11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Registration & Lunch

Alexander Dining Hall – Benedum Room

1 – 1:10 p.m.

Greetings & Opening Remarks

President Calvin Troup

1:15 – 2 p.m.

1st Keynote Presentation / GVALS

T. David Gordon – Skye Lounge

2 – 2:25 p.m.

“Words That Shape a People: Communal Discourse in Reformed Christian Practice”

Shawn Anderson

2:30 – 2:55 p.m.

“The Law Written on the Heart: Intersection of Orality & Literacy in New Covenant”

Zachary Kail

3 – 3:25 p.m.

“Transfigural Reading of Scripture Grounded in the Literal Meaning of the Text”

Daniel Fleming

3:25 – 3:45 p.m.

Coffee Break

3:45 – 4:10 p.m.

“Quem Quaeritis? Passion Plays, Literacy, and the Shape of Medieval Spirituality”

Nathan Eshelman

4:15 – 4:40 p.m.

“When the Medium is the Message and the Message is Divine: Rhetorical Signatures…”

Meghan Dunn

4:45 – 5:10 p.m.

“Why Should We ‘Know By Heart’?”

Calvin L. Troup

5:15 – 5:40 p.m.

“Finding Sharon’s Lillies in the N.T.”

Jeffrey Stivason

5:45 – 6 p.m.

“Written on the Heart” – Devotional Reflection

Regina L. Sturiale

6 – 7:30 p.m.

Opening Conference Banquet

College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church

7:30 – 7:55 p.m.

“When Words Meet Us From Algorithms: Bias & Changing Address of Language”

Tiffany Petricini

8 – 8:25 p.m.

“Poetry of the Word: Opportunities/Pitfalls”

Joshua Hill

8:30 – 8:55 p.m.

“Education, Diglossia and Social Context Expectation in the New Testament”

C. Scott Shidemantle

8:55 – 9 p.m.

Conference Admin – Announcements

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee & Snacks

Skye Lounge

9 – 9:25 a.m.

“Rhetoric as Ornament: Orality as the Soul of Literacy”

Joel Ward

9:30 – 9:55 a.m.

“Humiliation of Present Word: Remembering Dead with Generative A.I.”

Ryan Eisenhuth

10 – 10:25 a.m.

“‘Speke Wel of Love’: Chaucer’s Self-Imposed Penance & Word Twist in Phil. Legend”

Bethany Campbell

10:30 – 10:55 a.m.

“Digital Communication as Hybrid of Written/Spoken Word, Shaping Young Adults’ Self…”

Carol Cooper

11 – 11:25 a.m.

“The Holos Case Conceptualization Model”

Regina L. Sturiale

11:30 – 11:55 a.m.

“How to Marry the Considerable Strengths of Liberal Arts…to the Craftsman’s Workshop”

Brett Walker

12 – 1 p.m.

Lunch

Alexander Hall – Benedum Room

1 – 1:25 p.m.

“The Role of Orality in Contact-Induced Language Change”

Jonathan M. Watt

1:30 – 1:55 p.m.

“Digital Orality”

Johannes Oberholzer

2 – 2:25 p.m.

“Voices of Souls Behind Walls: Orality, Dignity & Language of Respect in Forensic Counseling”

Rebecca Andrews & Regina L. Sturiale

2:30 – 2:55 p.m.

“Creation as Speech/Text: Ecological Metaphors & Contemplation of Nature”

Laura Cerbus

2:55 – 3:15 p.m.

Snack Break

3:15 – 3:40 p.m.

“Culture-Building through Online Communication: The Rabbit Room”

Kate Mead

3:45 – 4:10 p.m.

“Promoting the Work of the Writing Center in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”

Megan Morton

4:15 – 4:40 p.m.

“On Orality & Literacy for Writing Tutors”

Kiera Metcalf

4:45 – 5:30 p.m.

2nd Keynote Presentation

Andrew McLuhan

6 – 7 p.m.

Concluding Dinner Banquet

College Hill Reformed Presbyterian Church