Most sessions take place in the Music Building.

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Thursday, September 28

8:45-9:15am Registration

9:15-9:30am Welcome + Opening Remarks

9:30-10:50am Session 1

Openers (Rm 210)

• Rondall Reynoso // An Argument for Visual Theology
• Chris Morrissey // Five Ways That Art Knows Spiritual Reality

10:50-11:10am Break

11:10am-12:15pm Keynote Address (Rm 210)        

• Cam Anderson // Consumption, Terror, and Affection

12:15-1:10pm Lunch

1:10-2:20pm Session 2

Context + Process (Rm 210)

• Anne Keener // Pattern Thinking: Encountering Indigenous Australian Painting
• Cindy Gould + Praveen Singh Rathore // The Phar and Mata-ni-pachedi: Sacred Textile Arts of Rajasthan and Gujarat, India

Testament (Rm 201)

• Joy Steem // The Most Reluctant Christian Artist: Madeleine L’Engle and Artmaking as Spiritual Practice
• Laurel Gasque // Hans Rookmaaker: An Open Life in the Arts

2:20-3:00pm Break

3:00-4:45pm Session 3

Mystical Landscapes (Rm 210)

• David Baird // This Submerged Sunrise: Postapocalyptic Fiction and the Spirit of Holy Saturday
• John Franklin // Beyond Appearances: Art as a Location for Spiritual Encounter
• Ron Dart // Emily Carr: Painter/Writer of the Spirit

​Being Well (Rm 201)

• Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham, Sonya Sharma, Melania Calestani, + Brenda Smith // Prayer and Art as Lived Experience: Images from British and Canadian Hospitals
• Michelle Bythrow // The Healing Music of Taizé

7:00-9:00pm Exhibition Opening (SAMC Gallery, Norma Marion Alloway Library)

Matthew Whitney // Contemplative Geographies

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Friday, September 29

9:00-10:50am Session 4

New Song (Rm 210)

• Ray Harris // Spirit + Song = pneusong
• James Falzone // The Already and the Not Yet: Improvisation as Spiritual Practice

Words of Hope (Rm 201)

• Leah Cameron // An Alphabet of Hope in the “Hierarchy of Grief”
• Sharon Fish Mooney // Vincent van Gogh and the Poetic Principle
• Kirsten McAllister // The Beauty of Orthodoxy: the aesthetic center to Dostoevsky's ecofeminist vision in The Brothers Karamazov

10:50-11:10am Break

11:10am-12:15pm Session 5

Listening Well (Rm 210)

• Erica Grimm // Making Practices/Spiritual Practices: Excavating Technologies of the Soul

• Kate Muchmore Woo // Towards a Pedagogy of Listening Well: Hearing (and Seeing) God in the Theatrical Context

Arts in Action: Commentary (Rm 201)

• Kaia Magnusen // The Great War and the “Good Fight”: Visualizing an Existential Crisis of Faith in Otto Dix’s War Triptych
• Joanne Pepper // The Face(s) of War: Can Public Art Installations Foster Spiritual Foci in the Midst of Military Conflict?

12:15-1:15pm Lunch

1:15-2:25pm Session 6

Arts in Action: Ethics (Rm 210)

• John Skillen // Francis & Dominic and the Arts of Devotion
• Angela Konrad + Jessica Garden // Evangelists for Empathy: The Making of an Anabaptist Theatre Company

Spiritual Practices (Rm 201)

• Deborah Saidel // Paleolithic Spiritual Practices: An Audiovisual Perspective
• Jeff R. Warren // Performances of Spirituality and Relationality in Contemporary Worship Music

2:25-2:45pm Break

2:45-4:30pm Session 7

Spiritual Formation (Rm 210)

• Matthew Steem // Chesterton’s Idea of Divine Participation: Humility and Wonder in the Artistic Endeavour
• Joshua Hale + Kelly Arbeau // Common Ground: On the Faith-Creativity Connection
• Wes Vander Lugt // Unbent by Beauty: The Role of Art in Spiritual Formation