Teresa Berger gave a plenary address titled “From Brooding Over Waters to Moving Through Cyberspace: Cartographies of the Holy Spirit,” at the Society for Pentecostal Studies annual conference in San Dimas, CA, March 11, 2016.
She also published “Reflections on the Church at Worship and the ‘Lieutenant Nun’.” in Ecclesiology in the Trenches: Theory and Method under Construction, ed. Sune Fahlgren and Jonas Idestrom, Church of Sweden Research Series 10, pp. 208-219. Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick Publications, 2015.
Most importantly: the new volume from the most recent ISM Liturgy Conference 2014, which she co-edited with Bryan Spinks, is about to be published by Liturgical Press: Liturgy’s Imagined Pasts: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today. (Liturgical Press, 2016). She authored one of the essays in the book: “Liturgical Historiography and Gender Obliviousness: Re-Dressing an Imagined Past.” More information can be found here.
Henry Parkes attended the annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America meeting in Boston, in late February, at which were also faculty emerita Margot Fassler (currently first vice-president of MAA), Andrew Irving (ISM postdoc 2012-13), and Joanna Murdoch (M.A.R. ’15).
He also recently received an A. Whitney Griswold grant for research in Europe this summer on his new book project entitled When Chant Became Gregorian: Constructions of Musical Authority from the Carolingians to the Cistercians (also the topic of his ISM liturgy symposium presentation, given in February 2016).
Christian Wiman received Sewanee Review’s Aiken Taylor Award in Modern Poetry, awarded to a particularly distinguished and important contemporary American poet. Read more about the award here.
