Conference Schedule
Full of Your Glory: Liturgy, Cosmos, Creation
2018 Yale Liturgy Conference — June 18–21, 2018
Primary Conference Locations and Meeting Rooms:
- Sterling Divinity Quadrangle (Yale Divinity School), 409 Prospect Street
ISM Great Hall (N100); Marquand Chapel; and other rooms as indicated
- Omni Hotel, 155 Temple Street
- Trinity Church on the Green (keynote address only), Temple at Chapel St.
Monday, June 18
STERLING DIVINITY QUADRANGLE
1:15 p.m. Shuttle bus leaves downtown hotels for conference venue; continues to run back and forth.
4:00 p.m. Last shuttle departure from hotels for conference.
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1:30 p.m. Conference check-in opens; coffee available | Sarah Smith Gallery
2:30 p.m. Welcome Remarks | Marquand Chapel
2:45 p.m. Plenary Session | Marquand Chapel
3:45 p.m. Short break
4:00 p.m. Plenary Session | Marquand Chapel
‘The First-Fruits of God’s Creatures’: Bread, Eucharist, and the Ancient Economy
Andrew McGowan
5:00 p.m. Reception | Common Room
6:00 p.m. Shuttle bus departs from main entrance for downtown hotels; makes additional runs as necessary
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
Tuesday, June 19
STERLING DIVINITY QUADRANGLE
BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN
8:30 a.m. Shuttle bus leaves downtown hotels for conference venue; continues to run back and forth
10:00 a.m. Last shuttle departure from hotels for conference
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8:30 a.m. Coffee available in Common Room
9:00 a.m. Plenary Session | Marquand Chapel
The Crux of the Cosmos in the Art of Fifth-Century Rome
Felicity Harley-McGowan
10:00 a.m. Coffee break | Common Room
10:30 a.m. “On Earth as It Is in Heaven” Theology Panel
David Grumett: The World as Christ’s Body: Problems and Possibilities
Kevin Irwin: Contemporary Sacramental/Liturgical Theology in Light of LAUDATO SI
Mary McGann: Troubled Waters, Troubling Initiation Rites
12:15 p.m. Lunch Break (lunch provided) | Common Room
2:00 p.m. Break-Out Session I | Various rooms as indicated
Gail Ramshaw: “The earth is full of your glory” | Marquand Chapel
Arman Shokhikyan: The Role of Non-human Creation in Armenian Blessing Services: Towards an Ecological Reading of Armenian Euchologion | Niebuhr Hall (via Skype)
Duco Vollebregt: Night or Dawn? Easter Night in Light of Cosmos and Creation | ISM Great Hall
Rhodora Beaton: Mirroring the Other in Worship | RSV Room
3:00 p.m. Coffee break | Common Room
3:30 p.m. Plenary Session | Marquand Chapel
Sanctity, Sin, and the Secular at Medieval Rogationtide
Nathan Ristuccia
4:30 p.m. Shuttle bus departs from main entrance for downtown hotels; makes additional runs as necessary
Wednesday, June 20
OMNI HOTEL; TRINITY CHURCH ON THE GREEN
BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN
9:30 a.m. Plenary Session | Omni Hotel: College Room
A Spring of Blessing: Creation and Sanctification in Byzantine Liturgy and Piety
Nicholas Denysenko
10:30 a.m. Coffee break
11:00 a.m. Break-Out Session II | Omni Hotel: meeting rooms as indicated
Benjamin Stewart: Wisdom’s Buried Treasure: Ecological Cosmology in Funeral Rites | Whalley Room
Paul Galbreath: Baptism and Ecology: The Search for a Rite that Connects the Dots | Chapel AB Room
Margot Fassler: The Cosmos and the Liturgy in Hildegard’s Scivias | George A Room
James Sabak: Keeping Vigil in Embertides | George B Room
12:00 p.m. Lunch (on your own)
2:30 p.m. Break-Out Session III | Omni Hotel: meeting rooms as indicated
Peter Jeffery: The Six Nights of Creation in the Hymns of the Roman Breviary | Whalley Room
Bert Groen: Environment and Eucharist | Chapel AB Room
Joris Geldhof: Ordo Missae 2002/2008 and Transformations of Creation | George B Room
Stelyios Muksuris: “God in the Midst of Gods”: A Theocentric in the Basilian Κοσμοθεωρία and the Byzantine Prothesis Rite | George A Room
3:30 p.m. Free time (on your own)
5:30 p.m. Keynote Address | Trinity Church on the Green
Naming the World: Liturgy and the Transformation of Time and Matter
The Rt Revd Dr Rowan Williams
7:00 p.m. Banquet (optional) | Omni Hotel; separate registration required
Thursday, June 21
OMNI HOTEL
9:00 a.m. Coffee and Discussion with Rowan Williams | Omni College Room
Light continental breakfast
10:00 a.m. “Sing, Ye Heavens” Music Panel
Gerald C. Liu: Liturgical Free Association with Symbiopsychotaxiplasm and In a Silent Way
Braxton Shelley: Singing in the Spirit: Gospel Song, Materiality, and Transcendence
11:30 a.m. Concluding Remarks
12:00 p.m. Conference Ends