Keynote Speakers

Suzanna Millar and David M. Carr with Brian Fiu Kolia

  • Suzanna Millar “Animals, Power, and Intersectionality in the Books of Samuel”

    Suzanna Millar is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is the author of Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (SBL, 2020) and has a forthcoming monograph titled Animals, Power, and Intersectionality in the Books of Samuel.

  • David M. Carr “Diverse Multi-species Lifeworlds, the Bible, and Stories We Tell About Our Relations”

    David Carr is a Professor of Hebrew Bible at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Building on earlier research, his current project, tentatively titled Unbinding Creation: Genesis, Indigenous Voices, and Revisioning Our Lifeworld, examines how Genesis 1-11 can be reread as an account of how we humans and our animals have all become caught up in interlocking systems of domestication-like domination.

  • Brian Fiu Kolia

    Brian Fiu Kolia is a second-generation Australian-born Samoan. He hails from the Samoan villages of Sili, Satapuala, Faleaseela and Tufutafoe. He is a lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Malua Theological College in Samoa, while also serving as an adjunct lecturer at Trinity Theological College, Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. He holds a PhD from the University of Divinity, in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia. More importantly, he is a husband to Tanaria and a father to Elichai.

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