PAPER PRESENTATIONS and Panels [local & international]

06/2025 Paper Presenter Title: “I am a post-Zionist traumatic subject”: Trauma as an Auto-Hermeneutics Decolonial Method,” Intersection of Trauma and Practical Theology in Asia Conference, Hong Kong (Online) June 13-14, 2025

06/2025 Paper Presenter Title: “The Plague of Artificial Intelligence and the Eclipse of Anthropocentric Arrogance: Decolonial-Theological Reflection from the Margins,” GoNeDigiTal ‘25 Annual Conference, (Co)-Creator, Creativity and the Created. The conference will be held online 3-5 June 2025

01/2025 Paper Presenter Titile:Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel as Transformative Ecumenism: A Decolonial Autoethnography of Occupied Palestine Territory (oPt) Experience,” “Aftermath: Beyond Liberation.” The event will be held in Harare, Zimbabwe, from 27-31 January 2025

09/2024 Paper Presenter Title: “Unsettling Coloniality of (post-pandemic) Multiple Modernities: A Decolonial Philosophical-Theological Critique,” The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy and The McLean Center for the Study of Culture and Values of the Catholic University of America, August 19-September 20, 2024, Washington DC, USA

08/2024 Paper Presenter Title: “What can the Global South teach us about religion and intersectionality?Exploring Decolonial Option with Syed Farid al-Attas and Karl Gaspar,” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (ASR). The Annual Meeting will be held August 9-11, 2024, at the Hotel Monville in Montreal, Quebec, Canada

11/2023 Paper Presenter Title: “No (Decolonizing) Peace Without Justice: A Critical Reflection on the Work of Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI),” 33rd Ecumenical Research Forum (AÖF/ERF) Conference 17-19, November 2023, Mission Academy University of Hamburg, Germany

02/2023 Paper Presenter Title: “Dekolonisasyon ng Teolohiyang Kanluranin: Ang Mahalagang Ambag ni José M. “Ka Jo” de Mesa,” 8th Leonardo Legaspi Lecture Series “MABATHALANG PAG-AARAL” Doing Filipino Theology and Religious Education in Honor of Dr. Jose “Ka Joe” De Mesa, Center for Theology, Religious Studies and Ethics Mezzanine Main Building, University of Santo Tomas and Religious Educators Association of the Philippines (REAP)

11/2022 Paper Presenter Title: “Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice: Rethinking Indigenous Religions in Contemporary Religious Studies,” The 4th (Hybrid) International Conference on Indigenous Religions and CSO Consolidation, West Kalimantan, Indonesia

10/2022 Paper Presenter Title: “Religious Memory: Christianity as a Dangerous Religious Memory,” Philippine Association for the Sociology of Religion (PASR) – Guimaras State University, Philippines

10/2022 Paper Presenter Title: “‘Multiple Religious Belonging’: Decolonizing Religious Identity in the Global Rise of Religious Fundamentalism,” International Forum 15TH Ecumenical Social Week: Wandering Identity Considering Meanings and Values, Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine

10/2022 Paper (Co) Presenter Title: “The Great Reset: (Re)imaging, (Re)liberating and (Re)embracing Theologies of Liberation in the Age of Hyper-Uncertainty,” Liberation Theology: eDARE Webinar Council of World Mission (CWM), Singapore

10/2022 Paper (Co) Presenter Title: “Christianophobia: The Threat of Multiculturalism and Religious Freedom in Indonesia,” Latin American International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities-III to be held in Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Mexico

08/2022 Paper (Co) Presenter Title: “Philippine Cordilleran Indigenous Codes as Sources for Land Ethics,” Christian Left Conference Creation, Land, and Indigeneity: Resistance on Turtle Island and Beyond University of Toronto Canada

02/2022 Paper Presenter Title: “Thinking Asia Conceptually Using the Works of Karl Gaspar, Syed Farid Alatas, and Sujata Patel,” Multiple Decolonialities and the Making of Asian Commons, Nanyang Technological University/Hong Kong Research Hub/Christ Deemed To Be University India

01/2022 Paper Presenter Title: “Decolonial Thinking: Troubling the Progress in the Production of Western Theological Knowledge,” Program Winter Seminar Progress in Theology: VU Amsterdam The Netherlands

06/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “ReWesternization or DeWesternization, Which Path Are We Choosing? Decolonizing Wokeness,”
The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies-Faculty of Humanities
University of Witwaterstrand
Johannesburg South Africa

24/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “The Disease of Decaffeinated Theological Thinking: First As Coffee
Without Caffeine Then, As Christian Left Without Decoloniality,” Christian Left
Conference, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, Canada

15/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “Anthropocene or Coloniality; Decoloniality and Theological Reflections,”
University of Bonn, Germany

30/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “Meeting God Across the Borders of Lesvos,” The Tyndale Fellowship,
Cambridge, UK

23/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “’Multiple Religious Belonging’: Rethinking Religious Identity in the
Global Rise of Religious Fundamentalism,” Council for Research in Values
and Philosophy, Atma Jaya Catholic University and Islamic State University
Sunan Gunung Djati, Indonesia

18/2021 Paper Presenter
“Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks in the times of COVID-19 Pandemic,”
Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre Graduate Conference, Toronto
Canada

02/2021 Panelist/Reactor
“Whither Blasphemy On the Resilience of an Idea, Past and Present,”
Center for Religious Studies
Central European University
Hungary/Austria

28/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “Karl Gaspar’s Decolonial Contribution to Epistemic Reconstitution of Doing Theory in Southeast Asia,” Doing Theory in Southeast Asia, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong

27/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “Back to the Rough Grounds of Praxis; Exploring Decolonial Option with
Karl Gaspar,” St. Mary’s University Twickenham London, UK

02/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “‘Occupy Till I Come’: Doing the Threefold Mission of Jesus Christ as
Prophet, Priest, King in the Age of Duterte’s Populism Prophets,”
Prognosticators and the TheoLogics of Protest European Academy of
Religion, Muster University, Germany

30/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “Meeting God across the Borders of Lesvos: The Christian Peacemaker
Team’s Work as a Locus Theologicus of Doing Theology at The Borders,” Tyndale Fellowship Christian Doctrine Study Group University of Cambridge,
UK

26/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “Who’s Afraid of Critical Theory (Slavoj Žižek, Jacques Lacan, Jean-Luc
Nancy, Giorgio Agamben)? Popularizing Nimi Wariboko’s PhilosophicalTheological Work to the Study of Filipino Pentecostalism,” The Philosophy of Nimi Wariboko A Conference on Ethics, Economy, Society, Religion, and African Social Traditions University of Boston and the University of Texas of Austin, America

03/2021 Paper Presenter
Title: “Refugee—The Human Face of God: The Role of Christian Peacemaker
Team Europe in the Promotion of the Human Dignity of Refugees’
Migration,” Diasporas and Sustainable Development: Perspectives, Policies,
Opportunities and Challenges Global Research Forum on Diaspora and Transnationalism (GRFDT), New Delhi, India, Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Manila, Philippines, Center for Research on North America (CISAN), UNAM, Mexico

01/2020 Paper Presenter
Title: “‘Stripping the thief in the night’ during COVID: Decolonizing
Pentecostal Eschatology,” Daring God-talks: What’s Normal Council of
World Mission-Discernment and Radical Engagement (eDARE)
Singapore

17/2020 Paper Presenter
Title: “Documenting and Describing the Transcultural: Qualitative Research in
Theological Communication,” Dr. Evan Kuehn (University of Chicago), Dr.
Matthew Robinson (University of Bonn), Hadje C. Sadje (University of
Bonn) ATLA Conference, organized by the American Theological Library
Association The Westin Book Cadillac Detroit in Detroit,
America

02/2020 Paper Presenter
Title: “A New Kind of Pentecostalism: Introducing the Public Theology and
Advocacy of Samuel Lee,” 11th International and Interdisciplinary Conference of the European Research Network on Global Pentecostalism (GloPent)
University of Basel, Switzerland

10/2019 Paper Presenter
Title: “Are We Missing the Point?: A Theo-Political Discernment and the Regime of President Rodrigo Duterte using Mao Zedong via Slavoj Žižek’s
Contradiction Analysis,”
LEST XII – Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology Theos and Polis:
Political Theology as Discernment
KU Leuven, Belgium

10/2019 Paper Presenter
Title: “The Philippine Diaspora as Spiritual Movement: A Transdisciplinary
Analysis of the Role of Spirituality in Identity Formation, Community Formation, and Civic Engagement of the Filipino Diaspora in a (post) secular Europe,“ The Philippines as a transnational hub: exchanges between the Philippines and the EU” workshop, Institute of Sociology
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium

08/2019 Paper Presenter
Title: “Karl Gaspar’s Transformative Spirituality: Rediscovering the Pre-Colonial
Philippine Spirituality and its Challenge to Contemporary Filipino Spirituality/ies Locating European Missions,”
IAMS Europe
Sankt Augustine, Germany

08/2019 Paper Presenter & Participant
Title: “What Does Theology Do, Actually? A Transdisciplinary Analysis of the
Public Theology of the Oneness Pentecostal and Islamic Movements in the
Philippines,” Omnipotence and Omniscience Discussing the Divine Attributes in Muslim-Christian Dialogue
Universität Paderborn, Germany

04/2019 Paper Presenter
Title: “Tarrying with a Thief in the Night: Interrogating the Eschatology of the
(Oneness) Pentecostal Theology in the Philippines” The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS)
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

05/2019 Paper Presenter
Title: “(Un)Doing Filipino Theology in the light of Philippine Context
What Does Theology Do, Actually?” Observing Systematic Theology and the
Transcultural
The University of Bonn
Germany

08/2018 Paper Presenter
Title: “What would Jesus do? The Hermeneutics of the Kingdom of God: A
Prophetic Call, Critic, and Action against Human Suffering using John Caputo’s Deconstruction International Conference “Re-Learning to Be Human for Global Times: The Role of Hermeneutics in Philosophy and Religious Studies,”
Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University (MCU),
Phra Nakorn Sri Ayutthaya, Thailand

06/2018 Paper Presenter
Title: “Reaffirming Spirit Christologies: An Attempt to Reconstruct A Filipino
Christology beyond Liberation and Pentecostal theologies,”
Tyndale House and Wolfson College,
University of Cambridge UK

05/2018 Paper Presenter
Title: “Reformation’s Dangerous Idea: The Undermined Social Impact of
Sixteenth Century among Filipino Mainline Protestant Churches,”
Eighth Annual RefoRC Conference
University of Warsaw, Poland

04/2018 Paper Presenter
Title: “Constructing A Filipino Grassroots Theology/ies: An De-ideologization of Filipino Liberation Theologies Theology in a World of Ideologies: Authorization or Critique?,” 11th Comenius Conference
Theological University Kampen, The Netherlands

02/2018 Paper Presenter
Title: “Constructing A Filipino Pentecostal Liberation Theology/ies,”
10th GloPent Conference 9-10 February 2018, Vrije University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands

11/2017 Paper Presenter
Title: “Grassroots Theology in the Philippines as the Third Way beyond Liberation and Pentecostal Theologies,” 29th Annual Meeting
Ecumenical Research Forum (ERF)
Academy of Mission, Hamburg University
Hamburg, Germany

04/2016 Paper Presenter
Title: God Asked Cain, “Where is Abel thy brother?” S. P. Huntington Replied,
‘I know not; am I my brother’s keeper?’ A Christian Reaffirmation and Invitation to Islamic Response to Kairos Palestine,” Worlding beyond the Clash of Civilizations: An Agenda for an International Relations-Islam Discourse 3rd European Workshops in International Studies European International Studies Association
University of Tübingen,
Germany

02/2013 Paper Presenter
Title: “Ginhawa and The Right to the City: A Proposed Post-Colonial Inquiry on
the People’s Understanding of Soteriology among Urban Poor Communities in Metro,” Bridging-Gaps Program-Faculty of Theology-Contextual Theology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PANELS AND ROUNDTABLES DISCUSSIONS

04/2023 Moderator/Panel Chair Title: “Why Decolonizing the (West/Eurocentric) Academic Study of Religion and its Positionality in Research Practices?” Research & Enterprise Doctoral School of University of Salford Manchester, UK

03/2022 Panel Chair Title: “Religion, Populism, and Resistance: Perspectives from the Wretched of the Earth” European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS) Program University of Bonn, Germany

11/2021 Panel Chair Title: “Troubling the Waters: Decolonizing Educational Practices in the Global South,” ICoME International Conference on Multi-perspectives in Education, Far Eastern University Manila, Philippines

11/2021 Panel Chair Title: “Religion, Environment, and Anthropocene,” Global Anthropocene, PHISO Free Virtual International Conference, Manila, Philippines

10/2021 Panel Chair Title: “Migrant Churches as Beacon of Hope: Doing Church in the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic,” 7th PASCHR International Conference Isabela State University, Philippines

10/2022 Panel Chair Title: “Philosophy, Religion, and the Task of Decoloniality,” Philippine Association of Northern Luzon (PANL), Saint Louis University, Philippines