September 28-October 2 - 37th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2021

American Political Science Association Meeting

 September 28-October 2

Seattle, WA

 David Walsh, Meeting Director

walshd@cua.edu

 

Friends,

This is the final form of our program for the Seattle meeting of EVS in conjunction with our host, APSA. ... We continue to be the largest Related Group at APSA primarily because of the outstanding work you do and the spirit in which it is presented. 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.

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”

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

• Ignacio Carbajosa, icarbajosap@hotmail.com; San Dámaso University
• David J. Walsh, walshd@cua.edu; Catholic University of America
• Giorgio Buccellati, buccella@ucla.edu; UCLA
• Peter Machinist, machinis@fas.harvard.edu; Harvard University
• William M. Thompson-Uberuaga, Boise43@msn.com; Duquesne University
• 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 (Pre-Recorded)

• Author: Christopher Ruiz; christopher_ruiz@baylor.edu

War and Civil Religion in St. Augustine’s De civitate dei (Pre-Recorded)

• 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

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

• Steven McGuire, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Villanova University
• James R. Stoner, poston@lsu.edu; Louisiana State University
• John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge
• Tony P. Spanakos, spanakos@gmail.com; Montclair State University

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

Chair:Robert Wyllie, rwyllie@ashland.edu; Ashland University

• Christopher Justin Brophy, cbrophy1@providence.edu; Providence College
• Matthew D. Dinan, matt.dinan@gmail.com; St. Thomas University
• David J. Walsh, walshd@cua.edu; Catholic University of America 
• 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

Discussants: 

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

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

Virtual Roundtable

Panel 8: 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

4:00-5:30 PDT (1:00-2:30 EDT)

In-Person Author Meets Critics

Panel 9: 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

• Glenn Hughes, drchiptex@gmail.com; St. Mary's University
• Henrik Syse, syse@prio.org; Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)
• Paul E. Kidder, pekidder@seattleu.edu; Seattle University
• James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary's University
• Thomas J. McPartland, t_mcpartland@msn.com; Kentucky State University

Saturday, October 2

8:00-9:30 PDT (11:00-12:30 PDT)

In-Person Panel

Panel 10: Natural Law and Natural Rights

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

Due Process of Classic Natural Law

• Joseph S. Devaney, jdevaney@abac.edu; Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

Natural Law and Natural Right in Hugo Grotius and Gabriel Vásquez

• Steven Waldorf, sdwaldorf@gmail.com; University of Chicago

Eric Voegelin on Law

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

Rights of Native Peoples in the New World Post Conquest: A Spanish Perspective

• Alejandro Lopez, diegolopez86753@gmail.com; University of Houston

Discussants: 

• John F. von Heyking, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca; University of Lethbridge
• James Greenaway, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu; St. Mary's 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: Carol Cooper, cbcooper@uh.edu; University of Houston

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 (Pre-Recorded)

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

Tocqueville's relevance for modern democracy (Pre-Recorded)

• 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: 

• Philip Bunn, pbunn@wisc.edu; University of Wisconsin
• 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

The Notion of Home: Politics and Primordiality

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

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

Panel 13: The Influence and Reception of Eric Voegelin’s Philosophy in Brazil

Chair: Gustavo A. Santos, gadolfo1917@gmail.com; National Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Brazil

Lima Vaz and Eric Voegelin: Roots and Meanings of Modernity

• Alvaro Pimentel, alvaro_pimentelsj@yahoo.com.br; Faculdade Jesuita de Filosofia e Teologia

The reception of Voegelin and Arendt in Brazil: Meira Penna and Celso Lafer

• Daiane Eccel, daianeeccel3@gmail.com; UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Nihilism in Gustavo Corção and Eric Voegelin

• Rodrigo Coppe Caldeira, rodrigocoppe@gmail.com; Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais and Rodrigo de Abreu Oliveira, rodrigodeao@gmail.com

National Personality and International Trade

• Scott Robinson, mrobinson@hbu.edu; Houston Baptist University

Ideology, representation and totalitarianism: Galvão de Sousa reader of Voegelin

• Flávio Daltro Lemos de Alencar, falencar@id.uff.br; Leiden University

Discussants: 

• Eduardo Schmidt Passos, 69passos@cua.edu; Texas State University, San Marcos
• Gustavo A. Santos, gadolfo1917@gmail.com; National Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Brazil.

Business Meeting (In-Person)

Saturday, October 2, 6:30-7:30

Willow A

Reception (In-Person)

Saturday, October 2, 7:30-9:00

Aspen