End-of-the-Year Symposium
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Mapping Death
The Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Research Seminar
End-of-the-Year
Symposium
Keynote Speaker
Jeffrey J. Kripal
The Traumatic Secret
Bataille and the Eros of Death
Saturday
April 23, 9 am-5pm
Fondren Library
Kyle Morrow Room
Master of Ceremonies
MICHAEL DOMERACKI, Rice University
Graduate Student in Religious Studies: Bible and Beyond
Order of Events
9 am-9:55 amWelcome and Opening Address
APRIL D. DECONICK, Rice University
Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies
Death Journey as Star Journey: The Ophian Crux Resolved
Q & A
10 am -10:55 amFRANKLIN TRAMMELL, Rice University
PhD Candidate in Religious Studies: Bible and Beyond
Death, Ascension, & (Re)building in the Shepherd of Hermas
Q & A
11 am-11:55amGRANT ADAMSON, Rice University
Graduate Student in Religious Studies: Bible and Beyond
Dressed for Death: What do Genesis and Plato have to do with the Vehicle of the Soul?
Q & A
12 pm- 1 pmLunch break
1 pm-1:55 pmKeynote Address
JEFFREY J. KRIPAL, Rice University
J. Newton Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought
The Traumatic Secret: Bataille and the Eros of Death
Q & A
2 pm-2:55 pmMATTHEW J. DILLON, Rice University
Graduate Student in Religious Studies: Gnosticism, Esotericism & Mysticism
Initiation by Imagination: Death and Rebirth in Carl Jung’s Red Book
Q & A
3 pm-3:55 pmADRIANA UMANA-HOSSMAN, Rice University
PhD Candidate in French Studies
Death and Afterlife: Nomadic Wanderings in French Caribbean Literature
Q & A
4 pm-4:55 pmREBECCA GIMBEL, Rice University
Graduate Studies in Anthropology
Memory, Fear, and Resistance: Death as a Life Force in Contemporary Haiti
Q & A
4:55 pm- 5pmAdjournment
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