Recent Papers and Presentations
by Christopher S. Morrissey

"Athens, Jerusalem, Rome: The Making of Europe",
The 2008 - 2009 ISI Honors Program, Civilization and Civilizations: The West in Context Summer Conference,
Hôtel Château Laurier, Québec City, June 27, 2008.

"Aquinas on Astrology",
Address to the Knights of Columbus, Redeemer Pacific College,
Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia, March 8, 2008.

"Physical or Metaphysical? The 'Teleological' Proof for the Existence of God in Aristotle",
American Maritain Association, University of Notre Dame, October 25-28, 2007.

"Generative Anthropology and Heidegger’s Event: Vom Ereignis",
Generative Anthropology Thinking Event 2007
First Annual Generative Anthropology Conference,
Vancouver School of Theology, University of British Columbia, July 27, 2007.

"The Metaphysics of Causality",
Institute for the Study of Nature 2007 Conference,
The Nature of Nature,
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, June 16, 2007.

"The Semiotics of Catharsis",
Through a Glass Darkly Conference on Christianity and Literature,
Trinity Western University, May 10, 2007.

"Karl Barth's Last Stand: A Refutation of Revelational Positivism's Revolt against Reason",
Analogy of Being Ecumenical Dialogue Forum, response to Dr. Archie Spencer,
Block Hall, Neufeld Science Centre, Trinity Western University, March 15, 2007.

"Leo Strauss, Socrates, and the Philosophy of Nature",
Nature, Science and Wisdom: The Role of the Philosophy of Nature
2006 conference of the American Maritain Association,
Aquinas College, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, November 4, 2006.

"Dialectic and Demonstration in the Philosophy of Nature",
Maritain and the Philosophy of Nature
2006 conference of the Canadian Jacques Maritain Association,
Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, October 20, 2006.

"The Semiotics of Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory and Eric Gans’ Generative Anthropology",
Semiotic Society of America 2006 conference at Purdue University, September 28, 2006.

"Galileo’s intelligent evolution",
Roundtable Forum: God, the Nature of Nature, and Science,
NATS 487 event with Tony Cummins, Myron Penner, Brian Gobbet, and Paul Brown,
Block Hall, Neufeld Science Centre, Trinity Western University, September 26, 2006.

"The Semiotics of Good Mimesis in Greek Tragedy and Shakespeare",
Colloquium on Violence and Religion 2006 conference on Mimesis, Creativity and Reconciliation,
Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, June 3, 2006.

"The Science Before Science: Remembering What Is",
North Shore Catholic Seminar Series, Christ the Redeemer Parish, April 28, 2006.

"Oresteia: the oikos writ large?"
Classical Association of the Canadian West conference on Irrationality in Antiquity,
Saskatoon, SK, February 11, 2006.

"Impacting Culture: Can I Change My World?"
Panel discussion with Peter Kreeft and Robert Stackpole and Hans Boersma
Trinity Western University, Langley, BC, January 8, 2006.

"The Immaterial Intellect on the Originary Scene",
[Prize Winner: Raymund Schwager Memorial Award]
Colloquium on Violence and Religion 2005 conference on Mimetic Theory and the Imitation of the Divine,
Koblenz-Schoenstatt, Germany, July 8, 2005.

"Defending the Greeks",
Vancouver Greek Day: Hellenic Cultural Week,
Hellenic Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC, June 20, 2005.

"Aristotle on Conspiracy Theories",
Classical Association of the Canadian West conference on Irrationality in Antiquity,
Laurel Point Inn, Victoria, BC, February 18, 2005.

"Aristotle’s Perfect Virtue: A Political Life?"
Western Canadian Philosophical Association, 41st Annual Meeting: Conference on Aristotle and Aristotelian Philosophy,
Laurel Point Inn, Victoria, BC, October 29-31, 2004.

"Aristotle and Girard on Science: Nature, Human Nature, and the Mimetic Theory",
Colloquium on Violence and Religion 2004 conference on Nature, ‘Human Nature’ and the Mimetic Theory,
Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico, June 3, 2004.

"The WMD Fama: A "Noble Lie"? The Bush Doctrine and the Plato Doctrine",
Conference on Fame: I’m going to live forever!,
Green College, University of British Columbia, May 6, 2004.

"Oresteia as Agônisma: Aristotle on Tragic Form as Competition Piece",
Classical Association of the Canadian West conference on Competition in the Ancient World:
Contesting, Controlling, Subverting, University of Manitoba, March 20, 2004.

"Shakespeare, Aristotle, and Ben Jonson in Mimetic Rivalry",
Colloquium on Violence and Religion 2003,
Passions in Economy, Politics, and the Media, University of Innsbruck, June 20, 2003.

"Aristotle on Textual and Material History: Mythical Structures of Reality",
Classical Association of the Canadian West conference on
Texts and Material Culture, University of Calgary, March 22, 2003.

"Human Difference and Religion: Girard, Derrida, and Postmodern Anthropology",
Institute for the Humanities: Modernity, Secularity, Faith: Where are we now?
Simon Fraser University, February 27, 2003.

"The Scythian Crux: Reading Scapegoats in Colossians 3:11",
Colloquium on Violence and Religion 2002,
Judaism, Christianity, and the Ancient World: Mimesis, Sacrifice, and Scripture, Purdue University, June 8, 2002.

"Girardian Interpretations of Nietzsche",
Department of Humanities, The Humanities Colloquium, Simon Fraser University, May 16, 2002.

"‘In Our Own Despite’: Robert Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon",
Classical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, University of British Columbia, May 12, 2002.

"The Girard Polemos", Retrospective Essay on the
Conference on Alternatives to Violence: Joanne Brown Symposium, October 25, 2001.

"Reading Mimesis Against Revenge: Girard and Mimetic Violence", Response to Stephen Levine,
Conference on Alternatives to Violence: Joanne Brown Symposium, Bowen Island, October 12, 2001.

"Deconstructing Demeter",
Conference on Sex and Violence in the Ancient World,
Green College, University of British Columbia, May 5, 2001.

"The Winter of Her Discontent: Persephone in the Underworld",
Classical Association of the Canadian West conference on
The Seasons: Greek and Roman Perspectives, Varscona Hotel, Edmonton, AB, March 3, 2001.

"Dignatio non debitum: St. Augustine and St. Faustina on Mercy and Sacrifice",
The second North American Symposium of the John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy,
St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Vancouver, BC, on February 3, 2001.

"Eschatology in the Xanthippic Dialogues", Conference on Millennia, Messiahs, and Mayhem,
Green College, University of British Columbia, May 6, 2000.

"Cultural Diversity in the Xanthippic Dialogues", Classical Association of the Canadian West /
Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest conference on Cultural Diversity in the
Ancient World, Laurel Point Inn, Victoria, BC, March 10, 2000.