Paper Abstracts and Papers
Jeremiah Alberg, Blessed Is the One Who Takes No Scandal in Me
Vanessa Avery-Wall, Watchman and Mimetic Theory: Are We Ready for Rorschach?
Pablo Bandera, The Physics of a Miracle
Benjamin Barber, South Park: Wannabes, Victims, and the Death Camp of Tolerance
Anthony W. Bartlett, Dissing or Kissing
Elisabeth Bayley, Can the ‘Art’ of Peace Become the Work of Violence? Explorations of Religious ‘Works of Peace’ in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop
Woody Belangia, Metaphysical Desire in Girard and Plato
Charles K. Bellinger, Abortion and the Drama of Human Motivations: With Reference to Kenneth Burke and René Girard
Thomas Blantz’s Paper, The Potawatomi Mission and Its Trail of Tears
Margaret Brinig, Families, Mimetic Rivalry, and Disabilities
Christa Bucklin, Calderon’s Mimetic Deseo: Personified Desire in the Auto sacramental of Baroque Spain
Eric Bugyis, Assimilation as Refusal: Violence, Religion, and History in Jürgen Habermas’ Post-Secular Reconstruction
Daniel P. Castillo, If Only You Had Eyes to See: The Threat of the ‘Mythologizing Cross’ in the Space of Empire
Ernest Cole and Curtis Gruenler, Mimicry and Mimetic Rivalry: The Case of Amputees in Sierra Leone
Andrew Cooper, The Youth Worker as Secular Priest
Michael Darcy,Francisco Goya, Witness to Satan’s Rise
Leonard DeLorenzo, Alison, Creation, and Resurrection
William Dever, Mimetic Principles During the English Restoration
Colby Dickinson, The End of Representation: The Figure of the Homo sacer in Giorgio Agamben and Its Affinity with the Work of René Girard
Jane Doering, René Girard’s Mimetic Desire Seen through the ‘Great Beast’ of Simone Weil
Erika Doss, Lynching Memorials and Sites of Shame: Transforming Violence in American Commemorative Cultures
Krista Duttenhaver, The World and the Text: Simone Weil and René Girard on the Transformative Power of Reading
Michael Elias, Victims of Victims? The Mimetic Crisis in the Holy Land from a Sociolinguistic Perspective
Matthew Erdel, The Christian and Punishment in a Violent World: John Howard Yoder’s Interaction with Girardian Theory in The Case for Punishment
Jonathan Fine, Fundamental Religious Violence as a Minority Strategy to Form a Communal Existence as a Non-assimilated Counterculture
Stephen Gardner, James Poulos, and David Humbert, Panel – René Girard and Philip Rieff
Sandor Goodhart, Cities and Self-Aggrandisement: The Civic and the Nomadic in the Hebrew Bible
Tyler Graham, Imitation in Contemporary Catholic Moral Theology
Per Bjørnar Grande, Analyzing the Religious Nature of Mimesis and Desire in René Girard
Jim Grote, ’Oops! I Did It Again’: The Scandal of the Kiss
Julio Hernando, Sacrificial and Un-sacrificial Epics: An Examination of El Cid
Joel Hodge, The Transcendence of State Violence and Christian Prayer
Joshua Hren, Cloaked Kings and Revealed Brothers
Justin Jackson, ’And Suffering Appeared on their Faces’: Dostoevskyan Apocalypse, Dostoevskyan Paradise
Allen Johnson, Contagion in the Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement: A Good Mimesis?
James W. Jones, Mimesis and the Globalization of Religious Terror
Grant Kaplan, Girard Behind Bars: Teaching Mimetic Theory to Convicts
Ashleen Kelly,’To Spare the Conquered and Beat Down the Proud’: Augustine’s Theory of Politics as Sacrifice and Compassion
Suzanne Lundquist, Unveiling Girardʼs “Immemorial Lie,” Native Americans, and Positive Reciprocity
Hannah Mäkelä, ’Let Evil Run Its Course’: Rivalry, Scapegoating, and Conversion in Toni Morrison’s Sula
Rico McCahon and Mark Reeder, Reading ‘Footloose’ through the Lens of The Bacchae and Mimetic Theory: Euripides’ The Bacchae, Starring Ren McCormack as Dionysius, directed by René Girard
Sheila McCarthy, Liturgy as Healing of Trauma: Girardian Insights on the Passion
John McGeeney,Toward a Girardian Theory of Market and Regulatory Behaviors
Anne McTaggart, Shame and Violence in the Mimetic Theory
Pasquale Morabito, St. George and the Dragon. Cult, Culture, and the Foundation of the City
Christopher S. Morrissey, Mimetic Desire According to Mad Men
Norma C. Moruzzi, Reading Arendt in Tehran: Politics, Violence, and the Author as Scapegoat
Michael Tzvi Novick, Charity and the Scapegoat: On Structures of Exchange in Some Rabbinic Texts
Andreas Oberprantacher, Culture Jammed: The Art of Subverting Violence
Matthew Packer, ‘Better at Being American’: The Chinese Copy Too—Like We Do
Russell Powell, Ethics of Hope: Praxis in the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement of 1963 Examined through René Girard’s Concept of Mimetic Crisis
Nalin Ranasinghe, Trojan Horse or Troilus’ Whore? Ulysses and the Rape of Troy
Julia Robinson-Harmon, Strange Fruit: Mimetic Theory and the Lynching of Black Bodies
John Roedel, Overcoming the Humiliation of Oppression through Nonviolence: Using Mimetic Theory to Re-read Fanon
Michael de las Casas Rolland, The Chamula maxetik – Transformers of Historical Violence through Ritual Animation
Tadd Ruetenik, Another View of Arthur Dimmesdale: A Profound Lesson in Scapegoating from The Scarlet Letter
Tillman Russell, “Transforming Violence: The Iraq War and the Rhetoric of Conscientious Objection”
Thomas Ryba, “Aztlan, La Raza, and the Chicano Recionquista Movement: Myth, Race, and Mimesis in The Origins of Totalitarianism”
Kyle Scott, Locke(ing) the Desire to Acquire: Using Girard to Unravel Locke’s Theory of Money
Tobin Siebers, In the Name of Pain
Mechal Sobel, Bill Traylor’s Forest of Symbols
Yoon K. Son, Mirrored Images: Love and Loathing in Korean-American Fiction
Petra Steinmair-‐Pösel, The Church as Therapeutical Community
Emily Stetler, Anti-Mimetic Scapegoating: Mental Illness’s Unaesthetic Pain
Paulson Veliyannoor, Morphing Crowd into Community: Eucharist as Ritual and Anti-ritual
Jordan Wales, Can Violence Cast out Violence? – Christian Sacrifice According to St. Gregory the Great
Brenda Wall, The Magi Come and Are Disempowered: Matthew’s Gospel, 1:21 to 2:12, 16-18
Nikolaus Wandinger, Original Sin, Grace, and the Apocalypse
James Ward, Cracking the Prison Cultural Code: Victim/Offender Groups as Non-Sacrificial Communities of Redemption
Richmond West, Moving from ‘Hostile Environment’ Sexual ‘Harrassment’ Law to ‘Sexual Discomfort’ Law: A Call for Terminological and Ideological Change
Todd David Whitmore, Ritualizing Return: Christian Support for Traditional Acholi Rites of Reconciliation in Northern Uganda
James G. Williams, Hamerton-Kelly on Violence and Mimesis: A Critical Appreciation
Rhys Williams, Liberal Individualism and Civic Integration among America’s New Religious Communities
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Margaret Pfeil at mpfeil1@nd.edu or
Ann W. Astell at aastell@nd.edu
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