ConVersing / ConServing: Care, Creation, Communion

The 2024 Western Regional Conference on Christianity & Literature is a unique opportunity to engage in scholarly dialogue about faith, creation, and conservation. Our keynote speaker, Marilyn McEntyre, will explore the stewardship of language and land, drawing parallels between literary art and environmental action. We invite you to contribute to this conversation and help us pass on what has been given to us. Let’s create a legacy of care together.

Several parts of the conference are open and free to the Trinity Western community and the public, including all the concurrent panels of paper presentations and two of the plenary sessions, Thursday evening and Friday morning.

Event details

• “ConVersing/ConServing: Care, Creation, Communion” with Marilyn McEntyre
  Thursday, May 9, 7­‑8:30 p.m.
  Robert G. Kuhn Centre, Room 115-116
  
  In Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, our conference keynote speaker Marilyn McEntyre presents literary art and the study of literature as a form of stewardship. Caring for words is akin, she says, to environmental concern and action, for we hold both language and the land in common.
   
• “Keeping Common Ground: Land, Language, and Love of our Neighbour”with Marilyn McEntyre, Bob Ekblad, Loren Wilkinson, Patricia Victor Switametelót
  Friday, May 10, 9-10:15 a.m.
  Robert G. Kuhn Centre, Room 115-116

TWU community, friends, and family are warmly invited to come and participate in the conversations that open up from the papers and plenary presenters. To see the full conference schedule on the website, click here.