COV&R at the American Academy of Religion
Online, November 29-December 10, 2020
Times and information on how to attend to be announced.
Session I: Beyond Scapegoats: Marginalized Voices in Conversation with René Girard
Convener and Moderator: Grant Kaplan, Saint Louis University
- Julia Robinson Moore (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte), “Mimetic Theory through the Voices of the Little Rock Nine: Black Scapegoats in the Desegregation of Central High School, 1957-1958.”
- Martha Reineke (University of Northern Iowa), “An Escalation to Extremes: Purity Spirals and Victimization.”
- Chelsea J. King (Sacred Heart University), “Girard, the Feminist? Bringing Mimetic Theory into Dialogue with Feminist Critiques of Sacrifice”
Session II: Mimetic Theory and Christian Spirituality
Convener: Grant Kaplan, Saint Louis University
Moderator: Brian Robinette, Boston College
- Jared Price (Multnomah Biblical Seminary), “‘All Shall Be Well’: Julian of Norwich, Rene Girard, Jacques Lacan, and the ‘Other Side’ of Christian Mysticism”
- Aline Lewis (Graduate Theological Union), “Mimetic Desire in Ignatius of Loyola’s Autobiography”
- Joseph Rivera (Dublin City University), “Eucharist as Contemplative Action: A Girardian Perspective”
Co-Sponsored Session with Nineteenth-Century Theology
Academic Rivalry in the Modern Age: Thinking with Girard and Beyond
Convener: Zachary Purvis
- Grant Kaplan (Saint Louis University), “Brothers or Enemies? Revisiting Academic Rivalry in the Möhler/Baur Debate”
- Bryan Wagoner (Davis and Elkins College), “Franz Overbeck and Carl Albert Bernouilli Through the Lens of Girardian Mimetic Rivalry”
Respondent: Johannes Zachhuber (University of Oxford)