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Schedule of Papers Sessions

The conference will take place at St. Thomas More College 
on the campus of the University of Saskatchewan (1437 College Dr)
unless otherwise noted.

Friday, June 13th
Papers Session 1 
11:30 am to 1:00 pm 

Room: STM 120
Theme: Doing research in practical theology: how to learn and how to supervise
Panel Chair: Jos de Kock
Presenters: Nevin Reda;  Wonjong Horace Lee; Jaco Dreyer; Mirella Klomp 

Room: STM 122
Theme: Belonging, Religious Education and Digital Worship
Presenters:

  • Ana Thea Filipovic - The theological and anthropological significance of the symbolism of home in the process of building the identity of students in Catholic religious education

  • Eunjin Jeon - Negotiating Belonging and Justice: The Bahb-Sang as a Cultural Nexus in Shaping Korean and Korean American Identities

  • Choi, Hee An - Reconstructing/Restoring self-confidence and humility, Rebuilding home: from invisible alone to visible together”

  • Simon Linder - Towards a 'theology of digitality'


Room: STM 260
Theme: Homecoming, Displacement, and (Be)Coming Home Online
Presenters: ONLINE ONLY

  • Anthony Jude Okafor - Double Belonging and Homecoming: Towards A True Homeland in God

  • Shaun Joynt - Online religious community homes: Sacred substitute, supplement, or symbiosis?

  • Viktor Aldrin - Fostering Hope in a Displaced World: The Role of Practical Theology and Religious Education in Addressing Climate Change

  • Alfred Brunsdon - Negotiating nostalgia: A pastoral reflection on the notion of ‘home’ within the context of displacement on the African continent


Room: STM 450
Theme: Hospitality, Displacement, and Climate Emergency
Presenters: 

  • Blanches de Paula - Communities of Care: Places of Consolation, Hope, and Hospitality for People Grieving Due to Displacement

  • Eliana AhRum Ku - Implicit Hospitality in the Age of Multi-placement

  • Elis Eichener - “Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers” (Dtn 10,19). Practical-Theological Reflections on the Public Role of the Protestant Church in Germany in Migration Debates

  • Valburga Schmiedt + Júlio Cézar Adam - Practical Theology and Climate Emergency: reflections from Latin America


Room: STM 1001
Theme: Home, Land and Covenant
Presenters:

  • Christian Scharen - On being (un)settled as a white practical theologian

  • Doug Gay - 'This land was made for you and me' - a theology of homeland

  • Julian Paparella - Lessons from listening to Indigenous families: Unsettling settler colonialism and making theology hospitable 

  • Nancy Ramsay - 17th Century Settler Colonialism in What is Now the United States and Its Continuing, Marginalizing Consequences for Native Americans--an Intersectional Analysis of Colonial Power


Room: STM 1002
Theme: Community, Identity and Prayer
Presenters:

  • Danielle Hansen - The Emigrant: Reflections Dis-Located Home and Inheritance

  • Patricia Santos -Experiencing community at-homeness in the ongoing transitions: Religious Life as an ever-evolving journey 

  • Auli Vähäkangas - The “Meaningful Deathscapes: Worldview minority cemeteries in Finland” (MeDea) project

  • Ilonka Terlouw - The Digitalization of Christian Prayer Life in the Light of Secularization, the Decline of the Church and the Prayer Crisis



Room: STM 2002
Theme: Intergenerational discourses and practices
Presenters:

  • Kevin Muriithi Ndereba - Leading Youth Homeward: Mental Health Resilience through an African Theology of Hospitality 

  • Aizaiah G. Yong - Exploring the Impacts of Self-Compassion on Self-Efficacy in BIPOC Parents

  • Ann Gillian Chu (ONLINE) - Left-Behind Elderly Parents: Psychology-informed Theology and the Recent Hong Kong Migration Wave (2020 onwards)

  • Carlton Turner - Necessary Interdisciplinary Reflections? Psychological Research and the Church of England's Theology around Racism

Sunday, June 15th
Papers Session 2 at St. Thomas More College (STM)
10:00 am to 11:30 pm 

Room: STM 120
Theme: At Home in Practical Theology
Presenters:

  • Dara Straub - ​​Unspoken “homes” in theological knowledge production? – the role of hidden certainties within the theological knowledge hegemonies

  • Edward Foley - The Homiletic Brain: Neuroscience meets Roman Catholic Preaching

  • Jaco Dreyer - Practical theology and context: reflections on place and space as central notions in practical theological theory and research

  • Manuel Stetter - Defamiliarizing Familiarities. Some Reflections on the Epistemology of Practical Theology


Room: STM 122
Theme: Being at home in the everyday: Resisting Theologies and the Everyday 
Presenters: PANEL

  • Wren Radford

  • Heather Walton

  • Néstor Medina

  • Becca Whitla (responder) 


Room: STM 200
Theme: Sacred Places; Lived Faith
Presenters:

  • Carsten Schuerhoff - Reconciliation and universalism as basis of a We and Home?

  • Jeane Peracullo - The Wandering Virgin of the Vanishing River: Home and Homelessness in Disaster and Recovery Discourse in the Devotion to Virgen de Caysasay

  • Stefan Altmeyer + Henrik Simojoki - Empowering Voices in Ecumenical Engagement: An Empirical Exploration of Grassroots Practice as “Lived Theology” in Germany

 
Room: STM 260
Theme: Ecology
Presenters:

  • Hee-Kyu Heidi Park - My Home is Sacrifice Zone: Practical Theological Eschatology on the Climate Justice Protest Site

  • Mai-Ahn Le Tran - Practical Theology on the Edge of Heaven and Earth: Geocolonial Places for Homo Viator

  • Yara González-Justiniano - Facing Evil: Fostering virtues of communal autonomy and ecological justice


Room: STM 450
Theme: Youth
Presenters: 

  • Jeanne Stevenson Moessner - Transplanting the Bicultural Child: Portable Roots

  • Almeda Wright + Sarah Bixler - Nurturing Secure Attachment at Home to Support Faith

  • Bradley Stewart - Home as a Locus of Christian Action among Young Urban Québécois


Room: STM 1001
Theme: Spirituality
Presenters:

  • Jinsook Kwon - Leaving Home; (Re)Finding Spiritual Home: Narratives About the Pastoral Experience of Korean Trainee Pastors.

  • Júlio César Adam + Clairton Puntel - Buen vivir as a path to (be) coming home in Brazil: a dialog with Practical Theology, Spirituality and Psychology 

  • Nevin Reda - Christian Practical Theology and Islam: Disciplinary Intersections and Opportunities for Growth

  • Sabrina Müller - Home is Where the Smartphone Is? Redefining Spirituality in the Digital Age 


Room: STM 1002
Theme: Migration
Presenters:

  • Christopher Magezi -Transience, temporariness and permanence of home: A practical theological reflection to migration

  • Elvir Ciceklic - "At Home" in the Trinity: Toward a Trinitarian Logic for Migration and Hospitality

  • Felix Roleder - Who is less afraid of refugees? Exploring Religious, Cultural, and Economic Predictors of Attitudes Toward Immigration in the Face of Rising Populism in Germany

  • Joyce Ann Mercer - At Home In a World on Fire: Children, Climate Migration, and Practical Theology


Room: STM 2002
Theme: Home and Practical Theology
Presenters:

  • Robert Mager - Is a Christian-inspired practical theology well-equipped to deal with dwelling and displacement?

  • Mirjam Schambeck + Fahimah Ulfat - "Home" as a social space and religion as a potential code to construct it

  • Olehile A. Buffel (ONLINE) - A Practical theological investigation of the inextricable link of Africans, their land, their spirituality, and sense of belonging: A Practical Theological Perspective

  • Vhumani Magezi - Science and art of being at home among migrants: a practical theological perspective of existing and coping at an in-between space (ONLINE)

Sunday, June 15th
Papers Session 3 at St. Thomas More College 
1:30 - 3:00 pm 

Room: STM 120
Workshop: Revisiting “A Tale of Two Cities”: Empirical Methods in Practical Theology in Postcolonial Perspective
Contributors:

  • Sabrina Müller

  • Ulrich Riegel

  • Nadine Bowers Du-Toit 

  • Bonnie Miller-McLemore (video)


Room: STM 122
Theme: Homiletics, Liturgy, and Song
Presenters:

  • Andrew Rogers - "Welcome Home": theological reflections on singing the creeds

  • Chia-An Tung - Harmony in Displacement: Rebuilding a Spiritual and Cultural Home through the Better Homeland Worship Choir.

  • Hye Lim Yoon - Finding Home in Cross-Cultural Ministry: Analysis of Trauma-informed Preaching that Brings Solidarity and Homeliness


Room: STM 200
Theme: Migration
Presenters:

  • Mahmoud Abdallah - Between Religious and Social Rootlessness and Hope. Islamic Spiritual Care for Refugee

  • Trygve Wyller - A theology for, and with, irregularized (undocumented) people

  • Raymond Webb - Migrant Compassion and Generosity and the Shaping of New Homes and Homelands

 
Room: STM 260
Theme: Mental Health & Disability
Presenters:

  • Collins Ikeokwo Nwafor (ONLINE) - Restoring Belonging: The Role of Faith Communities in Addressing Thwarted Belongingness and Suicide Prevention

  • Talitha Cooreman-Guittin

  • Corey Parish  - “I am Corey, and I am here”:  Finding My Place with Autism

  • Ferdi Kruger - A homiletical-liturgical perspective on the phenomenon of memoricide alluding to the graveness of re-membered memories 

 
Room: STM 450
Theme: Fostering Community Flourishing through Engaging with Indigenous Understandings of Home and Treaty
Presenters:

  • Adrian Jacobs

  • Ray Aldred

  • Rangi Nicholson

  • Anne-Marie Ellithorpe


Room: STM 1001
Theme: Home and Denomination 
Presenters:

  • Annemie Dillen - Feeling at home in Catholic communities. Practical theological reflections on balancing acts, split loyalties and hospitality

  • Dave Csinos + Becca Whitla - Dual Citizenship, Ecclesial Polyamory, or an Open Marriage? Making Sense of Ecumenism, Denominationality, and Belonging

  • Clementine Nishimwe + Auli Vähäkangas - “This is the challenge for us Africans”: Reproducing a Sense of Home for African Catholics in Finland 

  • Ross Lockhart - Home Alone?


Room: STM 1002
Theme: Spiritual and Pastoral Care
Presenters:

  • Antonia Elisa Lüdtke - Digitality - a "home" for pastoral care

  • Elaine Champagne - Becoming Home to a New Professional Identity - Spiritual Care in Healthcare Environments

  • Marko Jesske - “I go and prepare a place for you” - Home in current German funeral speeches

  • Suvi-Maria Saarelainen - The Evolving Concept of Home in Later Life: Security, Identity, and Existential Challenges Among Finnish Older People


Room: STM 2002
Theme: Resistance, Reconciliation, & Restoration 
Presenters:

  • Stephy Joseph - Why Should I Cry for You: A Critique of Dark Tourism and a Proposal for Empathy as a Rebuilding Strategy in the Face of Natural Disasters

  • Joel Agpalo + Carolyn Soliven Tejedo - Megachurches and Public Life: How Megachurch Congregants See Life as a Whole and How Do they Live Out their Faith in Public Life?

  • Sarah Kernan - ‘This Train is Bound for Glory’: A Practical Theological Exploration of Community-Organized Meal Trains in the Era of Food Delivery (ONLINE)

Monday June 16th
Papers Session 4 at St. Thomas More College
11:00 am - 12:30 pm 

Room: STM 122
Theme: Pedagogy
Presenters:

  • Eunjoo Kim - A Transformative Model of Practical Theological Pedagogy for Teaching Immigration.

  • Michael Schroth (in person) + Kerstin Menzel (ONLINE) - Theological education for religious communities in a post-migrant society

  • Katherine Douglass - Parenting for Faithful Racial, Cultural, and Ethnic Identities

  • Julius Anthony Porqueriño - Home Away from Home? Evaluating and Reimagining Religious Education in Philippine Catholic Schools (ONLINE)


Room: STM 260
Theme: Rebuilding Home in the Face of Evil
Presenters:

  • Rudy Denton - (Re)building ‘home’ in the face of evil: How can we dare to forgive the existential threats of eco-anxiety and socio-political conflicts?

  • Gideon Sam Simeon Paulraj - Breaking Bread, Building Bridges: Global Hunger and the Theology of Hospitality (ONLINE) 

  • Calista Onubuogu - (Re)building Home through Igwebuike Eco-theological Framework: A Practical Theology Response to Growing Forced Displacement/Migration Crises (ONLINE)

  • Gift Baloyi - A Practical Theological Reflection on Poverty and the Meaning of Home through the Lens of Gustavo Gutiérrez


Room: STM 1001
Theme: Displacement
Presenters:

  • Becky Powell - Home as an Elusive Ethereal Concept

  • Katie Cross - When Church is no longer Home: Navigating ecclesial displacement with church leavers.

  • Amy Casteel - Unsettling ‘Home’: belonging, oppression and migration in communities of worship

       
Room: STM 1002 
Theme: Homelessness, LGBTQAI2+, and Ecology
Presenters:

  • Jacques Beukes - “Awê  Homie!” Recognising the homeless! From myself to the current - In conversation with the church and practical theology

  • Jade Willaert - From Special Treatment to Integrated Church Communities: Catholic Lgbtq+ Ministry Through the Eyes of Flemish Lgbtq+ Individuals 

  • Pam McCarroll - Seeking home amid climate change: dislocation, eco-grief and practices toward "homing"


Room: STM 2002
Theme: Trauma, Poverty, and Koinonia
Presenters:

  • Gordon E. Dames - Homecoming in and through life and death: A Practical Theology of a realized eschatological praxis

  • Peter Nickson White - Reimagining Resilience: Community-Led Approaches to Empower Abandoned Women and Children Experiencing Poverty in the Church Communities in Malawi (ONLINE)

  • John Mohan Razu Indukuri - "Towards Affirming Koinonia in Faith, Life and Witness" In the Context of Displacement ('Second Nakba'--October 7th, 2023} of the Palestinians

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