Join us August 30 – September 2, 2018, in Boston for the 114th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition to address the latest scholarship in political science while exploring the 2018 theme, “Democracy and Its Discontents.” APSA and the 2018 Program Chairs Henry Farrell, The George Washington University, and Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University, look forward to your participation in panels and sessions prepared by APSA’s 56 divisions and numerous related groups at the 2018 APSA Annual Meeting. Registration https://www.apsanet.org
34 th International Meeting of THE ERIC VOEGELIN SOCIETY, 2018
David Walsh, Meeting Director, walshd@cua.edu
Panel 1
Comprehensive Judgment and Absolute Selflessness: Churchill on Friendship
Chair: Daniel J. Mahoney, dmahoney@assumption.edu; Assumption College
Churchill and the Athens-Jerusalem Conflict over Friendship
Grant Neil Havers, Trinity Western University, havers @twu.ca,
Churchill’s Friendly Storytelling
Thomas W. Heilke, Thomas.heilke@ubc.ca, The University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Honor and Christian Ethics: Churchill and the Hierarchy of Virtue
Steven Hayward, University of California at Berkeley, hayward487@aol.com,
Churchill on Friendship: An Aristotelian View
Will Morrisey, Hillsdale College, will.morrisey@hillsdale.edu
Discussant: John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca
Panel 2
The Dystopian Imagination
Chair: Alan I. Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, bailyai@sfasu.edu
Decency, Hope and Substitution of Memory in Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go
Jeremy J. Mhire, Louisiana Tech University, Jeremy.j.mhire@gmail.com
Rodolfo K. Hernandez, Texas State University, rodolfokhernandez@yahoo.com
A Dystopian State of Mind: Exploring the State of Nature in Dystopian Fiction
Kimberly Hurd Kale, Coastal Carolina University, khale@coastal.edu
Machiavelli and the Art of Dictatorship: Lessons from Dystopia
Michael J. Faber, Texas State University, professorfaber@gmail.com
Being under the Bat Signal: the Dystopian Conceit in Popular Culture
Alan I. Baily, Stephen F. Austin State University, bailyai@sfasu.edu
Discussants: Guillaume Bogiaris, Texas A & M University,gbogiaris@tamu.edu
Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University, ldtrepanier@svsu.edu
Panel 3
The Meaning of Life and Existential Uncertainty
Chair: Sarah Shea, McGill University, sarah.shea2@gmail.com
Simone Weil and Habits of the Mind for the Search for Meaning
Macon W. Boczek, Kent State University, mboczek1@kent.edu
What is the Meaning of (a) Life and How Does One Know?
Jerry Martin, University of Colorado at Boulder, jerry.martin@verizon.net
God and the Care for One’s Story
Abigail Rosenthal, Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, alr.martin@verizon.net
Ethos and Politics in the Poetry of Stefan George
William Petropulos, Voegelin-Archiv, william.petropulos@web.de
Discussant: Jodi Bruhn, jbruhn@stratejuste.ca
Anthony Esolen, Providence College, aesolen@providence.edu
Panel 4
Why Voegelin Matters Today
Chair: Jeremy Seth Geddert, Assumption College, j.geddert@assumption.edu
Voegelin, Augustine, Hobbes and the Tradition
Nalin Ranasinghe, Assumption College, nranasin@assumption.edu
History, Ideology and Noetic Differentiation
Peter Sampo, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
Voegelin the Man: Symbol and Soul
Julianne Marie Romanello, julianne.romanello@gmail.com
Discussants: Lee Trepanier, Saginaw Valley State University,ldtrepanier@svsu.edu
Jeremy Seth Geddert, Assumption College, j.geddert@assumption.edu
Panel 5
Kant on Religion and Politics
Chair: Thomas Heilke, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Thomas.heilke@ubc.ca
Beyond the Limits of Reason in Kant’s Religious and Political Thought
Steven McGuire, Villanova University, sfmcguire@gmail.com
Man the Questioner: Kant’s Recovery of Transcendence in Moral Existence
Gustavo A. Santos, Oficina Municipa, gadolfo1917@gmail.com
Ethical Communities: Kant’s Ecclesiology in his Moral and Political Philosophy
Carol B. Cooper, University of Houston, carol.b.cooper@gmail.com
Discussant: Thomas Heilke, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Thomas.heilke@ubc.ca
Panel 6
Roundtable: Memory, Conflict, and Reconciliation
Chair: Martin Palous, Florida International University, martin.palous@gmail.com
David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu
Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University, ghughes@stmarytx.edu
Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo, syse@prio.org
Tilo Schabert, University of Erlangen, tilo.schabert@fau.de
Orlando Guttierez-Boronat, Cuban Democratic Directorate, Miami, orlando4952@hotmail.com
Panel 7
Explaining the Jihadist Project
Chair: Scott Segrest
Sayyid Qutb’s Jihad
Scott Segrest, The Citadel, prof.scott@yahoo.com
General Wellsprings of Apocalyptic and World-Transforming Violence
Michael Franz, Loyola University of Maryland, mfranz@loyola.edu
The Inheritance of ISIS
Fasal Devji, University of Oxford, faisal.devji.@sant.ox.ac.uk
The Islamic Republic of Iran: A Variety of Political Religion?
Eliot Assoudeh, University of Nevada Reno, eliot_assoudeh@yahoo.com
Discussant: Barry Cooper, University of Calgary, bcooper@ucalgary.ca
Panel 8
Justice in International Society, Ancient and Modern
Chair: David Clinton, Baylor University, David_Clinton@baylor.edu
Montesquieu, China, and Human Rights
Christopher Daniel Ruiz, Baylor University, Christopher_ruiz@baylor.edu
Churchill’s Marlborough: War and Diplomacy in an Aristocratic Age
Marjorie Louise Jeffrey, Baylor University, Marjorie_Jeffrey@baylor.edu
Justice as Virtue in Diplomatic Conduct
Stephen Patrick Sims, Baylor University, Stephen_sims@baylor.edu
Churchill, Anglo-Americanism, and Exceptionalism
Greg Russell, University of Oklahoma, grussell@ou.edu
Discussants: Reed M. Davis, Seattle Pacific University, rdavis@spu.edu
David Clinton, Baylor University, David_Clinton@baylor.edu
Panel 9
The Foundations, Failings, and Future of a Liberal Order
Chair: Dennis Coyle, The Catholic University of America, coyle@law.edu
Liberalism Erodes Constitutionalism: A Matricide
Graham Walker, The Witherspoon Institute, graham.h.walker@icloud.com
American Nationalism and Civil Religion
Samuel Goldman, George Washington University, swgoldman@gwu.edu
After the Fall: Hierarchy, Subsidiarity, and the Recovery of Meaning
Dennis Coyle, The Catholic University of America, coyle@law.edu
Discussant: Matthew Cantirino, The Catholic University of America, 93cantirino@cua.edu
Jeffrey Polet, Hope College, polet@hope.edu
Panel 10
Perspectives on Leo Strauss and Edmund Burke
Chair: Gregory Collins, Yale University, gregcollins11@gmail.com
On the Place of the Burke sub-chapter in the Plan of Natural Right and History
Steven J. Lenzner, Claremont McKenna College, slenzner@cmc.edu
The Is and the Ought Not: The Burkean Disposition of Leo Strauss
Greg Weiner, Assumption College, gs.weiner@assumption.edu
Edmund Burke as Indeterminate Dyad in Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History
Jeffrey Bernstein, Holy Cross College, jbernste@holycross.edu
Universality and Abstraction in Burke and Strauss
Claes G. Ryn, The Catholic University of America, cryn@erols.com
Discussant: Nasser Behnegar, Boston College, behnegar@bc.edu
Steven B. Smith, Yale University, steven.smith@yale.edu
Panel 11
The Person as the Horizon of the Political
Chair: David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu
Beyond the Form of Politics
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca
An Aesthetics of Human Freedom: Recapturing Personal Integrity in light of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
John McNerney,The Catholic University of America, john.mcnerney@ucd.ie
Man Writ Large: A Personalist Account of the Pre-Political Origins of the State
Steven Millies, Catholic Theological Union,
The Transcendence of Tension
Enrique Pallares, 00pallares@cardinalmail.cua.edu; Catholic University of America
Discussant: David Walsh, The Catholic University of America, walshd@cua.edu
Panel 12
Religion within the American Political Tradition
Chair: Robert Kraynak, Colgate University, rkraynak@colgate.edu
Separation of State from Church: Tocqueville on Religion in a Democracy
Mary Clare Imparato, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, mc.imparato@rutgers.edu
The American Founding as a Blended Scotch: A Reply to Tom West
Robert Kraynak, Colgate University, rkraynak@colgate.edu
The Liturgy of Liberty
Joshua Bowman, Louisiana State University, bowmanjosh@hotmail.com
Political Sermons and the First Amendment
Glenn A. Moots, Northwood University, moots@northwood.edu
Thomas Kevin Conerty, Vanderbilt University, tconerty@yahoo.com
Discussant: James Stoner, Louisiana State University, poston@lsu.edu
Panel 13
Voegelin’s Continuing Conversation with Other Thinkers
Chair: Harald Bergbauer, University of Applied Sciences, dr.hb@web.de
Voegelin and Thomas More: A Reappraisal
Shaun Rieley, The Catholic University, 35 rieley@cua.edu
Steps to an ecology of consciousness: Eric Voegelin and Gregory Bateson
Bjorn Thomassen, Roskilde University, bthomas@ruc.dk
Voegelin and Strauss on Husserl as an insufficiently political philosopher
Molly Brigid McGrath, Assumption College, mflynn@assumption.edu
Finnis on Voegelin’s Work
Francois Denis Lecoutre, University of Cergy-Potoise, lecoutre_78@hotmail.com
Discussant: Harald Bergbauer, University of Applied Sciences, dr.hb@web.de
Panel 14
Ideology as an Enduring Factor in Politics
Chair: Thomas Heilke, University of British Columbia-Okanagan,
Against Ideology: Anti-Politics in the 21stCentury
Eugen L. Nagy, Central Washington University,e.l.nagy@gmail.com
Dominium v. Auctoritas: Nihilism and the Political Community
James Greenaway, St. Mary’s University, jgreenaway@stmarytx.edu
The Short Czech 20thCentury: Patocka between Masaryk and Havel
Martin Palous, Florida International University, martin.palous@gmail.com
Discussant: Henrik Syse, Peace Research Institute Oslo, syse@prio.org
Panel 15
Overcoming the Fractures and Discontents of Politics
Chair: Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison, avramenko@wisc.edu
Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology and the Arian Controversy
Eduardo Schmidt Passos, The Catholic University of America, 69passos@cua.edu
Is Progressivism Compatible With Christianity?
Thomas E. Lordan, Independent Scholar, tomlordan@q.com
Killing Me Softly: Suicide in the Thought of Plato and Aristotle
Richard Avramenko, University of Wisconsin-Madison, avramenko@wisc.edu
Philip Bunn, University of Wisconsin-Madison,pbunn@wisc.edu
Virtue Ethics and IR Theory in Kenneth W. Thompson
Reed M. Davis, Seattle Pacific University, rdavis@spsu.edu
Discussant: Steven McGuire, Villanova University, sfmcguire@gmail.com
Panel 16
Paths Toward a Recovery of Constitutionalism
Chair: John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, john.vonheyking@uleth.ca
Hero and Divine Average: Whitman’s Democratic Vistas and Thomas Carlyle
David Sollenberger, The Catholic University of America, 54sollenberg@cua.edu
In Search of Humanity: Ernest Gaines on Racial Harm and Healing
Sarah Beth V. Kitch, Northern Illinois University, sbkitch@niu.edu
Rules for a Madhouse: A Pascalian Defense of Constitutionalism
Paul Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame, rrodri19@nd.edu
The Trump Wall and the Paradox of Rights: Could Hooker Better Welcome Refugees?
Jeremy Seth Geddert, Assumption College, j.geddert@assumption.edu
Discussant: Glenn Hughes, St. Mary’s University, ghughes@stmarytx.edu
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.