21st Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium (TTC) Day 2 | TTC Panel 1

Invited panelists, including a number of Drew Theological School faculty and an array of prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines, will present and discuss recent work on the theme of “Apocalypse Now and When.” Dr. Catherine Keller of Drew Theological School will deliver the keynote address.

Whether as end-of-the-world hype or as empirically justified warning, the metaphor of “apocalypse” is not soon going away. Mounting threats both to the life of the planet and to democratic politics will continue to foment apocalyptic rhetoric. Responsible use of apocalypsis, informed by the ancient context of the metaphor and attuned to the immense and contradictory range of its present deployments, may be key to facing those threats. This conference will explore multiple histories and potentialities of apocalyptic/apocalypse as it crisscrosses disciplines and inflects public sensibility, theological and secular.

[Schedule of Events]

10 a.m. – 12 p.m. | TTC Panel 1 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Apocalyptic Roots: Beginning(s) of the End – Revisited
Kathryn Tanner, Respondent and Facilitator
“The Book of Job as Antidote to Apocalypse” | Marcia Pally
“Revisioning Punitive Space: Apocalyptic Visions in Slave Narratives” | Erin Runions
“Inhabitants of the Earth: Apocalypse, Climate, Displacement and Mobility Justice” | Jacob J. Erickson

1:30-3:30 p.m. ET | TTC Panel 2 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Apocalypse (Mostly) Where You Expect to Find It
Robert Paul Seesengood, Respondent and Facilitator
“The Damned of the Earth and the Necroapocalypse of John | Stephen D. Moore
“Ordinary Apocalypses: Exercises of Noticing” | O’neil van Horn
“Gravity Down? Rapture and the Revelation of the Heavens” | Melanie Johnson-Debaufre

4-6 p.m. ET | TTC Panel 3 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Apocalypse Next
Karen Bray, Respondent and Facilitator
“Self-Study: Multi/Race/Less/Ness as After Apocalypse in Prose and Song” | Jon Ivan Gill
“Unveiling Climate Activism, Revealing an Apocalypse of Love” | James Ball
“Title Forthcoming” | John Thatamanil