The 2024 CSS Colloquium will be held at Calvin Theological Seminary on 4 April - 6 April 2022, focusing on the theme of "Calvin and Global Christianity". Details can be found on the Colloquium webpage.
The 2022 CSS Colloquium will be held at Wheaton College on 31 March - 2 April 2022, focusing on the theme of "Calvin, Women, and Gender". Details can be found on the Colloquium webpage.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Papers on Calvin and Calvin Studies for the Eleventh RefoRC Conference | May 4-6, 2022
The Calvin Studies Society solicits proposals for paper presentations for a thematic panel for the Eleventh Annual RefoRC conference, to be held in Berlin, Germany, from May 4-6, 2022. We welcome proposals for original papers (not previously published or read at a conference) in any area of Calvin or Calvin studies for 20-minute oral presentation at the conference. The language of the conference is English, but papers may also be delivered in French or German.
Information on the conference can be accessed at RefoRC’s website: https://reforc.com/events/eleventh-annual-reforc-conference-on-early-modern-christianity-2/ Please note that those selected for the panel will need to pay their own conference and travel expenses. We ask that you not register for the conference until you have been notified that your proposal has been placed on the CSS-sponsored panel.
Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and should state the main research question to be addressed in the paper. Please submit your paper title and abstract along with your name, e-mail address, telephone number, and brief CV to Dr. Yudha Thianto, President of the Calvin Studies Society, at yudha.thianto@trnty.edu.
Deadline for submitting proposals for the Calvin Studies-sponsored session is January 5, 2022.
Calvin Studies Society: http://www.calvinstudiessociety.org/
Calvin Studies Society Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/CalvinStudies/
From Karin Maag, Director, H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies
This fall, the Meeter Center for Calvin Studies in Grand Rapids is inaugurating a series of live Zoom sessions on Reformation topics. Each session will feature one or more scholars talking about their recent work. You are warmly invited to join the first of these, namely the Meeter Center-sponsored moderated Zoom session on Baptism in the Reformation Era on Thursday, September 24th at 3:30 pm EST, featuring Dr. Lyle Bierma and Dr. Yudha Thianto.
Lyle Bierma is professor of historical theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. His upcoming book, Font of Pardon and New Life: John Calvin and the Efficacy of Baptism will be published by Oxford University Press in early 2021. He will discuss Calvin’s theology of baptism. Yudha Thianto is professor of theology at Trinity Christian College, and is researching the practice of Reformed baptism in seventeenth-century Java. After each of them speak for twenty minutes, we will host a moderated Q & A, followed by a time of discussion. Plan on using the chat feature to submit your questions and insights.
Please use the following link to sign up for this live Zoom session event:https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A084CA4A62FA6FA7-meeter. If you are not available on September 24 but want to watch/listen to the recording of the session, we will post the link to the recorded session on our Facebook and Twitter pages. There are 96 slots available, so sign up early if you want to be sure that you can participate.
The 2019 CSS Colloquium on the theme of "Calvin and the Old Testament" was held at Trinity Christian College on 11-13 April 2019. The following presentations were featured:
Sujin Pak – “Calvin Beyond Literal and Allegorical Readings: Calvin and Old Testament Metaphors”
Michael VanderWeele – “What Can Literary Studies Learn from Calvin's Reading of Deuteronomy?”
Jeff Fisher – “Calvin and Oecolampadius on the Servant Songs in Isaiah”
Paul Lim – “Reading Genesis on the Trinity in Post-Reformation England”
Christine Kooi - “Who were the Israelites in the Netherlandish Reformation?”
Scott Manetsch – “Pastoral Principles and Practice in Calvin’s Commentaries on the Jewish Prophets”
Thomas Davis – “For the Beauty of the Earth: Creation, Humankind, and Calvin in the Work of Marilynne Robinson”
Todd Billings – “A True Anatomy of the Soul?: The Place of Anger in Calvin's Interpretation of Lament Psalms”
