Papers
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and WorkshopsListed below are the papers and workshops that have been reviewed and accepted for the conference. We encourage you to sign up for these and other parts of the programme that involve choice by Sunday 20 June. After this date all remaining signing up will be done upon registration at the conference.
We continue to welcome submission of proposals for papers and workshops focussed on one of the three streams. Submissions should be made through this website as soon as possible. The final date for submissions has been extended to Friday 7 May. Any receive after this date will only be accepted if space permits. Please encourage other chaplains to offer a paper or workshop at the conference.
If you have made a submission and have not heard from Erich von Dietze, the Workshops Coordinator, within 2-3 weeks of submission, please contact him to check on the progress of your submission.
In order to make navigating the paper and workshop details a little more manageable, they have been grouped according to stream and then in mostly alphabetical order of title. Papers that were submitted later appear at the end of each section.
A presentation schedule and sign-up form will be available a month or so before the date of the conference to enable participants to sign up for paper and workshop sessions before they arrive. It will be possible to sign up for workshops and papers on arrival, but the range of choices may be limited as room size and presenter preference will limit the numbers in some sessions.
| Title | About the Presenter(s) | time/type | Abstract |
| J1. A Deeper Self in a Broader World |
Rev. Lamont Koerner is a Campus Pastor with Lutheran Campus Ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, University of Minnesota (USA). | 1 hr workshop | We are like stones being skipped across a pond. Touching down only briefly in seemingly unrelated spots. Dilettantes extraordinaire we sample mission trips, dabble in service projects, taste of Bible study, and experiment with worship. Seduced by cultural forces, exhausted by the speed of life, we skip over much that could integrate our more... |
| J2. Advocacy: An Essential Ministry In
Academia |
Richard Bowyer is Campus Minister, Farimont (WV) State University, USA. | 1 hr workshop | In an increasingly marketplace environment and often impersonal context, students, faculty and staff frequently need an Advocate who will act or assist them in acting in places or situations to resolve problems or receive fair treatment. Minorities in any given context more... |
| J3. An Eco-justice of Learning; establishing new systems of relationship in the university | Rev Gareth Dyer is Free Church Chaplain (Baptist, Methodist, United Reformed) in the ecumenical team serving the University communities in Manchester U.K. | 1 hr paper | This paper suggests that issues of eco-justice have highlighted shortcomings in western ethics, specifically in Christian ethics. It goes on to suggest that learning models of the environment provide a valuable way of understanding of eco-justice. Such a model offers a challenge to current understandings of the university and its methods more... |
| J4. Chaplaincy and Philosophy reclaimed | Rev. Erich
Kasirye has been Chaplain to Victory Academy, Kitemu SS and now Lubiri SS |
1/2 hr paper | In the PostModern world, the twin pressures of secularization and pluralism have inhibited Chaplaincy in tertiary institutions as spirituality gets floated free from philosophy. Consequently, the language, meaning and tradition of chaplaincy has fallen into some kind more... |
| J5. Eco-theology and the Environment –
a place for the university? |
Matthew Wilson is Chaplain to regional campuses of Charles Sturt University (Albury) & LaTrobe University (Wodonga) Australia. | 1 hr workshop | The environmental movement has gained significant profile in the general community, and in political power and awareness around the globe over the past 30 years. Alongside this growing scientific, community and political awareness has been a development – at least more... |
| J6. Faithful Extension | Ed Den Haan is a Christian Reformed Campus Minister at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. | 1 hr workshop | Our stature on campus in Guelph has improved greatly while a Multi Faith Resource Team. In Canada, separation of the sacred and secular has eroded religious faith from public life. Morals are now based on public demand and directions are set to enhance our national economic more... |
| J7. From Covenant to Contract : Administrative
Mobbing in the Academy |
Andrew Taylor was until this year the Anglican Chaplain and Director of Theological Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. | 2 hr workshop | Fundamental idea is to do with the seeming growth of harassment in the workplace, and especially in the modern university. How this affects those whose understanding of that relationship is a covenantal rather than a contractual model, and how this understanding can sometimes more... |
| J8. "Just Tucker (Food)" events
on campus |
Rev Judy
Redman is currently serving as Uniting Church chaplain to the University
of New England, Armidale, NSW Australia. |
1 hr workshop | Tucker (Aussie for 'food') is a program that aims to provide a chance for people to respond in a positive and empowering way to issues of poverty and injustice; raise awareness about what the Bible has to say about poverty and injustice; raise money for more... |
| J9. Listening to Country, Listening to Heart: dialogue that takes land and people seriously | Polly Walker is a specialist in intercultural conflict transformation who taught at the University of Queensland from 1997-2003. Bruce Coriell serves as the Chaplain at Colorado College, USA. | 2 hr workshop | Studying indigenous culture runs the dual risks of romanticism as one idealizes the value of native traditions and fatalism as one despairs over the overwhelming social stresses on indigenous communities. Genuine understanding avoids these dangers by situating learning in the more... |
| J10. Walking With My Brothers and Sisters | Valerie Powidzki is a member of Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth and presently a Chaplain at the University of Western Sydney in Australia. | 1 hr paper | A paper based on my experience of 2 months in the Philippines working with the poor and integrating this experience into the University Chaplaincy - a sharing of my experience after being invited to spend 2 months in Dec '03 and January '04 working with the poorest of the more... |
| J11. Student Empowerment through Participatory Methodology | Jerald Joseph
from Malaysia is a very experienced trainer. He has been Director of ASPBAE's
Basic Leadership Course for the last 2 years. |
2 hr workshop | Geared to explore the participatory methodologies
that are utilised in workshop processes. It will look at justice issues
in the Asian context I.e racial discrimination/caste, conflict issues and
see how the learning methods have a role to play in encouraging and empowering
students more... |
| J12. Empowering The Marginalised In The Campus: Synthesising Our Experience And Pedagogy. | Rev. Fr.
V. Henry Jerome SJ is the National Chaplain of All India Catholic University Federation known as AICUF. |
1 hr paper | Ostracisation, displacement, oppression, dehumanisation and vulnerability are the marks of the marginalised students in the campus especially in India. By marginalised, we mean Dalits (the former untouchables), the tribals (the indigenous people), women and Refugees. The on-going search more... |
| J13. Chaplaincy in Africa: A Success Story of Africa University | Rev Dr Phillimon.T. Chikafu is the Chaplain at Africa University, a United Methodist related institution and part-time lecturer in the faculty of Theology. | 1 hr paper | Africa University is a small institution of higher learning located on the Eastern border town of Mutare in Manicaland province, Zimbabwe. It was created through a resolution of the General Conference of the United Methodist Church in 1988. In 1992, the university opened its doors to the first students in the faculty of Theology and Agriculture more... |
| Title | About the Presenter(s) | time/type | Abstract |
| L1. Academically
Missional: Opening Space at the Centre of the Academy |
Dr.
John Valk is Campus Minister at the University of New Brunswick
and Senior Instructor in Worldview Studies at Renaissance College, University
of New Brunswick (USA). |
1 hr paper | Henri Nouwen states that schools should be "places where redemptive forms of society can be experimented with and offered to the modern world as alternative styles of life." That's an interesting concept - knowledge as redemptive. Gordon Smith further states that "we need to affirm more... |
| L2. A contextual framework for understanding
the role and function of Tertiary Chaplaincy for a global context? |
Tim Pettengell was inaugural Southland Tertiary Chaplain located in Invercargill, New Zealand. | WITHDRAWN | Chaplaincy has been traditional understood as an extension of parish based ministry. Thus the tendency is to use ecclesiastical models and conceptions to perceive and understand the role of chaplaincy and to define the tasks and responsibilities of a chaplain. more... |
| L3. A timely initiative: The placing and
funding of coordinating chaplains in Australian tertiary institutions. |
Rev'd Dr Barry Rogers is Tertiary Chaplaincy Coordinator for the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne; chaplain & psychologist at Monash University, Clayton (Australia) | 1 hr paper | Very few chaplaincy positions are directly funded by Australian universities, with most other full-time and fractional positions being funded by external faith bodies. This paper reviews the roles that a coordinating chaplain might have as a senior appointment within more... |
| L4. Engaging Cosmologies: An Indigenous
Epistemology |
Christine
Morris is a doctoral candidate and Shaun
McVeigh is a members of the teaching staff of School of Law, Griffith
University (Australia). |
1 hr workshop | Questions of cosmology, and how to address
them, are fundamental to both spiritual and practical existence of many
cultures and to the disciplines of theology and law. This community project
seeks to explore some of the ways in which the differing modes of engagement
with more... |
| L5. Fundamental Mysteries and
the Religious Quest |
Howard
Taylor is a full time University Chaplain in Edinburgh and Glasgow,
Scotland. |
2 hr workshop | Using the writings of atheist philosophers (especially Bertrand Russell) this workshop looks at the important and interesting questions about reality that are, in principle, beyond the scope of natural science and asks how they may prompt the religious quest even among more... |
| L6. Holding the Liminal Experience For
Others: The Gift of Holy Listening |
Anne Franks is acting Dean in the School of Christian Studies and Pastoral Care Coordinator at Christian Heritage College in Brisbane, Australia. | 1/2 hr paper | Victor Turner (1974) identified the state of liminality (rooted in the Latin word for threshold) as being the experience of being betwixt and between, where the old world has been left behind and the new has not yet come. By their very nature, undergraduate university years are more... |
| L7. In the Company of Strangers:
Toward a Theology of Hospitality on Campus |
Jan Rivero is the United Methodist Campus Minister at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, NC. | 1 hr paper | This is a theological reflection on what it means to have a ministry of hospitality on a state university campus. Despite appearances to the contrary, the university campus is, by and large, a community of strangers. Identifying several marks of Christian hospitality, this paper builds a more... |
| L8. Lord, Have Mercy! Praying Inclusively
(and with Integrity) on Public University Occasions |
Charles Wallace has been Chaplain at Willamette University in Oregon, USA, since 1985. | 1hr paper | One of the toughest liturgical jobs facing chaplains in post-modern multi-cultural universities is the expectation that we pray – whether to open an academic year or a graduation ceremony or to mark any number of occasions in between. How do we pray in a way that welcomes more... |
| L9. Spirituality in a Multi-Cultural University |
Fr. Jim
O'Neill is part of the Roman Catholic campus ministry team at St.
Mark's College at the University of British Columbia, Canada. |
1 hr workshop | At the University of British Columbia, a large public campus, there are a number of cultures and religions represented. Mainstream Christian, Muslim and Jewish faith groups practise their religions on campus but the large majority of students are non-practising and uninformed about more... |
| L10. The Use Of Psychodrama In Doing Pastoral Care With College Students And Staff | Dr. Stephen
Weisz is Chaplain and Professor of Religious Studies, Tusculum College
Greeneville, Tennessee USA. |
2 hr workshop | I will ask participants in this workshop to present stories or give personal accounts of student and/or staff conflicts, relational problems, spiritual struggles within the college campus context and we will have participants take roles and "act out" these issues in a supportive setting more... |
| L11. University Chaplaincy - a Strategic Presence | Revd. Dr. Maggie Stringer is Methodist Chaplain at Sheffield University (UK) and Minister to local churches. | 1 hr paper | In Britain, Universities are experiencing a crisis of identity through Government policies to create a mass system of Higher education managed according to global competitive free market principles. Academics are to sustain the pursuit of excellence whilst meeting entrepreneurial more... |
| L12. University Memorial Services - Challenges
and Opportunities! |
Fr Dom Carrigan CSSR is a Catholic priest who has worked as a chaplain at the University of Newcastle, Australia, since 1991. | 1 hr workshop | Death is part of life. When it affects University personnel, chaplains are sometimes asked to conduct memorial services. This workshop is based on three (3) memorial services: 1) where the family allowed a memorial service provided it had 'no religion'; 2) where the more... |
| L13. Whole People Matter: Learning from chaplaincy in Further / Vocational / Community education contexts | Anthea Turner was the UK Churches' National Adviser in Further Education from 1998-2003 | 1 hr workshop | Overview of published national ecumenical project (2002-2003) with staff in 19 English Further Education colleges, exploring the values dimension in curriculum, through qualifications, non-examined courses, citizenship, tutorials and extra-curricular activities. more... |
| L14. Christ as the centre of the university | Mike Pietsch has for more than a decade been the co-ordinator of Lutheran university chaplaincy to the ten campuses in South Australia. | 1 hr paper | Dietrich Bonhoeffer maintained that Christ is not to be pushed to the edges of the university, but to be found in at its very centre. Even though the centrality of Christ may not be obvious (or even denied), the church is to continue to affirm and point to this reality. Christ is a more... |
| L15. The Challenges of University Chaplaincy
/ Campus Ministry |
Rev Dr. Menson Mpofu belongs to the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe and is the senior ecumenical chaplain at Midlands State University (MSU). | 1 hr paper | “The future of our nation depends on the quality of nurturance of leadership development of young people as it relates to the many social, economic and political challenges of nation building”. Definitions for leadership. The University Chaplaincy/Campus Ministry conducts more... |
| L16. Universities & Chaplaincy In Asia |
Alexis Egerton
Lancelot Perera, SJ is the Catholic Chaplain of the University of
Peradeniya, which is the largest University in Sri Lanka |
1 hr paper | What are Asian universities like? How are they both similar & different to Western universities? Is there a particularly 'Asian' concept of university? What is the Asian concept of chaplaincy / pastoral support. How does chaplaincy function in Asian universities? How does chaplaincy address more... |
| L17. Explore the REEF! Respect, Engagement,
Education and Formation in multi faith learning |
John McCarthy is Roman Catholic Chaplain at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. Jonathan Frost is Anglican Chaplain at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. | 1 hr workshop | The workshop seeks to present and argue for key principles in the development of multi faith chaplaincy provision: Respect, Engagement, Education and Formation. Through video, narrative and theoretical inputs, the journey taken in one particular English Higher Education context more... |
| Title | About the Presenter(s) | time/type | Abstract |
| F1. An open conversation about our experiences
of multi-faith chaplaincy in secular settings, identifying and clarifying
emerging issues and finding support. |
Geoff Boyce has been chaplain to Flinders University since 1997, appointed by the Uniting Church, and has been engaged in a process of "re-imagining" tertiary chaplaincy in times of change since. | 1 hr workshop | Four years ago chaplaincy at Flinders University
changed from an ecumenical Christian to a Multifaith Chaplaincy Service.
We now have Christian, Buddhist, Pagan and Sikh chaplains on campus. In
this workshop we begin a conversation among participants by sharing more... |
| F2. Bridging the Divide: God, Science,
and the Space Between |
Jeffrey C. Pugh is Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina (USA). | 1/2 hr paper | One of the spaces today that exists for the interaction of faith communities and the academic setting is found in the burgeoning discussion taking place between the sciences and religion. Fuelled by the Templeton Foundation and newly emerging societies, the discussion more... |
| F3. Does God heal today? The role of faith
and forgiveness. |
Beverley Paterson works as a nurse and is a part-time Chaplain at Newcastle University, NSW (Australia). | 1 hr workshop | On campus we minister to both staff & students. Those who come to us for help usually have emotional, spiritual, physical or relational problems. Sometimes all they want is a listening ear and assurance that God is with them. Other times they may be ready to do some work on their more... |
| F4. Establishing a multi-faith centre:
a cautionary tale for chaplains |
Patricia
Blundell has been Ecumenical co-ordinating chaplain at Griffith
University since 1994. |
1/2 hr paper | The Multi-Faith Centre at Griffith University will, it is hoped, provide an ideal place for inter-religious dialogue. Indeed its establishment has involved a practical exercise in inter-religious co-operation and dialogue already. This paper offers a reflection on the establishment phase of more... |
| F5. Exploring the Hidden Heart of Youth,
A journey through Visual Arts |
Andrew Beiers has been involved in Youth work for 10 years and been Campus Minister at Australian Catholic University for 7 years. | 1 hr workshop | This workshop will explore youth spirituality
via media, video, art and music. It will engage participants in their own
personal experiences as well as equip them with a series of resources and
activities they can use on camps or retreats. |
| F6. Harmony and Faith - Living and Leaning
Together on Campus |
Leonie-Ruth Acland is coordinator, Spiritual Meeting Place (incorporating Chaplaincy) and manager, Harmony and Faith Project, University of Canberra (Australia). | 1/2 hr paper | The University of Canberra was awarded a grant of $43,000 for a twelve month period beginning in Dec 2003 under the Living in Harmony Community Grants. These are given to encourage local communities to promote harmony between people and groups from different religious more... |
| F7. "I'm religious--how
do you spell that?": remedial education and student leadership in religious
diversity. |
Jan
Fuller Carruthers is the Chaplain at Hollins University in Roanoke,
Virginia (USA), where she has served for 17 years. |
1 hr workshop | Our universities are increasingly religiously diverse, populated largely by students who know little about their own traditions. In this workshop, I will propose models that engage students in learning about belief and practice from each other in multi-faith education, dialogue, more... |
| F8. Islamic Concept of Chaplaincy |
Abdul Hai
Patel has been Muslim Chaplain at the University of Toronto &
Whitby Mental Health Centre, Canada since 1997. |
1 hr workshop | The word "Chaplain" has no Islamic origin or base and is not synonymous with Imam or Shaikh. However, as Islam is a way of life, there will always be a role for a Chaplaincy or Religious Leader. I will attempt to explain this role relative to Campus life. In Islam there are four levels more... |
| F9. Multiple Religious Belonging –
extending the spectrum of spirituality |
Rev Tom Sherwood is ecumenical Chaplain, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer in the Sociology of Religion | 1/2 hr paper | It has been called "fusion faith"
(Emberley, 2002: 148-202), "multiple religious belonging" (Cornille,
2002) and "double religious belonging" (Cornille, 2003). In "Life
of Pi," the adolescent title character seems to be becoming Hindu,
Christian and Muslim at the same time. His father more... |
| F10. Recalling and Reclaiming our Stories
from the Academy. |
Reverend Malcolm L. Frazier is Methodist Campus Minister at Howard University in Washington, DC (USA). | 2 hr workshop | The theological foundation of the workshop is the power of biblical narrative to transform. The participants will get an appreciation for the contextual and narrative uniqueness of the college and university experience. The workshop aims to show how our shared stories can build more... |
| F11. Reinventing tolerance - working inclusively
in a multi-faith higher education setting |
Erich
von Dietze is University Chaplain at Curtin University in Western
Australia. |
1 hr paper | Chaplains commonly claim to be tolerant and inclusive of those of other faiths. How do we define tolerance and inclusiveness? How do we identify when they are occurring? This paper seeks to address these issues in three parts: 1) I sketch some background ideas examining society’s more... |
| F12. Sacred space in the university: conception
and construction |
Matt Ward
is Anglican Chaplain at Coventry University in the UK. |
1/2 hr paper | When we talk of sacred space we speak of space that has religious power conferred upon it by rites of protection and prohibition (Lefebvre). Creating sacred space within a multi-faith environment presents challenges to the way in which we conceive of space and how we mark its more... |
| F13. Samurai (warrior) and the Christian
Faith |
Prof. Nobu T. Imaizumi is a professor-chaplain and teaches Christian Studies in his University. | 1 hr workshop | To many westerners Japan and Japanese remain to be an enigma. It's been only slightly over 100 years since the Christian faith was formally introduced here. Many Japanese, even though they have accepted the Christian faith, have a hard time accepting it fully, because more... |
| F14. Storytelling as a means of experiencing
a 'divine-human' encounter. |
Mavis Lee
is Lay Catholic Chaplain and Senior Lecturer, Nursing, at St.Martin's College,
Lancaster (UK). |
1 hr paper | This paper will present links between storytelling and pastoral care. Through literature and reflections a framework has been developed to add an 'academic thread' to the natural ability of people to tell a personal story. The evidence source from the theories and concepts of more... |
| F15. The End of Church? Exploring the Place
and Practice of Christianity in Higher Education |
Dr. Willis (Bill) Van Groningen is currently Director of Ministry Development for the Christian Reformed Church’s mission work in North America. | 1 hr paper | A few years ago, Francis Fukyama published a paper entitled “The End of History.” He was not making an apocalyptic statement, but rather suggesting that social development had progressed to its ultimate expression in (Western/American) democracy. Hence, this form more... |
| F16. The University as a Spiritual Place |
Tom Oosterhuis has been Christian Reformed chaplain at the University of Alberta (Canada)for more than 28 years, and a sessional lecturer in theology for 10 years. | 2 hr workshop | The university is articulating a spirituality whether it admits to this or not. For many universities today, including my own, (the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada), the implicit spirituality is one that is shaped by the bottom line. In a white paper that provided a 10 year plan, more... |
| F17. What Works: Using creativity in performing and healing arts in the campus ministry centre | Beth Cooper is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, USA and is serving a Wesley Foundation. | 2 hr workshop | We live in a world under the fear of terrorism. There are many within our campus ministry centres that live with anxiety, fear, anger, and loss. Many struggle with addictions and those things that abuse the body, mind, and soul. Because we all have had loss, we are all more... |
| F18. Wonder and Other Life Skills: Nurturing the Spiritual Lives of College Students through Retreats and Creative Arts | Rev. B. Kathleen Fannin is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and has been the seventh Chaplain of Monmouth College (USA) since 1998. | 2 hr workshop | From the time they set foot on campus, college students have their attention pulled in many directions as they sort out issues of leaving home, living with a roommate, wanting to fit in, finding time to study, choosing co-curricular activities, encountering people of other cultures more... |
| F19. Chaplain as a Faith Builder |
Fr.
P. Edmund Tillekeratne is a Roman Catholic Priest. He works in a Parish and as a Chaplain to University students in the Archdiocese of Colombo. |
1 hr paper | Chaplains journey with their students in their search for spiritual nourishment. This journeying together with students helps to deepen their faith in a given milieu. How can this be achieved? Students encounter conflicts between their high standards of knowledge of more... |
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