In-person November Annual Meeting 2026 Program Book

The 2026 November Annual Meeting in Denver, CO: Friday, November 20 - Tuesday, November 24. All times are listed in Mountain Time Zone. For more information about the November Annual Meeting, co-hosted with the Society of Biblical Literature, click here.

Please note that this is the preliminary schedule and is subject to change. We anticipate a mostly final schedule in mid-August. If you have any questions, please contact annualmeeting@aarweb.org. For Other Events, your event is not confirmed until you received notification from AAR staff.

Friday, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Colorado Conference Center, 702 (Street… Session ID: M20-200
Other Event
Papers
Ietsism and Theology Without Walls
Karl Jaspers as a Resource for Theology Without Walls: Human Consciousness toward the Encompassing
The Interdependent God Produces an Interdependent Universe
From Planck to Planet: Toward a Nested Theory of Consciousness and Transcendence
Friday, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | Embassy Suites Denver Downtown, Cripple… Session ID: P20-201
Other Event

“Analogia Gloriae: T. F. Torrance’s Contribution to a Trinitarian Soteriology of Doxological Contrition”

Event Description:
Our annual lecture will be given by Rev. Dr. Khaled Anatolios, Notre Dame University
On the 30th anniversary of T. F. Torrance’s publication of his magisterial The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons and in the afterglow of last year’s 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Fr. Anatolios will offer a retrospective and prospective analysis of Torrance’s contribution to trinitarian theology.
Khaled Anatolios is John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology and Chair of the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Deification through the Cross: An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation (Eerdmans), Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine (Baker), The Trinity in the Life of the Church (Baker), and Athanasius: The Coherence of His Thought (Routledge).

1:00-1:35 Business meeting for members
1:45-3:15 Lecture
3:20-4:00 Q & A
For more information: www.tftorrance.org

Friday, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM | Colorado Conference Center, Mile High… Session ID: A20-202
Roundtable Session

Museums are sacralizing institutions. They make decisions about what material culture will be preserved, set apart, and narrated as valuable, special, irreplaceable, priceless. Museums make the sacred throughout various forms of frontstage and backstage labor: from forming and maintaining collections to managing research access, curatorial choices and practices, and designing public exhibitions. The sacralizing work of museums is capacious, transecting contingent binaries such as religious-secular, religion-culture, religion-science, religion-heritage, and religion-politics. This pre-conference workshop invites participants who are interested in collaboratively exploring the ways in which museums perform sacralization.

Panelist

Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Colorado Conference Center, 205 (Street… Session ID: P20-204
Other Event

Paper Session 5A - Healing and Belonging in a Broken World - Healing, Grief, and Compassion 
Presiding: Zdravko Plantak, Loma Linda University
Paper #1: “With Healing in Its Wings” (Mal. 4:2): Reimagining the Bible for a Broken World 
Sigve Tonstad, Loma Linda University

Paper #2: Reimagining Presence: Adventist Chaplaincy and the Liturgical Form of Grief in Wartime Ukraine, Valentyna Kuryliak, Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Science

Paper #3: Known by their love?
Karen Holford, Trans European Division

Discussion (15 minutes)

Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM | Colorado Conference Center, 203 (Street… Session ID: P20-205
Other Event

Room B - Rethinking Church and Community in a Post-Church Age 
Presiding: Young-Chun Kim, Pacific Union College
Paper #1: My Jesus and I: Why do I need the Church?
Erhard Gallos, Andrews University

Paper #2: Reflections on the Institutional Church
Denis Fortin, Andrews University

Paper #3: Algorithms of Redemption: Reimagining Community and Theological Imagination in the Horizon of the Second Advent
Michael Swenson, Microsoft

Discussion (15 minutes)

Friday, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Sheraton Denver, Vail (I.M. Pei Tower -… Session ID: M20-201
Other Event

This panel examines how Dharma traditions mobilize imagination and intention to envision and enact sustainable futures. Drawing on classical texts, ethnographic case studies, and contemporary agrarian and legal discourse, the papers collectively demonstrate that Hindu and Jain intellectual and spiritual traditions offer not merely ethical guidelines but generative cosmologies — ways of imagining the human–nature relationship that carry transformative power. Chair: Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; Pankaj Jain, FLAME University, Pune, India; Gyanendra Tiwari, FLAME University, Pune, India; Veena Howard, Fresno State, CA; Raja Rosenhagen, Fresno State, CA