Raoul Eshelman, a frequent contributor to Anthropoetics, has just published Performatism, or the End of Postmodernism (Aurora, Colo.: Davies Group). It is now available on Amazon.com for $27.
Click here for the call for papers.
Introduction: Adam Katz, The Consequences
of the Originary Hypothesis.
1: Eric Gans, Originary Thinking in the New
Millennium.
2: Raoul Eshelman, Originary Aesthetics and
the End of Postmodernism.
3: Christopher Morrissey, Immaterial
Intellect and the Originary Scene.
4: Adam Katz, The Question of Originary
Method: The Generative Thought Experiment.
5: Eric Gans, The Anthropology of Bronx
Romanticism.
6: Richard van Oort, Hamlet's Theater
of Resentment.
7: Peter Goldman, Shakespeare's
Iconoclasm: Public vs. Private Scenes in Measure for Measure.
8: Thomas Bertonneau, From Epicurus to
Marx: The Horizon of Materialist Anthropology in light of the
Minimal Scene.
9: Matthew Schneider, Romanticism and the
Evolution of Popular Culture.
10: Chris Fleming and
John O'Carroll, What is the Human? Generative Anthropology and
the Humanities.
11: Andrew Bartlett, Accusations of "Playing God" and the Anthropological Idea of God.
Eric Gans's latest book, The Scenic Imagination: Originary Thinking from Hobbes to the Present Day, is available at Stanford University Press.
Generative Anthropology Thinking Event, Vancouver, BC, July 26-29, 2007
Web site : http://www.kwantlen.ca/research/generative_anthropology.html
The Generative Anthropology Thinking Event was an unequivocal and resounding success. Our circle of presenters and participants numbered about fifteen. The audience roughly doubled in size for the public lectures presented by Eugene Webb on Friday and Eric Gans on Saturday. The quality of the papers presented was very satisfying. Those who attended will testify to the benefits of both the intellectual and social exchanges that carried us from the lively Thursday afternoon open house to the Sunday morning goodbye brunch.
We luxuriated in beautiful meeting rooms on the fifth floor of the Iona building at the Vancouver School of Theology, overlooking English Bay and the Coast mountains of lower mainland British Columbia. The food, the coffee, the conversation, the questions, the challenges, even the weather--all were good all three days of the conference. A post-conference website will soon be launched, housed at the Office of Research and Scholarship at Kwantlen University College. On top of that, a special issue of Anthropoetics is forthcoming soon, featuring six papers built upon work originally presented at the conference. Perhaps most importantly, we can look forward to another GA conference scheduled (as things now stand) for late June 2008 (mark your calendars!) and organized by Matthew Schneider of Chapman University, Orange, California.
As Chief Organizer, I wish to thank Eric Gans and Eugene Webb, the featured speakers at the conference, whose good will provided the original inspiration to go ahead with the venture. I thank Christopher Morrissey, my always encouraging and loyal assistant-consultant in a significant portion of the planning and setup of the conference. And for their institutional endorsements and support, I thank the Office of the Dean of Humanities, the Office of the Vice President and Provost, Academic, and the Office of Research and Scholarship at Kwantlen University College.
Ian Dennis (University of Ottawa) "Byronic Irony in
Don Juan"
Eric Gans (UCLA) "GA: A New Way of Thinking?"
Peter Goldman (Westminster College) "James Joyce and the Problem of
the Artist"
Chris Jones (Simon Fraser University) "GA and Original Sin"
Adam Katz (Quinnipiac College) "The Esthetic, the Sacred, and
Originary Modernity"
Amir Khan (B.A., University of British Columbia) "GA and Stanley
Cavell"
Peter Koper (Central Michigan University) In absentia "GA and Classical
Rhetoric"
Christopher Morrissey (Simon Fraser University) "GA and Heidegger's
Event (Vom Ereignis)"
Greg Nixon (University of Northern British Columbia) "GA and Mircea
Eliade"
Matthew Schneider (Chapman University) "GA and Kierkegaard"
Richard Van Oort (University of Victoria) "Imitation and Human
Ontogeny"
Richard Watson (Chapman University) "GA and the Politics of
Speciation"
Eugene Webb (University of Washington) "Stepping Back: Religious
Faith and the Differentiation of Consciousness"
GA in Croatia
Anthropoetics is pleased to
announce HUGA (Hrvatska Udruga za Generativnu Antropologiju),
the Croatian Association for Generative Anthropology). HUGA was founded on July
30, 2006 in Zagreb, Croatia. Its mission is to explore and develop GA and
mimetic theory. HUGA's board members include Antun Pavešković
(president), Tatjana Pavešković
(vice-president), Silva Mežnarić, and Joško Božanić.
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