David Walsh, Meeting Director
Dear Friends,
This is our program as it currently stands. Please continue to update me with any changes that become necessary. At this point I do not have the times or locations as APSA assigns them.
When we have the information the program will be updated and posted on VoegelinView.com, the homepage for the Society, as well as a superb outlet for the best in Voegelin inspired reflection on the great and small questions. It is also carries the very best in book reviews. Lee Trepanier, our highly efficient and energetic editor, welcomes your submissions, and John von Heyking, our formidable book review editor, tirelessly searches out the latest scholarship. For your convenience, a donate button is included in “About Us” so that we can receive your tax deductible contributions.
Jim Stoner (poston@lsu.edu) at the Eric Voegelin Institute in LSU will continue to host the papers for the preceding three decades and would welcome your submissions, not just for this year but for any year you have missed. If you send me a copy of your paper I will see that it gets transmitted. However, please make sure that the papers are distributed to the panel members by August 1, so that everyone will have adequate time to read and reflect.
Business Meeting, Saturday, September 2, 6:30-7:15
Reception, September Saturday, 2, 7:30-9:00
Panel 1, Revolutionary Political Thought with a Concentration on the Political Sermons of the Revolutionary Era
Chair: Macon Boczek, Kent State University, maconboczek@aol.com
John Witherspoon’s Moderate American Revolution, Scott Segrest, The Citadel, prof.scott@yahoo.com
Moses and David as Models and Metaphors, Steve Ealy, Liberty Fund, sealy@libertyfund.org
Situating Ellis Sandoz’s Political Sermons and Revolutionary Sermons among American Political Sermons 1630-1800, Glenn A. Moots, Northwood University, moots@northwood.edu and Thomas Conerty, Vanderbilt Law School, tconerty@yahoo.com
The Christian Paradox and the American Regime, Tom Lordon, Independent Scholar, tomlordan@q.com
Discussants: Macon Boczek; Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University; Sarah Beth Vosburg-Kitch, Northern Illinois University, sbkitch@princeton.edu
Panel 2, Contours and Implications of Living in Tension toward the Transcendent
Chair: Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, jerry.martin@verizon.net
The Linguistic Tension Toward the Divine, Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, jerry.martin@verizon.net
Lassitude and the Love of Life in Albert Camus, Sarah Shea, McGill University, sarah.shea2@mail.mcgill.ca
Spoiling Your Story: The Case of Hannah Arendt, Abigail Rosenthal, Author, alr.martin@verizon.net
Preference or an Experience?: The Paradox of Religion and Social Science, James Patterson, Ave Maria University, james.patterson@avemaria.edu
Discussants: Rouven Steeves, United States Air Force, derdenker@comcast.net; Eduardo Schmidt Passos, Catholic University of America, 69passos@cua.edu
Panel 3, Solzhenitsyn’s RED WHEEL: Critical Reflections on a Masterwork
Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College, dmahoney@assumption.edu
David Walsh, Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu
Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University, ldtrepan@svsu.edu
James Pontuso, Hampden-Sydney College, jpontuso@hsc.edu
Brendan Purcell, Notre Dame University, Sydney Campus, and St. John’s College, University of Sydney, brendanpur@gmail.com
Panel 4, Roundtable on The Failure of Transcendence in Major Modern Literature
Cosmic Indifference and the Failure of Transcendence in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens, crembry.ce@gmail.com; Texas A & M Commerce
Samuel Beckett, Transcendent Reality and Krapp’s Last Tape, Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University, ghughes@stmarytx.edu
George Eliot, Paulette W. Kidder, Seattle University, pwkidder@seattleu.edu
The Second Realities of Madame Bovary, Paul E. Kidder, Seattle University, pwkidder@seattleu.edu
Aesthetic Epiphany and Transcendence in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Thomas J. McPartland, Kentucky State University, tom.mcpartland@kysu.edu
Panel 5, Origins of Apocalyptic Activism
Chair: Michael Franz
The Spiritual Wellsprings of Apocalyptic Activism, Michael Franz, Loyola University Maryland, mfranz@loyola.edu
Apocalypticism and the Disintegration of Traditional Civilizations, Manfred Henningsen, University of Hawai’I at Mānoa, hennings@hawaii.edu
What is Extreme and What is Not? A Voegelinian Analysis of ‘Healthy’ and ‘Pathological’ Spirituality and Activism, Henrik Syse, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) and Nobel Committee, henrik@prio.no
Existential Roots of Apocalyptic Violence, Klaus Vondung, University of Siegen, vondung@germanistik.uni-siegen.de
Discussant: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, bcooper@ucalgary.ca
Panel 6, The Person and the Common Good
Chair: James Greenaway
Matrimony in the Order of Being as Political Agon, James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu
Consciousness and the sexual human body: attempts at bridging the gap within the dualist modern view of the human subject, Gustavo Santos, Oficina Municapal, gadolfo1917@gmail.com
The Artist’s Reality: As an Exploration of the Truth of Existential Order, John McNerney, University College Dublin, John.McNerney@ucd.ie
“Only the Soul is of Itself”: The Soul of the Person in Whitman’s Politics, David Sollenberger, The Catholic University of America, 54sollenberg@cua.edu
Discussant: Carol B. Cooper, University of Houston, carol.b.cooper@gmail.com
Panel 7, Democracy Impassioned, Democracy Tamed: On Passions, Virtues, and Judgment
Chair: Teresa M. Bejan, University of Oxford, Teresa.bejan@oriel.ox.ac.uk
From Impudence to Magnanimity, Juman Kim, University of Pennsylvania, jumankim@sas.upenn.edu
Tasteful Citizenship: Hume on the Role of Emotional Judgment in Politics, Brianne Michelle Walsh Wolf, University of Wisconsin, bwolf5@wisc.edu
The Property of Liberal Virtue, Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin, avramenko@wisc.edu
The Audacity of Anonymous, Ashley Elizabeth Gorham, agorham@sas.upenn.edu
Discussant: Jennet Kirkpatrick, Arizona State University, jennetk@asu.edu
Panel 8, A Theory of History and Experience
Chair: Eugen L Nagy, Central Washington University, e.l.nagy@gmail.com
History and Experience, Wolfgang Leidhold, University of Cologne, wolfgang.leidhold@uni-koeln.de
Comparative Millennialism: The Apocalyptic World of Modern Revolution, Jürgen Gebhardt, jngebhar@extern.lrz-muenchen.de
Voegelin’s Interpretation of Vico, Harald Bergbauer, Bavarian School of Public Policy, dr.hb@web.de
Intrahistory: The Tensional Structure of Existence, Enrique Pallares, 00pallares@cardinalmail.cua.edu ,Catholic University of America
Discussants: Eugene Webb, University of Washington, ewebb@u.washington.edu; Eugen L Nagy; Macon Boczek, Kent State University, maconboczek@aol.com
Panel 9, Friendship and the Political
Chair: Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo, henrik@prio.no
Charter 77 and Friendship, Martin Palous, Florida International University, martin.palous@gmail.com
Friendship, Self-Love and a Tale of Three Cities: Augustine, La Boétie and Montaigne, Christophe Litwin, University of California at Irvine, Christophe.litwin@uci.edu
The Figure of the Gentleman in Voegelin, Strauss and Löwith, Bruno Godefroy, Erlangen, bruno.godefroy@gmx.de
Voegelin and Kelsen, Francois Lecoutre, University of Lille, francois.lecoutre@univ-lille2.fr
Discussants: Orlando Guttierez Boronat, Florida International University, orlando4952@hotmail.com; Thierry Gontier, University of Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, thierry.gontier@gmail.com
Panel 10, Philosophy and Prudence in International Thought
Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University, David_Clinton@baylor.edu
Morality in the Foreign Policy of Alexander Hamilton, Joshua Boucher, Baylor University, Joshua_boucher@baylor.edu
The Application of the Public Force: Grand Strategic Theory and Political Practice, Eric Fleury, College of the Holy Cross, efleury@holycross.edu
Winston Churchill’s Historical Philosophy, Marjorie Jeffrey, Baylor University, Marjorie_Jeffrey@baylor.edu
Philosophy and Prudence in Hans Morgenthau’s Political Realism, Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma, grusell@oc.edu
Discussant: David Clinton, Baylor University, David_Clinton@baylor.edu
Panel 11, Science, Rhetoric, and Understanding in Dialogue
Chair: Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, bailyai@sfasu.edu
The Ancient Science of Rhetoric and the Modern Rhetoric of Science, Alan Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, bailyai@sfasu.edu
Aristotle on Anger and the Problem of Political Speech, Alexander Duff, College of the Holy Cross, aduff@holycross.edu
Does the Orator Need Moral Virtue? Comparing Demosthenes and Cicero in Plutarch’s Lives, Rodolfo Hernandez, Texas State University, rkh42@txstate.edu
Through a Keyhole or an Open Door? Rhetoric and Pedagogy in Aristotle’s Politics, Jeremy Mhire, Louisiana Tech, jmhire@latech.edu
Discussant: Nicoletta Stradaioli, CO.N.SER, Nicoletta77@alice.it
Panel 12, Promise-Cramm’d: The Poetics and Politics of Hamlet
Chair: Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College, oona.eisenstadt@pomona.edu
Denmark as Troy and Carthage: The Ghosts of Virgil and Marlowe in Hamlet, Zdravko Planinc, McMaster University, planincz@mcmaster.ca
Something Rotten in the Soul of Hamlet: Legitimizing this Renaissance Man without licensing his Furies?, Nalin Ranasinghe, Assumption College, nranasin@assumption.edu
Dialogos and Soliloquy: Thinking Through Ion and Hamlet, Charlie Gustafson-Barrett, Tulane University, cgustafs@tulane.edu
Hamlet and the Affective Roots of Decision, Glenn (Chip) Hughes, St. Mary’s University, ghughes@stmarytx.edu
Discussants: Oona Eisenstadt; James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, greenaway@stmarytx.edu
Panel 13, Roundtable on John Von Heyking’s, The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship
Steve McGuire, Villanova University, sfmcguire@gmail.com
Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, bcooper@ucalgary.ca
Thierry Gontier, University of Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, thierry.gontier@gmail.com
Thomas Heilke, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, thomas.heilke@ubc.ca
John Von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca
Panel 14, Challenging and Extending Voegelin’s Account
Chair: Steven Millies, University of South Carolina at Aiken, smillies@usca.edu
The Symbolic Order of English and American Revolutionary Movements; Revisiting Voegelin’s Analysis of the Glorious Revolution, Scott Robinson, King University, msrobinson@king.edu
On the Origins of Scientism, David Whitney, Nicholls State, david.whitney@nicholls.edu
Eric Voegelin on Science and Scientism, Shaun Rieley, 35rieley@cua.edu
John Calvin on Social Hierarchy: Natural or Arbitrary?, Stephen Wolfe, swolfe5@lsu.edu, Louisiana State University
Discussants: Jeremy Geddert, Assumption College, jgeddert@assumption.edu; Gregory Collins, Catholic University of America, gregcollins11@gmail.com
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Professor of Political Science at The Catholic University of America. He is the author of a three-volume study of modernity: After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom, The Growth of the Liberal Soul, and The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence.