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Anthropoetics 21, 1
Now in our third decade
Anthropoetics XXI, no. 1 Fall 2015 |
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Per Bjørnar Grande – Desire in The Great Gatsby
Marina Ludwigs – The Posthuman Turn in Dave Eggers’ The Circle Benjamin Matthews – Virality and the New Ostensive: Ai Weiwei’s Leg-Gun Meme Edmond Wright – Wordsworth’s ‘Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood’: An Anthropoetic Analysis |
René Girard, rest in peace
René Girard, without whose thought Generative Anthropology would not exist, died at the age of 91 on November 4, 2015. A memorial mass was held for him at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Palo Alto, California on November 14.
The Spring 2016 issue (21, 2) of Anthropoetics will be a special issue in his honor.
Rest in peace, René!
Science and Faith, second edition
The Davies Group has just released the second edition of Eric Gans’s Science and Faith in its Deferrals and Disciplines series, with a preface by Series Editor Adam Katz.
This work is available for $18 at Amazon.com
2016 GASC Call for papers
10th Annual GASC (Generative
Anthropology Summer Conference)
Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan
June 17-19, 2016
Cultural Universals, Cultural Specifics, and
Globalization:
On the Applicability of Generative Anthropology
Call for Papers
The Generative Anthropology Society and Conference (GASC) is pleased to announce its 10th annual summer conference, the second in Japan after the 2012 meeting at International Christian University in Tokyo held jointly with the Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R). This time, the conference will be held in Nagoya, in the economically vibrant and historically rich region of central Japan.
Our conference theme is the cross-cultural applicability of GA. Much as its progenitor mimetic theory does, GA makes universal claims regarding the origin and constitution of the human. But it emerges out of a specific location (within Western culture) and has drawn more significantly upon and focused most of its analytical energies on the emergence and development of Western, Judeo-Christian social orders. We invite participants to explore and critically engage GA’s claim to universality in the light of diverse cultural perspectives. With warm memories of our collaboration with COV&R in Tokyo in 2012, we encourage participation from Girardian scholars. Submissions are welcome in (though not limited to) the following areas, particularly as they relate to generative anthropology or mimetic theory:
- the universality of generative anthropology/mimetic theory
- culturally specific claims in generative anthropology/mimetic theory
- inclusivity, exclusivity and cultural “firstness”
- the global economy and the exchange system
- globalization, consumerism, and cultural identity
- East, West and the “Asian century”
- Westernization, secularization, and the Judeo-Christian legacy
- Buddhism and Judeo-Christian thought: intersections and divergences
- religion, myth and folklore in non-Western traditions
- art, literature and philosophy in non-Western traditions
- contemporary society and media in Japan and East Asia
- language universals vs. linguistic relativism
- the cultural “other” in media, art and literature
Papers may be presented in either English or Japanese. Submit English (or bilingual) proposals of 200-300 words in either Word or PDF format to taylor@kinjo-u.ac.jp by 30 April 2016.
For information on Generative Anthropology, see <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu>. For conference details, contact the chief Organizer of GASC X: taylor@kinjo-u.ac.jp. We look forward to your submissions!
第10回 生成人類学会 夏季国際学会開催のご案内
文化の普遍性・個別性とグローバリゼーション
―生成人類学の適応可能性―
生成人類学会会議(GASC)は、第10回夏季国際学会を開催いたします。日本国内では2012年に東京の国際基督教大学にてCOV&R(the Colloquium on Violence and Religion)と共催して以来、二度目の開催となります。今回は日本の中部に位置し、活気ある経済と豊かな歴史を持つ名古屋での開催です。
本国際会議のテーマは「生成人類学(GA)の異文化間での適応可能性」です。GAの先駆的な模倣理論と同じく、GAは人類の起源と構成に関する普遍的な主張を行っています。しかし、これはある特定の場所(西洋文化の内部)から出現し、西洋のユダヤ・キリスト教の社会秩序の出現と発展に関する側面に、かなりの研究の基盤を置きエネルギーを費やしてきました。そこで今回は参加者の皆様には、文化的な多様性という観点から、GAの普遍性に関する主張を探究し、批判的に論じて頂きたいと考えています。COV&Rとの共催で開催した2012年東京での温かい思い出とともに、今回もルネ・ジラール研究の皆様にも是非ご参加頂きたいと願っています。下記の要領で発表を募集いたします。以下の分野が中心ですが、これに限りません。特に生成人類学または模倣理論に関連した分野も募集いたします。皆様方のご参加を心よりお待ち申し上げています。
~記~
□日時 2016年6月17~19日
□会場 金城学院大学 愛知県名古屋市守山区大森2-1723
□募集分野
- 生成人類学と模倣理論の普遍性
- 生成人類学と模倣理論における文化的個別性の主張
- 包含性、排他性と文化的「独創性」
- グローバル経済と交換システム
- グローバル化、消費者主義と文化的アイデンティティー
- 東洋、西洋と「アジアの世紀」
- 西洋化、世俗化とユダヤ・キリスト教の遺産
- 仏教とユダヤ・キリスト教の思想:共通点と相違点
- 非西洋的な伝統における宗教、神話、民間伝承
- 非西洋的な伝統における芸術、文学、哲学
- 日本と東アジアにおける現代社会とメディア
- 言語的普遍性 対 言語相対主義
- メディア、芸術、文学における文化的「他者」
※研究発表は英語もしくは日本語。
発表要旨の原稿(英語で発表する方は英語のみ、日本語で発表する方は英日両言語)を、2016年4月30日までに、英語は200~300語、日本語は400~600字で、WordもしくはPDF形式にて、ご所属とご氏名も記して、taylor@kinjo-u.ac.jp にご提出ください。
- GAに関する詳細。http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu
- 研究会に関する詳細、お問い合わせ先。taylor@kinjo-u.ac.jp(Matthew Taylor)
Posted July 6, 2015; Japanese text added 7/18
GASC 2015
GASC IX
Generative Anthropology Summer Conference
High Point University, June 5-6, 2015
Program
Friday, June 5, 2015
9:30-10:30: Greek Conference Center 202: Registration/Welcome Reception
Session 1: 11:00-12:30 (Conference Center 201):
- Peter Goldman, “Originary Figurality: The Magic of Mimesis”
- Edmond Wright, “A Poetic Place for the Ideal of Immortality: An Anthropoetic Reading of Wordsworth’s Ode”
12:30 – 1:45 – Lunch (Conference Center 202)
Plenary 1 and Discussion: 2:00 – 3:15 (Conference Center 201)
Eric Gans, On the Digital Humanities
Session 2: 3:30-4:15
- Andrew Bartlett, Discussion of “Expression, Animal Mind, and Representation” (via Skype)
4:15 – 4:30 Coffee Break
Session 3: 4:30 – 6:00
- Adam Katz, “The Digitized, Prefixed Being: Humanization as Rehumanaturization”
- Marina Ludwigs, “Digital Culture as Posthuman Thought in Dave Eggers’s The Circle”
Evening: Dinner on your own in High Point
Saturday, June 6, 2015
Session 4: 9:30 – 11:00 (Conference Center 201)
- René Harrison, “Hominization, Emotion, and Complex Embodiment: Cognitive Neuro-Psychology and the Originary Scene”
- Benjamin Matthews, “Virality, Ostensivity and Ai Weiwei’s ‘Leg-Gun’ Meme”
Plenary 2: 11:15 – 12:30 (Conference Center 201)
Eric Gans, On the Digital Humanities II
12:30 – 1:45 – Lunch (Conference Center 202)
Session 5: 2:00 – 3:30 (Conference Center 201)
- Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska, “Consecutio Modorum: Mediation Between Two Concepts of Culture, Analog and Digital”
- Ian Dennis, “Marking ‘the Before Unapprehended Relation of Things’: Some Thoughts on the Pedagogical Implications of Database Searches”
4:00-5:30 (Conference Center 201)
GASC Board Meeting
6:30 – Conference Banquet (Matt and Ann Schneider’s home)