Thursday, June 24th
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| 8:00 -- 9:00am | Registration and Continental Breakfast: Gore Building Foyer (west side) |
| 9:00 -- 10:00am | Opening Session: Welcome to the Conference and Introduction to Generative Anthropology Gore Building, room 228.
- Dr. Adam Katz (Quinnipiac University)
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| 10:00 -- 10:15am | Coffee break: Gore Building Foyer (west side) |
| 10:15 -- 11:15pm | Panel: Mashups and Moshpits: Modern and Postmodern Anthropology Gore Building, room 228.
- Richard Hannon (Palomar College) "From Punk Moshpits to Male-dominated Virtual Communities: Amending the Originary Hypothesis through Oedipus to Account for Culture as a Patriarchal Construct"
- Stacey Meeker (UCLA) "Memes, Mashups, and Modernity"
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| 11:15 -- 12:15pm | Panel: Authority and Reciprocity in Kafka Gore Building, room 228.
- Gus Paras (Westminster College) "Derrida's Dagger: The Weapon of Non-Response in Kafka's "The Castle"
- Eleanor Scholz (Westminster College) "Justifying the Aesthetic Center in Kafka's 'Josephine the Singer'"
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| 12:15 -- 2:00pm | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 -- 3:30pm | Panel: Configurations of the Sacred in Modernity Gore Building, room 228.
- A. Trevor Sutton (Concordia Theological Seminary) "Refining the Scapegoat: Isaac, Jesus of Nazareth, and Beyond"
- Michael Popich (Westminster College) "The Sacred, the Secular, and the Problem of the Holocaust"
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| 3:45 -- 5:30pm | Generative Anthropology Business meeting. Gore Building, room 131.
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| 5:30 -- 7:00pm | Dinner (on your own) |
| 7:00 -- 8:30pm | Plenary Lecture - Gore Building, Gore Auditorium.
- Dr. Vince Pecora (University of Utah) "Secularism, Secularization, and Why the Difference Matters"
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| Friday, June 25th | | 7:30 -- 8:00am | Continental Breakfast: Gore Building Foyer (west side) |
| 8:00 -- 9:30am | Panel: Renaissance Anthropology - Gore Building, room 228.
- Jordan Loveridge (Westminster College) Language and Misrepresentation in "Hamlet"
- Peter Goldman (Westminster College) "Paradise Lost as Anthropology"
- Richard Van Oort (University of Victoria, Canada) "Shakespearean Anthropology"
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| 9:30 -- 9:45am | Coffee Break: Gore Building Foyer (west side) |
| 9:45 -- 11:45am | Panel: Transcendental Phenomenology, Anthropology, and Modern Popular Culture - Gore Building, room 228.
- Alexander Izrailevsky (Salt Lake Community College) "Trauma as the Existential Modality of the Transcendental Subject: A Levinasian Reading of Kafka's 'The Judgment'"
- Michael Bell (Westminster College) "You've been lying in wait for me": The Distance of the Perceived Mediators in Kafka's "The Judgment"
- Amir Khan (University of Ottawa) "A Conversation between Friends: Fred Astaire and Michael Jackson"
- Edmond Wright (Cambridge University, UK) "The Use of 'Avatar' as Analogy"
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| 11:45 -- 1:30pm | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:30pm | Assemble at Westminster College behind Shaw Center for Bus to Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Bus leaves promptly at 1:45pm |
| 3:30 -- 5:00pm | Panel: Romantic Anthropology - BYU Tanner 110
- Robert Hudson (BYU) "Between sainte and fée: Nerval's sacred/profane dialectic in Les Chimères"
- Sara Phenix (University of Pennsylvania) "Balzac and Girard"
- Ian Dennis (University of Ottawa, Canada) "The Powers and Purposes of Romantic Joy"
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| 5:00 -- 6:00pm | Free time to explore the BYU campus.
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| 6:00 -- 7:15pm | Plenary Lecture - BYU JKB 2107- Dr. Eric Gans (UCLA) "Haven't We Always Been Modern?"
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| 7:30 -- 9:30pm | Banquet Dinner at Ruby River Restaurant in Provo |
| Saturday, June 26th | | 8:00 -- 8:30am | Continental Breakfast: Gore Building Foyer (west side) |
| 8:30 -- 10:00am | 19th Century Mimetic Configurations - Gore Building, room 228.
- Marina Ludwigs (Stockholm University, Sweden) "'A Democracy of Touch:' Red Trousers and Masochism in D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover"
- Matthew Potolsky (University of Utah) "Aestheticism and the Politics of Imitation: Walter Bagehot and Oscar Wilde"
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| 10:00 -- 10:30am | Coffee Break: Gore Building Foyer (west side)
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| 10:30 -- 12:00pm | Panel: Originary Theory - Gore Building, room 228.
- Adam Katz (Quinnipiac University) "Originary Mistakenness, Defilement and Modernity"
- Andrew Bartlett (Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada) "Originary Personhood"
- Matthew Schneider (High Point University) "A Paean to Power: Mechanical and Interpretive"
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| 12:00 -- 2:00pm | Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00 -- 3:30pm | Panel: Anthropology of the Sacred in 19th-century France - Gore Building, room 228.
- Scott Sprenger "Balzac and Anthropology of Revolutionary Violence" (BYU).
- Jean-Michel Heimonet "Tocqueville, Democracy, and the Sacred" (Catholic University of America)
- Douglas Collins "The Accounts Book of the Gods: Commerce and Religion in Benjamin Constant" (University of Washington)
- Discussant: Ralph Hancock (BYU)
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| 3:30 -- 6:00pm | Break to explore Salt Lake City. Tours of the downtown Temple Square will be available with bus transportation available. |
| 6:00 -- 7:00pm | Roundtable Discussion: Secularization and Modernity - Gore Building, room 228.
- Dr. Eric Gans (UCLA)
- Dr. Vincent Pecora (University of Utah)
- Moderator: Trevor Cribben Merrill
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| 7:00 -- 9:00pm | Banquet Dinner at Tanner Atrium, Jewett Center, Westminster College |
