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ALBERG, Jeremiah L.
Professor

Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University

■ Academic Background

1.	1993/07/23 Degree Acquisition	University of Munich, Ph.D.
2.	1988/10～1993/07	Philosophy, Graduate School, Division of Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximillian-Universität München, Completed
3.	1986/04～1988/03	Theology, Graduate School, Division of Theology, Sophia University, Completed
4.	1980/08～1982/01	Philosophy, Graduate School, Division of Arts and Letters, Saint Louis University, Completed

■ Professional Background

1.		Professor, Master's Course, Comparative Culture Program, Graduate School, School of Arts and Sciences
2.		Peace Studies Major Coordinator, ID Majors, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts
3.		Professor, Division of Arts and Sciences, College of Liberal Arts
4.	2014/04～2016/03	Major Coordinator, Peace Studies Major, College of Liberal Arts
5.	2012/04～2015/03	Director, The Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture, International Christian University
6.	2011/04～2013/03	Associate Dean (in charge of Student Learning), College of Liberal Arts,　International Christian University
7.	2009/09～2012/03	Chair,　Dept. of Philosophy and Religion,　International Christian University
8.	2009/04～	Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, International Christian University
9.	2004/08～2009/03	University of West Georgia
10.	2003/09～2004/05	Gonzaga University
11.	2001/09～2003/06	Santa Clara University
12.	1996/04～2001/05	Sophia University
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■ Present Specialized Fields

Religious studies, History of thought, Philosophy/Ethics (Key Word：Rene Girard,Jean-Jacques Rousseau,Immanuel Kant,hermeneutics,violence and religion,Hegel,mimetic theory,German Idealism)

■ Profile

President of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion (COV&R) (2015-
Executive Secretary of the COV&R (2012-2015)
International Relations Committee of Japan Philosophical Association (2012-2015)
International Journal of Philosophical Association of Japan Working Group

■ Books and Articles

1.	Book	Habitus Fidei – Die Überwindung der Eigenen Gottlosigkeit: Festschrift für Richard Schenk, OP zum 65. Geburtstag (Collaboration) 2016
2.	Other	Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses: Reading Scandalous Texts (Single) 2013/01
3.	Other	"The Scandal of Jean-Jacques Rousseau" in Taboo - Trend - Transgression Volume 1: Scandal and Culture (Collaboration) 2013/03
4.	Other	Grace Can Be Violent: Flannery O'Connor's Novelistic Truth (Collaboration) 2012/01
5.	Other	Preventing Fanaticism through Transcendental Violence: The Second Half of the ‘Profession of Faith (Collaboration) 2008/08
6.	Other	A Reinterpretation of Rousseau: A Religious System (Single) 2007
7.	Other	Happiness and Benevolence (Single) 2000/03
8.	Other	The Lost Unity: The Search for an Alternative to Original Sin in German Idealism (Single) 1997/05
9.	Book	Why Society Needs Both the Humanities and the Sciences in: Transcending Boundaries (Collaboration) 2016
10.	Article	“Metaphysics as Kant's Coquette: Rousseau's Influence on Dreams of a Spirit-Seer (Single)
11.	Article	Being on the Ground: Philosophy, Reading and Difficulty (Single) 2017/04
12.	Article	Metaphysics as Kant's Coquette: Rousseau's Influence on Dreams of a Spirit-Seer 2015/11
13.	Article	“Mimesis as Scandal: Rousseau and Derrida,” (Single) 2015
14.	Article	Mimesis as Scandal: Rousseau and Derrida (Single) 2015
15.	Article	“What Dreams May Come: Kant's Traume eines Geistersehers Elucidated by the Dreams of a Coquette,” (Single) 2015
16.	Article	What dreams may come: Kant's Traume eines Geistersehers Elucidated by the dreams of a coquette (Single) 2015
17.	Article	Scandals Must Come (Single) 2013/08
18.	Article	Prof. Takeshi Nagata: A Retrospective Appreciatio (Single) 2013/03
19.	Article	The Scandal of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Single) 2012/04
20.	Article	The Spiritual Life in the Twenty-first Century: Solidarity with the Victims of Violence (Single) 2010/03
21.	Article	Religioeses Leben in der Gegenwart [Spiritual Life in the Present] (Single) 2005
22.	Article	The Overcoming of Violence in Christianity and Buddhism (Single) 2005
23.	Article	The Place of the Victim (Single) 2005
24.	Article	The Scandal of Origins in Rousseau (Single) 2004
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■ Academic Conference Presentation

1.	2016/07/15	If Anyone Comes to Me and Does Not Hate His Father … He Cannot Be My Disciple: Kieslowski’s Decalogue I and X (Violence in the Name of Religion. Colloquium on Violence and Religion Conference)
2.	2016/07/10	René Girard and Theological Scandal (Canberra Scholars' Group, Charles Sturt University)
3.	2016/06/17	“Kant’s Antinomies from a Mimetic Perspective” (Generative Anthropology Society's Conference)
4.	2016/05/15	The University As Where We Learn to Read and Philosophy as the Discipline that Teaches Us (The Philosophical Association of Japan's 75th Annual Meeting)
5.	2015/09/25	Rousseau, Kant, and the State of Nature (Nature and Freedom)
6.	2015/09/03	The Antinomy of Pure Reason as Enemy-Twins (Kant on Politics and Religion)
7.	2015/07/10	Why Society Needs Both the Sciences and the Humanities (The One by Whom Scandal Has Come: Critically Engaging the Girardian Corpus)
8.	2015/03/22	Why Society Needs both the Sciences and the Humanities (The Presence and Future of Humanity in the Cosmos: Why Society Needs both the Sciences and the Humanities)
9.	2014/07/22	On the Beautification of Mimesis (Colloquium on Violence & Religion - 'Battling to the End': 1914-2014. The Escalation of Violence and Victimization: Rene Girard and Jean-Luc Marion)
10.	2014/05/09	Kant Encounters Rousseau: "Remarks" and Dreams. (1 hour). (Critical Theory and the Way: A Symposium on Kantian Paradigms and Prospects in East Asia)
11.	2013/08/05	Philosophy in Japan: Present and Future in conjunction with Philosophical Association of Japan (Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life)
12.	2013/08/04	Reading Kant: From Rousseau to Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason (Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life)
13.	2013/07/12	Jeremiah Alberg’s Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses: Reading Scandalous Texts (The Land Between Two Rivers: Space, Place, and Mimetic Theory)
14.	2013/07/11	“What Dreams May Come: The Dreams of Kant Elucidated by Girard.” (Land Between Two Rivers: Space, Place and Mimetic Theory)
15.	2012/05/13	The Scandal of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Jean-Jacques Rousseau Tricentennial - Rereading Rousseau)
16.	2011/11/07	The Scandal of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Religious System (Scandal in Culture: Taboo - Trend - Transgression)
17.	2011/06/15	Grace Can Be Violent: Flannnery O'Connor and The Violent Bear It Away (Disorder/Order in History and Politics)
18.	2011/04/13	Why Rousseau Cannot Laugh (René Girard and Other Religions)
19.	2011/01/15	Grace Can Be Violent: Flannery O'Connor's Novelistic Truth (Violence, Desire, and the Sacred)
20.	2011/01/15	Scandal in Flannery O'Connor
21.	2010/12/15	Violence and Grace: Flannery O'Connor
22.	2010/07/02	Blessed Is the One Who Takes No Scandal in Me (Transforming Violence: Cult, Culture, and Acculturation)
23.	2010/03/13	J.-J. Rousseau's 'Profession of Faith': The Expulsion of Testimony and Religious Violence (ICU哲学研究会第三回研究会)
24.	2008/07/28	Scandal as a Hermeneutic Tool ("Language and the Scientific Imagination Conference, being the 11th International Conference of International Society for the Study of European Ideas")
25.	2008/06/23	The Mediation of Language in Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away (Catastrophe and Conversion: Political Thinking for the New Millennium Conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion)
26.	2007/07/04	My Trip Through Hell or Forgiving Rousseau (Vulnerability and Tolerance Conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion)
27.	2006/10/04	The Supplement is a Sort of Scandal (“Following Derrida: Legacies” Conference)
28.	2006/05/31	"For the Letter Kills, but the Spirit Gives Life" (Colloquium on Violence and Religion)
29.	2005/06/09	"’Unperturbed, Like God Himself’" (The XIVth Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association)
30.	2005/06/02	The Scandal of the Good Samaritan Story: Solidarity with the Victim (The 51st Annual Convention of the College Theology Society)
31.	2005/03/30	The Scandal of Origins (Annual Meeting of the American Society　for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
32.	2004/09/20	Religioses Leben in der Gegenwart (The 10th Symposium of the Japanisch-Deutsches Zentrum)
33.	2004/06/21	Aesthetic Solutions to Philosophical Problems: Rousseau’s Theory of Musical Imitation (Music and Language Conference)
34.	2004/06/02	Rousseau’s State of Nature and the Scandal of Scripture (Colloquium on Violence and Religion)
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■ Lectures

1.	2016/07	From Dreams of a Spirit-Seer to the Critique of Pure Reason: Kant’s Changing Relations to Metaphysics
2.	2015/07	Über Robert Spaemanns Glück und Wohlwollen (Katholische Universität Eichstätt)
3.	2015/06	Rousseau on Alienation (Katholische Universität Eichstätt)
4.	2012/10	The Relevance of Religion to Modern Societies: Scandals Must Come

■ Academic Society Memberships

1.	1998～	Colloquium on Religion and Violence　Board of Directors 7/2008 - present
2.	2011/07～	Japan Philosophical Association
3.	2001～	American Philosophical Association
4.	2001～	Rousseau Association

■ Educational Achievements

● Practice example of education method
1.	2004～	Designed a learning-centered course in Critical Thinking （２００４-present）
2.		"Core Curriculum Design and Assessment Committee [A subcommittee for Steering Committee of the Core Curriculum Initiative], The University System of Georgia. (- present)"

■ Professional Achievements

● Other note that should be mentioned specially on duty
1.		My main research has been on Jean-Jacques Rousseau. I am now working on the thought of Kant. I also work on the thought of R. Girard and mimetic theory.

■ Websites

http://subsite.icu.ac.jp/people/alberg/Site/Welcome.html

■ E-Mail Addresses

■ Grants-in-aid for Scientific Research Researcher Number

80552182