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3rd Annual Innovations: Emerging Scholars Conference

Wednesday, November 5, 2025
8:45 AM - 5:00 PM (EST)

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Schedule

8:45-9:00 am ET: Welcome

  • Chairs — Archie Wright (CBA) & Joshua Scott (CBA)

9:00-9:30 am ET: Session 1 -- Panel Discussion, "Learning about the Job Market: Two recent TT-hires share their experience with the hiring process"

  • Chair — Joshua Scott
  • Xenia Chang (Augustana University)
  • Reed Carlson (Sewanee)

9:30-11:30 am ET: Session 2 -- Tanak/Septuagint

  • Chair — Mehak Burza (University of Texas-Dallas)
  • Colin Destache (Marquette University)
  • Diego Roman Martinez (Brite Divinity)
  • Nathaniel Szidik (Catholic University of America)
  • Session Respondent: Tom Bolin (Independent)

     10:15-10:30 am ET: Coffee Break

11:30 am-1:00 pm ET: Lunch Break

1:00-3:00 pm ET: Session 3 -- New Testament

  • Chair — Archie Wright
  • Jay (Greg) Armstrong (Oblate School of Theology)
  • Joseph Foltz (University of Denver & Iliff School of Theology)
  • Sr. Theresa Joseph Nguyen, O.P. (Catholic University of America)
  • Kory Eastvold (Marquette)
  • Session Respondents: John Peters (Regents) and Ronald Herms (Independent)

3:00-3:30 pm ET: Coffee Break

3:30-5:00 pm ET: Session 4 -- Panel Discussion on AI, Theology, and the Academy

  • Chairs — Archie Wright & Joshua Scott
  • Noreen Herzfeld (St. John’s School of Theology and Seminary)
  • Michael Burdett (University of Nottingham)
  • Berit Guidotti (Boston College)
How theology and AI can inform or challenge one another, and how advances in AI might shape historical, biblical, and theological studies in the next 3–7 years.

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Joshua R. Scott
Joshua R. Scott
M.Div., Th.M., Ph.D. Events and Technology Director The Catholic Biblical Association of America (989)598-0203
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