| Saturday, October
28th |
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| A CONCERT OF MILLENNIAL MUSIC |
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| 7:30, School of Management, 595
Commonwealth Ave. |
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| Sunday, October
29th |
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Sargent College, 635 Commonwealth Ave.
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| 8:15 - 8:40 Registration/Coffee |
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| 8:40 - 9:00 Welcome: Richard
Landes |
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9:00 - 10:30
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| Irenic Genre: Integrative Apocalpyse as Aestetic in
the Western Tradition |
Dennis Costa, Boston University
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| Du Spectacle au Simulacre: Jean Baudrillard and the
'chiliastic serenity' of Guy Debord |
Andrew Hussey, The University of Wales
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| Soft Landings: "Generations," Tolkien & Preterism |
John J. Reilly, Independent Scholar |
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Medieval 1
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Chair: Al Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University,
Israel |
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Byzantium Millennialism and the State
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Pablo Ubierma, Dumbarton Oaks
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| The Jewish Antichrist in the Middle Ages: Revising McGinn's
Antichrist Thesis |
Andrew Gow, University of Alberta, Edmonton
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| A Millennial Movement Changes into a Religion: The Early
Development of Islam in Umayyad Syria |
David Cook, University of Chicago
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10:30 - 11:00 Break
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11:00 - 12:30
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Virtual Millennialism
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Chair: Richard Landes, Center for
Millennial Studies |
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Rapture of the Trans-Humans: Gaia on, in and by Wide-Area Networks
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Robert Howard, University of Oregon |
| Millennial Utopias in Cyberspace |
Brenda Brasher, Mount Union College |
| Y2K and the Aftermath |
Stephen O'Leary, University of Southern California
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Early Modern
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Chair: Virginia Reinburg,
Boston College
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| "The Bear of Deformity, the Arrow of Detraction": Rewriting
the Heavens in Bruno's The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast |
Geoffrey McVey, Syracuse University |
| Restorers of the Shattered World: The Apocalyptic Mercantilism
of Samuel Purchas and the Making of Bacon's Great Instauration |
Gerald Ward, Boston University |
| They Built Millennium: Jesuits and Guaranís 1610-1768 |
Thomas Beebee, Penn State University |
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| 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch |
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| 2:00 - 4:00 |
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| Right Wing |
Chair: Gene Gallagher, Connecticut College
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| "Do those looking into the abyss see light?": A Post-Apocalyptic
Vision for the Religiously Racist Right |
Simon Baalham, Oxford Brooks University |
| Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam - Moving towards the Mainstream? |
Martha Lee, University of Windsor |
| Rude Boys, Rebels, and Racists: An Examination of Skinhead Subculture |
Kevin Borgesin, Keene State College
Philip Lamy, Castleton State College
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| Extended Millennialism? |
Chair: John J. Reilly, Independent Scholar
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| Joachimites, Rappites and the Pursuit of Global Harmony |
Raymond Bulman , St. John's University |
| British Millenarianism and the Rediscovery of the Holy
Land |
Thomas Idinopulos, Miami University, Ohio |
| Looking Sideways at Edward Bellamy; a view of Utopia
from the year 2000 |
Laura Krutz, Simon Fraser
Julian West, University of Victoria
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| "Salut au Monde!" to *Mondo 2000*: American Bohemia
at Two Crossroads |
John Roche, Rochester Institute of Technology |
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4:00 - 4:30 Break
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| 4:30- 5:30 |
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| UFOs |
Chair: Dan Noel, Vermont College of
Norwich University |
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| Raelian Apocalypse: Preparing for the Aliens' Advent
while Placating the Public |
Susan Palmer, Dawson College |
| Ufology: A Religion for the Third Millennium |
Philip Lamy, Castleton State College |
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| Year 2000, Part 1 |
Chair: John Berthrong, Boston University |
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| Cape Town: The Third Parliament of the World's Religion
and the Ends of the World |
Hillel Schwartz, Millennium Institute/UC San Diego |
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Promoting the Virtues of the Universe: Falun Gong in China Today
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Christopher Rzonca, New York University |
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6:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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| STEWART BRAND |
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| FROM THE WHOLE EARTH CATALOG
TO THE THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW |
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Monday, October 30th
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| George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Avenue |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 Registration/Coffee |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 |
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| Pacifist Action |
Chair: Stewart Brand |
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| A.J. Muste, Christian Pacifism and the A-Bomb |
Leilah Danielson, University of Texas at Austin |
| Peace Activist Women in the United States in the 1980s:
Values, Vision and the Transformative Potential of Public Dialog |
Ginger Hanks Harwood, La Sierra University
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| Convergence, Eschatechnology, and Prophecies of Æonic
Transformation in the 21st Century |
James C. van Pelt, Yale Divinity School |
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| Pre/Post Millennialism |
Chair: Brenda Brasher, Mount Union College
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| Parallel Worlds: Premillennial Beliefs, Social Transformation and
the Seventh-day Adventist Church |
Kenneth Newport, Liverpool Hope University College |
| The Worldwide Church of God and Environmental Awareness: Postmillennial
Currents in a Premillennial Movement |
Scott Lupo, University of Nevada |
| Nuclear Doomsday: Global Apocalypse Averted |
Michael Christensen, Drew University |
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| 10:30- 11:00 Break |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 |
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| 19th Century American |
Chair: Ruth Doan, Hollins University |
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| Jonathan Edwards, Four-Part Parousia: History as Transformational
Process |
James Hewitson, University of Toronto |
| "We Make Millenniums": The Universal Peace Union and
the Politics of Perfection |
Thomas Curran, Saint Louis University |
| Past Nostalgia: The Ethics of the Dead |
Cathy Gutierrez, Sweet Briar College |
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| Millennial Music |
Chair: Steve Marini, Wellesley College |
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Dies Irae: Eschatological Judgments against the Enemies of God
in the Poetry and Hymnody of the Jewish and Christian Traditions
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Stephen Hummel, The Moscow State Institute of International Relations
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Chanting Down Babylon: Lyrics of Peace in Rastafarian Reggae Music
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Leslie James, DePauw University
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Music is Revolution: Protest Music, Cultural Heritage, and Left-Wing
Social Movements
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Deirdre Hughes, Southern Illinois University
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12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
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2:00 - 4:00
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Pop Culture
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Chair: Joe Boskin, Boston University
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Competing Fictions: The Uses of Christian Apocalyptic Imagery in
Contemporary Popular Fictional Works
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Tom Doyle, Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University
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Sitcom Soteriology: The Simpsons as Apocalyptic
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Mick Broderick, Murdoch University, Australia
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"I Don't Think the Sun Even Exists in this Place!": Questioning
Reality in Millennial Films of the 1990s
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Amanda Loos, Independen Scholar
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| Disappointment with Destiny: Millennial Anticipations and Misgivings,
1999-2000 |
Dan Noel, Vermont College of Norwich University
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English/American Protestant
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Chair: Rodney Petersen,
Boston Theological Institute |
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Anglican Millennialism and the Virginia Company, 1606-1626
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Beth Quitslund, Ohio University |
| Foxe and Milton: The Millennialist Border between Tradition
and Innovation |
Andrew Escobedo, Ohio University
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'The Promised Day of the Lord': American Millennialism in the Revolutionary
and Early National Era: 1765-1800
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John Smith, SUNY, Albany
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Uncertain Dawn: Millennialism and Revolutionary Ideology in the
Critical Period, 1783-1792
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Steve Marini, Wellesley College
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| 4:00 - 4:30 Break |
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| 4:30 - 5:30 |
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Medieval 2
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Chair: Andrew Gow, University of Alberta,
Edmonton |
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Intolerable Tolerances: Millennial Vision and Medieval Ecumenism
in a Persecuting Society
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Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, University of Victoria
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| Arnau de Vilanova and the Reign of Justice in Catalan
Sicily |
Clifford Backman, Boston University |
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Roosters
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Chair: Richard Landes, Boston University |
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| Déjà vu?: Remembering Millennium '73 |
Charles Cameron, The Arlington Institute
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| The Making of Transmillennialism |
Jay Gary, World Network of Religious Futurists
Tim King, Council on Transmillennialism
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6:00 - 8:00 Banquet
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8:00 - 9:30 Kali's Follies
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| play and workshop by Lou Montgomery, Pacifica Graduate Institute |
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Tuesday, October 31, 2000
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| George Sherman Union, 775 Commonwealth Ave. |
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| 8:30 - 9:00 Registration/Coffee |
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| Year 2000,
part 2 |
Chair: Stephen O'Leary, University of Southern California
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What Millenarians REALLY Think: the Results of a Survey of 3,000
London Pentecostalists
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Damian Thompson, London School of Economics
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| Fears for the Millennium - Finnish Expectations for
the year 2000 |
Maria Leppäkari, Åbo Akademi University,
Finland |
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The 1960s
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Chair: Bruce Schulman, Boston University
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Post Vatican II Catholicism: a Millennial Vision?
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Anthony Egan, Weston Jusiut School of Theology |
| In the Apostolic Tradition: Revolutionary Nonviolence,
Gender, and Catholic Resistance to the Vietnam War |
Marian Mollin, Virginia Tech |
| 1968: America's Second Great Awakening |
Leo Sandon, The Florida State University |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 Break |
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Medieval 3
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Chair: Thomas Glick, Boston University
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Roger Bacon and the Alchemy of a Christian Utopia
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Mark Abate, University of New Hampshire |
| Re-Inventing the Reign of the Saints: Proponents &
Critics of the Millennial Peace Movement in the Amienois |
David Van Meter, Boston University |
| The Peace of God and the Year 1000: the First Society-wide
Transformative Millennial Movement in Global History |
Richard Landes, Boston University
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Across the 20th Century
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Chair: Gary Donato,
Three Rivers Community College |
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From Millennial Dreams to a Tribal Political Party: the Case of
the Birsa Munda Movement in Northern India
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Barbara Verardo, London
School of Economics |
| Dedicated to Peace: The Foreign Policy of the Spanish
Republic, 1931-1936 |
Wayne Bowen, Ouachita Baptist University |
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The Run of the Multicolor Apocalyptic Horses and the Plea of the
White Robed Martyrs: Eschatologies of 20th Century Russia
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Alexei Khamin, Drew University
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| 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch |
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| 2:00 - 3:30 ARCHIVING
THE MILLENNIUM: A ROUND TABLE, led by Ted Daniels, Millennium Watch
Institute |
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