Conference Schedule

The conference will be held in the Phillips Building on the Emmanuel Hill side of campus (number 47 on the campus map).
Here is a link to the campus map.

NOTE: Conference schedule is subject to change as paper titles are submitted to the organizers.
If you would like to give a paper but are not on the schedule below please contact David Kiger: dwkiger@milligan.edu.

Friday October 10

9:00am-10:15—Registration/Coffee Hour—Seminary Library Conference Suite (Phillips Building) 

10:15-10:30—Opening Welcome Dr. Stephen Waers President of Milligan University

10:30am-12—Group A

• Jordan Wood: Gregory of Nyssa’s Distinctive Influence on Maximus the Confessor

• Alden Bass: The Gift of Tears: Augustine's Emotional Hermeneutics in Biblical Preaching

• Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent

12-1:30--Lunch 

1:30-3:00—Group B

• Marcus Plested: Theology of History in St Maximus the Confessor: Footnotes to Paul Blowers

• Alyssa Elliott:

• Fr. Andrew Summerson: King Uzziah the Theologian?: Ad Thalassium 48 in Maximus’s Theology and History of Reception

3:00-3:30—Coffee Break

4-5—Group C

• Mark Weedman: Nicene Trinitarianism in 2025: Rethinking the Structure of Pro-Nicene Thought

• Clifton Ward

• Daniel Edwards: Like Cities Laid Waste: Macarius' Christological Transformation of Platonic Metaphors

5:30-7:30—Dinner

7:30-9:30—After Dinner Reception

Saturday October 11

9am-10:30— Group D

• Samuel Pomeroy:  Maximus and Byzantine political theology or 20th and 21st century readers of Maximus’ on theology and race.

• Cody Glen Barnhart: Annotating Clement: Arethas of Caesarea and the scholia of Parisinus graecus 451 and Mutinensis III D7

• David Kiger: The Persians as the Christians Saw Them: (Re)-Locating Ephrem’s Context

10:30-11--Coffee Break

11—12:30—Group E

• David Eastman

• Taylor Ross

• Lee Blackburn

• Marius Portaru