PAST NATIONAL CONFERENCES

2007-2023

2023 Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI

Contemplating Integral Ecology for the Common Good

  • Kerry Andrew Emanuel, “Climate, Energy, Poverty and Population: Four Interwoven Challenges of Our Times”

  • Marie I. George, “Augustine and Aquinas on Integral Ecology”

  • Debra Rienstra, “Refugia Faith: A Way Forward”

2022 Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN

Implicit Racial Bias and the Academy

  • Eddie Glaude, Jr., Princeton University

  • Tabatha Jones Jolivet, Azusa Pacific University

  • Forrest E. Harris, Sr., American Baptist College and Vanderbilt University

2021 Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

Science, Faith, and the Common Good

  • Stephen Barr, University of Delaware

  • Thea James, Harvard University and Boston Medical Center

  • Nancey Murphy, Fuller Theological Seminary

2020 St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX (online)

Tranquillitas Ordinis: Education and the Common Good

  • Jeremy D. Wilkins, Boston College

  • Nathan Cornelius, Johns Hopkins University

  • Joel Scott Davis, Samford University

  • Daniel Gee, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music

2019 Baylor University, Waco, TX

The Character of the University

2018 Hope College, Holland, MI

Robust and Receptive Ecumenism

  • Lisa DeBoer, "The Accidental Ecumenist"

  • Steven Harmon, "Redemptive Ecumenism and the Construction of Christian Identity in Christian Higher Education"

  • Daniel Keating, "Robust and Receptive Ecumenism: Challenges and Opportunities"

2017 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

Discernment, Engagement, Reflection

  • Stephanie Paulsell, “A ‘whole made of shivering fragments’: Contemplation, Creativity, and Education”

  • Douglas Christie and Rubén Martínez, “Mystics, Migrants: Desert Practices in an Age of Exile"

2016 Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN

Semper Reformanda: Reformed and Always Reforming, Faith, Science, Art and Culture

  • Brad Gregory, “Why the Reformation Still Matters (Whether We Want It To or Not)”

  • Lea F. Schweitz, “Seeing the Infinite in the Finite and Reforming Our Visions of Nature”

  • Joanna Reiling Lindell, “Impressions of Change: Reformation Era Print Culture and Beyond”

2015 Belmont University, Nashville, TN

Created for Creativity: Music, Culture and Faith

2014 Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA

A Future City, A New Creation: Equal on All Sides

  • Monya Stubbs, “Indebted Love: Paul's Subjection Language in Romans”

  • Elijah Anderson, “The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life”

  • John Ware, performance of “Freedom Rides”

2013 University of Scranton, Scranton, PA

Faith and Academic Freedom in Civic Virtue

2012 University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN

Incorporating Service: The Body at Work

2011 Samford University, Birmingham, AL

Reconciliation in History, Music, and Literature

2010 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Face to Face in Time and Place: Perspectives on Place in Higher Learning

2009 Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Practicing Cosmopolitanism

2008 Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington

Beauty: What’s Justice Got To Do With It?

2007 Mercer University, Macon, Georgia

Three Mirrors: Reflections on Faithful Living: The Legacy of Robert Shaw, Flannery O’Connor, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

PAST NATIONAL CONFERENCES

1991-2006

2006 Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH

A Blessed Heritage: The Contributions of American Church-Related Higher Education

2005 College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Keeping the Faith: Four Religious Perspectives on the Creation of Tradition

2004 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN

“fling yourself farther”: Metaphor, Faith, and Learning

2003 Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

Christianity and Liberal Learning: Revisiting the Connection

2002 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Vocation, Liberal Learning, and the Church-Related Academy

2001 Rivier College, Nashua, NH

“What, Then, Must We Do?” Social Justice, Service, and Religious Mission in Higher Education

  • Stephen Webb, “Beyond Politics: Possibilities for Transformation in the Post-Secular University”

  • Rebekah Miles, “That’s All a Mule Can Do: Rethinking Work and Vocation in American Culture”

  • Regina Shearer, Performative Presentation

2000 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California

Moving Images: Film, the Sacred, and Higher Education

1999 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

From Hellenistic to Pluralistic: Christianity and the Religions of the World

1998 Saint Mary’s College / University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

Athens and Jerusalem: Sacred Learning and Secular Culture

1997 Baylor University, Waco, Texas

The City of God Revisited: Church and State in the Twenty-First Century

1996 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Nurturing Souls: Scholarship and the Christian World View

1995 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso IN

Nurturing Souls: Learning and the Sciences of Human Development

1994 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Nurturing Souls: Teaching and the Arts of Formation

1993 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Communities of Learning

  • Parker J. Palmer, “‘Only Connect’: On Living and Learning in Community”

  • Barbara Doherty, “The Diversity of Spiritualities in the Community of Learners”

  • Walter M. Wangerin, Jr., “‘Saxifrage’ - A Story of, from and for One Christian Community”

1992 Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Spirituality and Higher Learning

1991 The Inaugural Conference, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

Christianity and the Academic Vocation