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Better teamwork through neurobiologyA professor at Penn's Wharton School explains why people work well when they work together (literally together, in the same place). |
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The End of the World - Nonviolently, this timeA new book of essays rereads the Book of Revelation as a message of peace. |
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"Scapegoat Thesis 1, Civilized Society 0"A Toronto Star columnist explains June 15th's Vancouver hockey riots. |
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Paul Dumouchel Speaks on Political Violence"When the state runs out of external enemies, it starts searching for internal enemies" |
Girard and the World ReligionsAn April 2011 conference in Berkeley connected mimetic theory to world religions beyond Christianity and Judaism. |
Batuman's Possessed Released in UKThe Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them, by Elif Batuman is now available in the United Kingdom. |
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Girard's Newest Book Now Available in EnglishSacrifice, an accessible entry point and a new departure, brings Girard's theory to ancient India. |
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René Girard Looms Large in Two New BooksMajor authors James Carroll and Russell Jacoby take inspiration from Girard in their just-released new works. |
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Biblioteca René Girard launched in São PauloÉ Realizações Editora held an international colloquium 2-3 September, 2011 in São Paulo to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of René Girard's first book and to launch a new series: the Biblioteca René Girard. |
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Australian Girard Seminar MeetsThe Australian Girard Seminar met for the very first time on 14th-15th January, 2011, at St Paul’s College, University of Sydney. |
Surviving Our Origins: May 2011 Programme AnnouncedA symposium at St John's College, Cambridge on 27-28 May 2011 will investigate "violence and the sacred in evolutionary-historical time." René Girard's groundbreaking "mimetic theory" of the foundational... |
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Amsterdam Book LaunchAn event on 26 November will celebrate the new publication of a book marking 30 years of the Dutch Girard Society. |
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Australia Lecture & Conference January 2012St. Mary's College at the University of Melbourne will host the second annual conference of the Australian Girard Seminar on 13-14 January, 2012. |
Scandals Produce ScapegoatsProf. Laura Kipnis in Slate shows how media pile-ons are modern sacrifices - using René Girard's theory. |
Book Burning and Scapegoating IslamEric Reitan analyzes a modern sacrificial ritual using René Girard's thought in an essay at Religion Dispatches magazine.Last week the nation (and much of the world) watched Terry Jones, pastor of a minuscule Florida... |
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Deceit, Desire and the Novel October 14 at YaleThe symposium brings together a new generation of literary scholars to revisit René Girard's first book, Deceit, Desire and the Novel, 50 years after its first publication. |
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Deceit, Desire and the Novel 50 Years LaterEvents at Stanford, Cambridge, ICI Berlin, São Paulo and Yale will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Deceit, Desire and the Novel, René Girard's first book and one of his most influential. Critiquing and expanding on... |
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Deceit & Desire in Cambridge & BerlinTwo European colloquia met to discuss René Girard's first book, 50 years later. |
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Public Lecture in Berkeley Thursday, April 14UC Santa Barbara Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer, expert on religious violence, on "Girard and Religion in an Age of Terrorism" |
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Making Peace with RevelationOn Saturday, November 6, 2010, the Raven Foundation sponsored the Making Peace with Revelation workshop held at the First Congregational Church of Wilmette, UCC. |
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Girard Seminar Meets for ReunionThe Girard Seminar, an informal discussion group at Stanford, met for a reunion on Friday November 5, 2010. |
Thinking the Human with Girard and DarwinAt Stanford this November 15-16, 2010, an international conference will discuss the relationship between mimetic theory and evolutionary theory.Combining these two powerful theoretical perspectives may enrich our understanding of... |
Australia's Religion: FootballAmid Australian football fever, Dr. Joel Hodge thinks through the social function of sports in an essay at The Punch. |
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2011 COV&R Conference AnnouncedUniversità di Messina - June 15 – 18, 2011 |
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The First European Summer School in Mimetic TheoryThis July students from all over Europe and the Americas gathered in the Netherlands for an intensive two-week seminar in René Girard's mimetic theory. Taught by an all-star team of professors, the school brought together... |
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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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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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Mimetic Theory in Latin AmericaImitatio invited a number of Latin-American researchers and teachers who make use of Mimetic Theory in their work to participate in the Conference, which Imitatio helped to sponsor and organise, held at the Pontifical Javeriana... |
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Raven Foundation Essay WinnerTo broaden awareness of mimetic theory, the Raven Foundation sponsored a contest for the essay that best communicates the theme of the 2010 Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R) conference, Transforming Violence: Cult,... |
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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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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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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... |
Theology and Peace 2010 Conference: Road to a New Humanity. May 25-27 in Chicago, IL.Theology and Peace gathers theologians, pastors, activists and others to develop the insights of mimetic theory toward the formation of a Christian theology and practice of peace. |
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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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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 |
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Understanding New Wars Conference – February 12-13, 2010 CambridgeThis conference explores the masks of new wars from the perspective of longue durée civilisational dynamics and to discern anthropological, psychological, and even spiritual forms of reciprocity underlying new wars. |
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From Animal to Human: Rethinking the Evolutionary InterfaceAn interdisciplinary symposium revisiting Darwin's science of origins and exploring the evolutionary 'Big Picture' with René Girard. Hosted Oct 16-17th at Cambridge |
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Raven Foundation Essay ContestThe Raven Foundation Essay Contest provides an opportunity to broaden awareness of mimetic theory by communicating the theme of the 2010 COV&R conference, Transforming Violence: Cult, Culture, and Acculturation, in the language... |
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The Atlantic Monthly shares Rene Girard insights for Good FridayBeginning with the story of Cain and Abel, the Bible proclaims the innocence of mythical victims and the guilt of their victimizers. Living after the widespread promulgation of the gospel, we find this natural and never pause to... |
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2009 COV&R meeting is July 8-12th in LondonTopic is Fearful Symmetries: Religion, Co-existence and the Secular. |
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Imitatio Education Committee Meets in BrazilIn February, the committee gathered to discuss how best to foster support for Mimetic Theory teaching and study. |
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Discover The Wicked Truth About Love: The Tangles of DesireRaven Foundation Co-Founder, Suzanne Ross, examines the trials and travails of romantic love through the lens of mimetic theory in her new book, The Wicked Truth About Love: The Tangles of Desire. |