Conference Program

Friday 17 June 　REVISED SCHEDULE

Kinjo Gakuin University Satellite Campus, Sakae

11:00-11:15        Registration

11:15-11:30     Brief Opening Words and Orientation
                          Matthew Taylor, Kinjo Gakuin University

11:30-1:00 　  Session 1: Generative Anthropology and the Western Canon
   (Chair: Amir Khan)

Peter Goldman, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, USA

John Milton on Free Markets and the Tithing Controversy

 

Richard van Oort, University of Victoria, Canada
René Girard’s Shakespeare

1:00–2:00　       LUNCH

2:00-3:30 　　　Session 2: Generative Anthropology, Globalization, and the Social Scene
    (Chair: Andrew Bartlett)

 

Marina Ludwigs, Stockholm University, Sweden
 “It’s Not Enough that I Succeed; Others Must Fail”:
In Search of a Theory of Identification

Benjamin Matthews, Western Sydney University, Australia
"Post-Hierarchical" Culture in Media-Based Creative Collectives: Sketching Originary/MT Analyses

Matthew Taylor, Kinjo Gakuin University

Scenes of Distress: Reflections on Francis Fukuyama’s “End of History”

3:30-3:45             Break with drinks and snacks

3:45-5:15 pm　　Session 3: GA, Girard, and Metaphysics
     (Chair: Edmond Wright) 

Jeremiah Alberg, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
From Dreams of a Spirit-Seer to The Critique of Pure Reason:
Kant’s Changing Relations to Metaphysics 

Amir Khan, LNU-MSU College of International Business
Ostensive Dreams and Declarative Nightmares

5:15-5:30　　　　  Break with drinks and snacks

5:30–7:00　　　Session 4: Generative Anthropology and Origins
     (Chair: Benjamin Matthews) 

Andrew Bartlett, English Department, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada
Opening a Dialogue between Kinji Imanishi and Generative Anthropology

 

Kieran Stewart, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Nietzsche as Theorist of Origins

 

7:00-7:15           Further Words of Orientation by Matthew Taylor

7:30-9:30　　　　CONFERENCE BANQUET
                          Amataro Restaurant, Sakae