2024 Colloquium: "Calvin and global christianity"
4 April-6 April
Calvin University and Seminary
Colloquium Details:
Accommodations:
1. Fairfield Inn ($104-109 per night)
(A) Book directly using this link (B) Call the hotel at 616-940-2700 and give them the 4-letter Group Code (CSSS).
*The hotel is the Fairfield Inn and Suites, the address is 3930 Stahl Dr SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546. With the reservation, guests receive complimentary parking at the hotel (usually $3 per night). They also receive a complimentary breakfast included with the room price.
*Colloquium rooms are held until March 3, 2024.
2. Calvin University Dorm Rooms
For the dorm rooms, call 616-526-6089 or email karin.maag@calvin.edu with "Dorm Room reservation request for CSS" in the subject line.
Parking:
Free parking is available near the seminary.
Transportation:
A shuttle will be available to take attendees to the seminary from the hotel in the morning before the start of the colloquium and will take attendees back after the last event or session of the day.
Colloquium schedule
A more detailed schedule will be provided to attendees upon arrival
All sessions will be held in the auditorium at Calvin Seminary; coffee breaks will take place in the lobby outside the auditorium; the banquet will be held at the Seminary. Lunch is available for purchase in the University Commons.
Thursday, 4 April 2024
10:00 am – 11:00 am Calvin Studies Society Board Meeting
11:00 am – 1:00 pm Arrivals and Registration
1:00 pm – 1:30 pm Welcome
1:30 pm – 2:45 pm Session 1: Sam Ha, Calvin Theological Seminary and Meeter Center, “The Very First ‘Calvinists’ in Korea?: Uncovering the Early Missionaries’ semi-Calvinism”
Session chair: Kirk Summers (University of Alabama)
2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15 pm – 4:30 pm Session 2: Polly Ha, Duke Divinity School, “Surveillance Calvinism: From Puritan Self-Scrutiny to Global Social Control?"
Session chair: Sujin Pak (Boston University)
Friday, 5 April 2024
9:00 am – 10:15 am Session 3: Danny Noorlander, SUNY Oneonta, "The Dutch Reformed Church and the Atlantic Slave Trade"
Session chair: Karin Maag (Meeter Center)
10:45 am – noon Session 4: Deborah Hamer, New Netherland Institute, "Secrecy, Transparency, and the Space Between in the Records of the Reformed Church in the Dutch Global Empire"
Session chair: Christine Kooi (Louisiana State University)
noon – 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 – 2:00 pm Tour of the Meeter Center
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Session 5: Yudha Thianto, Calvin Theological Seminary, "Many Versions for One Message: Catechisms and Their Roles in the Spread of Calvinism in the Dutch East Indies."
Session chair: Jennifer McNutt (Wheaton College)
3:15 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
3:30 pm – 4:45 pm Session 6: Graduate Student Presentations
Manuel Gallardo (Calvin Theological Seminary), “The Educational Ethos of Reformed Protestantism: From Calvin’s Geneva to the Early Modern Dutch Colonization of the East Indies”
Yucheng Bai (Duke), “American City on a Chinese Hill: Calvinist Fundamentalism in Chinese Christianity”
John David (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), “Reformed Conviction and the Establishment of an Interdenominational Seminary in Northern Nigeria: The TCNN Controversy”
Session chair: Kenneth Woo (Pittsburgh Theological Seminary)
4:45 pm – 5:15 pm Calvin Studies Society Business Meeting
5:45 pm – 7:30 pm Colloquium Banquet
Saturday, 6 April 2024
8:30 am – 9:45 am Session 7: Graduate Student Presentations
Joohyung Lee (Calvin Theological Seminary), “Global Calvinism and the Development of Gisbertus Voetius’s View on Missions”
David Chrisna (Baylor), “Reformed Tradition and Global Christianity? A Study of the Application of Reformed Orthodoxy in Colonial Java Using the Principles of Translatability and Polycentricity”
David Roh (Calvin Theological Seminary), “The Sacramental Renaissance that Calvinism Brought to the Eighteenth-Century Colonial America: Frelinghuysen’s and Edwards’s Attempt to Restore the meaning of the Lord’s Supper and its Consequences”
Session chair: Yudha Thianto (Calvin Theological Seminary)
10 am – 11:15 am Session 8: Charles “Hal” Parker, St. Louis University, "The Religious Geographies of Calvinist Missions in the Seventeenth Century"
Session chair: Amy Nelson Burnett (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
11:15 am Closing
Presenters
Polly Ha
Polly Ha is Associate Professor of History in the Divinity School and History Department at Duke University and a MacDonald Senior Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University. Ha’s work focuses on the construction of diverse confessional and ecclesiastical traditions and longer-term implications of the Reformation and post-Reformation world. Her forthcoming book,Futurescaping Freedom, explores the dynamic and universalizing nature of liberty across a multiplicity of temporalities and contexts among independent thinkers in the English Revolution. She has published widely on Reformation reception, is chief editor of Reformed Government and The Puritans on Independence, and recently edited Remapping British Protestant Thought in the Long Reformation. She holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from the University of Cambridge..
Charles H. Parker
Charles H. Parker is Professor of History at Saint Louis University. His research interests focus on the religious and cultural history of early modern Europe and cross-cultural interactions in world history. His research has been funded by the Institute for International Education, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Spencer Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study. His latest book is Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800 (Yale University Press, 2022).
Deborah Hamer
Dr. Deborah Hamer is Director of the New Netherland Institute in Albany, New York, where she is responsible for initiatives aimed at identifying, preserving, digitizing, and translating Dutch language documents in repositories around the world as well as advancing scholarship on New Netherland and its place in the Atlantic world. Deborah received her B.A. from Brandeis University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral fellow at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture.
D.L. Noorlander
D. L. Noorlander is associate professor of History at SUNY Oneonta, where he teaches classes on colonial America and the Atlantic world. His first book, Heaven's Wrath, is about the relationship between the Reformed Church and the Dutch West India Company (1621-1674). His new book project is about the Dutch-Akan relationship on the Gold Coast in the 17th century.
Yudha Thianto
Yudha Thianto is P. J. Zondervan Chair and Professor of History of Christianity and Reformed Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. His general research project is on the spread of Reformed Protestantism in the East Indies in the seventeenth century. Currently he is focusing his study on the roles of non-ordained church workers in the advancement of the Dutch Reformed Church in the remote places of the East Indies. His most recent publications include An Explorer’s Guide to John Calvin (IVP, 2022), “Low-Level Church Workers in the Spread of Reformed Protestantism in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch East Indies,” Calvin Theological Journal, April 2023, and an edited volume, The Old Testament, Calvin, and the Reformed Tradition (Brill, June 2024 – forthcoming), which is the published essays of the 2019 Calvin Studies Society Colloquium.
Sam Ha
Sam Neulsaem Ha is a PhD candidate in the History of Christianity and Systematic Theology at Calvin Theological Seminary. He serves as the curator of the Meeter Center and the theological librarian for Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary. He has authored a number of articles on the Reformation and its theology such as Luther’s conversion history, Calvin’s atonement theology, the consolation of theology, and more. He has also presented on various topics, including matters on global Christianity. His book in Korean on young Calvin’s letters is soon to be published.