The annual conference for the Aotearoa-New Zealand Association of Biblical Studies is on again next week, on Monday 7 – Tuesday 8 December. It will be held at the University of Otago, Castle C Lecture Theatre. And it’s free – which makes it the best value biblical studies conference in the world.
Here’s the draft schedule:
Monday, 7 December
9:00 am welcome, name tags, numbers for conference dinner, etc.
9:30 am Gerard Ellis, “Paul and the Philippian Church on the Verge of the Sub-Apostolic Age”
10:30 am morning tea
11:00 am Sarah Hart, “The Tent of Meeting as a Word Picture”
12:00 pm John Hale, “John Milton’s Theology: Robbing Peter to Pay Paul?”
12:30 pm lunch
1:30 pm Yael Klangwisan, “Existential Philosophy and the Song of Songs”
2:00 pm John Barclay, “Paul and Alain Badiou”
3:00 pm Matt Easter, “If Not Pistis, then What?: An Investigation into ‘Unfaith[fulness]’ in the Book of Hebrews
3:30 pm afternoon tea
4:00 pm Tim Meadowcroft, “Bridging ‘the Ugly Ditch’: Reflections on Luke 1:1-4 and History”
5:00 pm conclusion
Evening: dinner (venue to be announced)
Tuesday, 8 December
9:00 am Mark Keown, TBA
9:30 am John Douglas, “Shadow, Substance, Coincidence, Significance: The infancy narratives of Samuel, John the Baptist, Jesus and ‘Mason Durie’s Tapa Wha model’”
10:30 am morning tea
11:00 am “Luke 19:8- Salvation or Vindication: The Ongoing Debate”
12: 00 pm Emily Colgan, “Contrasting Images of Land in Jeremiah 2:1-9”
12:30 pm lunch
1:30 pm AGM
2:00 pm James Harding, “Reading/Writing David and Jonathan with John Addington Symonds”
3:00 pm Tim Harris, “Ethos as theology: refocusing Pauline Theology”
3:[3]0 pm afternoon tea
4:00 pm Miriam Bier, “Towards a Hermeneutics of Participation: Lamentations as Resistant Conversation”
4:30 pm Paul Trebilco, “Self-Designation in Earliest Christianity”
5:00 pm conclusion
The Dunedin School 
sounds fun. i’m envious.
still no booking details for the two (particularly accommodation … they should both be in the Bog) in February?
Steph,
As far as I know, the two conferences in February are in no way connected. Check the original post for the psychology/philosophy meeting details.
Given this, and given how informal the B&CT seminar tends to be, I would imagine that booking accommodation and all that is going to fall entirely into your hands. You might also contact James Harding or Roland Boer directly about the Bog, given that both of them would likely be more help that Deane or myself.
Eric
Oh I was only joking about the Bog. Of course I know they’re not connected but at the moment I have no idea where to stay if I go to both which seems like a good idea having come all that way.
The two conferences are quite separate but it isn’t true that the science of religion conference has no input from the Religion programme – it is organised by James Maclaurin (Philosophy) and Greg Dawes (Philosophy and Religion). The contact is Jonathan Jong , and accommodation has been arranged at St Margarets. More details on the conference webpage.
Thanks Will
Will, Steph,
Sorry about the misinformation. I’ve edited my reply.
Will’s advice is good, Steph, and I would pursue inquiries through the conference website.
Eric
Thanks Eric, I’ll email Roland.