Demonised minorities and glorified scapegoats: the media response to growing intolerance in a globalised world (Subtheme # 1)

* Henri Beunders (The Netherlands), Fortuyn, Van Gogh, Hirsi Ali: The Exorcism of an Unholy Trinity 

* Discussion 

* Coffee/tea (10.30-11.00)

* PRESENTATION of the Raymund Schwager Memorial Award 2007 (by Ann Astell) to John Roedel (paper Vulnerability Not Tolerance: How Nonviolence Works)

* Trevor Cribben Merrill (USA/France), The Definitions of Tolerance 

* Stefano Tomelleri (Italy), Identity and Resentment in an Uncertain world  

* Discussion 

* Mark Anspach (USA/Italy), Violence and Reconciliation: an anthropological model and modern applications 

* Roberto Farneti (Italy), On Discord, Justice, and “What There Is”. A Girardian Perspective on Conflict Resolution 

* Discussion 

moderator Nikolaus Wandiger

16.00 Thee Smith (USA), Deconstructing the Victim-Perpetrator Paradigm: A Heuristic

moderator Andrew McKenna

16.00 William A. Johnsen (USA), Literary Study, Tolerance, and the Clash of Civilisations

16.25 David Willingham (Spain), Triumphalist Individualism and Interdividual Vulnerability in Saul Bellow’s The Victim

16.50 Elsie Cloete (South Africa), Heroes and Tigers

17.15 Daniel Cojocaru (Switzerland), Confessions of an American Psycho: James Hogg’s and Bret Easton Ellis’ Anti-Heroes’ Journey from Vulnerability to Violence

moderator 

Robert Daly

16.00 Jeremiah Alberg (USA), My Trip through Hell or Forgiving Rousseau

16.45 Thomas Ryba (USA), Piercing, Wounding and Viral Transformation: A Phenomenological Sketch of Vulnerability

André Lascaris

16.00 Philippe De Keukelaere (Belgium), Active tolerance in the Jewish-Christian inter-religious dialogue – a way towards peace

16.30 Justin A.Jackson (USA), "Who Told You That You Were Naked?": Death, Vulnerability, and the Original Sin

17.00 Willibald Sandler (Austria), 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

Moderator André Lascaris

Moderator Mark Anspach

Erik Borgman (The Netherlands), The Weak Presence of Grace. A Theological Plea for the Return to the Ambivalences of Modernity

Discussion

Hans Weigand (The Netherlands), Complex mimetic systems 

David Chavalarias, Imitation, Institutions and Sustainability of Social Dynamics

moderator

Philip van Wijk

11.30 Stuart Sandberg (USA), Prayer Unbinding Desire: The Meditation Teaching and Practice of John Main

12.00 Pasquale Morabito (Italy), The rose of silence: Violence and Secret in Apuleius' Metamorphosis 

moderator

Erik Borgman

11.30 Jesús Salazar Velasco (Mexico), Staging in desire: an ethic for extremely vulnerable subjects

12.00 Suzanne Lundquist (USA), Secondary Narcissism as Collective Shadow and Imago Dei

moderator

James Allison

11.00 John Roedel (USA), Vulnerability Not Tolerance: How Nonviolence Works

11.30 Alan Cork (Canada), The Humanity of the Mediator: Vulnerability and Transformation in the Context of L'Arche

12.00 Joel Hodge (Australia), Vulnerability, Imagination & Christ’s Body

moderator

Wiel Eggen

11.00 Wolfgang Palaver (Austria), The Ambiguous Cachet of Victimhood. Elias Canetti's "Religions of Lament" and their Roots in Abrahamic Monotheism

11.45 Allen H. Redmon (USA), Repression and Revelation: Carl Theodor’s Day of Wrath (1943) and Levitical Law

moderator

Michael Elias

11.00 Nico Keijzer (The Netherlands), A Girardian View of the Criminal Justice System  

11.30 Ineke van Wetering and Bonno Thoden van Velzen (The Netherlands), The persecution of alleged witches as a romantic fallacy: violence in the name of cultural tradition

12.00 Maâti Monjib (Maroc), La religion à la rescousse d’une démocratie vulnérable. Un cas africain 

moderator

Rosemary Johnson

11.00 Timothy Williams (USA), The Priest as Vulnerable Hero in the Mauriacian Novel

11.30 Per Bjørnar Grande (Norway), Proustian Desire

12.00 Nancy Hoogsteder (The Netherlands), Vulnerability of the heroine in Franz Kafka’s last story Josephine the singer, or the Mouse Folk 

Two eminent scholars of the University of Haifa, one Israeli (David Bukay), the other Arab (Ramzi Suleiman), will present a paper and enter in debate. The session has been organised and is moderated by Dr. Charles Selengut of Drew University (NY). 

Moderator Wiel Eggen

Moderator Nico Keijzer

Joachim Duyndam (The Netherlands), Girard and Levinas, Cain and Abel, Mimesis and the Face

Comment by Sandor Goodhart (USA)

Discussion 

Andrew McKenna (USA), Teaching in Circles - and Segments - with Roel Kaptein

Sergio Manghi (Italy), Bateson and Girard: Schizophrenia as a victimary process

Discussion

moderator

Jacquelien Bulterman

11.00 Anita Grace (Canada), Breaking the Cycle: Recovering from the Legacy of Aboriginal Residential Schools

11.30 Daniel Lance (France), Limits of Communication and Communication at the Limit with Socially or Scholastically Marginal Teenagers in an Experimental Center in South of France

12.00 Christina Biava (USA), Vulnerability and Tolerance in Adult Second Language Acquisition 

moderator

Per Grande

Victimhood and Vulnerability in European Literature I (# 6)

11.00 Robert Doran (USA), Vulnerability and Beaumarchais’ The Marriage of Figaro

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

11.50 Cezary Zalewski (Poland), Two kinds of vulnerabity in “The sins of childhood” by Boleslaw Prus

12.15 Bruce Ward (Canada), Tolerance and the Persecution-Resentment Dynamic: René Girard and Dostoevsky

moderator

Michael Elias

11.00 Peter Zvagulis (Czech Republic, University of New York in Prague), The Words that Kill: The Dynamics of Negative Reciprocity in Media and Collective Perception  

11.45 Simon Buckingham Shum (UK), Undermining Mimetic Contagion on the Net: Argumentation Tools as Critical Voices

moderator 

Thomas Ryba

11.00 Sandor Goodhart (USA), The Anti-Sacrificial and the Ethical: Reading Vulnerability and Tolerance in Genesis 32 and 33 

11.45 Matthew G. Condon (USA), The Suffering Goat and the Death of Theodicy

moderator

André Lascaris

11.00 Lucien van Liere (The Netherlands), Revenge, Terror and the Last Sacrifice in the Context of 9/11

11.45 Stephanie Perdew (USA), Metaphors of Sacrifice in the Worship of the Early Church

Moderator Wim Bartels

Moderator Nico Keijzer

Panel discussion Opportunities for Dialogue and Reconciliation 

David Bukay (University of Haifa), Walid Salem (Panorama Centre for Human Rights and Community Development in Jerusalem), Izhak Schnell (University of Tel Aviv). 

Wim Bartels is chairman of the Working for the Middle East and North Africa of IKV Pax Christi.

14.00 Nikolaus Wandinger (Austria), Dramatic Reflections on Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Pope Benedict’s Regensburg Lecture Revisited

14.45 Wiel Eggen (The Netherlands), Ayaan, the issue of Magan and the exorcising of kinship

moderator Thérèse Onderdenwijngaard

16.00 Ibanga B. Ikpe (Botswana), Tolerance, vulnerability and cyclical violence. An analytic of Girard within the context of meaning

16.30 André Bartlett (South Africa), Beyers Naudé: Scapegoat and Vulnerable Hero 

moderator

Gil Bailie

16.00 Herman Wiersinga (The Netherlands), The ‘Absolutism’ of the Christian Religion according to René Girard

16.45 René Harrison (USA), Vulnerability as Redemption: Mimesis and the Theo-Political Ontology’s of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

moderator

Robert Doran

16.00 Thomas J. Cousineau (USA), Mimetic Desire and Chiasmic Form in Hamlet

16.30 Els Launspach (The Netherlands), Demystifying Shakespeare´s King Richard III

17.00 Babak Ebrahimian (USA), Mechanisms of War in Dramatic Literature: From Desire to Sacrifice