IAPT 2025 Conference: (Be)Coming Home and (Re)Building Community in the Face of Displacement
Submissions are now open. Please complete the form at the following link: https://forms.gle/F1aKXBkaAAC6CcMm6
Please note: Submissions are due August 30, 2024.
Presenters will be notified about the result of their submission by November 1, 2024
Where: The Saskatoon Theological Union and St. Thomas More College, Saskatchewan, Canada
When: June 13-16, 2025
What makes home, home? What are the connections between home, community, and place? What can we learn from living in and with the land that is our home? What does it mean to rebuild home after the trauma and instability of displacement wherever we find ourselves?
Indigenous peoples teach that home encompasses one’s interaction with the land, with food, and with familiar places, smells, and tastes, and includes a profound sense of belonging and the sacred. Home is for many a place of inclusion, welcoming, openness, and the nurturing of diversity. But this understanding of home is being threatened by natural disasters as well as human-made tragedies. Moreover, the realities of displacement, migration, and environmental despoliation are reconfiguring the idea of home. Entire populations are being forced to rethink the meaning of home and well as what it is to be at home. And because of current migratory patterns, people in the diaspora are having to reimagine and recreate a new home away from their birthplace.
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