Previous GASC Conferences

2023: “Improbable Futures of the Sacred.” Zephyr Institute, Palo Alto, California, USA. Chief Organisers: Professor Andrew Bartlett, Zack Baker. CFP, Program, Abstracts, Photos 1, Photos 2.

2022: “Victimhood, Desire, Polarization.” University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Chief Organiser: Professor Ian Dennis. CFP, Program, Abstracts.

2021: “Generative Anthropology, Religions, and Sciences.” Online from Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Chief Organiser: Professor Roman Katsman. Website. Video.

2019: “Returning to the Linguistic Turn.” New York Seminar & Conference Center. New York City, USA. Chief Organisers: Professor Adam Katz, Professor Ian Dennis. CFP. Program. Photos.

2018: “Generative Anthropology and Transdisciplinary Inquiry: Religion, Science, Language, Culture.” Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw, Poland. Chief Organiser: Professor Magdalena Złocka-Dąbrowska. Website. Photos.

2017:   “Pre-Human, Human, Post-Human: GA and Mimetic Theory in Conversation with Cognitive Studies.”  Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Marina Ludwigs. CFP. Photos.

2016:  “Cultural Universals, Cultural Specifics and Globalization: On the Applicability of Generative Anthropology.”  Kiinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Matthew Taylor. Website. Photos.

2015:  “Models and the Human, Analog and Digital.”  High Point University, North Carolina, USA.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Matthew Schneider. CFP. Program. Photos.

2014:  “Deferral, Discipline, Knowledge.”  University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Richard van Oort. CFP. Program. Website. Photos.

2013:  “Putting the Human Back into the Humanities.”  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.  Chief Organisers: Stacey Meeker, Professor Ian Dennis. CFP. Program. Photos.

2012:  “Apocalypse, Utopia and Cultural Change.”  International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Andrew Bartlett. CFP. Program.

2011:  “An Anthropology of Exchange: The Market Model of Human Society.”  High Point University, North Carolina, USA.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Matthew Schneider. CFP. Program.

2010:  “The Anthropology of Modernity: The Sacred, Science and Aesthetics.”  Westminister College, Salt Lake City and Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.  Chief Organisers:  Professor Peter Goldman and Professor Robert Hudson. Poster. CFP. Program. Photos.

2009:  “The Question of Transcendence:  The Sacred, the Human and Modern Culture.”  University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Ian Dennis. CFP. Program. Photos.

2008:  “Esthetic History and Knowledge of the Human.”  Chapman University, Orange, California, USA.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Matthew Schneider. CFP. Program.

2007:  “Generative Anthropology Thinking Event.”  University of British Columbia and Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Andrew Bartlett. CFP. Program.

1990:  “Generative Anthropology: Origin and Representation.”  University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.  Chief Organiser:  Professor Eric Gans. Poster. Photo.

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