The Eric Voegelin Society is meeting online January 3

 

Eric Voegelin Society Mini-Conference

• January 1, 2022
• David Walsh

The Eric Voegelin Society is meeting online January 3. 

For more details visit the link to the full program: Eric Voegelin Society Mini-Conference, 3 January 2021. 

You can register at the link provided in the program if you have not done so already.

Conference Schedule is as follows:

Welcome: 12:00-12:05 pm EST (5:00-5:05 pm GMT) – David Walsh, Catholic University of America

Panel 1: 12:05-1:35 pm EST (5:05-6:35 pm GMT)

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

• “Bruno Latour and Eric Voegelin: Did Voegelin Know about the Anthropocene?,” Mendo Henriques, The Catholic University of Portugal, mendohenriques@ucp.pt
• “Voegelin’s Vicinity to and Critique of Toynbee’s Philosophy of History,” Harald Bergbauer, University of Applied Sciences Munich, dr.hb@web.de
• “The Political Philosophy of the European City,” Ferenc Hörcher, University of Public Service, Budapest; Institute of Philosophy, Centre for the Humanities, Budapest, horcherferenc2@gmail.com
• “Mythology and Anti-Mythology in John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” Victor Bruno, Universidade Federal do Piauí, victorbruno@outlook.com

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

 

Panel 2: 2:00-3:30 pm EST (7:00-8:30 GMT)

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

• “Michael Polanyi’s Recovery of the Person Through Science,” Thomas Cloud, Louisiana State University, tcloud4@lsu.edu
• “The Tension of Existence in Christian Morality,” Thomas Holman, The Catholic University of America, holmant@cua.edu
• “Virtue and the Politics of Pluralism in the Thought of Jacques Maritain,” Steven Waldorf, University of Chicago, sdwaldorf@gmail.com
• “Truth or Methodology: Reflections on Voegelin’s ‘Reason: The Classic Experience’,” Sarah Dunford, The Catholic University of America, dunford@cua.edu

Discussants: Steven McGuire, Villanova University, sfmcguire@gmail.com; Gustavo Santos, Independent Scholar, gadolfo1917@gmail.com

David Walsh

David Walsh is the Chair Board Member of VoegelinView, President of the Eric Voegelin Society, and Professor of Political Science at Catholic University of America. He is the author of a three-volume study of modernity: After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (Harper/Collins, 1990), The Growth of the Liberal Soul (Missouri, 1997), and The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence (Cambridge, 2008). His latest book is Politics of the Person and as the Politics of Being (Notre Dame, 2015).

Source: https://voegelinview.com/eric-voegelin-society-mini-conference/