Divinanimality: Creaturely Theology  |  Eleventh Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium Drew Theological School Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia Series

Outline of Events:

All of the venues listed in this schedule are at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey 07940.

Several events from the colloquium will be simulcast on the web. View them below, or visit the colloquium's Ustream channel.

 

 

Thursday, September 29

11:15 AM: Special Chapel Service: “Communion with Creatures in Common.” Celebrant and Preacher: Heather Murray Elkins.
Sermon: “A Hard-Shell Faith.” Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

12:15 PM: Public lecture by Kate Rigby: "Creation, Incarnation, and the Fellowship of Creatures." 205 Seminary Hall

5:30 PM: Dinner for invited presenters, respondents, and discussants. Wendel Room, Mead Hall

7:00 PM: Public lecture by Jay McDaniel: "Does a Dog Have the Buddha-Nature? A Buddhist Christian Approach to Animality." Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

8:30 PM: Reception for those attending public lecture. Seminary Hall Atrium


Friday, September 30

9:30 AM: Public lecture by Laura Hobgood-Oster: "Does a Dog, or Any Animal, Belong in Church?" Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Workshops immediately following lecture:

Laura Hobgood-Oster
"The Animal Question: What Can Congregations Do?" Seminary Hall, Room 205

Rev. Fletcher Harper, GreenFaith
"Animals, Food and Congregations--Making Connections." Wendel Room, Mead Hall

Concurrent Friday Morning Program

8:00 AM: Breakfast for registered attendees of student colloquium. Mead Hall Foyer

Morning and Afternoon of Friday, September 30:
Student Colloquium

All student presentations will take place in Founders Room, Mead Hall

9:00 AM: Welcome

9:15 AM: Panel One

Erika Murphy, "Devouring the Human: Digestion of a Corporeal Soteriology"Abstract>

Eric Daryl Meyer, "The Logos of God and the End of Man: Animality as Light and Life" Abstract>

Terra Rowe, "The Animality of God" Abstract>

10:45AM: Break

11:00 AM: Panel Two

Beatrice Marovich, "Little Bird in my Praying Hands: Rilke and the Autoimmunity of God’s Animal Body" Abstract>

An Yountae, "Entering into the Serpent: Mestizaje, Animal Abyss, and Decolonial Freedom" Abstract>

Jake Erickson,"The Apophatic Animal: Towards a Negative Zootheological Imago Dei" Abstract>

12:30 PM: Lunch

2:00 PM: Panel Three

Brianne Donaldson,"Animal Bodies and the Unruly Soul: Rethinking Animal Liberation with Butler and Jain Karma" Abstract>

Matt Riley, "Fuel-Efficient Creatures: Ecotheology and Lynn White’s Animal-Machines" Abstract>

Stephanie Day Powell and Amy Beth Jones,"You are the Man! The Traumatic Survival of the Human from the Animal in the Hebrew Bible" Abstract>

3:30 PM: Break

3:45 PM: Panel Four

Christy Cobb,"Leonine Animality and Ambiguity in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles"Abstract>

Peter Anthony Mena, "Late Ancient Mestizaje: An Anzalduan Reading of Longus and Jerome" Abstract>

4:45 PM: Wrap-Up

5:30 PM: Dinner for all TTC attendees. Mead Hall Foyer


Saturday, October 1

8:00 AM: Breakfast for colloquium attendees. Seminary Hall Atrium

9:00 AM: Introductory Session, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

9:30 AM: Panel One, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Chris Boesel

Ken Stone, "The Dogs of Exodus and the Question of the Animal" Abstract>
Response by Danna Nolan Fewell

10:40 AM: Break. Coffee service in Craig Chapel Foyer

10:50 AM: Panel Two, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Chris Boesel

Kate Rigby, "Animal Calls" Abstract>
Response by Laurel Kearns

12:00 PM: Lunch, Seminary Hall Atrium

1:30 PM: Panel Three, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Laurel Kearns

Stephen D. Moore, "Ecotheriology" Abstract>
Response by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

2:40 PM: Break. Coffee service in Craig Chapel Foyer

2:50 PM: Panel Four, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Laurel Kearns

Glen A. Mazis, "Animals, Before Me, With Whom I Live, By Whom I am Addressed, Writing after Derrida" Abstract>
Response by Edward Baring

4:00 PM: Break. Coffee service in Craig Chapel Foyer

4:20 PM: Panel Five, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Catherine Keller

Denise K. Buell, "The Microbes and Pneuma that Therefore I Am" Abstract>
Response by Mayra Rivera

5:30 PM: Reception for registered guests. Mead Hall Foyer

6:30 PM: Dinner for invited presenters, respondents, and discussants. Founders Room, Mead Hall


Sunday, October 2

8:30 AM: Breakfast for colloquium attendees. Seminary Hall Atrium

9:30 AM: Panel Six, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Stephen Moore

Jennifer L. Koosed and Robert Paul Seesengood, "Daniel's Animal Apocalypse," Abstract>
Response by Althea Spencer-Miller

10:40 AM: Break. Coffee service in Craig Chapel Foyer

10:50 AM: Panel Seven, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Catherine Keller

Laura Hobgood-Oster, "With Dogs and Lions as Witnesses: Animals and the Word in Christianity" Abstract>
Response by Virginia Burrus

12:00 PM: Lunch, Seminary Hall Atrium

1:30 PM: Panel Eight, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Stephen Moore

Jay McDaniel and Aaron Simmons, "Listening to Animals: Continental and Process Thought in Conversation," Abstract>
Response by Catherine Keller

2:40 PM: Break. Coffee service in Craig Chapel Foyer

3:00 PM: Wrap-up Session, Craig Chapel, Seminary Hall

Moderated by Laurel Kearns

 

 

 




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