Thursday, Sept. 3

  8 AM            Panel 4. Voegelin’s The Form of the American Mind and American Pragmatism as a Significant Contribution to World Philosophy  

  10:15 AM     Panel 7. Revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr in the 21^st Century  

  2 PM            Panel 8. Anamnetic Literature  

  4:15 PM       Panel 11. The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Theory  

 

Friday, Sept. 4

  8 AM            Panel 13. The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence–Roundtable

  10:15 AM     Panel 1. Mysticism and Politics in Voegelin’s Philosophy

  2 PM             Panel 2. Conscience, Expression & Liberty: Pitfalls of Political Correctness–Roundtable

  4:15 PM       Panel 6. Assessing Voegelin’s Critique of Hegel  

 

Saturday, Sept. 5

  8 AM           Panel 3. Voegelin and the Ancients

  10:15 AM    Panel 5. Voegelin’s The Political Religions After 70 years

  2 PM           Panel 9. Theorists, Theologians, and Littérateurs: Evil and Modern Political Thought

  4:15 PM      Panel 10. Voegelin in Toronto, the DVD: Reflections on the 1978 York University “Hermeneutics and Structuralism” Conference–Roundtable  

 

Sunday, Sept. 6

  8 AM          Panel 12. The Languages of Political Order: Experience and Symbolization in Non-Western Modes of Thought

 

 

PROGRAM DETAIL - 13 panels

Panel 1.  Mysticism and Politics in Voegelin’s Philosophy - -  Friday, Sept. 4, 10:15 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University

Papers:

William James’ Pure Experience and the Creative Potential of the Metaxy - Macon Boczek , Kent State

Joachim of Fiore and Gnosticism - Matthias Riedl, Central European University–Budapest [matriedl@yahoo.de]

How far is it from Voegelin’s reflective distance to mysticism? - Peter von Sivers, University of Utah

Plato as Mystic Philosopher: The Voegelin – Strauss Impasse - Henrik Syse, International Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Voegelin and Basil of Caesarea’s Teaching on Discernment - Anne G. Keidel, Boston College [agkeidel@earthlink.net]

Disc.: 

Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University–San Antonio

William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv–Munich

 

Panel 2.  Conscience, Expression & Liberty: Pitfalls of Political Correctness–Roundtable - -  Friday, Sept. 4, 2:00 PM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary

Parts:  

David Warren, Ottawa Citizen [otiosus@sympatico.ca]

Jodi Bruhn, Office of the Federal Interlocutor [jodi.bruhn@yahoo.ca]

John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge

Robert P. George, Princeton University

Travis D. Smith, Concordia University

 

Panel 3:  Voegelin and the Ancients - -  Saturday, Sept. 5, 8:00 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair: Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution–Stanford University

Papers:           

"The Gnostic and the Spoudaios: Voegelin, Aristotle, and the Art of Pneumotaxonomy" - Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Voegelin's Reading of Plato's Philebus - Bernat Torres Morales, University of Barcelona [bernattorres@gmail.com] & Co-author: Josep Monserrat Molas, University of Barcelona [jmonserrat@ub.edu]

Aristophanic Themes in the Republic - Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University

Voegelin on Aristotle's “Science of the Polis” - Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, Independent Scholar [jacqueline.merrill@comcast.net]

Disc: 

Ronald Srigley, Thorneloe University

Timothy Fuller, Colorado College

 

Panel 4. Voegelin's The Form of the American Mind and American Pragmatism as a Significant Contribution to World Philosophy - -  Thursday, Sept. 3, 8:00 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair: Macon Boczek, Kent State University [mboczek1@kent.edu]

Papers: 

The American Open Self:  Exploring Voegelin’s Experience of Peircian Philosophy - Clancy Smith, Duquesne University [smithc4@dug.edu]

Science and Paradox: Peirce and Voegelin on the Practice of Language amid God, Man, World, and Society - Rhydon Jackson, Independent Scholar [rhydonj@embargmal.com]

Two Pragmatic Moral Universes: James vs. Dewey and the Later Pragmatists - Scott Segrest, United States Military Academy at West Point [prof.scott@yahoo.com]

Disc.: 

Macon Boczek, Department of Philosophy, Kent State University

Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, Inc.

 

Panel 5. Voegelin’s The Political Religions After 70 Years - -  Saturday, Sept. 5, 10:15 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair:  Matthias Riedl, Central European University–Budapest [visriedl@ceu.hu]

Papers:

A Secular Age as a Religious Age? Voegelin & Taylor on Defining Modern Times - Rodney Kilcup, Linfield College (emeritus)

The Concept of the State in Political Religions - Maxwell Staley, Independent Scholar

Fascism as Political Religion: The case of the Roumanian Iron Guard - Ionut Biliuta, Oxford University [anahoretu\\hich\\af0\\dbch\\af31505\\loch\\f0 sd@gmail.com ]

The Concept of Evil in The Political Religions - Alin Vara, Central European University -Budapest [alin.vara@gmail.com]

Disc:   

Peter Brickey LeQuire, University of Chicago [pbl@uchicago.edu ]

Thierry Gontier, University of Lyon [thierry.gontier@laposte.net ]

 

Panel 6. Assessing Voegelin’s Critique of Hegel - -  Friday, Sept. 4, 4:15 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair:  Timothy Fuller, Colorado College [tfuller@coloradocollege.edu ]          

Papers: 

Decrypt: Voegelin and Kojeve’s Hegel - Barry Cooper, U. of Calgary [bcooper@ucalgary.ca ]             

Reflections on Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Timothy Fuller, Colorado College [tfuller@coloradocollege.edu ]     

History as Freedom? Voegelin’s Hegel - Horst Mewes, University of Colorado–Boulder  [horstmewes@yahoo.com  ]

Hegel Today - Cyril O’Regan, University of Notre Dame [Cyril.J.O'Regan.1@nd.edu ]

Understanding the Revolution in Philosophy - David Walsh, Catholic University of America [walshd@cua.edu ]            

Disc.:  

Harald Bergbauer, Munich School of Politics

Michael Gillespie, Duke University

 

Panel 7. Revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr in the 21^st Century - -  Thursday, Sept. 3, 10:15 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair: Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma

Papers: 

Fire In Their Hearts: Christian Realism and Democracy Promotion - Eric Patterson, Georgetown University

Pilgrims’ Progress: The Disenchanted Destinations of Reinhold Niebuhr and Raymond Aron - Reed Davis, Seattle Pacific University

Reinhold Niebuhr on Tragedy and Politics - Daniel G. Lang, Lynchburg College

Niebuhr’s Christian Realism and Dewey’s Pragmatism: The Faith Experience - Vibeke Schou Tjalve, Danish Institute For Military Studies

Disc:  

David Mayers, Boston College

David Clinton, Baylor University

 

Panel 8. Anamnetic Literature - -  Thursday, Sept. 3, 2:00 PM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair: Charles Embry, Texas A&M University–Commerce (emeritus) [charlesrembry@embarqmail.com]

Papers:                       

A Heaven-Gram for World Politics: Hillesum, Heschel and Rilke rescuing God in exile - Meins Coetsier, Ghent University EHOC  [meinscoe@hotmail.com]

J. M. Coetzee and Eric Voegelin on Remembrance and the Private and Public Dimensions of Guilt - Polly Detels, Texas A & M University-Commerce [pollydetels@embarqmail.com]

W.B. Yeats and the Formation of the National Consciousness - Patrick Dowdall, Independent Scholar [pdowdall@co\\hich\\af0\\dbch\\af31505\\loch\\f0 mcast.net ]

Anamnesis in the Work of Stefan George - William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv–Munich  [William.Petropulos@web.de]

The Persistence of Symbol and Sacrament in Albert Camus - Matthew Connell, Louisiana State University

Disc.:

David Palmieri, Auburn University [dwp0003@auburn.edu ]

Ron Srigley, Laurentian University [ rsrigley@laurentian.ca]

 

Panel 9.  Theorists, Theologians, and Littérateurs: Evil and Modern Political Thought - -  Saturday, Sept. 5, 2:00 PM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair:  Martin Palouš, Charles University

Papers:  

Brutality, Vulgarity, and Evil in Chekhov’s Three Sisters - Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University

F.W.J. Schelling on the Metaphysics of Evil - Steven F. McGuire, Catholic University of America

Reinhold Niebuhr, Modernity, and the Problem of Evil - Matthew Sitman, Georgetown University

Psychologists of Evil: Nietzsche and Dostoevsky on the Darkness of the Soul - Rouven Steeves, United States Air Force Academy

Voegelin’s Nietzsche: Overcoming the Problem of Evil in Zarathustra - Sarah Shea, McGill University [sarah.shea2@mainl.mcgill.ca]

Disc.: 

Michael Henry, St. John’s University

Paul Corey, Humber College [Paul.Corey@humber.ca]

 

Panel 10.  Voegelin in Toronto, the DVD: Reflections on the 1978 York University "Hermeneutics and Structuralism" Conference–ROUNDTABLE - -  Saturday, Sept. 5, 4:15 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair:  Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University

Parts:  

Barry Cooper, University of Calgary

Joseph Gonda, York University – Glendon Campus

Frederick Lawrence, Boston College [frederick.lawrence@bc.edu]

John O'Neill, York University

Panel 11.  The Primacy of Persons in Politics: Empiricism and Theory - -  Thursday, Sept. 3, 4:15 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair: Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

Papers:           

Can Power be Creative? Evidence and Theory - Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

Friendship as Precondition and Consequence of Creativity in Politics - John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge

The Hidden Power for the Creation of Order - Peter Nitschke, Hochschule Vechta

The true form of a government: The constitutional movements of power - Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen  

 

Panel 12. The Languages of Political Order: Experience and Symbolization in Non-Western Modes of Thought - -  Sunday, Sept. 6, 8:00 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

Chair:  Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University  

Papers:  

Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature:  Susan Abulhawa’s The Scar of David - Samah Elhajibrahim , Texas Woman’s University

Styles of Truth in Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain  - Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University

Religion and Politics in the Constitutions of Japan - Kyoko Inoue, University of Illinois, Chicago (Emerita)

The Politics and Geopolitics of the Two Koreas and the United States - Yu Nam Kim, Dankook University (Emeritus)           

Disc:  

John Robert “Haj” Ross, University of North Texas

Timothy J. Lomperis, Saint Louis University

Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University

   

Panel 13. The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence–Roundtable - -  Friday, Sept. 4, 8:00 AM , Sheraton Conference B/C

 

Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland

Parts:  

Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

Glenn Hughes, St. Mary's University–San Antonio

Brendan Purcell, University College Dublin (emeritus)

Henrik Syse, Int’l Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO)

Cyril O'Regan, Notre Dame

Rouven J. Steeves, USAF Academy

Respondent: David Walsh, Catholic University of America  

 

Eric Voegelin Society Business Meeting                                                                                                                           Saturday, Sept. 5, 6:15-7:15 PM

Eric Voegelin Society Dutch Treat Reception                                                                                                                   Saturday, Sept. 5, 730-8:30 PM

OTHER NEWS AND NOTES

The enclosed Order Form allows convention rate discounts for all Voegelin books published by University of Missouri Press–30% off, so stock up!  The Eric Voegelin Institute Series in Political Philosophy and in Religion and Politics now includes 30 volumes with others in press.  The  Collected Works of Eric Voegelin  (34 vols.)  now is complete, the achievement of the past quarter century!    A one-hour TV documentary film on Voegelin’s life and work  is in production for release later this year.  The DVD of “Voegelin in Toronto” is available from Amazon.com or contact Fritz Wagner <fjjwagner@yahoo.com> A highly successful Voegelin conference was held at the University of Lyon in March.  A new edition of Geoffrey Price’s Voegelin bibliography is in preparation at the Voegelin Center in Munich.  The translation of Voegelin’s works and pertinent secondary literatures into Chinese is proceeding apace.  Remember to send your VITAL tax-deductible contributions to LSU Foundation to support the Eric Voegelin Institute’s  important work (operations or endowment): 3838 West Lakeshore Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

 

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