Call for Papers
We here at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission sometimes get calls for papers that might be of interest to some of our viewers. They will be posted on this page as we get them. If YOU get a Call for Papers that you do not see appear here but that you think people in this community might be interested in, please email it to cgcm@bu.edu for posting.
REMINDER: Call for Presentations ~ American Society of Missiology Annual Meeting 2022
PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED: NOW DUE SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2022 The American Society of Missiology will meet June 17–June 19, 2022 at St. Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana. The theme for this year’s annual conference is: The Ongoing Conversion of the Missionary. For a full statement of the conference theme and details about the hybrid format, please visit the ASM website. Registration for the annual meeting will open in February 2022. Please consider joining! Call for Presentations We know that conversion is central to the Gospels. Ongoing conversion is the lifelong process that takes place in the lives of those who live in a dynamic relationship... More
Yale-Edinburgh Group Conference, 28-30 June 2022 World Christianity: Legacy and the State of the Field
The 2022 Yale-Edinburgh Group conference will offer a tribute to Andrew Walls and Lamin Sanneh, co-founders of the conference thirty years ago, as it engages with their legacy. This will be both retrospect and prospect. What have we learned from Walls, Sanneh, and their generation? In what ways has their legacy imposed limitations on the field, and in what ways do we need critically to consider new approaches to the study World Christianity? How have the approach, methods, and parameters of the study of World Christianity developed in recent years? For example, panels might consider the nature of translation as a predicate of the... More
The International Missionary Council (IMC) Centenary Conference Public Sessions, November 16-18, 2021
THE IMC CENTENARY CONFERENCE 2021 The global ecumenical online conference will last for three days, Nov.16-18, and feature three public webinars and eight regional sessions. The public lectures/sessions are as follows: Public Session #1 - November 16th, 7:45 am - 8:15 am EST. Lecture by Marina Ngursangzeli Behera, "From the Margins of the IMC," followed by a Q&A. Public Session #2 - November 17th, 9:30 am - 10:45 am EST. Lecture by Dana Robert, "What happened in Lake Mohonk and its outcome," followed by a Q&A. Public Session #3 - November 18th, 10:30 am - 12:15 pm EST. Panel Discussion, "The past, present and future... More
Fr Luke Veronis to Give IOTA Missiology Group Lecture on Thursday, October 28th
The IOTA Missiology Group extends a warm invitation to join their series of online IOTA Missiology Webinars this autumn 2021. The first speaker will be Fr Luke Veronis, Director of the Missions Institute of Orthodox Christianity at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. Fr Luke has written extensively on missiological topics and has served as a missionary in Albania and East Africa. Fr. Veronis is a member of the BTI’s Mission and Ecumenism Committee and he is also a DMin student at the Boston University School of Theology. The topic of his presentation will be: Welcoming the Stranger as Means of Witness:... More
“Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Nuns in United States History” Lecture by Shannen Dee Williams
The Cultures of American Religion group - with co-sponsorship from the Center for Research on Global Catholicism - is excited to announce that Dr. Shannen Dee Williams Associate Professor of History at the University of Dayton, will give a talk on November 11th, 2021, at 6pm CST entitled “Still Mining the Forgotten: Black Catholic Nuns in United States History.” All are invited and encouraged to attend. Dr. Williams chose to speak on November 11th in celebration of Black Catholic History month, and in honor of the fourth anniversary of the death of Sister Mary Antona Ebo, FSM. Dr. Williams is a noted scholar of African American history, who has published work in... More
2nd Annual Walls-Oden-Bediako Lecture in Early African Christianity
You are invited to join us for the 2nd Walls-Oden-Bediako in Early African Christianity. Theme: “African Voices in Early Christian Debates about God” Presenter: Dr. David L Eastman (McCallie School, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, and author of Early North African Christianity: Turning Points in the Development of the Church) Date and Time: Thursday, October 21, 2021, 2:30 PM (GMT) Venue: Please register here for the Zoom link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/african-voices-in-early-african-christian-debates-about-god-tickets-187020351907
United States Catholic Mission Association Conference on Mission and Migration, October 25-29, 2021
Join USCMA’s national dialogue on how the Church – and the missionary community within the church – can be in solidarity with the immigrant, migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker. Angels Unaware – Mission with People on the Move is an opportunity for FOCUS, REFLECTION, COMMUNITY, SPEAKERS, and COMPANIONS. The schedule provides the FOCUS for 13-hours of REFLECTION over five days. Monday, October 25th – SEE: From Noon ET to 5 pm (5 hours); Two Sessions, Networking, breaks. Wednesday, October 27th – HEAR: From Noon ET to 5 pm (5 hours): Two Sessions, Networking, breaks. Friday, October 29th – ACT: From Noon ET... More
Sung-Deuk Oak to Speak about Majority World Responses to Healing & Mission
Sung-Deuk Oak Speaking on Healing & Mission Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak ('02), Associate Professor of Korean Christianity and the holder of the Dongsoon Im and Mija Im Endowed Chair at UCLA, will speak on a panel discussing the Majority World's response to Healing and Mission at Fuller Seminary's Annual Mission Conference. Dr. Oak will be speaking on October 28th from 12:30-2pm, in Session 4. For more information and to register, visit the Fuller Mission Conference Webpage.
Announcing the Endowment of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission
The 20th Anniversary of the CGCM On October 1st, Boston University announced the endowment of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. The milestone was revealed on the 20th anniversary of the Center's founding. Opened in 2001 under the leadership of Dana L. Robert and Inus Daneel, the CGCM was the first Center of its kind in a research university in North America. Since its inception, the Center has expanded rapidly. It launched Boston University’s first digital humanities project, and has remained at the forefront of digital scholarship. Today, the Center and its various online research platforms receive more than one million... More
Announcing the Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Dana L. Robert
The CGCM is pleased to announce the publication of a festschrift in honor of Dana L. Robert: Unlikely Friends: How God Uses Boundary-Crossing Friendships to Transform the World. The volume is co-edited by David W. Scott ('13), Daryl R. Ireland ('15), Grace Y. May ('00), and Casely B. Essamuah ('03). The editors chose to honor Prof. Robert by using this book to develop an important theme in her scholarship: boundary-crossing friendships. They felt this was a significant theme that opens new vistas in the scholarship of the history of mission and world Christianity and also testifies to the possibility of connection... More