Past COV&R Conferences

• COV&R Conference 2014 in cooperation with Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingoldstadt at the Kardinal-Doepfner-Haus in Freising near Munich, Germany, July 21-24, 2014
  Topic: 'Battling to the End': 1914-2014. The Escalation of Violence and Victimization: Rene Girard and Jean-Luc Marion.
  
  • Conference website
  • Call for Papers
    For further information contact Dr. Adrián Navigante: girard2014@ku.de
• COV&R Conference 2013 at University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA/USA, July 10-14
  Topic: A Land between Two Rivers: Space, Place, and Mimetic Theory
  Conference homepage
  
• COV&R Conference 2012 at International Christian University, Tokyo/Japan, July 5-8
  Topic: Apocalypse Revisited: Japan, Hiroshima, and the Place of Mimesis
  Conference website
  
• COV&R Conference 2011 at island of Salina, Sicily/Italy, June 15 – 18
  Organized with the cooperation of the Centro Europeo di Studi su Mito e Simbolo and Università di Messina
  Topic: Disorder/Order in History and Politics
  Conference Homepage
• COV&R Conference 2010 at University of Notre Dame/USA, June 30 – July 4
  Topic: Transforming Violence: Cult, Culture, and Acculturation
  Conference homepage

• COV&R Conference 2009 at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, London/United Kingdom, July 8 –12
  In collaboration with St Mary’s University College and Heythrop College (University of London)
  Topic: FEARFUL SYMMETRIES: Religion, Co-existence and the Secular
  Conference website (Link: http://www.smuc.ac.uk/covr2009/)

• COV&R Conference 2008 at University of California, Riverside/USA, June 18 – 22
  "Catastrophe and Conversion: Political Thinking for the New Millennium"
  Conference Website

• COV&R Conference 2007 at Amsterdam Free University/NETHERLANDS, July 4 – 8
  "Vulnerability and Tolerance"
  Conference homepage
  Online papers

• COV&R Conference 2006 at Saint Paul University, Ottawa/CANADA, May 31 - June 4
  "Mimesis, Creativity, and Responsibility"
  Conference homepage
  Online papers

• COV&R Conference 2005 at Schoenstatt Center, Koblenz/GERMANY, July 6-9
  "Mimetic Theory and the Imitation of the Divine"
  Conference homepage
  Online papers

• COV&R Conference 2004 at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico, June 2-5
  Nature, Human Nature, and the Mimetic Theory
  Conference homepage
  Conference program with paper

• COV&R Conference 2003 at University of Innsbruck/AUSTRIA, Juni 18-21
  "Passions in Economy, Politics, and Media. In Discussion with Christian Theology"
  Conference homepage
  Conference program with online papers
  Conference publications

• COV&R Conference 2002 at Purdue University/USA, June 5-8
  "Judaism, Christianity, and the Ancient World: Mimesis, Sacrifice, and Scripture"
  Conference homepage with program, abstracts and papers (downloadable)

• COV&R Conference 2001 in ANTWERP, May 31 - June 2
  "The place of Girard's mimetic theory in the history of philosophy"
  Conference homepage with program, abstracts and papers (downloadable)
  Conference pictures

• COV&R Conference 2000 in BOSTON, May 31 - June 3
  "Violence and Institution in Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam:
  A René Girard - Bernard J.F. Lonergan »Conversation«"
  Program
  Conference schedule (pdf-format)

• COV&R Conference 1999 in ATLANTA, JUNE 3-5
  "Violence Reduction in Theory and Practice: From Primates to Nations"
  Conference homepage with program, abstracts and papers (downloadable)
  Report

• COV&R Conference 1998 in SAINT-DENIS/PARIS, May 27–30
  "Education, Mimesis, Violence and Reduction of Violence"
  Program
  Report

• COV&R Conference 1997 in GRAZ, June 24 -27
  "Film and Modernity:Violence, Sacrifice and Religion"
  Program
  Report

• COV&R Conference 1996 in STANFORD, June 27-29
  "Ethnic Conflict in International Perspective"
  Report

• COV&R Conference 1995 in CHICAGO, June 1-3:
  "Violence, Mimesis, and the Subject of Responsibility"
  Program
  Report

• COV&R Conference 1994 in WIESBADEN, June 8-11
  "Theology and/or Secular Thinking: Discussion on Political Philosophy, Economy, and Sociology"
  Program
  Report

• COV&R Conference 1993 at CHAPEL HILL, April 22-24
  "Literature and the Sacred"
  Program
  Abstracts

• COV&R Conference 1992 in STANFORD, May 7-9
  "Ethnocentrism and the Study of Violence"
  Program
  Abstracts

• COV&R Conference 1991 in STANFORD, May 16-18
  "Mythology, with particular reference to the hypothesis of René Girard"
  Abstracts