Presentations and Publications
Presentations & Interviews
Conference on Medicine and Religion - Dr. Devan Stahl
Nurturing Hope: Expanding Holistic Care at the Margins
Sunday, April 6, 2025, 2:00 p.m. - Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 4:00 p.m.
The Westin South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa
Orange County, California
Registration is now open, and an Optional Third Day at LLU - Conference on Medicine and Religion
2024
November 23-26: American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, "Identity, Agency, and Responsibility in the Context of Emerging Neurotechnologies: A Protestant Christian Perspective". Presenter: Dr. Neil Messer
Dr. Messer will be presenting at the American Academy of Religion's Annual Meeting in San Diego. This paper explores questions about human and individual identity, agency, and moral responsibility raised by these technological prospects.
Find more information here.
Nov. 23-26: AAR Roundtable: Dr. Devan Stahl, "Bioenhancement and the Vulnerable Body" for The Body and Religion Unit
Participants in this round table were part of a grant from the Issachar Fund as well as an edited book volume, Bioenhancement and the Vulnerable Body: A Theological Engagement (Baylor University Press, 2023) to examine bioenhancement technologies from the perspective of minoritized communities. Authors within the volume critically examined bioenhancement technologies with two key questions in mind: what does it mean to be human and what does it mean to be vulnerable?
November 8-9: “An Empirically Grounded Religious Ethics” with Dr. Anne Jeffrey
The 2024 Midwest SCP Conference will be hosted by the University of Oklahoma this Fall. Visit the Society of Christian Philosophers for more information.
October 1, 2024: Biomedical Humanities Lecture Series – “Finding Meaning in Medicine Through Fine Art" and “Wondrous Monsters: What Anomalous Bodies Teach Us about God”, presented by Dr. Devan Stahl
"She offered two lectures on campus Oct. 1 as part of the second annual Biomedical Humanities Lecture Series, presented by the Department of Christian Studies, sponsored by the Staley Distinguished Scholar Lecture Program."
- Campbell University, Oct. 4, 2024
Read the full article here.
September 18-21: ASBH 26th Annual Conference - American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
Dr. Devan Stahl will be presenting at the 2024 ASBH Annual Conference in St. Louis. This conference invites the community to reconsider long-held notions and think critically about the nature of humanity within our shifting landscape as it addresses the central question: "What does it mean to be human?"
Visit the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities webpage to learn more.
September 5-7, 2024: Dr. Neil Messer's Presidential Address: “The Decline of the Human? Identity, Agency, and Justice in an Age of Emerging Neurotechnologies.” SSCE Conference 2024.
The Society for the Study of Christian Ethics Conference 2024. Source/Registration.
The address is due to be published in Studies in Christian Ethics, vol. 38, no. 1 (February 2025).
July 28-August 2, 2024: IABI/SLU Symposium - Bioethics and the Philosophy of Biology, "Biophilosophy" offered by the International Academy of Bioethical Inquiry (IABI), Rochefort-du-Gard, France
The Symposium will begin with an opening program on Sunday afternoon, July 28, 2024. Our Bioethics Convener Dr. Devan Stahl presented on July 29th.
Visit the Chateau Saint Andre Center for Ethics and Integrity for more information.
Dr. Neil Messer presented “Evolution, the problem of evil, and human responsibility: attending theologically to animal suffering.” at the 2024 IABI Symposium
May 22, 2024: Beyond the Dark Clouds Lecture Series, "Augmenting Our Minds? Neurotechnologies and the Common Good", lecturer Dr. Neil Messer
This is the fifth lecture in the 'Beyond the Dark Clouds' lecture series - "Augmenting Our Minds? Neurotechnologies and the Common Good", which was broadcast online.
For more information go to Leeds Trinity University. To listen to the series, go to Spotify, to hear Dr. Messer's lecture click here.
April 2024: International Neuroethics Society, Baltimore.
Dr. Neil Messer presented a poster, “On the Contribution of Christian Theology to Ethical Deliberation about Neuroscience and AI”.
Nguyen, A. P. (presenting author), Ke, W., Nguyen, T., Mei, S., & Kim, M., & (2024, October). Shaping the future of transcultural nursing to address prediabetes and diabetes among Vietnamese Americans. Podium Presentation at the 2024 Transcultural Nursing Society Conference “Envision the Future, Honor the Past: A Half-Century of Advancement in Transcultural Practice, Education, Research, and Administration”. Salt Lake City, UT.
Tran, C. (presenting author), Le, A., Nwankwo, N., Garza, L., Nguyen, A. T., Nguyen, T., Kim, M., & Nguyen, A. P. (presenting author). (2024, October). Exploring social and psychological determinants of type 2 diabetes health in Vietnamese Americans through the transcultural nursing lens. Poster Presentation at the 2024 Transcultural Nursing Society Conference “Envision the Future, Honor the Past: A Half-Century of Advancement in Transcultural Practice, Education, Research, and Administration”. Salt Lake City, UT.
Eschiti, V. (presenting author), Nguyen, A. T., Nagykaldi, Z., Bui, T. C., Nguyen, U., Nguyen, T., Nguyen, A. P., Tow, J., & Dwyer, K. (2024, October). Cultural adaptation of an mHealth intervention for diabetes self-management: A futurist approach with the Ecological Validity Model. Poster Presentation at the 2024 Transcultural Nursing Society Conference “Envision the Future, Honor the Past: A Half-Century of Advancement in Transcultural Practice, Education, Research, and Administration”. Salt Lake City, UT.
Nguyen, T., Nguyen, A. P., Vo, T. (presenting author), Tu, Q., Vu, T., Liu, Y., Acker, R., Nguyen, A. T., & Tran, T. M. (2024, August). Using design thinking to target and tailor DPP and DSMES across three phenotypes of Vietnamese Americans. Poster Presentation at the 2024 American Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) Annual National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Nguyen, A. T. (presenting author), Nguyen, U., Nagykaldi, Z., Bui, T. C., Chen, S., Nguyen, T.; Nguyen, A. P.; & Dwyer, K. (2024, August). Implementing a culturally adapted mHealth intervention in primary care clinics. Poster Presentation at the 2024 American Diabetes Care and Education Specialists (ADCES) Annual National Conference. New Orleans, LA.
Past Presentations
Publications
Forthcoming
Jeffrey, A. and Ward, Thomas M. (Forthcoming). “One Goodness, Many Goodnesses,” Religious Studies
Jeffrey, A. (Forthcoming). “Anscombe, Anarchism, and Authority,” Ergo
Messer, N. Review of Joshua May, (Forthcoming). Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science, in Perspectives on Science & Christian Faith.
Schmidt, U. (ed.), Dietz, T., Messer, N., Schellenbaum, P., and Mariecke van den Berg, (Forthcoming). Gender, Sexuality, Marriage and Family: Reflections on Behalf of the Council of the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe. Vienna: Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe.
Dr. Neil Messer, Christopher Southgate, Paul Fiddes, Michael Lloyd, Bethany Sollereder, and Mark Wynn: God, Suffering, Struggle, and the Evolution of Life. Due to be published by Bloomsbury, (Forthcoming, 2025).
Dr. Neil Messer, (Forthcoming). Neurotechnologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Christian Ethics, under contract with Cambridge University Press for completion in 2025.
2024
Past Publications