Presenters and Artists 2025

Artists

We're thrilled to feature in our conference gallery and chapbook the work of:

Margot McMahon
Emily Bissell Laird
Kelley Proaps
Dominik Juling
Clara Pahl
Chinwe Edeani
Sophia Špralja
Samuel Lau
Nicole Vickey
Cayla Bleoaja
Sarah E. Jones
Samuel Cheung

Presenters

Click on the image of the presenter to read their biography and paper abstract. You can view the conference schedule on the 2024 Conference tab. Recordings will be linked to each individual's page if available.

Adam Tatum

"The Theological Roots of the Housing Crisis in America"

Aili Channer

"'The Human Being as Microcosm of Creation: Eco-Theological Implications"

Ashtyn Adams

"Encountering the God Who Bleeds: A Feminist Eco-Theology of Creation and Preservation"

Benjamin Ball

"Look for Yourself: The Anti-Social Internet and its Ecology of Distrust as Protestant Inheritance"

Bruno Mello

"Hildegard von Bingen’s Trinitarian Theology of Creation"

Cayla Bleoaja

"What can a dialogue between biomimicry and deep incarnation tell us about the role of nature in human flourishing?"

Charles Martin

"Season of Creation: Liturgy and Cosmology in Relationship? An Episcopal Church Case Study'

Chijioke Elekwa Agbaeze

"Hexameral Perspectives on Creation Care and Kinship: A Contemporary Eco-Theological Reflection"

Chinwe Edeani

"Photo-walking: A Spiritual Practice of Attention, Beauty, and Place"

Dakota Ashley Limón

"Spiritual Care and Climate Loss: Navigating Mortality and Ecological Grief Through Existential Ecopsychology"

Donghyung Lee

"Climate Inequality and Commoning: A Theological Responsibility for Urban Social Disparities in U.S. Cities"

Emily Brookfield

"Flying Turtles and Lions Looking for Love: Natural Law, Moral Teaching, and Animals in the Fables of Babrius"

Emma Yeager

"Is Ragnarok Inevitable?: Perspectives on Ecological Preservation from the Medieval North"

Frédérique Ndatirwa

"The Land's Story, the Body's Burden: Eco-Womanism, Moral Injury, and Water Crises the in Indigenous Canada"

Kieran Halloran

"Creating Beyond Technology: Laudato Si’ and the Philosophical Challenges of Technology"

Kirke D. A. Elsass

"Environments of Confinement: A History of Cement, Ecology, and Theology in the Construction of Modern American Prisons"

Luna Patience

"Ritual Dominion: Factory Farming and the Hypothesis of Human Identity"

Madison Grace McNeece

"A Vision of Eden in Leviticus 23:9-15"

Qingxuan Wang

"Plowing Fields for the Sick (Our Lords): Exploring Theological and Ecological Spaces in Early Medieval Christian and Buddhist Hospitals"

Tilak Parekh

"Mandirs: Vehicles for Environmental Action"

Varsha Manglam

"A Vedic Eco-Philosophy: An Alternative Perspective on the Human-Nature Relationship"

Wai-Ying Ng

"Desolated Land and the Call to Responsibility for the Other in Isaiah 1–39"

Elinor (Elli) Itin

"#TradWife: Algorithmic Colonization, The Far Right, and the Modern Day Frontier Woman"

Sophia Špralja

Preservation, Conservation, and Ecology: Religious Imagery in Jacopo Bassano's The Flood of the Colmeda and the Okjökull Glacier Funeral Ritual