Talks and Papers
Talks and Papers Presented by Robert Hamerton-Kelly:
The Girardian Difference. October 2009, read at the conference, "From Animal to Human: Darwin and Girard," sponsored by Christ's College and St John's College, Cambridge, as part of the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the founding of the university in 1209, the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin in 1809, and the 150th anniversary of the publication of '"The Origin of Species by Natural Selection" in 1859.
Reason and Violence in Girard's Mimetic Theory: The Anthropology of the Cross. May 2009. Christ in you, the Hope of Glory: Paul's Anthropology of the Cross. March 2009. Integrating the Human Sciences. Introduction to the Imitatio website. Faith in Reason and Reason in Faith; Philosophical Theological Transformations from the 18th to 20th Centuries. Delivered at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts, The University of Hong Kong, October 23-26, 2008 A Theory of Religion and Violence. Presented at the UCLA Department of History, January 2008 The Spiritual Diseases of Modernity;
Identity, the Individual, and the New Creation. Prepared for the Center for the Study of Politics and Spirituality at the University of Kent, April 2007 Politics and Apocalypse: An Introductory Essay. First chapter in the book Politics and Apocalypse, published in June 2007 by Michigan State University Press. The book contains the papers read at the "Politics and Apocalypse" conference held in July 2004 at Stanford University, and is the first in the series, "Mimetic Studies", a companion series to Contagion, the journal of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Violence and Religion. Prepared
for the working group on Violence, Religion and Terrorism of the Commission on
Social Policy of the Presbyterian Church, January 31, 2003 A Religious Anthropology of Violence: The
Theory of Rene Girard. Prepared for the Series, Violence: Responses,
Interpretations, Solutions, Explanations of the Obert C and Grace Tanner
Humanities Center at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, October 28, 2002
Human, All Too Human. An essay presented at the Becoming Human, The Evolutionary
Origins of Spiritual, Religious, and Moral Awareness Conference, Stanford
University, May 17-18, 2002
Assessing Democracy in the New South Africa.
World
Affairs Council, February 20, 2002
Lent 2001: Writing and the Spirit
Article
about Robert Hamerton-Kelly's retirement from Woodside Village Church in the Almanac