The Call for Papers has been published and is now closed.
The program below is near final and no time changes are expected to be made. All times are in UTC.
The conference takes place in a hybrid form: all sessions can be followed via Zoom & on 9 and 10 December 2021 you can join the conference in person in Amsterdam where René van Woudenberg and Dolores Morris give their keynote lecture in person. The remaining program on 9 and 10 December can be followed online in a conference room with a Zoom link. Attendance is free, but attendees should adhere to Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam rules.
The location of the local hubs in the Netherlands are:
Wednesday 8 December 2021, 15:30 – 16:00 UTC. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, HG 11th Floor, Room A96. Book presentation Henk Geertsema (local time: 16:30-17:00 CET)
Thursday 9 December 2021, 12:00-13:00 UTC. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 7 1081 BT Amsterdam, Medical Faculty, Room: MF-D565. Keynote Address: René van Woudenberg. (local time: 13:00-14:00 CET)
Friday 10 December 2021, 12:00-13:00 UTC: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1077, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Initium, Room IN-3B50. Keynote Address: Dolores G. Morris. (local time: 13:00-14:00 CET)
See here contact details for the Vrije Universiteit: https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/practical-matters
Recordings: All plenary sessions will be recorded and be made available to participants and the All of Life Redeemed YouTube Channel.
Book of Abstracts Research Paper Sessions
Book of Abstracts AOLR Junior Scholars Workshop: (see email to registered participants)
(a description of different activities can be found under the program schedule)
| Programme (last updated 9 December 2021)
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| Day One (08 December 2021,Wednesday)
Auckland (UTC +13), Melbourne (UTC +10), Manila (UTC +7), Amsterdam (UTC +1), Brasilia (UTC –3), New York (UTC -5), Mexico City (UTC -6) |
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| Time (UTC) | Sessions |
| 12:00 – 12:20 UTC
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Opening Session
Welcome address: Romel Regalado Bagares (Phillipines)
Chair: Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken (Australia) |
| 12:20 – 13:20 UTC |
Invited Panel 1: Artificial Intelligence and its Applications Chair: Derek Schuurman (USA) Panelists: Mamello Thinyane (Macau), Henk Jochemsen (The Netherlands), Fernando Pasquini Santos (Brazil)
Invited Panel 2: International Relations and Religion Chair: Simon Polinder (The Netherlands) Panelists: John Harmen Valk (The Netherlands), Tiago Rossi Marques (Brazil), Samira Ibrahim (The Netherlands)
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| 13:20 – 13.30 UTC | Break |
| 13:30 – 14:00 UTC |
Keynote lecture: Current Challenges in Reformational Thought: A Historical Perspective
Professor Craig Bartholomew (Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology, Cambridge, UK)
Chair: Steve Bishop (UK) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 UTC | Response & Open Forum
Respondents:
Adolfo Garcia de la Sienra (Mexico)
Roel Kuiper (The Netherlands)
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| 14:30 – 15:30 UTC |
Local Initiatives around the Globe session Representatives of AoRL network discuss developments in the network Representatives of groups in The Netherlands (Jan van der Stoep), Australia/AOLR (Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken), Philippines (Romel Regalado Bagares), Mexico (Obed Vasquez Trujillo; translator: Adriana Lopez Monzalvo), Brasil (Guilherme de Carvalho), South Africa (Tinus van der Walt), Lithuania (Benjamin Groenewold), Richard Gunton (UK), Indonesia (Lay Hendra Wijaya) inform about local challenges, initiatives, and developments. Chair: Lay Hendra Wijaya (Indonesia) |
| 15:30 – 16:00 UTC |
Book Presentation Homo Respondens (Henk Geertsema) Local Hub: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Main Building, HG 11th Floor, Room A96. Chairs:
Govert Buijs (The Netherlands)
Perry Huesmann (Italy)
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END OF FIRST DAY SESSION
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| Day Two (09 December 2021, Thursday) | |
| Time | Sessions |
| 12:00 – 12:30 UTC
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Keynote Address: Philosophy in the Reformed tradition: where are we and what do we need?
Professor René van Woudenberg (Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, NL)
Chair: Gerrit Glas (The Netherlands)
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| 12:30 – 13.00 UTC | Response & Open Forum
Respondent:
Bas Hengstmengel (The Netherlands)
Alberto Escobar (Mexico) |
| 13:00 – 13:15 UTC | Break (prepare for break-outrooms) |
| 13:15 – 14:15 UTC |
Interest Groups (Part I) Participants will split up in Breakout Rooms for discussion about themes one is interested in. Each stream has one assigned chair who will steer the discussion. One purpose is to establish personal connections among conference participants and look for opportunities to work together on projects or papers, promote or discuss recent publications by reformational scholars.
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| 14:15 – 15:00 UTC |
Invited Panel 3: Discussion panel on current Teaching Reformational Philosophy for the Next Generation Chair: Maarten Verkerk (The Netherlands) Panelists: Lisa Lansang (South Korea), Bob Sweetman (Canada), Guilherme de Carvalho (Brazil), Michael Wagenman (UK)
Invited Panel 4: The Encyclopedia of the Science of Law: Legal Philosophy in the Reformational Tradition Chairs: David Caudill (USA) & Alan Cameron (New Zealand) Panelists: Romel Regalado Bagares (Philippines), Alan Cameron (New Zealand), David Caudill (USA)
Invited Panel 5: Bridging the Theology – Reformational Philosophy Gap Chair: Ron Kuipers (Canada) Panelists: Gayle Doornbos (Canada), Jamie Smith (USA), Jeremy Ive (UK), Nik Ansell (Canada)
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| 15:00 – 15:30 UTC |
Research Paper Presentations (schedule and abstracts here) Stream 1: Sustainability (1) (chair: Victor Morales) – Jan van der Stoep Stream 2: COVID-19 Pandemic (chair: Michael Wagenman) – Jan Hoogland Stream 3: Technology (1) (chair: Maaike Harmsen) – Maarten Verkerk Stream 4: Reformed Faith (chair: Joost Hengstmengel) – Joshua Mugg Stream 5: Economics (chair: Andrew Basden) – Adolfo García de la Sienra Stream 6: Social Ethics in Science (chair: Arjan de Visser) – Guilherme de Carvalho
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END OF SECOND DAY SESSION
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| Day Three (10 December 2021, Friday) | |
| Time | Sessions |
| 12:00 – 12:30 UTC
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Keynote Address: How to be a Christian scholar?
Dolores G. Morris (Department of Philosophy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA)
Chair: Rik Peels (The Netherlands)
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| 12:30 – 13:00 UTC | Response & Open Forum
Respondents:
Gray N. Sutanto (Indonesia)
Roy Clouser (USA) |
| 13:00-13:15 UTC | Break |
| 13:15 – 14:15 UTC |
Research Paper Presentations (schedule and abstracts here) Stream 7: Sustainability (2) (chair: Maarten Verkerk) – Victor Morales | Diana Salgado Stream 8: Systematic Philosophy (chair: Henk Reitsema) – Miklos Vassanyi | Tricia Van Dyk Stream 9: Theology, Philosophy and Economics (chair: Renée van Riessen) – Pedro Dulci | Joost Hengstmengel Stream 10: Technology (2) (chair: Fernando Pasquini Santos) – Hans Voordijk | Hendrik Santoso Sugiarto (full paper available here) Stream 11: Science and Medicine (chair: James Rusthoven) – Richard Gunton | Henk Jochemsen
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| 14:15 – 15:15 UTC |
Invited Panel 6: Vocation: work and faith Chair: Steven Garber (USA) Panelists: Alexey Gorbachev (Russia), Matthew Kaemingk (USA)
Invited Panel 7: Sustainability Chair: Henk Jochemsen (The Netherlands) Panelists: Andrew Basden (UK) and Yoseph Araya (UK), Victor Morales (Germany), Henk Jochemsen (The Netherlands)
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| 15:15 – 15.20 UTC | Break |
| 15:20 – 16:00 UTC | Book presentations
Chair: Jadi Lima (Indonesia) |
| 16:00-17:00 UTC |
Invited Panel 8: Presentation of Digital Initiatives for reformational philosophy
Chair: Wout Bisschop (The Netherlands) Panelists: Steve Bishop (UK) and Andrew Basden (UK)
Invited Panel 9: Natural Sciences and philosophy in the reformed tradition
Chair: Arnold Sikkema (Canada) Panelists: Tatas H.P. Brotosudarmo (Germany), Richard Gunton (UK), Arnold Sikkema (Canada) |
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END OF THIRD DAY SESSION
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| Day Four (11 December 2021, Saturday) | |
| Time | Sessions |
| 12:00 – 12:50 UTC |
Interest Groups (Part II) Participants will again be split up in Breakout Rooms for discussion about themes one is interested in. Each stream has one assigned chair who will steer the discussion. One purpose is to establish personal connections among conference participants and look for opportunities to work together on projects or papers, promote or discuss recent publications by reformational scholars.
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| 13:00 – 13:30 UTC |
All of Life Redeemed Junior Scholars Workshop
Opening Lecture by Roy Clouser & Response by Dolores Morris
Chair: Romel Regalado Bagares (Philippines) |
| 13:30-15:00 UTC |
All of Life Redeemed Junior Scholars Workshop Sessions (book of abstracts available to registered participants only) |
| 15:00 – 15:15 UTC | Break |
| 15:15 – 16:15 UTC |
Invited Panel 10: What to do next? Graduate education in reformational philosophy. What are the opportunities? Chair: Jan van der Stoep (The Netherlands) Panelists: Tricia Van Dyk (Lithuania), Adolfo Garcia de la Sienra (Mexico), Bob Sweetman (Canada)
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| 16:15 – 16:30 UTC | Closing Panel – The Future of Reformational Thinking in the Digital Age
Farewell address: Gerrit Glas (The Netherlands)
Chair: Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken (Australia) |
| 16:30 – 16:45 UTC |
Closing Ceremonies
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END OF CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
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Senior and junior scholars are welcome to attend each type of session in the program.