Reformational Philosophy

https://www.reformationalphilosophy.org/rpc2021-program/

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

 

Invited Panel Descriptions

 

Interest Group Descriptions

 

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)

 

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)

Time (UTC) Sessions
12:00 12:20 UTC

 

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)

 

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)

 

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)

 

 

END OF FIRST DAY SESSION

 

Day Two (09 December 2021, Thursday)
Time Sessions
12:00 12:30 UTC

 

 

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)

 

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.

 

  • Ethics (Corné Rademaker & Bart Cusveller)
  • Politics and International Relations (Trineke Palm)
  • Political Economics (Govert Buijs, Andrew Basden & Joost Hengstmengel
  • Sustainability (Andrew Basden & Jan van der Stoep)
  • Law (Alan Cameron & Romel Regalado Bagares)
  • Medicine and Anthropology (Henk Jochemsen & Gerrit Glas)
  • Technology (Wa-Chul Son & Fernando Pasquini Santos)
  • Systematic Philosophy (Roy Clouser)
  • Education (Jan Hoogland & Edith van der Boom)
  • Normative Practices (only on 11 December)
  • Arts and Aesthetics (Robert Covolo)
  • Natural Sciences (only on 11 December)
  • Global Christianity (Michael Wagenman)
  • Women in the Reformational Tradition (Elaine Storkey & Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken)
  • Sociology (Alan Storkey & D.F.M. Strauss)
  • Theology – Reformational Philosophy Gap (Jeremy Ive & Timoteo Gener)
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)

 

 

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

 

 

END OF SECOND DAY SESSION

 

Day Three (10 December 2021, Friday)
Time Sessions
12:00 12:30 UTC

 

 

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)

 

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

 

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)

 

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)

 

END OF THIRD DAY SESSION

 

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.

 

  • Ethics (Corné Rademaker & Bart Cusveller)
  • Politics and International Relations (Trineke Palm)
  • Political Economics (Govert Buijs, Andrew Basden & Joost Hengstmengel
  • Sustainability (Andrew Basden and Jan van der Stoep)
  • Law (Alan Cameron and Romel Regalado Bagares)
  • Medicine and Anthropology (Henk Jochemsen & Gerrit Glas)
  • Technology (Wa-Chul Son & Fernando Pasquini Santos)
  • Systematic Philosophy (Roy Clouser & D.F.M. Strauss)
  • Education (Edith van der Boom)
  • Normative Practices (Jan Hoogland)
  • Arts and Aesthetics (only on 9 December)
  • Natural Sciences (Tatas Brotosudarmo)
  • Global Christianity (Michael Wagenman)
  • Women in the Reformational Tradition (Elaine Storkey & Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken)
  • Sociology (Alan Storkey)
  • Theology – Reformational Philosophy Gap (Jeremy Ive and Timoteo Gener)

 

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)

 

 

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

 

 

END OF CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

 

 

 

Overview of types of sessions in the program:

 

Senior and junior scholars are welcome to attend each type of session in the program. 

 

  • Keynote Lecture: an invited expert in the field will give a 30 minute plenary lecture on the conference theme. Invited respondents will comment on the lecture, followed by a moderated discussion with the audience.

 

  • Invited Panel: a panel that is convened by an invited chair; chairs have relative freedom over how the panel runs, but typically a number of experts in the field will give brief (10 min) presentations, followed by a moderated discussion with the audience. Most invited panels run in parallel Zoom sessions.

 

  • Interest Group: a semi-informal discussion group around a theme, hosted by one or more experts in the field. There are no formal presentations, however, the host(s) will give a 5 minutes introduction and possibly some questions for discussion. The aim is to discuss current issues in the field, make connections, identify common interests, potential co-authors, collaborations and grant opportunities. Participants are encouraged to unmute and interact. Potential participants indicate on the registration form which Interest Groups they wish to join. Interest groups run on 9 and 11 December 2021.  All Interest groups run as parallel sessions in Zoom. Participants may jump in and out of Interest Groups while the sessions are in progress.

 

  • Research Paper Presentations: (Senior) scholars present their accepted abstracts in parallel sessions. Each author receives a 30 minute slot in the program. A chair will moderate the discussion.

 

  • All of Life Redeemed Junior Scholars Workshop: a dedicated workshop for junior scholars, starting with a plenary lecture by an invited expert in the field, followed by an invited response. After the plenary opening lecture, junior scholars break up in parallel streams and briefly present their accepted full paper, followed by a first responder/mentor and extensive discussion with the audience.  Due to the high volume of junior scholar submissions, we will run several parallel streams. Senior scholars are encouraged to attend the junior scholars workshop in order to provide intellectual guidance and constructive feedback.

 

  • Book Presentations: a number of invited authors will briefly (5 min) present their recent books on reformational philosophy themes.