Archive Last update July, 27 2007  > Program COV&R 2007

Aksu, Eşref | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 1

Where to Locate Tolerance? Reflections on the Societal Responses to Hrant Dink's Assassination 

Alberg, Jeremiah | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

My Trip through Hell or Forgiving Rousseau

ANSPACH, Mark| Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

Violence and reconciliation: an anthropological model and modern applications 

Astell, Ann W. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3 

Carmel in Cologne, Echt, and Auschwitz: Edith Stein’s Last Journeys and the Meaning of Place in Exile

Barbaro, Paolo | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 2 

Who Cares about the Yasukuni Shrine? Reflections on Tolerance Issues and System Vulnerability in Modern Japan

Bartlett, André | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5/6

Beyers Naudé: Scapegoat and Vulnerable Hero 

Bartlett, Andrew | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Vulnerability and Mortality: A Puzzle from the World of Artificial Humans on Film 

BEUNDERS, Henri | Abstract - Paper - Slides - Subtheme # 1 [plenary] 

Fortuyn, Van Gogh, Hirsi Ali: The exorcism of an Unholy Trinity

Biava, Christina | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

Vulnerability and Tolerance in Adult Second Language Acquisition 

Borgman, Erik | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3 [plenary] 

The Weak Presence of Grace. A Theological Plea for the Return to the Ambivalences of Modernity

BUCKINGHAM SHUM, SIMON | Abstract - Slides - Subtheme # 5

Undermining Mimetic Contagion on the Net: Argumentation Tools as Critical Voices

BURUMA, IAN  | Abstract - Keynote

Enlightenment Wars

Castrillón Restrepo, José Fernando | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

The strength of the death man: the reconciliation on the way to Damascus (Acts 9:1-19) 

Chavalarias, David | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 2 [plenary] 

Imitation, Institutions and Sustainability of Social Dynamics

Cloete, Elsie | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Heroes and Tigers

COJOCARU, Daniel | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Confessions of an American Psycho: James Hogg’s and Bret Easton Ellis’ Anti-Heroes’ Journey from Vulnerability to Violence

Condon, Matthew G. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

The Suffering Goat and the Death of Theodicy

CORK, Alan | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

The Humanity of the Mediator: Vulnerability and Transformation in the Context of L'Arche

Cousineau, Thomas J. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6 

Mimetic Desire and Chiasmic Form in Hamlet

DALY, Robert | Homily  

“Jesus said: ‘I have seen Satan fall like lightning from the sky’.” (Luke 10:18)

De Keukelaere, Philippe | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

Active tolerance in the Jewish-Christian inter-religious dialogue – a way towards peace

Dennis, Ian | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6 

Violent Victimhood and “Carnal Reason” in Scott’s The Tale of Old Mortality 

Doran, Robert | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Vulnerability and Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro

Doran, Sabine | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6 

Crowds and Victims: On the Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Fritz Lang’s M

Duyndam, Joachim | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4 [plenary]  

Girard and Levinas, Cain and Abel, Mimesis and the Face

Ebrahimian, Babak | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6 

Mechanisms of War in Dramatic Literature: From Desire to Sacrifice

Eggen, Wiel | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 1 

Ayaan, the issue of Magan and the exorcising of kinship

FARNETI, Roberto | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

On Discord, Justice, and “What There Is”. A Girardian Perspective on Conflict Resolution

Gardner, Stephen L. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5 

End of the Philosophies of History?

GIRARD, René | Abstract - Paper

Doubles and Scapegoats at Çatalhoyuk

Goodhart, Sandor | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

The Anti-Sacrificial and the Ethical: Reading Vulnerability and Tolerance in Genesis 32 and 33 

GRACE, Anita | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

Breaking the Cycle: Recovering from the Legacy of Aboriginal Residential Schools

Grande, Per Bjørnar | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6 

Proustian Desire

Gray, Darren | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6 

‘In this court ful selde trouthe avayleth’. The Vulnerable Reader at the Medieval Court of Cupid

HARRISON, René | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

Vulnerability as Redemption: Mimesis and the Theo-Political Ontology’s of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

HODGE, Joel | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3 

Vulnerability, Imagination & Christ’s Body

Hoogsteder, Nancy | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6  

Vulnerability of the hero in Franz Kafka’s last story Josephine the singer, or the Mouse Folk

Ikpe, Ibanga B. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

Tolerance, vulnerability and cyclical violence. An analytic of Girard within the context of meaning

Jackson, Justin A. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3  

"Who Told You That You Were Naked?": Death, Vulnerability, and the Original Sin

Johnsen, William A. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6  

Literary Study, Tolerance, and the Clash of Civilisations

Keijzer, Nico | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 1  

A Girardian View of the Criminal Justice System

Koper, Peter T. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3/4  

The Rhetorical Structure of Toleration

LANCE, DANIEL | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5 

Limits of Communication and Communication at the Limit with Socially or Scholastically Marginal Teenagers in an Experimental Center in South of France

LAUNSPACH, ELS | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Demystifying Shakespeare´s King Richard III

Liere, Lucien van | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3  

Revenge, Terror and the Last Sacrifice in the Context of 9/11

Lundquist, Suzanne | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

Secondary Narcissism as Collective Shadow and Imago Dei

MANGHI, Sergio | Paper - Subtheme # 7

Bateson and Girard: Schizophrenia as a victimary process

McKENNA, Andrew | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

Teaching in Circles - and Segments - with Roel Kaptein

Merrill, Trevor Cribben | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 1/4 

The Definitions of Tolerance

Monjib, Maâti | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 2/3 

La religion à la rescousse d’une démocratie vulnérable. Un cas africain

Moosbruggger, Mathias | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3 

Do Christians have anything that is sacred? A Christian concept compared to an Islamic point of view

Morabito, Pasquale | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

The rose of silence. Violence and secret in Apuleius’ Metamorphosis

NARDIN, Christian | Abstract French movie

Dialogue in the underworld

nehushtan, Yossi | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

Religion and the Limits of Liberal Tolerance

Oughourlian, Jean-Michel | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 1 (plenary)

Mimetic Symmetries in the Age of Terror Wars

Pahl, Jon | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

Vulnerability, God, and Gender:  Theology and Domestic Violence 

Palaver, Wolfgang (a) | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

The Ambiguous Cachet of Victimhood. Elias Canetti's "Religions of Lament" and their Roots in Abrahamic Monotheism

Palaver, Wolfgang (b) A Commentary from Mimetic Theory to Ian Buruma's Enlightenment Wars

Perdew, Stephanie | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

Metaphors of Sacrifice in the Liturgies of the Early Church

PETERS, Jan | Thematic Opening of the COV&R 2007 Meeting (Amsterdam July 4), "Vulnerability and Tolerance" 

Praeg, Leonhard | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 2

Our complex, dynamical vulnerability

RAMSEY, Alexis | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4/7

Dirtying Derrida: Girardian Desire and the Potential of the Archive 

REDEKOP, Vern | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

The Imam and The Pastor: Mimetic Structures of Blessing in the Face of Violence

Redmon, Allen H. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Repression and Revelation: Carl Theodor’s Day of Wrath (1943) and Levitical Law

Roedel, John | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5 

Vulnerability Not Tolerance: How Nonviolence Works

Ryba, Thomas | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4

Piercing, Wounding and Viral Transformation: A Phenomenological Sketch of Vulnerability

Salvador, Luc-Laurent and Sarah Trabelsi | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 2

The mimetic construction of self  

Sandberg, Stuart | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3 

Prayer Unbinding Desire: The Meditation Teaching and Practice of John Main

Sandler, Willibald | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3  

How to lose and to regain authentic identity. An outline of biblical-Christian theology as a basis for a way out of the dilemma of tolerance in the face of violence

Seixas, Paulo Castro | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5 

Mimetic violence, Sacrifice and new dualisms . Translating Tradition in 2006 in Timor-Leste

Sicard, Marie-Claude | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 2

Medias as complex systems

Smith, Theophus | Abstract - Paper - Slides - Subtheme # 5

Deconstructing the Victim-Perpetrator Paradigm: A Heuristic 

Solarte Rodríguez, Mario Roberto | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 5

War and Peace, between Tolerance and Victimization

Thomson, Cameron M. | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4 

Kant’s Imputable Abyss: Mimesis, Freedom, and the Intelligible Ground of Accusation

Tomelleri, Stefano | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 1 (plenary) 

Identity and resentment in the society of uncertainties

Velasco, Jesús Salazar | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 4 

Staging in desire: an ethic for extremely vulnerable subjects

Wandinger, Nikolaus | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

Dramatic Reflections on Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Pope Benedict’s Regensburg Lecture Revisited

WARD, Bruce | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3/6

Tolerance and the Persecution-Resentment Dynamic: René Girard and Dostoevsky

WEIGAND, Hans | Slides - Subtheme # 2

Complex Mimetic Systems

Wetering, Ineke van and Bonno Thoden van Velzen  | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 1

The persecution of alleged witches as a romantic fallacy: violence in the name of cultural tradition 

WIERSINGA, Herman | Abstract - Paper (Dutch) - Subtheme # 3

The ‘Absolutism’ of the Christian Religion according to René Girard

williams, timothy | Abstract - Résumé - Paper - Subtheme # 6

The Priest as Vulnerable Hero in the Mauriacian Novel

(Le prêtre comme héros vulnérable du roman mauriacien)

Willingham, David | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Triumphalist Individualism and Interdividual Vulnerability in Saul Bellow’s The Victim

Zalewski, Cezary | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 6

Two kinds of vulnerabity in “The sins of childhood” by Boleslaw Prus

Zathureczky, Kornél | Abstract - Paper - Subtheme # 3

Christianity, Islam and reason: Pope Benedict XVI and Tariq Ramadan

Zvagulis, Peter | Abstract - Paper - Slides - Subtheme # 5 

The Words that Kill: The Dynamics of Negative Reciprocity in Media and Collective Perception 

Note for authors Please send your corrections, additions, links, slides, etc. to Michael Elias, elias@blaisepascal.nl | Last update October 19, 2007

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