TUESDAY, JUNE 1:

Pre-Conference: Arrival of Board members at Woodruff Residential Center, 1495 Clifton Road

WEDNESDAY,  JUNE 2: 

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Pre-Conference COV&R Advisory Board Meeting Cox Hall, upper level

4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Conference Registration and Check-in at Woodruff Residential Center, 1495 Clifton Road

THURSDAY, JUNE 3: 

**Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will take place in Cox Hall, upper level

6:30 a.m.

P.E. Center Opens

7:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast at Dobbs University Center (DUC)

8:00 a.m.

On-Site Registration ($60 or $20/day) and Book Exhibit opens  (Cox Hall, upper level)

9:00 a.m. 

9:15 a.m. 

Welcome & Introductory Remarks 

Thee Smith, Religion Department, Emory University

Morning 

Session 1:

     10:00a.m. lecture

     10:45a.m. discussion

The Origin of Language: Violence Deferred or Violence Repressed? 

Eric Gans, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)

11:00-11:15a.m.

Break

Session 2:

      11:15a.m. - lecture

      12:00p.m. - discussion

Primatology: Violence Reduction among Primates

Frans DeWaal, Director, Living Links Center, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Emory University

12:15-12:30 p.m.

Summary Discussion

12:30-1:45 p.m.

LUNCH at Dobbs University Center (DUC)

Early Afternoon

Session 3: 

     2:00 p.m. - lecture

     2:45 p.m. - discussion

The Rise of Modernity and the Fall of Violence among a Rainforest People of Papua, New Guinea

Bruce Knauft, Anthropology Department, Emory University

3:00 - 3:15 p.m.

Break

     Concurrent Lectures

    3:30 p.m. - presentations

    4:15 - 4:45 p.m. - assessments

4A. Ted Vehse, Humanities and Religious Studies, West Virginia University, Mambu in Morgantown: Collegiate Violence as Expressive of the Cargo Situation

4B. Steve Haynes, Department of Religion, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, Curing the Curse: Genesis 9 in Girardian Perspective (Geosciences Bldg, Room 105)

4C. Rosemary Johnsen, National Coalition of Independent Scholars,Seneca Falls Inheritance: Disentangling Legislation and Violence against Women in Monfredo's Fiction

4D. Peter Brecke and William Long, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, International War and Reconciliation 

        Concurrent Workshop/Practicum

     3:30 p.m. - presentation

     4:30 - 4:45 p.m. - assessment

4E. Jim Grote, Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, Business Ethics, Office Politics, and Mimetic Rivalries 

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Dinner at Dobbs University Center (DUC) or neighborhood restaurants

Evening 

      Plenary Address

      7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

NOW THAT THE TRC IS OVER....Looking Back, Reaching Forward, Charles Villa-Vicencio, Commissioner, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and University of Cape Town, South Africa

FRIDAY, JUNE 4:

**Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will take place in Cox Hall, upper level

         Morning 

6:30 a.m.

P. E. Center opens

7:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Breakfast at Dobbs University Center (DUC)

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Gathering Time/Announcements 

9:15 a.m. - lecture              10:00 a.m. - discussion

Session 5:  Richard Koenigsberg, Director, Library of Social Science, Elmhurst, NY, The Sacrificial Meaning of the Holocaust

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.

Break

      Concurrent Lectures

    10:30 a.m. - presentations

    11:30 a.m. - assessments

6A.   Sara Osborne, Albany Law School, The Role of an Ultimate Authority in Restorative Justice: A Girardian Analysis

6B.  Tom Flores, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, Correlation between a Girardian Hermeneutic of the Cross and a Perichoretic Negation of Sacred Violence

6C. Matthew Kratter, University of California, Berkeley, "The United States of Lyncherdom": American Modernism and the Persecution Text

       Concurrent                   Workshops/Practicums

   10:30 a.m.  - presentations

   11:30 a.m. - assessments

6D. Hugh Kirkegaard, Chaplaincy Correctional Services  of Canada (Toronto) and Wayne Northey, Christian Volunteers in Corrections, British Columbia, Canada,  The Sex Offender as Scapegoat

6E. Dawn Perlmutter, Art and Philosophy Department, Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Postmodern Iconoclasm: Violence in the School Yard

12:15-1:45 p.m.

LUNCH at DUC

Concurrent Workshops

     2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

7A.  Don Beck, National Values Center, Denton, TX, Spiral Dynamics: Mapping Psycho-Social Developments from Prehistory to the Future 

7B. Psychology of Mimetic Theory  Tom Pace, Psycotherapist, Seattle, Washington                    Rusty Palmer, Psychology, University of Washington,  Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Psychopathologist, Universite de Besancon

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

DINNER at DUC

Plenary Address

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Rene Girard, Hammond Professor of Literature (Emeritus) at Stanford University and Honarary Chair, Colloquium on Violence and Religion (COV&R)

SATURDAY, JUNE 5:

**Unless otherwise indicated, all sessions will take place in Cox Hall, upper level

6:30 a.m.

P. E. Center opens

7:30 a.m.

Breakfast at DUC

9:00 - 9:15 a.m.

Gathering time/Announcements

9:15 a.m. - lecture                    10:00 a.m. - discussion

Session 8.  Regina Schwartz, English Department, Northwestern University, Biblical Rhetoric/Biblical Violence: An Essay on Toleration & Charity 

10:15 - 10:45 a.m.

Break

    Concurrent Lectures

10:45 a.m. - presentations

11:45a.m. - 12:00p.m.- assessments

9A. Kenneth Burke and Rene Girard on Scapegoating

9B. Robert Hamerton-Kelly, Stanford University, The Fall of Creation as a Theological Category and a Biological Problem 

        Concurrent Workshops/Practicums

10:45 a.m. - presentations

11:45a.m. - 12:00p.m.- assessments

9C. Billy Hewett, Oxford University, Facing Violence: Girard's Framework for Popular Communication, Participation, and Action

12:15 - 1:45 p.m.

LUNCH at Dobbs University Center (DUC)

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

For COV&R members and friends: the annual Business Meeting at Gatehouse Cafe in Woodruff Residential Building

Afternoon 2:30 - 5:00 p.m.

UNSCHEDULED time for swimming or tennis, walking or resting; trips to Atlanta-- e.g., the King Center or Carter Center, Peachtree Street or Sweet Auburn, the historic black colleges, Margaret Mitchell House ("Gone With the Wind") or Stone Mountain, Underground Atlanta and/or the House of Coke. 

5:00 - 6:30 p.m.

DINNER at DUC

7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

COV&R Convivium I:  A "Liturgical Consummation" 

Led by Rebecca Adams in Winship Ballroom 

9:00 p.m.

COV&R Convivium II:

Desert Reception in Winship Ballroom

SUNDAY, JUNE 6: 

12:00 p.m. (Noon) Deadline for checkout at Woodruff Residential Center 

Optional: Attend Sunday worship ( 8 and 11 am) at historic Ebenezer Baptist Church (M. L. King family church)

Depart Atlanta