Canadian Theological Society

https://huronatwestern.ca/job-board/probationary-tenure-track-appointment-systematic-theology/

 

Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Nova Scotia, intends to hire two new tenure-track faculty members at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, to commence in summer 2021 (date negotiable). One of the positions is in Biblical Studies, the other in Pastoral Theology. To fulfill statutory requirements, one (1.0 FTE) of the two appointments must be filled by a Roman Catholic.

 

In addition, to allow some flexibility around local needs for institutional fit and global demands related to the pandemic, each position may be filled either by one full-time appointment, or two half-time appointments. All finalists will be expected to come to Halifax for on-campus interviews, public health requirements permitting; however, only full-time appointments would be expected to relocate to Halifax. Half-time appointments could be remote positions.

 

Applicants to the position in Biblical Studies should specialize in New Testament or Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, and should have a strong secondary competence and ability to teach in at least one other relevant theological discipline.

 

See the full position description and apply at https://apply.interfolio.com/79674

 

The Pastoral Theology position includes the role of Director (or Coordinator) of AST’s Summer Distance MDiv program. Applicants to this position should have a strong competence in an area like liturgy and worship, supervised field education, interreligious/interfaith dialogue, or ecumenism, with clear potential for crossover.

 

See the full position description and apply at https://apply.interfolio.com/79709

 

Review of applications will begin November 16, 2020 and will continue until the positions are filled. Informal queries about the positions may be directed to Dr. Daniel Driver at ddriver@astheology.ns.ca.

 

# Link Summary: Single and Individual

 

Sometimes it’s useful, or even necessary, to give out just a single link for both positions. If so, use this one:

 

https://apply.interfolio.com/41980/positions

 

In most cases, I think it’s best to use links to the individual listings, as I have done in the message above.

 

Biblical Studies: https://apply.interfolio.com/79674

 

Pastoral Theology: https://apply.interfolio.com/79709

 

 

Position:          Professor of Theology

Job Location:   Toronto, ON

Job Posting:     Octoer 9, 2020

 

Review of applications will begin November 9, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled.

 

Wycliffe is a graduate school of Theology in the evangelical and Anglican tradition, working within the Toronto School of Theology (https://www.tst.edu) and granting degrees conjointly with the University of Toronto (https://www.utoronto.ca/about-u-of-t).

 

Our college is devoted to the study of Scripture as the foundation for Christian faith and practice, and in its recently adopted Strategic Plan, Wycliffe has committed itself to making the theological interpretation of Scripture a priority for teaching and scholarship (https://www.wycliffecollege.ca/strategicplan).

 

While it is not necessary that candidates be affiliated with the Anglican church, applicants for this position should have a deep affinity with Wycliffe’s mission, vision, and moral commitments, and must be able to subscribe to the College’s Six Principles (see https://www.wycliffecollege.ca/about-us/mission-values).

 

The successful candidate should ideally be a mid-career or senior scholar with a relevant PhD or Th.D., and a strong track record of graduate teaching and publication.  In particular, they will have staked out an area of specialized theological research and writing that is recognized in their field and that comports with the wider traditions of evangelical and catholic Christianity as centred on the person of Jesus Christ.

 

In addition to and informing their area of specialization, the candidate should exhibit a breadth of competency in the theological tradition of the universal Church as well as its grounding in and relation to Scripture. They should be able to engage substantive aspects of patristic, medieval, and Reformation thought, as well as a range of modern and non-Western theological concerns, including global Evangelicalism. The candidate will be able to teach responsibly across the range of doctrinal traditions represented by Wycliffe’s students, and to engage the theological bequest to which Wycliffe’s graduate education is committed. They will have the ability and willingness to teach in both on-campus and online modes, supervise theses at the doctoral level, and pursue publishable research. Responsibilities include teaching up to five courses per year and making productive use of Wycliffe’s generous sabbatical policies. They will be expected to participate in the wider community life of the College and Chapel, preaching where asked and enjoying a collegial rapport with other faculty at Wycliffe and TST.

 

 

In order to be considered for this position, please submit the following in either PDF or MS Word:

• A letter of application detailing your suitability for this position and including your email address and telephone number;
• A comprehensive curriculum vitae, including education, employment history, teaching experience, areas of current research, and evidence of scholarship and publication;
• Three references in support of your application (please ask your referees to send their references directly to Wycliffe College at the address indicated below);
• A recent sample of your writing (no more than 3,000 words); and
• A statement of your teaching philosophy.

 

All documents should be sent electronically to the Manager, Human Resources, Karen Baker-Bigauskas at principalsoffice@wycliffe.utoronto.ca , and to the attention of the Principal, Bishop Stephen Andrews. Rank and salary will be commensurate with the successful candidate’s qualifications and experience.

 

Wycliffe College is committed to employment equity and offers equal opportunities to qualified women and men, including visible minorities and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, in keeping with Canadian law, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Final appointment is subject to receipt of official transcripts and completion of a satisfactory criminal record check.

 

If you want to make an informal inquiry please contact: the Rt Rev’d Dr Stephen Andrews, Principal, at sgwa@wycliffe.utoronto.ca

Dignity, Equity and Justice Committee

Canadian Theological Society

 

Invitation for New Committee Members

 

Christianity in Canada is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual reality. Theological teaching and research in the Canadian context should ideally celebrate the dignity of multiple different ways of living, experiencing and embodying Christian faith, as well as different theological epistemologies. The Dignity, Equity and Justice Committee of the Canadian Theological Society is seeking CTS members–particularly those from historically marginalized and minoritized communities–who want to re-envision theological work in Canada to reflect the full reality of Canadian Christianity. The committee will assist and advise the CTS membership and its executive to open new, safer spaces for diverse theological voices, and to identify critical tools in the Society for strengthening our practices of scholarly enquiry, programming, publication, networking and professional formation. A more specific mandate and desired outcomes will be articulated through a process of collaboration and shared discernment in our first year. We anticipate that membership in the committee will entail a commitment of at least 2 virtual or in-person meetings a year, though this too will be subject to the discernment of committee members.

 

If you are interested in joining or have any questions, please contact the committee’s interim secretary, Reid B. Locklin (reid.locklin@utoronto.ca), preferably no later than 15 November 2020.

 

Chanelle Robinson, Boston College

Néstor Medina, Emmanuel College, Victoria University

Reid Locklin (interim secretary), St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto

Will Sweet, St. Francis Xavier University

 

Call for Papers 

 

We are looking to publish academic articles based upon the presentations given at the annual meeting of the Canadian Theological Society at UBC in June 2019. The journal, Religious Studies and Theology, has agreed to publish peer-reviewed essays based upon this past year’s Congress theme, “Circles of Conversation.” We invite all scholarly papers which pertain to the public character of Theology in Canada in which “circles of conversation” are widening. We especially seek papers which engage disciplines beyond theology and audiences or conversation partners beyond the church.

 

Please note that not all submissions will be retained: the essays will be submitted for external peer review and assembled into a cohesive selection of original reflections on the proposed theme. This volume does not represent proceedings of the conference, but rather will consist of scholarly essays in which nascent ideas have come to fruition and critical commentary that may have been engendered in the CTS meeting is addressed. We also solicit papers that were not presented at the Annual Meeting, but which speak to the theme.

 

Articles are to be 3000–6000 words in length and must include an Abstract of approximately 150 words. Further details about the submission process can be found at: https://journals.equinoxpub.com/RST/about/submissions

 

Please let us know if you have any questions. If you wish to submit your essay, please let us know by October 15, 2019. Submissions of final essays is due May 1, 2020 for a publication in December 2020.

 

With every good wish,

 

Jean-Pierre Fortin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Practical Theology

Faculty of Theology

University of St. Michael’s College

81 St. Mary Street

Toronto, ON M5S 1J4

jeanpierre.fortin@utoronto.ca

 

and

 

Jane Barter, PhD

Professor

Department of Religion and Culture

515 Portage Avenue

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

R3B 2E9

j.barter@uwinnipeg.ca

(list of accepted proposals follows)

 

To members of the Canadian Theological Society

 

I hope that you, your families, and friends and colleagues are well, and managing in these uncertain and difficult times.

 

As you may know, the CFHSS (Canadian Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences), which organizes the annual Congress, recently decided that there will not be an in-person congress in 2020. Instead, the Federation has decided to move the Congress online.

 

The CTS Executive met on March 23 to discuss CTS participation in this year’s Congress and whether we should hold our annual conference. After much thoughtful discussion, the Executive decided that the CTS would not participate in the Congress, would cancel this year’s annual conference, but will have a short business meeting online later this year.

 

The Executive decided, moreover, that we will carry this year’s theme forward to next year, and that all the papers accepted for the 2020 Congress are automatically accepted for the 2021 Congress at the University of Alberta. An official list of these papers will be posted on the CTS website in few days with the help of the professionals in web maintenance from bestwebsitehosting.ca. We also decided to award the graduate student essay prize, and will offer our usual travel subsidies for those students who wish to present their papers in 2021.

 

There were many reasons for the Executive’s decision.

 

We believe that what makes our annual conference particularly valuable is the face-to-face contact, where we have creative formal and informal interaction, exchange of research, and networking. We believe that the proposed online format will not allow us to have this, and will impose additional burdens on many. And, besides, the need for ‘in person’ meeting is especially important given the conference theme of Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism.

 

We also recognize that this is a challenging time for many: that many find themselves under stress as they deal with new home and work and study environments; that, for many, their responsibilities have increased significantly; that many of our students are experiencing distress; and that it is not an easy time to read, to write, and to focus.

 

Further, a number of cognate societies, including several of the CCSR (Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion), have decided already not to participate in this year’s Congress – and this, too, would certainly detract from the kind of exchange that normally occurs at the Congress.

 

To conform to requirements of being an incorporated society and to provide financial statements, executive reports, and related matters, to you, our members, we will, however, have an online AGM, with details to be determined in early May. You’ll hear more about this soon thereafter.

 

We appreciate that the Congress organisers are in a difficult situation, and that they are trying to do the best that they can in the circumstances. Nevertheless, the current and continuing stresses on potential participants, and our view that our annual conference is to be a place for the kind of exchange and discussion that an online medium cannot currently adequately accommodate, lead us to the conclusion we must suspend our conference this year.

 

On behalf of the CTS Executive, I send our best wishes and prayers to you and those close to you. We will stay in contact with you through the summer and in the coming year as we move through these times, and towards our conference next year in Edmonton.

 

Will Sweet

President, Canadian Theological Society

 

 

Canadian Theological Society

2020 Annual Conference

Bridging Divides

 

 

List of Accepted Proposals:

 

Brian Bajzek, Christ The King Seminary

“A Church Challenged by Christ: Decentering Ecclesial Privilege through the Crux of Horizontal and Vertical Alterity”

 

Jane Barter, University of Winnipeg

“And Yet Where in Our History Books is the Tale? Thinking Theologically about the National Inquiry’s Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls”

 

David Byrne, University of St. Michael’s College

“An Ointment Poured Over the Wounds or Preventative of a Common Future for All? Assessing the Role of Reparations in dialogue with Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz’s Theory of Justice as Reconciliatory Praxis”

 

Zane Chu, Regis College

“Decolonizing Christian Love: Thomas Aquinas as Problematic and as Resource”

 

Elexa Davis, Rachel Lingnau, Megan Palmer, Concordia University (Edmonton)

“Women’s Perspectives on Religiosity and Healing from Historical Trauma: Jewish Canadians and Indigenous Peoples of Canada”

 

Liam Farrer, Regis College

“A Modest Proposal for the Development of a First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Ordinariate in the Catholic Church in Canada”

 

Rob Fennell, Atlantic School of Theology

“Problematizing Pilgrimage: Theological Reconsideration of Contemporary Spiritual Tourism”

 

Jean-Pierre Fortin, University of St. Michael’s College

“Redeeming Memory: Rewriting Canadian History and Theology with Lee Maracle, Terry LeBlanc and Thomas King”

 

Chris Hrynkow, St. Thomas More College

“Greening Unity in Diversity: Canadian Ecotheological Perspectives and a Vital Ethical Future”

 

Christine Jamieson, Concordia University (Montreal)

“Indigenous Spirituality: Resiliency and Encounter”

 

Sarah Johnson, University of Notre Dame

“Bridging the Divides between Religion and Nonreligion in Canada”

 

Sasha Kovalchuk, McMaster University

“Political Theology of Sanctuary Cities: Preliminary Findings of a Political Science Literature Review”

 

Fiona Li, Regis College

“Red Dresses: A Feminist Theological Response to the Systemic Oppression of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada”

 

Abigail Lofte, University of St. Michael’s College

“Finding Eden in the Urban Jungle: The Greening of City Planning”

 

Carolyn Mackie, Wycliffe College

“Guilt and Responsibility: The Church as Repentant Sinner(s)”

(Student Essay Contest Winner)

 

Monica Marcelli-Chu, Regis College

“Learning to Be Challenged by An-Other’s Will: Receptivity in Theological Virtue Ethics”

 

Stephen Martin, The King’s University

“Theology, Democracy, and the Common Life”

 

Kate McCray, University of St. Michael’s College

“Imagined Erasure: Fieldnotes on Genocide from the Christian East”

 

Nestor Medina, Emmanuel College

“Morality, the Church and Ethnoracial Relations in Colonial Latin America”

 

Eun Suk Oh, Knox College

“Remembering the Future: A Eucharistic Vision of Unity in Bodiliness”

 

Nick Olkovich, St. Mark’s College

“After Liberalism: Constructing ‘the People’ in Post-Conciliar Catholic Theology”

 

Hanbyul Park, Emmanuel College

“Who Makes Just Hospitality? Three Types of Moral Agency and Their Contributions to De-Colonizing and Re-Humanizing Christian Hospitality in the Canadian Multicultural Context”

 

Karola Radler, Stellenbosch University

“The Abstract Contrast: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological Disclosure of the Heretical Foundation of Carl Schmitt’s Theory of State”

 

Gordon Rixon, Regis College

“Discernment, Preferences and (Mature) Secularized Society”

 

Chanelle Robinson, Boston College

“Viola Desmond and Womanist Theologies of Resistance”

 

Don Schweitzer, St. Andrew’s College

“Jesus’ Resurrection Enlarges Our Hearts”

 

Peter Slater, Trinity College

“The Wisdom Principle in/on Religion”

 

 

 

Michael Stoeber, Regis College

“Nick Black Elk’s Christian-Lakota Liberation Spirituality and Its Implications for Decoloniality Issues”

 

Steven Studebaker, McMaster Divinity College

“Pentecost and Transcending Tribalism”

 

Hyung Jin Kim Sun, Emmanuel College

“A Theo-Ethical Praxis of Situating Oneself & Just-Bridging”

 

Kelly VanBuskirk, University of New Brunswick

“‘Do as we say, and also as we do’: An Anglican opportunity to import Scriptural conflict resolution directives into secular workplaces”

 

Becca Whitla, St. Andrew’s College

“The Empire Sings: Confronting Coloniality in Hymns”

 

 

Full-Time Teaching Position in Systematic Theology
Oblate School of Theology
San Antonio, TX

Oblate School of Theology invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Systematic Theology beginning August 2020.

Qualifications
OST seeks a Catholic theologian with an earned doctorate who is competent to teach courses in the areas of Christology, Trinity, and Christian Anthropology.  A successful candidate exhibits interest in the predominately Hispanic cultural milieu of the church in the Southwestern U.S.  Fluency in Spanish is highly desirable. Demonstrated competence in teaching and scholarly research is expected. Knowledge of online learning is helpful.

 

Position Description
This full-time position carries the rank of assistant or associate professor depending on experience and qualifications. OST operates on a continuing contract basis rather than on a tenure system.  Responsibilities include teaching five courses per year at the graduate level. The position also includes academic advising, committee work and other faculty related duties. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

About Oblate School of Theology
OST, founded in 1903 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools. The School awards the degrees of Master of Divinity and Master of Arts (Theology) and (Spirituality), Master of Arts in Pastoral Ministry, Doctor of Ministry, and Doctor of Philosophy (Spirituality). In addition, OST awards certificates in lay ecclesial ministries, and renewal programs for sabbaticants and church movements. More than half of the enrollment is seminarians preparing for ordained ministry in the Church.

Applications
Applicants are asked to submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, official transcripts of all graduate studies, and three letters of reference.  A review of applications will begin November 1 and continue until the position is filled.

Submit all applications in writing or by email to:

Vice President for Academic Affairs
Oblate School of Theology

285 Oblate Dr.

San Antonio, TX 78216
or e-mail to dean@ost.edu

Oblate School of Theology is an equal opportunity employer. Latino/as, women, and minorities are encouraged to apply.

Happy solar and lunar New Year. This is the second of the occasional Newsletters to members and friends of the Canadian Theological Society.

1. The Deadline for Proposals for the CTS annual meeting at Western has been extended until February 7. Proposals for both 20/20 sessions and panels are welcome. All proposals should be submitted in a Word or pdf file by email attachment to: canadiantheologicalsociety@gmail.com

For details, please see the full CFP, here. http://cts-stc.ca/call-for-papers/

2. Student essay contest. The deadline for the contest has also been extended to February 7. I strongly encourage student members to consider submitting a paper, and for faculty to encourage their students to do so. For more information, see http://cts-stc.ca/2019/student-essay-contest-2020-deadline-january-31/

Send essays by e-mail to: Dr Jean-Pierre Fortin jeanpierre.fortin@utoronto.ca

3. I encourage members to be sure to renew their membership. (It takes only a few minutes!) It helps us greatly in organizing events and in the ordering of subscriptions to our journal, to know early in the year how many active members we have. (By the way, all those who present papers at the CTS annual meetings must be members.)

https://forum.ideas-idees.ca/?lid=TNJ5B-ATKFF-WRAGS&pkForm=34

4. Our annual meeting will take place Monday, June 1 – Wednesday, June 3, 2020. Registration is now open. For information, please contact http://www.congress2020.ca/

Some (other) requests:
–> If you know of members of the Society who have died since June 2019, please let me know so that we can arrange a memorial obituary

–> A Committee will soon be established to accept nominations for several positions on the CTS executive. The Past-President of the CTS, Catherine MacLean, is the Chair of this Committee. Please consider proposing a colleague, or yourself, for one of the postions to be elected at the June meeting.

–> The CTS Equity Committee welcomes all those who wish to participate in the Committee. Please contact Jane Barter for further information: j.barter@uwinnipeg.ca

–> The Canadian Theological Society, from time to time, appoints Honorary Members to the Society. Members who wish to make a nomination, should write a letter to the CTS Secretary, Nick Olkovich, outlining the reasons for the nomination, including such things as the candidate’s credentials, contributions to theology (especially theology in Canada), and participation in and service to the Society. The latter criterion is of particular importance. See http://cts-stc.ca/2013/protocol-on-honorary-membership-in-the-canadian-theological-society/

Finally, I have just returned from the Board meeting of the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion, of which the CTS is a member and a partner in the publication of the journal Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (SR). SR welcomes submissions in any area of theology.

A new editorial team has recently taken on the journal. Article submissions are done electronically (see “Submit Paper” tab on SR’s SAGE webpage) but suggestions for Special Issues can be sent the co-editors, Jean-François Laniel (French articles) and Zeba Crook (English articles).

CCSR sponsors 3 book series: “Advancing Studies in Religion,” “Studies in Early Christianity and Judaism,” and “Matière à pensée” (PUM). These series are “for members of [CCSR] societies” – i.e., only members of CCSR societies (e.g., CTS) are eligible to publish in these book series. Approximately 3 books are published each year. For more information, see http://ccsr.ca/book-publications/

Again, best wishes of the New Year(s). Looking forward to seeing you at our meetings at Western in June.

Will Sweet, FRSC
St Francis Xavier University
President, Canadian Theological Society

STUDENT ESSAY CONTEST

 

 

Canadian Theological Society /

Société théologique canadienne

Subject: “Bridging Divides: Confronting Colonialism and Anti-Black Racism” or another topic in theology

                                       

Eligibility:    Any student currently registered in a Canadian university or theological college

 

Length:         15 pages, typed and double spaced (4,000 words)

 

Due Date:   Friday, January 31, 2020 (by e-mail)

 

Essays need not be written originally for this contest and may be assignments from a course in theology or religious studies, since essays are important and that’s why people use services from sites as https://huler1996.com to compose great essays for them. The topic, however, must be theological in nature. This year’s theme invites further consideration of the importance of confronting what prevents Canadians from building lasting, meaningful and life-giving relationships with one another, especially settler colonialism and racism and their ongoing effects (for more details, please see the 2020 CTS Annual Meeting Call for Papers).

 

A letter or e-mail from a member of the theological or religious studies department to which the student belongs, indicating that the student is in good standing with the university or college, must also be submitted for each applicant. Create the best quality content with this https://seotoolscentre.com/punctuation-checker punctuation and sentence checker to make sure there are no grammar errors.

 

The author of the winning essay will receive: $200; an invitation to read the paper at the annual meeting of the Canadian Theological Society at the University of Western Ontario, London, 1-3 June 2020; payment of meeting registration fees; and a subvention for travel and accommodation costs.

 

Send essays by e-mail by Friday, January 31, 2020 to

Jean-Pierre Fortin

jeanpierre.fortin@utoronto.ca

 

Please include with your submission: institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number(s), and e-mail address. Submit all document via e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

 

Send letters verifying a student’s registration in a theological college or university to the above e-mail address.

Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Canadian Theological Society 2020 Annual Meeting

Monday, June 1 – Wednesday, June 3, 2020
University of Western Ontario. London, Ontario

 

The theme for the Canadian Theological Society for 2020 is “Bridging Divides.” This theme emphasizes the importance of confronting what prevents Canadians from building lasting, meaningful and life-giving relationships with one another. In the Americas (so-called “new world”), settler colonialism—part of a broader imperial project—has through the forceful exercise of white privilege and supremacy enslaved Africans and strove to erase Indigenous peoples by appropriating land and delegitimizing traditional knowledge. These colonial projects continue to be met by cultures of resilience and resistance. Particular attention will therefore be devoted to productive scholarly discussion of the lived experiences and constructive perspectives shared and advanced by Indigenous peoples and African Canadians.

 

Alongside its peer disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, theology is invited to open up much-needed space for transformative dialogue, debate, and dissent, and showcase creative critical engagements within and across disciplines. With this year’s annual meeting, the Canadian Theological Society thus wishes more broadly to foster and encourage critical reflection among scholars, educators, students, ordained, religious and lay leaders, activists, and the public at large, on the nature, sources and implications of current social, ethnic, political and epistemological divisions (especially as these relate to theological and religious teaching and practice), in the hope of contributing to the formation of a future vision that bridges divides between divergent ways of knowing and navigating our world.

 

Theological reflection on this theme includes, for example, the role religion and theology played in the emergence and persistence of settler colonialism, anti-black racism, white privilege and supremacy within and beyond communities of faith, as well as the conditions enabling transformational truth-telling fostering authentic healing and reconciliation. A third theme may involve pedagogical and ministerial resources enabling theological scholarship to find new ways to raise critical awareness and advocacy contributing to a fuller understanding and the overcoming of settler colonialism, white privilege and supremacy in their many expressions and embodiments (such as patriarchy, androcentrism, sexism, racism, classism, militarism, etc.).

 

We welcome theological papers from all religious traditions, and especially seek those that engage Indigenous and African traditions as lived and taught in Canadian contexts. Given the theme of conversation, we also are particularly eager to explore theologies outside of mainstream Christianity, including postcolonial, feminist, environmental and animal studies.

 

We also welcome proposals on other topics in theology, and in all of the theological disciplines, including pastoral, systematic, philosophical and moral theology. The Canadian Theological Society is committed to providing fair representation of Canadian diversity within and beyond the theological community. Women, Indigenous and African-Canadian scholars as well as competent members of other underrepresented groups are therefore especially enjoined to submit proposals.

 

The Canadian Theological Society invites proposals pertaining to these and related themes in two formats:

 

1. 20/20 Presentations

We will again follow the 20/20 format used in previous years, inviting presentations of twenty minutes with twenty minutes of discussion to follow. Typically the presentation will be an account of a larger research project. Since members work in a variety of fields and specializations, attention should be given to presenting advanced work in an accessible way.

 

Submission

Submit a proposal that includes:

• Title of presentation;
• Proposal of a maximum 300-400 words (with word count), which includes an abstract, the problem your scholarship engages, and the contribution you plan to make;
• Requests for audio-visual equipment (A/V equipment will be available only if it is requested in the proposal);
• Indication of openness to giving the presentation as part of a roundtable session;
• On a separate page, please include:
  • Presenter’s name, institution or professional affiliation, and contact information.

2. Panels

We invite panels on issues that are relevant to members, especially as related to the theme of the annual meeting. Panel proposals should be developed to foster dialogue among the panelists and with those attending in the audience. Thus, we discourage panels that consist only of reading several papers.

 

Submission

Submit a proposal that includes:

• Title of panel;
• Length of panel (40 or 80 minutes);
• Proposal of a maximum 300-400 words (with word count), which includes an abstract, the problem your scholarship engages, the contribution you plan to make, and how you plan to foster dialogue among panelists and audience (e.g., use and allotment of time);
• Requests for audio-visual equipment (A/V equipment will be available only if it is requested in the proposal);
• On a separate page, please include:
  • Convener’s name, institution, and contact information.  The convener will be the link between the panel and the CTS;
  • Names, institutions and contact information of all members of the panel;
  • Either the name and contact information of the moderator, or a request that CTS provide a moderator.

 

All proposals should be submitted in a Word or pdf file by email attachment by January 31, 2020, 5 p.m. ET to: canadiantheologicalsociety@gmail.com

 

We will confirm receipt of all proposals submitted by email.  If you do not receive such an email confirmation within three days of submitting your proposal, contact Jean-Pierre Fortin at jeanpierre.fortin@utoronto.ca.

 

Selection Criteria

In selecting proposals for 20/20 presentations or for panels, the committee will consider:

• The clarity and significance of the proposal;
• The quality of the contribution to scholarship;
• The relationship of the presentation to the thematic focus of the annual meeting;
• The contribution of the presentation to a diversity of perspectives and approaches;
• The potential for inspiring discussion and engagement among the members.

Our goal as a Society is to foster collegial discussion of members’ work and of the work of other Canadian theologians. All presenters and attendees are encouraged to participate in as much of the program as possible. All presenters must be members in good standing of the CTS prior to the Annual Meeting. Theology and Religious Studies students are encouraged to participate in the Student Essay Contest by submitting the complete text of their presentation (please see details and other requirements on separate handout). We welcome all members, students, and other interested persons to join us this year at the annual meeting in London, Ontario.