science Association Meeting

September 28-October 2

Seattle, WA

David Walsh, Meeting Director

walshd@cua.edu

Friends,

I look forward to seeing you in person or virtually at our annual meeting that will take place mainly in Seattle, a month later than our normal Labor Day weekend.  Our pandemic experience means that we will not simply be returning to business as usual.  We have a mixture of in-person and virtual events.  Panelists have already selected their preferences.  For those who are on an in-person panel, but unable to attend, there is the option of recording your presentation and making it available for the audience.  The chairs will be responsible for facilitating those relatively few cases.  APSA informs us that all of the panels will be either in the Washington State Convention Center or in the adjacent Sheraton Grand Seattle, the headquarters hotel.  Please be sure to distribute your papers to all panelists well in advance of the meeting.  Chairs are responsible for overseeing this and coordinating in advance with the presenters.  To be listed in the program you must register for the meeting.  Members of APSA are kindly requested to also indicate your membership in the Related Group, the Eric Voegelin Society.  This is also a good time to remind ourselves of the imperative of supporting EVS itself.  Without dues, we rely on your generosity and a donate button can be found here, or you may contact our treasurer, David Whitney, david.whitney@nicholls.edu. Wishing you a pleasant and productive summer.

Tuesday, September 28                                                    

6:00-7:30 PDT    (9:00-10:30 EDT)                                                         Virtual Roundtable

Panel 1. Eric Voegelin Political Readings: from the Ancient Greeks to Modern Times

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

Zdravko Planinc, planincz@mcmaster.ca; McMaster University

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

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

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

Bjorn Thomassen, bthomas@ruc.dk; Roskilde University

Wednesday, September 29

10:00-11:30 PDT  (1:00-2:30 EDT)                                        Virtual Roundtable

Panel 2: Symbols of Historical Order in Eric Voegelin’s “Israel and Revelation”

John Milbank, john.milbank@nottingham.ac.uk; University of Nottingham

Thursday, September 30

8:00-9:30 PDT        (11:00-12:30 EDT)                                   In-Person Panel

Panel 3. Civil Religion, International Pluralism, and Statesmanship

Chair: Greg Russell; grussell@ou.edu

Montesquieu’s Right of Nations
Author: Christopher Ruiz; christopher_ruiz@baylor.edu

War and Civil Religion in St. Augustine’s De civitate dei
Author: Michael Gonzalez; Michael_Gonzalez1@baylor.edu

The Lessons of Irony: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Philosophy of History
Author: Daniel Lang; lang@lynchburg.edu

Reinhold Niebuhr and the Reconciliation of Justice and Power
Author: Reed Davis; rdavis@spu.edu

Discussant: David Clinton; David_Clinton@baylor.edu

12:00-1:30 PDT         (3:00-4:30 EDT)                    In-Person Panel

Panel 4: Intersecting Themes in Classical Political Thought

Chair: Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

Voegelin’s Unusual Account of Ancient Greek Anamnesis

Michael Nafi, mwnafi@gmail.com

Augustine’s Confessions XII as a Response to Plato’s Republic

John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

The Modern Frontier: An Inevitable Crisis?

Joshua Ayer, jayer97@mail.ubc.ca; University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Household Management in Plutarch’s Lives of Aristides and Marcus Cato

Rodolfo K Hernandez, rodolfokhernandez@yahoo.com; University of Missouri

Discussants: Thomas Heilke, thomas.heilke@ubc.ca; University of British Columbia

Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

2:00-3:30 PDT       (5:00-6:30  EDT)                                Virtual Roundtable

Panel 5: Roundtable: Constitutional Stress Tests in an Age of Populism

Chair: Michael Franz, MFranz@loyola.edu; Loyola University, Baltimore

4:00-5:30 PDT            (7:00-8:30 EDT)              In-Person Roundtable

Panel 6: Kierkegaard and Democratic Theory: David Walsh’s Priority of the Person

Steven P. Millies, smillies@ctu.edu; Catholic Theological Union

Friday, October 1

8:00-9:30  PDT     (11:00-12:30 EDT)                     In-Person Panel

Panel 7: Living Life as the Disclosure of Order

Chair: Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

Sin as Rupture in Voegelin and Levinas

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

My Station and Its Duties, and Then What?

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

On the Felt Sense of Being: An Approach to Contemplative Psychotherapy

Robin Seiler, rsseilerjrmsw@gmail.com; Robert S. Seiler, Jr., LCSW-C

Where Anxiety Leads: A Map within the Tension of Existence

Brad Gilmore, penshigh5@gmail.com

Discussants:  Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

10:00-11:30 PDT      (1:00-2:30  EDT)                             Virtual Author Meets Critics

Panel 8: Roundtable on Glenn Hughes’s “From Dickinson to Dylan: Transcendence in Modernist Literature”  

Chair: John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

2:00-3:30 PDT     (5:00-6:30 EDT)                      Virtual Roundtable

Panel 9: Nalin Ranasinghe’s Odyssey

Chair: Zdravko Planinc; planincz@mcmaster.ca

Predrag Cicovacki; pcicovac@holycross.edu College of the Holy Cross
Gwenda-lin Grewal; grewalg@newschool.edu; New SchoolNew School

Michelle Kundmueller; mkundmue@odu.edu Old Dominion University

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

Saturday, October 2

8:00-9:30  PDT            (11:00-12:30  PDT)                  In-Person Panel

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

Ralph Hancock, ralph_hancock@byu.edu; Brigham Young University

12:00-1:30 PDT                  (3:00-4:30  EDT)               In-Person Panel

Panel 11: Political Theory as a Resource for Political Challenges

Chair: John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

George Santayana and the Psyche as Aesthetic Arbiter of Politics

Nayeli Leandra Riano, nlr46@georgetown.edu; Georgetown University

Thomas More on Religious Toleration and the Common Good

Mary Clare Imparato, maryimparato@bac.edu; Belmont Abbey College

Tocqueville’s relevance for modern democracy

Hans-Martien ten Napel, h.m.t.d.tennapel@law.leidenuniv.nl; Leiden University

‘The People’ of the Tenth Amendment: Social Authority and the Limitation of Government Power

Luke Sheahan, luke.sheahan@gmail.com; Duquesne University

Discussants: John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge

Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

4:00-5:30 PDT    7:00-8:30 EDT                 In-Person Panel

Week 12: Thinking with Voegelin Today

Chair: Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

Comparing “Ecumene” and “Tianxia”: A Case Study

Muen Liu, muenormoon@gmail.com; Institute for Political Science, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Science or Scientism? COVID 19 and the United States

David N. Whitney, david.whitney@nicholls.edu; Nicholls State University

The Notion of Home: Politics and Primordiality

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

Eric Voegelin’s relation with (and critique of) Arnold Toynbee

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

Discussants: Richard Avramenko, avramenko@wisc.edu; University of Wisconsin

Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University

Sunday, October 3

6:00-7:30  PDT       (9:00-10:30 EDT)      Virtual Panel