Association of Practical Theology Biennial Conference Schedule
April 13-15, 2018, Yale Divinity School
(Pre-Conference Workshop April 12-13)
Thursday, April 12
Pre-conference workshop: “Using Theater of the Oppressed Methods in Teaching Practical Theology”
6:30-9:00, Latourette
Friday, April 13th
Pre-conference workshop continues
8:30-3:30, N054
Onsite registration and Check-in
3:00-5:00 pm, Sarah Smith Gallery
Conference Opening and Welcome
4:30-5:00, Marquand Chapel
Plenary I “Practical Theology & Justice: A Musical Conversation”—Don and Emily Saliers
5:00-6:30, Marquand Chapel, Tom Beaudoin, moderator
Reception, Greenburg Conference Center Lobby
6:45-7:30pm
Banquet, Greenburg Conference Center
7:30-9:00
Bus back to hotels following banquet
Saturday, April 14th
Shuttle bus pickup at hotels: 7:30, 8:30, 9:00
Breakfast
Available 8:00-9:15, YDS Common Room
Graduate Student breakfast
8:00-9:10, Old Refectory
Onsite registration/check-in, 8: 30-9:30, Sarah Smith Gallery
Welcome & Plenary II, Dr. Charrise Barron “New Songs in the Same Strange Land: Congregational Music for Worship and Liberation in the Age of Hip Hop and Black Lives Matter”
Moderator: Almeda M. Wright
9:15-10:45, ISM Great Hall
Coffee break
10:45-11:15, YDS Common Room
Concurrent Paper/Performance Session I
11:15 am-1:00 pm
Session A1 RSV Room, Moderator: Sarah Farmer
- Hans Hallundbaek, Prison Partnership Program and Hudson River Presbytery;
Jackie Kunhardt, UN Representative and International Prison Chaplains Association
“Engaging our Incarcerated Neighbors through the Transformative Power of the Arts”
Session A2 Great Hall, Moderator: Lisa Thompson
- Amy McLaughlin-Sheasby (partnering with Zach, Alex, and Claire Carstens), Boston University, “Theopoetics from the Pulpit: Spoken Word as Prophetic Utterance”
- Marci Madary, Catholic Theological Union, “Poetry, Spirituality and Praxis”
- Almeda M. Wright, Yale Divinity School, “To Speak a True Word”
Session A3 Latourette, Moderator: Phillis Sheppard
- John P. Falcone, Iona College, “Body and Spirit Together: Theatre of the Oppressed, Pragmatist Semitics, and Practical Theological Method”
- Tamar Wasoian, Independent Scholar, “Storied Learning: The Art of Practicing Revolution”
Session A4 Niebuhr, Moderator: Bonnie Miller-McLemore
- Sebeesh Jacob, KU Leuven, Belgium
“Icons against Faceless Terror: An Indian Christian Artist’s Action for an Embodied Universal Culture”
- Michael Stoeber, Regis College, University of Toronto, “Visual Art as Practical Theology: Transformative Prayer, Liberation Theology and Practical Theodicy”
Lunch, YDS Common Room
Free time, Optional art gallery tours
1:00-3:30
Concurrent paper/performance session II
3:30-5:15
Session B1: Great Hall, Moderator: Evelyn Parker
- Karen E. Mosby, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
“‘I Speak to God in Public’: The Black Millennial Theology and Artivism of Chance the Rapper”
- Gina A. S. Robinson, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, “A Practical Theological Exploration of A Seat at the Table”
- Julian D. Reid, Candler School of Theology, Emory University; James Ramsey, Harvard Divinity School,“ Jazz as Re-imagination of Theological Enclosure”
Session B2 Latourette, Moderator: Dori Baker
- Christine Hurst, National Human Trafficking Hotline
“From Death Into Life: The Response of Practical Theology to Human Trafficking”
- Deborah Sokolove & Amy Gray, Center for the Arts and Religion at Wesley Theological Seminary, “For the Healing of the World”
Session B3 Niebuhr, Moderator: Kathleen Cahalan
- Stephanie C. Edwards, Boston University, “Who Belongs Here? ‘Mainer’ Murals and the Christian Imagination”
- Kimberly Vrudny, University of St. Thomas, “Painting After Auschwitz: Bak, Within, and Laurence in Conversation”
- Emmanuel Buteau, Georgia State University, “Constructing Justice Through Artistic Encounter in Haiti: A Practical Theological Interpretation of Tamara Baussan’s ‘La Marchande’”
Session B4 RSV Room, Moderator: Thomas Groome
- Vhumani Magezi, North-West University, South Africa, “From #your-statue-must-fall and #my-statue-should-be-erected to #both-our-statues-should-be-erected: decolonization discourse on statues in South African universities as a mirror of ‘space contestation and lack of integration’ – a quest for a reformatory practical theology”
- Hyunwoo Koo, Boston University, “‘The Little Girl’ in Manhattan: How This Statue Honoring Comfort Women Cries with Postcolonial Koreans in America”
- Eunil David Cho, Emory University, “Let Us Build New Statues: Practical Theological Reflection on Building/Removing Statues”
Break 5:15-5:40, YDS Common Room
Plenary III, 5:45-7:00, Marquand Chapel
Dr. Su’ad Abdul Khabeer “Performing the ‘Muslim:’ Method and Risk for the Public”
Katherine Turpin, Moderator
Transportation back to hotels
Dinner on your own, New Haven restaurants
Sunday, April 15th
Shuttle bus pickup at hotels: 8:00, 8:30, 9:00
Breakfast available 8:30-9:30, YDS Common Room
Morning Prayer Service, Marquand Chapel
Dax Crocker, Don Saliers, Amy Gray and Deborah Sokolove
9:00-9:20
Concurrent paper/performance session III, 9:30-10:45 am
Session C1, Great Hall, Moderator: Marc Lavallee
- Robert Choiniere and Scott Barrow, Fordham University,
“Full of Grace: Faith Journeys of LGBT Catholics Theatre as a Medium for Theological Reflection”
Session C2 Nieburh, Moderator: Arch Wong
- Edward Foley, Catholic Theological Union
“Performing a Just Spirituality: A liturgical case study”
- Jessica Joy V. Candelario, St. Thomas University
“Transforming Bodies and Bibliodrama: A Methodological Exploration”
Session C3 RSV Room, Moderator: Christiane Lang Hearlson
- Susanne Johnson, Perkins School of Theology
“The Arts and Liturgies of Resistance at the Border: The Case of El Faro Border Church in
Friendship Park, California”
- Aimee Moiso, Vanderbilt University
“Upcycling as Practical Theology: How Seeing Something New in Something Old Could Transform
Conflict”
Session C4 Latourette, Moderator: Mai-Anh Tran
- Prof. Nicola Slee, The Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theological Education, Birmingham, UK and the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
“Poetry as transformative pedagogic practice: a discussion with reference to some British practical
theology case studies”
- Jasmin Figueroa, Boston University School of Theology
“Reclaiming Authority: Art as the Spiritual Practice of Resistance in the Age of Trump”
Session C5 Pennington, Moderator: Tom Beaudoin
- Lindy Desciak, Fordham University
“Lip Sync Liturgy: Reimaging Sanctification”
- Alan Smith, Florida Southern College;
Ruth Illman, Abo Akademi University Docent, Donner Institute
“Sonic Spaces for Community Building across Religions: Experiences from the Interreligious Choir of
Frankfurt”
Coffee break
10:45-11:15, YDS Common Room
Plenary IV: Emmanuel Garibay, “Painting Justice: Decolonizing Material Art”—a Conversation with the Conference Artist-in-Residence & Dr. Kim Vrudny, Nicola Slee responding; Kathleen Cahalan moderating.
11:15-12:30 Marquand Chapel
APT Business Meeting and Conference Closure,
12:30-1:00 pm, Marquand Chapel
Box lunches available, YDS Common Room
Departures 1:00 onward
2018-2020 APT Executive Committee Meeting
1:00-2:15, Jonathan Edwards Dining Room.