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Drew Theological School is pleased to host the

21st Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium (TTC)

Theme: Apocalypse Now and When

April 17-19, 2026

Drew University and Online
Event is Complimentary

Registration Required for Planning Purposes

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Invited panelists, including a number of Drew Theological School faculty and an array of prominent scholars from a variety of disciplines, will present and discuss recent work on the theme of “Apocalypse Now and When.” Dr. Catherine Keller of Drew Theological School will deliver the keynote address.

Whether as end-of-the-world hype or as empirically justified warning, the metaphor of “apocalypse” is not soon going away. Mounting threats both to the life of the planet and to democratic politics will continue to foment apocalyptic rhetoric. Responsible use of apocalypsis, informed by the ancient context of the metaphor and attuned to the immense and contradictory range of its present deployments, may be key to facing those threats. This conference will explore multiple histories and potentialities of apocalyptic/apocalypse as it crisscrosses disciplines and inflects public sensibility, theological and secular.

Confirmed presenters and respondents include:

James Ball, Content Creator, Climate Hope Together

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William Connolly, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University

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Jacob J. Erickson T‘18, Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics in the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin.

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Jon Gill

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Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Henry Anson Buttz Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, Drew Theological School

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Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew Theological School

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Stephen D. Moore, Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies, Drew Theological School

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Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Professor of English, Rice University

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Marcia Pally, Professor, New York University; Theology Faculty, Humbolt University

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Erin Runions, Nancy M. Lyon Professor of Biblical History and Literature; Professor of Religious Studies, Pomona College

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Robert Paul Seesengood G’00,’04, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Teaching Professor of Bible & Cultures, Drew Theological School

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Kathryn Tanner, Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School

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John Thatamanil, Professor of Theology & World Religions Director, Union Theological Seminary

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O’neil van Horn T’17,’21, Assistant Professor of Theology, Xavier University

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Karen Bray G‘10, former Associate Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Social Change, Wesleyan College

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Schedule of Events

Friday, April 17

1:30-3:30 p.m. ET | Graduate Student Panel 1 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Rose Sharon, “On the Eternal Gift and Curse of Basanos”
Beth Quick, “Animals in the End”
Susan Chang Saridakis, “After the Unveiling, Now What?”
Yajenlemla, “What’s in a Name? “Jezebel” and Coloniality, Then and Now”
Tyler Heston Wolf, “Dazzling Ruins: Queer Worldmaking in Between Revelation and
Revelations”

3:30-3:45 p.m. ET | Break

3:45-5:45 p.m. ET | Graduate Student Panel 2 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Eun Sung Han, “The New Jerusalem and the Border Wall: The Colonial Matrix of Power in
Revelation 21:9-22:5”
Bethany E. M. Davy, “Apocalyptic Migration: Malleable Rhetoric for a [White] Christian
Nationalist State”
Bryant Burkhart, “Apocalyptic Obsessions: Prophetic Theology after Unveiling”
Lerato Pitso, “The Blackness of the Future: African Temporality, Process and Worldmaking
beyond Apocalypse”
Fellipe dos Anjos Pereira, “Apocalypse as Extramodern Cosmogram”

6-7:30 p.m. ET | General Welcome Reception | Mead Hall

7:30-8:30 p.m. ET | TTC Keynote | Mead Hall, Founders Room
Welcome | Edwin David Aponte, Dean of the Theological School
Introduction of Dr. Keller | Robert Paul Seesengood
“Apocalypse Now…and When” | Catherine Keller

Saturday, April 18

10 a.m. – 12 p.m. | TTC Panel 1 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Apocalyptic Roots: Beginning(s) of the End – Revisited

Kathryn Tanner, Respondent and Facilitator

“The Book of Job as Antidote to Apocalypse” | Marcia Pally
“Revisioning Punitive Space: Apocalyptic Visions in Slave Narratives” | Erin Runions
“Inhabitants of the Earth: Apocalypse, Climate, Displacement and Mobility Justice” | Jacob J. Erickson

12-1:30 p.m. ET | Lunch (TTC panelists gather in Mead Hall, Founders Room)

1:30-3:30 p.m. ET | TTC Panel 2 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Apocalypse (Mostly) Where You Expect to Find It

Robert Paul Seesengood, Respondent and Facilitator

“The Damned of the Earth and the Necroapocalypse of John | Stephen D. Moore
“Ordinary Apocalypses: Exercises of Noticing” | O’neil van Horn
“Gravity Down? Rapture and the Revelation of the Heavens” | Melanie Johnson-Debaufre

4-6 p.m. ET | TTC Panel 3 | Seminary Hall, Craig Chapel
Apocalypse Next

Karen Bray, Respondent and Facilitator

“Title Forthcoming” | Jon Gill
“Unveiling Climate Activism, Revealing an Apocalypse of Love” | James Ball
“Title Forthcoming” | John Thatamanil

6-7:30 p.m. ET | Dinner for TTC panelists | Mead Hall, Founders Room

Sunday April 19

10 a.m.-12 p.m. ET | TTC Panel 4 | Craig Chapel
“General Conversations, Next Steps: What Happens after an Apocalypse?”
Catherine Keller and Robert Paul Seesengood, facilitators

Cutting-edge contributions from past years of the TTC at Drew are available in a series of volumes published by Fordham University Press. Representatives from Fordham will be in attendance with the intent to publish contributions from this event.