VU University Amsterdam > Blaise Pascal Instituut > Girard Studiekring > COV&R 2007
Post-conference: papers, squibs, comments, etc.
Please send your contributions to Michael Elias, elias@blaisepascal.nl
October 19, 2007
[Paper] Daniel Lance, Limits of Communication and Communication at the Limit with Socially or Scholastically Marginal Teenagers in an Experimental Center in South of France. From Negative Reciprocity to Positive Reciprocity
October 17, 2007
[Reflection] Per Bjørnar Grande, A Reflection on the COV&R Conference (Amsterdam 2007).
October 5, 2007
[Paper] Herman Wiersinga, Het absolutisme van het christendom volgens René Girard (Dutch) [= The Absolutism of the Christian Religion according to René Girard]
September 19, 2007
[Comment] Simon de Keukelaere, Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction. Some comments on truth, tolerance, vulnerability and Erik Borgmans lecture at COV&R 2007.
September 4, 2007
[Paper] Peter Zvagulis, The Words that Kill: The Dynamics of Negative Reciprocity in Media and Collective Perception
July 27, 2007
[Homily Sunday July, 8] Robert Daly, Jesus said: I have seen Satan fall like lightning from the sky. (Luke 10:18)
July 26, 2007
[Reflection] Wiel Eggen, Revolting vulnerability
July 25, 2007
[Paper] Joel Hodge, Vulnerability, Imagination & Christs Body
July 19, 2007
[Paper] Stuart Sandberg, (revised version) Prayer Unbinding Desire: The Meditation Teaching and Practice of John Main
July 18, 2007
[Dutch blog] Paul van Velthoven, "Verzoening die voor geen berg terugdeinst", Haagse columnisten, July 18.
[Dutch press] Gil Bailie, Letter to the Editor (Opmerkingen bij debat over geweld en religie), NRC Handelsblad, July 18, 2007 [English]
July 17, 2007
[Paper] Ann Astell, Carmel in Cologne, Echt, and Auschwitz: Edith Steins Last Journeys and the Meaning of Place in Exile
[Dutch press] Paul van Velthoven, "Op zoek naar een nieuwe tolerantie", Friesch Dagblad, July, 17.
July 12, 2007
[Paper] Jan Peters, Thematic Opening of the Conference on Violence and Religion 2007, "Vulnerability and Tolerance".
[Dutch press] Paul van Velthoven, "Secularisten maken van religie een nieuwe zondebok", Trouw, July 12
July 10, 2007
[Papers posted]
Joachim Duyndam, Girard and Levinas, Cain and Abel, Mimesis and the Face
Buckingham Shum [slides + Dialogue Map plenary session], Undermining Mimetic Contagion on the Net: Argumentation Tools as Critical Voices
Per Grande, Proustian Desire
Sergio Manghi, Bateson and Girard: the tolerance of vulnerability as a condition for positive reciprocity
Stefano Tomelleri, Identity and resentment in the society of uncertainties
Hans Weigand [slides], Complex Mimetic Systems
July 9, 2007
[Comment] Wiel Eggen, Lessons learned.
During the COV&R Conference (July 4-8, 2007)
[Meta-comment on Maarten Huygen, July 7] Gil Bailie, Unintended Consequences, July, 8, 2007.
[Comment in Dutch press] Maarten Huygen, "Tijdens de Internationale Week van Diversiteit wordt intolerantie ritueel uitgedreven", NRC Handelsblad, July, 7, 2007.
[Report] Gil Bailie, From the Amsterdam Conference, July 5, 2007.
[Papers posted]
Henri Beunders (+ slides), Fortuyn, Van Gogh, Hirsi Ali: The exorcism of an Unholy Trinity
Erik Borgman, The Weak Presence of Grace. A Theological Plea for the Return to the Ambivalences of Modernity
Pasquale Morabito, The rose of silence. Violence and secret in Apuleius Metamorphosis
Christian Nardin (synopsis movie), Dialogue in the underworld
Stephanie Perdew, Metaphors of Sacrifice in the Liturgies of the Early Church
John Roedel [Raymund Schwager Memorial Award 2007] (revised version) Vulnerability Not Tolerance: How Nonviolence Works
Wolfgang Palaver, A Commentary from Mimetic Theory to Ian Buruma's Enlightenment Wars (comment on Ian Buruma)
Thee Smith (+ slides), Deconstructing the Victim-Perpetrator Paradigm: A Heuristic
Nikolaus Wandinger, Dramatic Reflections on Christian-Muslim Dialogue. Pope Benedicts Regensburg Lecture Revisited