Eric-Voegelin-Gesellschaft e. V.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – Milano
Dipartimento di Scienze politiche
Dipartimento di Filosofia
Dipartimento di Scienze giuridiche

Orders of Consciousness, Orders of Political Societies
Eric Voegelin’s Anamnesis 60 Years Later

3 December 2026

10:00-10:15 Welcome Address

10:15-12:45 Panel 1: Anamnesis as Recollection

William Tullius (American Public University) A Philosophy of Consciousness beyond Intentionality and Immanence: Eric Voegelin’s Radicalization of Phenomenological Philosophy
David Walsh (Catholic University of America) Anamnesis as the Personal Journey of Eric Voegelin
Bernat Torres (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) From Recollection to Consciousness: Voegelin’s Reinterpretation of Platonic Anamnesis and Metaxy

14:30-16:15 Panel 2: Orders of Consciousness

Giorgio Buccellati (UCLA) Contrastive anamnesis and their impact on Voegelin’s concept of Historiogenesis
Nicoletta Scotti Muth (UCSC) Time of Consciousness, Time of History: A Gap to Be Bridged. The Turning Point in Voegelin’s ‘Anamnesis’
Tommaso Mauri (Istituto Universitario Sophia) Philosophy of Myth in Schelling and Voegelin
Jan Okonski (University of Lodz) The Problem of Consciousness in the Thought of Eric Voegelin: A Perspective of Perennial Philosophy

16:15-16:45 pause/discussion

16:45-18:30 Panel 3: History and Experience

Lorenza Violini (Università Statale di Milano) Politics and Justice in the Voegelin-Kelsen Debate: Reflections Based on the Concept of Nature
Giacomo Samek Lodovici (UCSC) The ‘spoudaios’ as a Unit of Moral Measure. Brief Notes Based on Voegelin
Nicolangelo D’Acunto (UCSC) Mongol Order and European Powers: How Voegelin Stumbled upon the Ecumenical Empires
Matthias Riedl (CEU-Vienna) Eric Voegelin, Political Reality, and Higher Education”

18:30-19:00 Discussion

4 December 2026

9:00-13:00 Panel 4: Orders of Political Societies

Vassilios Paipais (Panteion University - Athens) Theology and International Relations: Eric Voegelin, Martin Wight, and Nicholas Rengger on the crisis of modern international relations
Dario Caroniti (Università di Messina) Eric Voegelin’s Interpretation of Bakunin’s Revolutionary Existence
Nicoletta Stradaioli (Università di Perugia) The Voegelin of Gerhart Niemeyer: Reading Anamnesis and Beyond
Giovanni Bombelli (UCSC) Representativeness and Representation: some remarks between Voegelin and Schmitt

10:45-11:15 Pause/Discussion

Matteo Negro (Università di Catania) Consciousness, Transcendence and Politics
Bernard Bourdin (Institut catholique de Paris) Aux antipodes des religions politiques: une théologie du politique comme nouvelle 'symbolisation' de la démocratie

12:45-13:15 Discussion

Chairs:
Harald Bergbauer – EVG, Damiano Palano – UCSC, Gianfrancesco Zanetti – Università MoRe