Conferences and Symposia

ISM fellow, Dr. Samantha Slaubaugh, will argue that a narrative in the hagiography for Douceline of Digne.

New Haven area school teachers are invited to a professional development day sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.

“Who do you [Sing] that I am?” Faces of Christ in African Gospel Music

Commenting on Commentaries of the Syriac Liturgy

Intersection between the religion of Vaishnavism and the conventions of fine literature and aesthetic theory in Sanskrit and South Asian vernacular.

An opportunity to experience and examine the rich musical traditions that fill sanctuaries and give sanctuary.

Discussion with the leaders of music ministries Symposium on Music and the Black Church.

Discussion with leaders of music ministries, including The Potter’s House, Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta), and Greater Centennial AME Zion Church.

“Only the Lover Sings” Beinecke, Music Deposit 99 and the Proclamation of the Gospel in the Medieval Dominican Liturgy

A one-day mini-conference over Zoom bringing together scholars from multiple fields to consider the porous nature of death in Tibetan traditions.

Sabbath Devotion and the Economy of Rest

This daylong interdisciplinary conference will discuss the discourse and practice of the Sabbath rest in light of the mystery of time. 

This conference brings together scholars working on medieval Jewish literature from varied perspectives to enable a cross-disciplinary.

“Shifting Visions: Earthquake Rituals in Constantinople between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages”

Religious Life across Syria during the Roman Period: From Dura-Europos on the Euphrates to Mountaintop Sanctuaries at Mt. Kasion and Doliche

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sacred Music and the History of Emotions

Dialogue Drama in the Late Liturgical Sequence: “Say, Mary, What Was the Annunciation Really Like?”

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Sacred Music and the History of Emotions

This Symposium brings together scholars of Religious Studies, Sacred Music and Black Studies to discuss the role of the Hammond B-3 Organ.

Sacraments and Postcolonial Planetarity

The conference will explore ideas of creation and cosmos embedded in the worship life of the church at a time of unprecedented attention to ecological

As Creation Groans: Worshiping God on Holy Ground - An ecumenical conference for pastors, musicians, other parish leaders and interested laypeople.

Sensational Religion: Sense and Contention in Material Practice

A Liberation Liturgical Theology​

The Scales of Orthodoxy: Music, Sacraments, and the Mass in Seventh-Century Iberia

The Preparation and Presentation of the Gifts in Egypt: Reflections and Prospects

This session of our symposium lays out a series of case studies that demonstrate a range of practices, both within & without specific liturgic context

It is the task of the church to imagine and re-imagine possibilities as they emerge from the bountiful vision of the gospel.

Medieval Rites: Reading the Writing will explore the breadth of possible literate interactions with Christian liturgy during the Middle Ages.

An invitation to consider a bundle of questions associated with the entangled trajectories of contemporary Christianity and black popular music.

Music, Ritual, and Bach: Thinking Beyond the Divide between Sacred and Secular

Words for Worship

Civil and Religious Ceremony in 8th-Century Rome: Ordo Romanus Primus

The Interaction of Art and Rites in Early Christianity

Discussion related to Weems’ Grace Notes with leading scholars of photography, history, art, and ethics.

An interdisciplinary conversation that seeks to explore the constructive potential inherent to intersubjective and intercommunal human encounters.

The Liturgy of Lay Foundations in Ghent, 1400 - 1500

Join us for a Symposium sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, organized by ISM Fellow John A. Graham.

When Chant Became Gregorian

A Missing Sacrament? Footwashing in Ancient Christianity

Bringing Poetry into the Life of Your Church.

A(nother) Proto-feast for the Protomartyr

Bridging Methodologies and Crossing Frontiers presented with support from the Council on Latin-American and Iberian Studies, Macmillan Center.

The Changing Face of Early Christian Worship

“Must We Mean What We Pray?”

Liturgy and Symbolism: Syriac Perspective

Liturgy and Symbolism: Syriac Perspective

That’s What it’s All About: Performance, Interpretation, and Formation

Congregations Project 2013: Hark, the Glad Sound: Inviting New and Returning Christians to Worship

Primordial Time and Liturgical Beginnings

Keynote speaker: Jeremy S. Begbie; Thomas A. Langford Research Professor, Duke University

Explore the manifold ways in which material economies have underlain past liturgical practices and continue to underlie worship today.

On the Spirituality of the Roman Tradition

When a Column Speaks, The Liturgy of the Christian Parthenon

A Window on the Eastern Christian Traditions of Epiphany

Ritual Possession, Private Eucharistic Rites in Late Antiquity. Part of the 2010-2011 Liturgy Symposium

Divine Worship and Human Healing, part of the 2010-2011 Liturgy Symposium.

Liturgy Disrupts Society, Retrieving Communal Prayer. Part of the 2010-2011 Liturgy Symposium

Varieties of African American Worship.The Case of the Liturgical Divergence of Richard Allen and Absalom Jones. Part of the 2009-2010 Liturgy Symposim

Bert Groen. Part of the 2009-2010 Liturgy Symposium. Refreshments for mind, body, and spirit will be served. Free and open to the public.

The Liturgical Octoïchos in the Syriac Orthodox Church. Part of the 2009-2010 Liturgy Symposium

Part of the 2009-2010 Liturgy Symposium

Poets, Mothers, and Performers, Considering Women’s Impact on the Music of Johann Sebastian Bach

Part of the 2009-2010 Liturgy Symposium

Listening is Performing - Performing is Listening. A Symposium on Music and Preaching

Part of the 2008-2009 Liturgy Symposium Series

Part of the 2008-2009 Liturgy Symposium Series

Part of the 2008-2009 Liturgy Symposium Series

Part of the 2007-2008 Liturgy Symposium

The Philosophy of Liturgy

Part of the 2007-2008 Liturgy Symposium

Part of the 2007-2008 Liturgy Symposium

Scholars and practitioners representing both sides of this apparent divide come together to explore the place and understanding of the Holy Spirit…

Part of the 2007-2008 Liturgy Symposium

Part of the 2007-2008 Liturgy Symposium

Part of the 2006-2007 Liturgy Symposium Series

Architecture for Worship in the 21st Century

Part of the 2006-2007 Liturgy Symposium Series

Part of the 2006-2007 Liturgy Symposium Series

Part of the 2006-2007 Literature and Spirituality Series

Part of the 2006-2007 Literature and Spirituality Series

Part of the 2006-2007 Literature and Spirituality Series

This international, interdisciplinary conference is set to examine how religious and gender identities arise and develop in relation to one another.

Part of the ISM’s Liturgy Symposium

The Conference brings together international liturgical scholars and theologians to address the articulation of trinitarian faith and christology.

Part of the ISM’s Liturgy Symposium

Part of the ISM’s Liturgy Symposium

Part of the ISM’s Liturgy Symposium

Part of the ISM’s Liturgy Symposium

Part of the ISM’s Liturgy Symposium

Part of the ISM’s Liturgy Symposium

Martha Moore-Keish is Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School.