Panel 2: “Voegelin and Contemporary Philosophy”

Chair:

Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University

Papers:

“Voegelin’s Place in Modern Philosophy”

David Walsh, Catholic University of America

“Modernity under assault: Some Thoughts on the Importance of Habermas 

and Voegelin to the Present Age”

Craig Hanks, Texas State University

“Eric Voegelin and Paul Ricoeur on Memory and History”

Peter A. Petrakis, Southeastern Louisiana University

“The Aunreality@ of the modern world: an exchange between E. Voegelin and H. Arendt ”

Horst Mewes, University of Colorado at Boulder

Discussants:

Thomas McPartland, Kentucky State University

Martin Palouš, Charles University–Prague

Glenn Hughes, St. Marys University-San Antonio

Panel 3.  “American Civil Theology Then and Now: Canada and the United States

Chair: John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge

Papers:

“Civil Religion and Secularism in Canada”

John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge

“The Personal is (Not?) the Political: George W. Bush’s Vocation and America’s”

Joseph M. Knippenberg, Oglethorpe University

“Lincoln’s Search for Order: Reflections on his Political Theology”

Joseph A. Harder, University of Virginia

“Common Sense Philosophy and American Political Civil Theology”

Scott Segrest, Baylor University

Discussants:  

Joseph Fornieri, Rochester Institute of Technology

Thomas Heilke, University of Kansas

Panel 4.  “Nietzsche, Voegelin and the Politics of Death and Immortality”

Chair: David Walsh, Catholic University of America

Papers:

“Nietzsche and the Greek Idea of Immortality”

Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison  

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“Speaking Immorality through the Mouth of a Moralist: The Irony of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra”

Paul Corey, McMaster University

“Nietzsche's and Voegelin Response to Cartesian Subjectivity and the Rationalization of Politics”

Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University

“The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat: The Nietzschean Vision of Contest”

Brandon Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Discussant:

David Walsh, Catholic University of America

Rouven J. Steeves, United States Air Force Academy

Panel 5. How the World is Not Flat: Sources of Order in Non-Western Cultures

Chair: Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman’s University

Papers:            

“Al Farabi’s Concept of Happiness: Eudaimonia, The Good and Jihad Al-Nafs ”

Samah Elhajibrahim

“Philia Politike in Meiji Japan:  Natsume Soseki’s Grass Pillow”

Timothy Hoye, Texas Woman's University

“Where is a poem”

John Robert (Haj) Ross, University of North Texas

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“Challenges on the Path:  Knowing, Being, and the Pursuit of Wisdom in West Africa”

Paul Stoller, West Chester University

Discussants:

Barry Cooper, University of Calgary

John Goldsmith, University of Chicago

Panel 6. Art as a Cosmion: A Voegelinian Reading of Art  

Co-Chairs: Charles Embry & Polly Detels, Texas A&M University at Commerce

Papers:  

“Poi La Musica: Intentionality and Luminosity in the Nineteenth-century Miniature”  

Polly Detels, Texas A&M-Commerce

“Reading Order and History: Score and Performance” 

Mark S. Theodoropoulos, Independent Scholar

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“Thomas Mann's 'Work on Myth': The Uses of the Past”

Thomas A. Hollweck, University of Colorado, Boulder

“Pindar’s Third Olympian Ode, under a Voegelinian Lens ”

Max Arnott, Independent Scholar

Discussants:

Paul Caringella, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution & Peace

Kenneth Quandt, Independent Scholar

Panel 7. Imperial Politics and Empires Ancient and Modern

Co-Chair: Jürgen Gebhardt & Matthias Riedl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Papers:

“The Idea of Empire Reconsidered”

 Jürgen Gebhardt, Bavarian-American Academy/University Erlangen-Nuremberg 

"All and Nothing: Reflections on Experience and Transcendence in the Eurasian Axial 

Age, c. 800-200 BCE "

Peter von Sivers, University of Utah

"The Constitution and Prospects of World-Empires"

 David Edwards, University of Texas at Austin

"Imperial Politics and the Just War Tradition"

Henrik Syse, Journal of Peace Research (PRIO)

Discussants: 

Matthias Riedl, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland

Panel 8.  The Politics of Resistance: Mysticism and Transcendence in Political Theory  

Chair: Ellis Sandoz, Louisiana State University

Papers:  

“It-Reality and its Post-Metaphysical Shadow?  A Voegelinian Dialogue to Jean-Luc Marion’s ‘Saturated Phenomenon’”

Marie Baird, Duquesne University

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“Transcendent Experiences: Voegelin’s Pneumatic and Noetic Differentiations of Consciousness, and the Phenomenology of Ontological and Religious Interiority”

Macon Boczek, John Carroll University

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“Vaclav Havel: Between Modernity and Responsibility”

Delia Alexandru, University of Colorado-Boulder

“Eric Voegelin and the Stefan George Circle”

William Petropulos, Eric Voegelin Archiv-Munich

Discussant:

Barret Dolph, Hua Fan University Taiwan

Michael Henry, St. John's University

Panel 9.  Covenant and Civil  Religion  

Chair: Glenn Moots, Northwood University

Papers: 

“Covenant Theory and Civic Consciousness”

Jason Ross, Georgetown University

“Benevolence, Covenant, and the Ciceronian Spirit in Early Puritan Political Theory”

Shaun de Freitas, University of the Free State (South Africa) &

A.W.G. Raath, University of the Free State (South Africa)

“Covenantal Politics in America – Two Radicalisms”

Graham Maddox, The University of New England (Australia) &

Tod Moore, The University of New England (Australia)

“Whither Political Covenanting Now?"

Glenn Moots, Northwood University  

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Discussants: 

Stephen A. Marini, Wellesley College

Micah Watson, Princeton University

Panel 10. Problems of History, Science, and Method in Voegelin’s Work

Chair: Michael Franz, Loyola College of Maryland

Papers:

“Voegelin and the Austrian School: A Philosophical Dialogue”

Nicoletta Stradaioli, University of Perugia

“Eric Voegelin and Reflexive Historical Sociology”

Peter McMylor, University of Manchester

“Vico, Eliade and Voegelin: The Meaning and Implications of Homo Symbolicus”

Eugen L. Nagy, Catholic University of America

"The Relationship Between Greek Philosophy and Christianity in Eric Voegelin's 

Political Philosophy"
Jeremiah Russell, Louisiana State University

Discussants:  

Robert C. Thornett, St. John’s College

Brian Blanchard, Arizona State University