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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1999 |
| POLITICS, POWER AND MILLENNIALISM |
| Chair: Richard Landes, Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University |
| Apocalypse: Political Dimension |
| Ted Daniels, Millennium Watch Institute |
| Brazil's Canudos as a Millenarian Movement |
| Robert Levine, University of Miami |
| I'M OKAY, YOU'RE MILLENNIAL |
| Chair: Charles Strozier, Center on Violence and Human Survival, John Jay College |
| The Missing Perspective: Psychology and Millennial Studies |
| Glenn McGhee, Gulf Coast Community College |
| We Do Not Spit on Their Gabardine!: Millennialism as an Antidote to Antisemitism in America |
| Robert Whalen, Independent Scholar |
| The Retreat from Apocalypse |
| Damian Thompson, London School of Economics |
| LIGHTS, CAMERA, APOCALYPSE! |
| Chair: Joyce Antler, Brandeis University |
| Contemporary American Drama Discovers Apocalypse |
| Elinor Fuchs, Yale School of Drama |
| Apocalypse and the Savior of the World in the American Films of the 90s |
| Kerstin Stutterheim, Independent Scholar |
| Science Fiction as Scripture, Spirituality as Space Opera |
| Charles Cameron, The Arlington Institute |
| MAINSTREAMING |
| Chair: Brenda Brasher, Mount Union College |
| Borrowed Apocalypse: Revelation in Some New Religious Movements |
| Gene Gallapher, Connecticut College |
| Y2K in Religious and Mainstream Media: Techno-eschatology at the Millennium's End |
| Stephen O'Leary, University of Southern California |
| Millennium Secrets Exposed! The End of the World Seen through the Tabloids |
| Amelia Carr, Allegheny College |
| KEYNOTE ADDRESS |
| THE DARK SIDE OF THE MILLENNIUM: CONSPIRACIES, NATIVISM AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER |
| Michael Barkun, Syracuse University |
| MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1999 |
| RIGHT - RADIO - RASTA: ROOTED IN THE 1930s |
| Chair: Phillip Lucas, Stetson University |
| Millennialism and William Pelley |
| David Lobb, Syracuse University |
| The Wonderful World Tomorrow: Herbert W. Armstrong's Vision of Life after the Apocalypse |
| Scott Lupo, University of Nevada |
| Rastafarianism and the Third Millennium: Cultural Liberation and Judgement of the World |
| Leslie James, DePauw University |
| THE COLD WAR, THE BOMB AND POLITICAL MILLENNIALISM |
| Chair: Michael Barkun, Syracuse University |
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Massive Retaliation and the Spector of Salvation |
| Andrew Johnson, University of New Brunswick |
| Apocalyptic Faith and Fear in Eisenhower's Rhetoric |
| Ira Chernus, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| The Millennial Appeal of Ballistic Missile Defense |
| G. Himon Harak, ST. Mary Parish, Baltimore |
| MILLENNIAL VARIETIES OF THE 19TH CENTURY |
| Chair: Dean Grodzins, Harvard University |
| A Comparison of Millennial Rhetoric: Alexander Campbell's Christian Millennialism and Robert Owen's Secular Millennialism |
| Rick Cherok, Cincinnati Bible College and Seminary |
| Deliverance Deferred: Growth in Millennial Heaven |
| Cathy Gutierrez, Sweet Briar College |
| The Millerites and the American Mainstream: Bridegroom or Bablon? Dragon or Lamb? |
| Charles Teel, Jr., La Sierra University |
| Examination of a Team-taught Intensive Course on the Millennium |
| Jane Martin & Earl Kumfer, University of St. Francis |
| THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE |
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Chair: Al Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University |
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Native Millennialism: The Interpretive Liabilities of Etic Categorization |
| John Baumann, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Cross-Cultural Apocalypse in the Contact Generation of Native American and New England |
| Craig White, University of Houston |
| History sans Prenom |
| Jace Weaver, Yale University |
| THE MASS MEDIATED MILLENNIUM |
| Chair: Daniel C. Noel, Vermont College of Norwich University |
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The Apocalyptic Imagination Reborn: Atomic Bomb Cinema at the Dawn of the New Millennium |
| Jerome Shapiro, Hiroshima University |
| Surfing the Millennial Web of Dreams |
| Jayne Loader, Author/Filmmaker |
| Revelation Rhetoric: Millennial Narratives in Film and Television |
| Mick Broderick, Australian Film Commission |
| YO QUIERO UN MUNDO NUEVO |
| Chair: Claudio Veliz, Boston University |
| The Attributes of Millennialism |
| Frank Graziano, Connecticut College |
| Sightings of Joachim of Fiore in Latin America |
| Edwin Ressink, Federal University of Bahia |
| The Israelites of the New Covenant |
| Victor Balaban, Harvard Center for the Study of World Religion |
| MILLENNIAL APPARITIONS: HAUNTS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER |
| Chair: Lee Quinby, Rochester Institute of Technology |
| UFOs, Science and the Millennium: The Transformation of a Subculture |
| Philip Lamy, Castleton College |
| Ghosts and Angels at the American Millennium |
| James Berger, Hofstra University |
| Alien Doubts |
| Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| Panel Discussion: SCHOLARS BEYOND BOUNDARIES |
| Moderator: Joyce Antler, Brandeis University |
| Brenda Brasher, Mount Union College |
| Wendy Kaminer, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study |
| Richard Landes, Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University |
| TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1999 |
| FINDING ONESELF IN THE MILLENNIUM |
| Chair: Eveline Goodman-Thau, Independent Scholar |
| Markets, Millennialism, and the Emergence of African Identity in Eighteenth-Century Slave Narratives |
| James Sidbury, University of Texas |
| The Matrix and Klingon Militias: Looking Forward to a White Future after the End |
| Karen Anijar, Arizona State University |
| A Town Mother Prepares for the Millennium: Eliza Daniel Stewart and the Ohio Woman's Temperance Crusade, 1873-4 |
| Michelle Stecker, University of Toledo |
| LEFT BEHIND! |
| Chair: John Reilly, Independent Scholar |
| The New Left - Politics and Vision |
| Kenneth Keulman, Loyola University |
| Toward the Goddess of the Earth: Utopian Lesbian-Feminism in the 1970s and 1980s |
| Jennifer Snow, Columbia University |
| Healing for the Millennium: Master Dang and Spiritual Human Yoga |
| Jean-Francois Mayer, University of Fribourg, Switzerland |
| BRAVE NEW WORLD: THE 17th CENTURY |
| Chair: Rodney Petersen: Boston Theological Institute |
| The Apocalypse of John Cotton |
| John Yandell, Independent Scholar |
| The Revolutionary Roots of Anglo-American Millenarianism: Robert Mason's Israels Redemption and Christ's Personall Reign on Earth |
| Mark Bell, Balliol College, Oxford University |
| "Beata Apocalypsis": The Wonders of Cotton Mather |
| Lara Brindle, Univeristy of Alberta, Edmonton |
| G[od] I[inspired] JOE AND JANE |
| Chair: David Kessler, Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University |
| Jack Boots, Black Helicopters, and Secret Elites: Millennial Frames in Right Wing Conspiracism |
| Chip Berlet, Political Research Associates |
| Arming for the Last Battle: Secular and Religious Millennial Impulses within the Militia Movement |
| Robert Churchill, Rutgers University |
| From the Credo to the Grays: Mass-Mediating North America's Millennial Credulity |
| Daniel C. Noel, Vermont College of Norwich University |
| BY SLEIGHT OF HAND ON THE BUTTON |
| Chair: Thomas Glick, Boston University |
| Enginerring the Apocalyspe: An Introduction to the Relgion of Transhumanism |
| Ryan McMillen, University of Texas at Austin |
| The Big Bang and the Big Bomb: Examining the Role of Science and Technology in Apocalyptic Belief Systems |
| Christopher Helland, University of Toronto |
| Facing the Divide: Turn of the Century Stage Magicians' Presentations of Rationalism and the Occult |
| Fred Nadis, University of Texas |
| REVISIONS OF THE END |
| Chair: Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, University of Kansas |
| Filling the Devotional Landscape: Appartions and Apocalypticism in Late 20th-Century America |
| Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, University of Kansas |
| "The Plate in my Head is a Government Plot": Visions of the Eschaton in UFO Conspiracy Theory |
| Carol Matthews, University of Kansas |
| Negotiating Finality: ELectro-Folk Rhetorics of Apocalypse |
| Robert Glenn Howard, University of Oregon |
| Y2K+UFOs = 666?: The Transformation of American Apocalyptic Traditions at the Turn of the Millennium |
| Daniel Wojcik, University of Oregon |