Causes, Purpose, Meaning: Interpreting The End(S) Of History

Date: November 15-16, 2018

Location: Denver, CO (Aloft Downtown, Strategy Conference Room)

Keynote address: Merold Westphal, PhD (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fordham University & Honorary Professor, Australian Catholic University)

Schedule:

8:30am – Welcome

8:45am – Introduction: Memory and Identity

“Collected and Communicative Memory”

– Ashlee Chism (Office of Archives, Statistics and Research, General Conference)

9:15-10:45am – Session 1: Practicing Interpretation

“What is History? Walter Utt’s Problem — And Ours”
– Eric Anderson (Pacific Union College)

“Naked in the Garden of the Past: Is There An Adventist Philosophy of History?”
– Nicholas Miller (Andrews Theological Seminary)

11:00-12:30pm – Session 2:  History and Finality

“Jean Baudrillard and the Illusion of the End”
– Aleksandar Santrac (Washington Adventist University)

“Secular Modernity, Jacob Taubes’ Eschatology and the Adventist Apocalypse”
– Daniel Mueller (University of Groningen, teaching assistant)

12:30-2:00pm – Lunch

2:00-3:30pm – Session 3: Nature, Metaphysics, and History

“The Value of God and Historical Method”
– David J. Hamstra (Andrews Theological Seminary, ThD student)

“Time, Meaning, and the Final Future”
– Richard Rice (Loma Linda University)

3:45-5:30pm – Session 4

Keynote Address: “Reason in History and History in Reason” – Merold Westphal (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Fordham University & Honorary Professor, Australian Catholic University)

Response: Abigail Doukhan (Queens College – CUNY)

5:30pm – Dinner followed by casual after-dinner discussion of papers