Presentations
2024
Kuyers/INCHE/de Vries Institute conference: Integrated Education in a Reductionist Age, October 10-12
Plenary 1: Interpreting Our World: Magnetic Questions and Capacious Curiosity
Justin Ariel Bailey
Associate Professor and Theology Department Chair
Dordt University
Plenary 2: Resisting Reductionism through the Complex Mission of God
Matthew Kaemingk
Richard John Mouw Assistant Professor of Faith and Public Life, director of the Richard John Mouw Institute of Faith and Public Life
Fuller Theological Seminary
Plenary 3: Aesthetic Conditioning in a Reductionist Age
Katie Kresser
Professor of Art History and Visual Studies
Seattle Pacific University
Kuyers/INCHE conference: Faith and Pedagogy Amid Educational Change, October 6-7
Plenary 1: Why You Need a Diversity Playbook
Michelle Loyd-Paige
Executive Associate to the President
Calvin University
Plenary 3: Panel: Educational Change: The Press and the Pause
Marlene Wall, President, LCC International University
Michelle Loyd-Paige, Calvin University
Jan Hábl, University of Hradec Králové
2019
Kuyers/INCHE conference: Shaping Christian Learning
Plenary 1: Conversion, agency, and education: Reflections on how to theologically narrate and imagine change
Luke Bretherton
Professor of Theological Ethics and Senior Fellow
Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
Plenary 2: African Christian designs for learning: A panel
Tersur Aben, Theological College of Northern Nigeria
Faith Nguru, Daystar University, Kenya
Marilyn Naidoo, University of South Africa
Plenary 3: Design before planning: A biblical/theological frame
Ken Badley
Professor of Education
Tyndale University College
2017
Conference: Christian Teaching and Learning: Pathways and Possibilities
Plenary 1: "Beyond Hospitality: Finding Wisdom at the Intersections of Practices"
Christine Pohl
Associate Provost and Professor of Christian Ethics
Asbury Theological Seminary
Plenary 2: "Redeeming the Buzzwords: A Distinctively Christian Approach to Innovation in Education"
Beth Green
Program Director for Education
Cardus
Plenary 3: "What Do We Mean by Christian Education?"
Trevor Cooling
Professor of Christian Education
Canterbury Christ Church University
2015
Conference: Faith and Teaching: Virtue, Practice, Imagination
Plenary 1: "Teaching at Table/Learning to Eat"
Susan M. Felch
Professor of English
Director, Calvin Institute for Christian Scholarship
Plenary 2: "Courage in the Classroom"
Candace Vogler
Professor, Department of Philosophy
University of Chicago
Closing session: "'A Cold Heart Cannot Catch Fire': Imagination, Faith, and Teaching"
David I. Smith
Director, Graduate Studies in Education
Director, Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning
2013
Conference: "Virtues, Vices, and Teaching"
Held in October 2013, this conference explored the implications of a focus on virtues and vices for the way Christian teaching and learning are approached. Audio files (MP3) of the three plenary speakers (Jennifer Herdt, Yale Divinity School; L. Gregory Jones, Duke Divinity School; and David K. Naugle, Dallas Baptist University) are available at the Seminars at Calvin webpage.