Conference Schedule
Liturgy’s Imagined Pasts
Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today
Sunday, June 15
Graduate Club, 155 Elm St.
4:30 - Conference check-in
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM - Conference opening and keynote presentation, followed by reception
Miri Rubin, Professor of European History, Queen Mary University of London | Liturgy’s Present: How the Study of Liturgy is Animating the Study of Religious Cultures
Free evening
Monday, June 16
ISM Great Hall, 409 Prospect St.
MORNING SESSION (1): New Perspectives on Liturgy’s Pasts
9:00-10:15 AM | Reinhard Messner, University of Innsbruck | Imagining Late Antique Liturgies via Oriental Sources: The Case of Alexandria and Egypt
Response by Mary Farag
10:30-11:45 AM | Fr. Emmanuel Fritsch, CSSp, Ethiopia | “Like a Householder Who Brings Out the Old and the New” (Mt 13:52-53): Deciphering the Ethiopian Liturgical Tradition
AFTERNOON SESSION (2): New Perspectives, cont.
1:15-2:30 PM | Maxwell Johnson, University of Notre Dame, IN | Imagining Early Christian Liturgy: The traditio apostolica – A Case Study
Response by Fritz West
3:00-4:15 PM | Helen Gittos, University of Kent | The Languages of the Liturgy in the Middle Ages
Free evening
Tuesday, June 17
ISM Great Hall, 409 Prospect St.
MORNING SESSION (3): Liturgy’s Pasts : Broadening the View
9:00-10:15 AM | Susan Karant-Nunn, University of Arizona | Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Reformation of Ritual: The Historian’s Imaginative Faculties
Response by Bruce Gordon
10:30-11:45 AM | Melanie Ross, Yale | Liturgy’s Past on the American Frontier
Response by Karen Westerfield Tucker
AFTERNOON SESSION (4): Liturgy’s Pasts: Broadening the View, cont.
1:15-2:30 PM | Alexander Lingas, City University London | Competing Imaginations: Byzantine chant and the Search for Usable Pasts
Response by Stefanos Alexopoulos
2:45-4:00 PM| Harald Buchinger, University of Regensburg | Imagining Chant’s Past
Response by Andrew Irving
Conference Banquet (optional)
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Wednesday, June 18
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall St.
CONCLUDING MORNING SESSION (5): The Presence and Future of Liturgy’s Pasts
9:00-10:15 AM | Closing Keynote: Wendy Mayer | The Changing Shape of Liturgy: Current and Future Approaches from Earliest Christianity to the End of Late Antiquity
10:45-11:59 AM | The Presence of Liturgy’s Pasts – a Look at the Treasures of the Yale Art Gallery and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Noon: Conference ends