Conferences and Seminars Organized
Memberships in Learned Societies
- Uppsala exegetiska sällskap/Svenska exegetiska sällskapet 1990-
- Society of Biblical Literature 2001-
- Canadian Society for Biblical Studies 2004-
- Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas 2006-
Co-chair of SNTS seminar Social History and the New Testament (approved for 2010-1013). Together with Professor Hermut Löhr, University of Münster, and Professor Markus Öhler, University of Vienna. etfnt.univie.ac.at/snts-seminar
Topics to be treated: Slavery (2010, presenters: Werner Eck, “Sklaven und Freigelassene von Römern in Iudaea und den angrenzenden Provinzen”; Albert Harrill, “The Psychology of Slaves in the Gospel Parables: A Case Study in Social History”; Hermut Löhr, “The Status of Slaves in Christian Communities at the End of the First and the Beginning of the Second Century C.E.”). Voluntary Associations (2011), Economy (2012), Ethnic Identity (2013).
Other Conference Organisation
Religionsteologi och religionsdialog i Sverige idag [Theologies of Religion and Religious Dialogue in Sweden Today]. A one-day conference on religious dialogue (Christianity, Islam and Buddhism). An event sponsored by the Institute for Contextual Theology, Lund November 1999.
Teologi och befrielse i globaliseringens tid. Tio år efter Per Frostin (Theology and Liberation in a Global World. Ten years after Per Frostin). An International Conference exploring recent developments in Contextual Theology with special emphasis on Sweden, Norway, and Tanzania. Lund University 2002. Co-organised with the Institute for Contextual Theology.
Mark and Matthew – Texts and Contexts. Two international conferences for the study of gospel literature in comparative perspective, taking place over two consecutive years in Aarhus, Denmark, 2008 and Hamilton, Canada, 2009. Co-organised with Prof. Eve-Marie Becker, Aarhus University. The first conference in July 2008 focussed on the gospels in their first century historical contexts. The second conference at McMaster concentrates on the same gospels in hermeneutical, reception-historical, and theological perspective. Contributors: Janice Capel Anderson, Barbara Aland, David E. Aune, Wayne Baxter, Eve-Marie Becker, Warren Carter, Adela Yarbro Collins, Sean Freyne, Morten Hørning Jensen, John Kloppenborg, Michael Knowles, Mogens Müller, Todd Penner, Karla Pollmann, Stanley E. Porter, Anders Runesson, Lorenzo Scornaienchi, Fernando Segovia, Caroline Vander Stichele, Joseph Verheyden, Tommy Wasserman, Stephen Westerholm, Peter Widdicombe, Oda Wischmeyer, Linden Youngquist. The conference proceedings will be published by Mohr Siebeck (WUNT).
Teologi och befrielse i globaliseringens tid. Tio år efter Per Frostin (Theology and Liberation in a Global World. Ten years after Per Frostin). An International Conference exploring recent developments in Contextual Theology with special emphasis on Sweden, Norway, and Tanzania. Lund University 2002. Co-organised with the Institute for Contextual Theology.
Mark and Matthew – Texts and Contexts. Two international conferences for the study of gospel literature in comparative perspective, taking place over two consecutive years in Aarhus, Denmark, 2008 and Hamilton, Canada, 2009. Co-organised with Prof. Eve-Marie Becker, Aarhus University. The first conference in July 2008 focussed on the gospels in their first century historical contexts. The second conference at McMaster concentrates on the same gospels in hermeneutical, reception-historical, and theological perspective. Contributors: Janice Capel Anderson, Barbara Aland, David E. Aune, Wayne Baxter, Eve-Marie Becker, Warren Carter, Adela Yarbro Collins, Sean Freyne, Morten Hørning Jensen, John Kloppenborg, Michael Knowles, Mogens Müller, Todd Penner, Karla Pollmann, Stanley E. Porter, Anders Runesson, Lorenzo Scornaienchi, Fernando Segovia, Caroline Vander Stichele, Joseph Verheyden, Tommy Wasserman, Stephen Westerholm, Peter Widdicombe, Oda Wischmeyer, Linden Youngquist. The conference proceedings will be published by Mohr Siebeck (WUNT).
