Program Schedule

THURSDAY, September 30

10:45am

Chapel: Marva Dawn

12:00pm

Local Pastors Lunch with Marva Dawn

(Webster's Commons President's Dinning Room)

1:00pm

Registration Opens (Commons)

1:30pm

Plenary Session 1:

(Webster Commons Heritage Room)

Brian Stone "Faith, Film & Literature"

2:30 - 4pm

Breakout Sessions

SESSION I - Theory and Film

(Ludwig Religion Building 226)

Session Chairperson: Les Dart -Southern Nazarene University

Harvey Solganick - LeTourneau University, Longview, Texas

"World Literature Through Film"

Matthew Key - Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena California

"The Films of Wes Anderson"

Albert Haley - Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas

"Hollywood or Holy-wood? Designing a Film Course for the Christian College"

SESSION II - Worship & the Word

(Ludwig Religion Building 206)

Joy Patterson - Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas

"Relating Medieval and Postmodern Approaches to the Reading of Biblical Text"

David Alexander - Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma

"Lessons in Art Making and Worship Giving"

Bryan Kirby - Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma

"Being the Church at Oklahoma Baptist University"

Snacks (Herrick Lobby)

4:15 - 5:15pm

Hypertext/Poetry Reading (Herrick 10)

John Crawford - Henderson State University

Albert Haley Abilene Christian University

Chris Willerton - Abilene Christian University

5:30-6:30pm

SWCCL Business Meeting/Dinner

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(Webster Commons President's Dining Room)

7:30pm

Public Lecture & Plenary Session 2 (Herrick Auditorium)

Marva Dawn - "Our Traditions"

FRIDAY, October 1

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast (Herrick Lobby)

8:30 - 10am

Breakout Sessions

SESSION III - Christian Pedagogy (Herrick 314)

A panel presentation by Jonathan Wade, Kyle Dickson and Debbie Williams - Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas
"To Eclipse the Phoenix: Christian Pedagogy in Online Courses"

SESSION IV - 19th Century Lit (Herrick 321)

Mark Hall - Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma

"A Perfect Fit: Pedagogical Possibilities for Work/Image Teaching

and the Pre-Raphaelites"

Mimosa Stephenson - University of Texas at Brownsville

"Love in the Brontes"

Lynn Teague - Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas

"Inaccessible, Unnamable Power: Shelley's Search for

Incarnation"

10:30am

Plenary Session 3: Ecumenical Worship Service

(Cantrell Hall)

Marva Dawn, Leader

David Alexander - Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma

LUNCH BREAK

1:30 - 3pm

Breakout Sessions

SESSION V - C.S. Lewis (Herrick 228)

Gwen Ladd Hackler -Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma

"Retelling the Sacred Story in C.S. Lewis; Till We

Have Faces"

Joe Christopher -Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas

"A Hermeneutical Approach to the Chronicles of Narnia

and Their Sources"

Larry Fink - Hardin-Simmons University, Abliene, Texas

"John Milton and C.S. Lewis on Education"

Duane McCampbell - Harding University, Searcy, Arkansas

"Ethics and C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves"

SESSION VI - American Literature (Ludwig Religion 209)

Gilbert Gigliotti - Central Connecticut State, New Britian, Connecticut

"Where's the Mall in the Suburbs of Glory? Teaching Edward Taylor in the 21st Century"

Fred R. MacFadden Jr., - Coppin State University, Baltimore, Maryland

"Hypertextus Receptus for the Study of Family Figures in American Literature"

SESSION VII - Spirituality in 20th Century Novels

(Herrick 321)

William Rankin - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

"The Modes of Love in Shoeless Joe"

Brent Gibson - University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, Belton, Texas

"Cold Mountain as Theodicy: Inman's Spiritual Journey"

SESSION VIII - Faith and Film (Herrick 317)

Session Chairperson: Brian Stone - Boston University?
William Hagen
- Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, Oklahoma

"Transcendence in Film"

William Rankin - Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas

"The One: Theological Reflections on the Matrix Trilogy"

Joanna Rempel - University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

"The Passion and the Sublime"

Snacks - (R.T. Williams Learning Resource Center Lobby)

3:30 - 5pm

Breakout Sessions

SESSION IX - Graphic Novel (Herrick 228)

Pam Bracken - Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma

"Introducing the Graphic Novel"

Johnathan Wade - Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas

"Depictions of Faith in the Graphic Bildungsroman"

SESSION X - Spirituality (Herrick 209)

Janna Smartt Chance - Rice University, Houston, Texas

"Gender and Religious Dissent in Mary Augusta Ward's Robert Elsemere"

Teresa Gibson - University of Texas Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas

"Explication of W.B. Yeat's Sailing to Byzantium and Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop"

7:30pm

Plenary Session 4 (Herrick Auditorium)

Bryan Stone - "Our Innovations"

An introduction to the movie: The Green Pastures (1936)

SATURDAY, October 2

Check out and/or tour Downtown OKC:

  • Oklahoma Museum of Art

  • Bricktown

  • Murrah Building Bombing Memorial

  • New Century Trolley Tour

  • Western Heritage Museum & Cowboy Hall of Fame

  • Cole's Garden

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