Generative Anthropology Society & Conference
The Joseph and Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People
Bar-Ilan University, Faculty of Jewish Studies
Israel
GENERATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY, RELIGIONS, AND SCIENCES
14th Annual Generative Anthropology Summer Conference
June 14-16, 2021
Online conference
(Jerusalem time)
To register click:
https://gascwebsite.wordpress.com/payments/
Registrants will be emailed the Zoom link for the Conference a few days before it starts.
June 14, 2021
17.45-18.00 Greetings
Prof. Revital Refael-Vivante, Head of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People
Prof. Roman Katsman, Bar-Ilan University
Keynote lectures
To watch the keynote lectures live click: https://youtu.be/F1vUTZILL80
18.00-19.00 Keynote lecture
Eric Gans, UCLA
Generative Anthropology and the Sacred
Moderator — Richard van Oort
19.15-20.15 Keynote lecture
Menachem Fisch, Tel-Aviv University
Generative Rationality
Moderator — Adam Katz
20.30-21.30 Roundtable discussion
Is the “Internal Scene of Representation” an Originary Category?
Adam Katz, Quinnipiac University
Marina Ludwigs, Stockholm University
Richard van Oort, University of Victoria
21.45-22.45 Moderator — Ian Dennis
Pierre Whalon, the former Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, theologian, writer, organist, composer
The Divide in the Mind: Faith and Belief
Benjamin Barber, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University: United International College
Signifying Nothing: Emil Cioran’s Apophatic Failure to Exist
June 15, 2021
18.00-19.00 Moderator — Matthew Schneider
Matthew Taylor, Kinjo Gakuin University
Sensibility’s Double Take: René Girard’s “Two Audiences” and Jane Austen’s Gospel Hermeneutic
Izumi Dryden and Laurence Dryden, Independent Scholars, Nagoya
Musical “Notes from Underground”: Anthony Burgess’s Mimetic Uses of Dostoevsky’s Polyphonic and Metaphysical “Voices”
19.15-20.15 Moderator — Roman Katsman
Martin J. Fashbaugh, Black Hills State University
Gabriel’s Epiphany and the End of Resentment: Religious and Nationalistic Feeling in James Joyce’s “The Dead”
Dominic Mitchell, Independent scholar, Bristol
Does Fornari's Ternary Model Improve the Prospects for Interdisciplinary Understanding of Language Origin?
20.30-21.30 Moderator — Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska
Dennis Sobolev, University of Haifa
Secular Messianism: Critical Theory, Advanced Science, a Radical Redefinition of Language and the Foundational Victim as Jewishness in the Ugly Swans by the Strugatsky Brothers
William Carpenter, Minneapolis
Frederick Turner and the Persistence of Epic
21.45-22.45 Moderator — Dennis Sobolev
Joakim Wrethed, Stockholm University
Anthropophagy as Possible Instigation of Matriarchy in Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho
Alexei Surin, Bar-Ilan University
The Mimetic Crisis and the Deferral of Violence in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
June 16, 2021
16.30-17.45 Debate
Using GA: Politics, Polarization, Firstness
Ian Dennis, University of Ottawa
Chris Fleming, Western Sydney University
Moderator — Adam Katz
18.00-19.00 Moderator — Matthew Taylor
Marina Ludwigs, Stockholm University
Firstness as Fourthness: The Scene as the Next Dimension
Adam Katz, Quinnipiac University
Alternativeness in the Originary Event
19.15-20.15 Moderator — Andrew Bartlett
Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynsky University, Warsaw
From Cognitive to Neurocognitive Potentials of Gans’ Scene of Origin
Ian Dennis, University of Ottawa
Popular Ritual? The Example of the WWE and “Wrestlemania”
20.30-21.30 Moderator — Marina Ludwigs
Matthew Schneider, High Point University
These Bloody Flowers: The Aesthetics of Resentment in Multicultural Literature
Roman Katsman, Bar-Ilan University
Crosslines: Originary Neoindigeneity and the Bible interpretation in Alexander Liubinsky
21.30
GA Board meeting (all interested members are welcome)