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COV&R 2010 registration is openGather at Notre Dame University this summer to discuss, Transforming Violence: Cult, Culture and Acculturation |
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Mimetic Theory meeting in Bogota June 9th, 2010Scholars, writers, researchers and teachers from across Central And South America will gather in Bogota in June to network and discuss mimetic theory. |
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In theory: Mimetic desireNearly 50 years on, René Girard's theory remains a powerfully illuminating insight into both literature and the world. |
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Imitatio launches European Summer School – July 2010The course will give a thorough introduction to Mimetic Theory as formulated by René Girard and his students |
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IMAGE, literary and arts journal, explains mimetic desire…Mankind’s basic urge is not want, as Marx might have it, or sex, as Freud would, but desire. |
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Imitatio-Japan to hold its first meetingA group of 15 scholars both Japanese and foreigners will be gathering at the Tokyo Hilton Hotel February 20th-21st for the first gathering of Imitatio-Japan. |
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UTNE Reader names René Girard one of 50 visionaries changing our world.According to this French-born intellectual’s mimetic theory, imitation is the root of human culture. More Americans ought to mimic the Europeans who rightly celebrate Girard as a brilliant, original thinker. |
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New Conference: Apocalissi: Eschatological Imagination in Italian Culture, from Dante to the PresentHeld Oct 9-10th in Cambridge. The conference brings together scholars of literature, art history, philosophy and religion in order to explore the wealth and complexity of Medieval and Early Modern apocalyptic thought in Italy... |
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Imitatio gathers young scholars togetherIn late September ‘09, a group of “young” scholars from around the country gathered at Stanford to meet one another and spend time in conversation with René Girard and Bob Hamerton-Kelly. |
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History is a test. Mankind is failing it.René Girard scrutinizes the human condition from creation to apocalypse. Stanford Magazine/July-August 2009/CYNTHIA HAVEN |