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Friday, March 1, 2024

4:00 p.m. 

Check-in available for Erdman Center guests (Erdman Center Lobby) 

5:00 p.m.

Koinonia Forum Registration Opens (Wright Library Lobby) 

6:30 – 8:00 p.m.

Keynote Presentation by Dr. Yii-Jan Lin & Response by Dr. Keri Day (Theron Room, Wright Library)

8:00 p.m.

Wine Reception (Wright Library Lobby)

*Sponsored by the Office of President Jonathan L. Walton, Princeton Theological Seminary

Saturday, March 2, 2024 

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast available for all registered participants (Erdman Center Lobby) 

8:30 – 10:00 a.m.

Panel 1: Identity and Doctrinal Explorations (Theron Room, Wright Library)
Moderator: Emily Pruszinski, Princeton Theological Seminary  

• • Ed Watson, Yale University
    “Ideas Incarnate: Deleuze, Carter, and Transcendental Differentiation”
  • Katarina von Kühn, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “Image(s) of God: The Imago Dei Each According to its Kind”
  • Michael Yorke, Yale University
    “Captive Body Sanctified: A Spilerian Intervention”

Panel 2: Identity (Re)/Formation [Part I] (Room 1010, Wright Library)
Moderator: Elizabeth Steel, Princeton Theological Seminary  

• • Brian Ballard, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “‘Sin Reaps Its Reward’: How Christianity Today’s Coverage of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Shaped the Faith Identities of Its Readers”
  •  Wendy Cranston, University of Toronto
    “Communal and Individual Religion: Deconstructing Religious Binaries Considering Marianne Moyaert’s ‘New Program for Interfaith Learning’”
  • Alex Vishio, Southern Methodist University
    “The Constitutive Norm of Christian Identity and the Church’s Proper Service in a Culturally Diversified World: A Theological Proposal” 

10:00 – 10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15 – 11:45 a.m.

Panel 3: Identity and Decolonial/Postcolonial Christianities (Theron Room, Wright Library)
Moderator: Binu Varghese, Princeton Theological Seminary  

• • Yanan Melo, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “The Poetry Outside? A Decolonial, or, Antiracial Poetics of ‘Asian American’”
  • Nathan Samayo, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “si Yu’as? saina? i aniti? Ma’åse'”
  • Ariel Siagan, University of Toronto
    “Christian Decolonial Violence”
  • Hye Lim Yoon, University of Toronto
    “A Need for a Renewed Asian North American Homiletic: Deconstructing and Reconstructing from a Postcolonial Perspective”

Panel 4: Identity (Re)/Formation [Part II] (Room 1010, Wright Library)
Moderator: Yudai Chiba, Princeton Theological Seminary  

• • Emma CW Ceruti, University of Toronto
    “The Power of Naming: Reclaiming Identity-First Language in Disability Theology” 
  • Ben Menghini, University of Toronto
    “Receptive Generosity and the Co-Constitution of Agency”
  • Steven Rizzo, Harvard University
    “Between Alienation and Solidarity: Kenosis, Marxism, and Liberation Theology” 

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch/Break (Brick Cafe, Wright Library)

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.

Panel 5: Evangelicalism, Nationalism, and Identity (Theron Room, Wright Library)
Moderator: Casey Smith, Princeton Theological Seminary  

• • Shelly Penton, University of Virginia
    [Title TBD] 
  • Jalen Baker, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “‘Steal Away to Jesus’: The Cultural and Theological Production of Black Evangelicalism in America”
  • David Morrison, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “American Christian Nationalism: When Identity Tempts Idolatry” 
  • Stephen DiTrolio, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “In the Gaze of the Other: Dayuma and the Waorani People in the Cold War American Evangelical Milieu” 

2:30 – 2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45 – 4:15 p.m.

Panel 6: Queer(ing) Identity and Theologies (Theron Room, Wright Library)
Moderator: Patrick Haley, Princeton theological Seminary  

• • Robbie Bendelius and Shannon Katz-Dean, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “Romerbrief Under the Sheets: KRISIS Dialectic in Bondage and BDSM Theology” 
  • Ben Immanuel, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “Queer Explorations of the Three Persons of the Trinity: (Un)Learning Identity and
    Community” 
  • Angel Nalubega, Princeton Theological Seminary
    “Pauli Murray, Trans Embodiment, and the Church” 

  • Timothy Perron, Fordham University
    “Mixed Identities: Strands of Queer and Feminist Theology in the Anthropology of Pope John Paul II” 

4:15 – 4:30 p.m.

Closing Remarks and Announcements (Theron Room, Wright Library)
Koinonia Forum Coordination Team
    Reese Grosfeld
    Wing Yin Li
    Marah Sarji
    Jess Winderweedle

4:30 p.m.

Adjournment