Conference

Liturgy in Migration: Cultural Contexts from the Upper Room to Cyberspace

February 24 - 27, 2011

Yale Institute of Sacred Music, 409 Prospect St., New Haven

PRESENTERS & PANELISTS

Graham Ward (Univ. of Manchester, UK; keynote)

Charles Farhadian (Westmont College, USA)

Daniel Findikyan (St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, USA)

Kostis Kourelis (College of Franklin and Marshall)

Raul Gómez Ruiz, S.D.S. (Sacred Heart School of Theology, USA)

Shane Hipps (Trinity Mennonite Church, USA)

Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University, USA)

Clemens Leonhard (Univ. of Muenster, Germany)

Vasileios Marinis (Yale University, USA)

Gisela Muschiol (Univ. of Bonn, Germany)

Paul Roberts (UK)

Jonathan Tan (Xavier University, USA)

Karen Westerfield Tucker (Boston University, USA)

Michael Zheltov (Moscow Spiritual Academy, Russia)

Jae-Im Kim: Divine Mystery IV, 1995, 52" X 73", mixed media on paper.

This international conference seeks to examine the migration, past and present, of liturgy – that is, liturgical practices, forms, and materials – across boundaries, whether geographic, ethnic, ecclesial, chronological, or other.  The key question which frames this conference pertains to the nature of liturgical migrations and flows, their patterns, directions and characteristics.  Since liturgical migrations are never divorced from their social and cultural contexts, the conference will recalibrate for the twenty-first century the older work on liturgical inculturation, and bring insights on historical migrations to bear on contemporary globalizing liturgical flows. 

Conference Registration (public)

Standard Registration - $135.00
Student Registration - $55.00 (must have current ID)

(Yale-affiliated registration, see below.)

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Registration (Yale- affiliated)

Yale student, staff, or faculty - FREE REGISTRATION

Email the conference coordinator to register. Indicate if you are interested in attending the conference banquet (you will need to pay for this).

Conference Banquet

$50.00 (Yale and public registrants)

Schedule

THURSDAY, FEB 24

Sterling Memorial Library Auditorium
120 High Street, New Haven (direct access from side entrance on
Wall Street)

2:30pm | Conference check-in begins

3:15 - 4:30pm | The Immigrant Liturgy: Greek Orthodox Worship and Architecture in America, Vasileios Marinis (Yale) and Kostis Kourelis (College of Franklin and Marshall)

5:00 - 6:15pm | KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Liquid Church and Liquid Liturgies, Graham Ward (U.K.)

6:30pm | Reception followed by dinner on your own

FRIDAY, Feb 25

Yale Institute of Sacred Music Great Hall

409 Prospect Street, New Haven

8:30am | Van service from downtown hotel to ISM

9 - 10:15 am | Rituals and Customs on the Move Between Judaism and Christianity in Antiquity - Theories and Case Studies, Clemens Leonhard (University of Münster, Germany)

10:30 - 11:45 am | Migrating Nuns -- Migrating Liturgy? The Context of Reform in Female Convents of the Late Middle Ages

Gisela Muschiol (University of Bonn, Germany)

Lunch break (box lunches)

Afternoon

1:1 5- 2:30pm | Sounding the Challenges of Forced Migration: Musical Lessons from the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Diaspora
Kay Kaufman Shelemay (Harvard University, USA)

2:45 - 4pm | Hispanic Migrations: Connections between Mozarabs and Hispanic Devotion to the Cross as Seen in Good Friday Processions, Raul Gomez Ruiz (Sacred Heart School of Theology, USA)

4:15pm | Van service downtown. Dinner on your own.

SATURDAY, Feb 26
Institute of Sacred Music Great Hall
409 Prospect Street, New Haven

8:30am | Van service from downtown hotel to ISM

9 - 10:15am | Methodism’s “World Parish”: Liturgical and Hymnological Migrations in Three Ecclesiastical Generations, Karen Westerfield Tucker (Boston University, USA)

10:30 - 11:45am | The Eucharistic Rite of the Russian Church: Then and Now, Michael Zheltov (Moscow Spiritual Academy, Moscow)

Lunch Break (box lunches)

1:15 - 2:30pm | PANEL: Contemporary liturgical migrations

• Alternative Worship: kids playing church, or re-inculturation? An outline assessment of liturgical and cultural authenticity, Paul Roberts (UK)
• Asian American Catholics and Contemporary Liturgical Migrations from Tradition-Maintenance to Traditioning: Shaping Asian American Liturgies for the Twenty-First Century, Jonathan Tan (Xavier University, USA)
• Vintage Liturgy in A New Homeland: The Case of the Armenian Church, Daniel Findikyan (St. Nersess Armenian Seminary, USA)

2:45 - 4pm | Soundings from the Liturgical Ecumene: liturgical migration, Christian mission, and mutual conversions, Charles Farhadian (Westmont College, USA)

4:15pm | Van service downtown.

Evening: Conference Dinner Gathering (optional)

SUNDAY, Feb 27

Sterling Memorial Library Auditorium
120 High Street, New Haven

Morning: Free for worship

11:15am - 12:30pm | Worship in the Digital Age, Shane Hipps (Mars Hill Bible Church, Grand Rapids, MI)

12:30 - 1pm Concluding Remarks: Teresa Berger and Bryan D. Spinks

1pm Conference ends

Travel & Hotel

Travel to and from New Haven

* By plane: New Haven (HVN), Hartford, CT (BDL), or New York area airports (EWR, LGA, JFK).

Ground Transportation to/from Airports

* Connecticut Limousine
* Prime Time Shuttle

It is not recommended that you take a taxi to New Haven from BDL, JFK, LGA or EWR airports as it would be very expensive. Taxi service from/to Tweed New Haven airport (HVN) should be $10-15 from downtown New Haven.

Hotel

We've arranged for a group rate at the New Haven Hotel.  The daily rate is $129 per night and is available until January 25, 2011. Please reference discount code "Liturgy in Migration" when making your reservation.

New Haven Hotel
229 George Street
New Haven, CT 06510

(800) NH-HOTEL or (203) 498-3100

Other area hotels:

- Courtyard New Haven at Yale

- Premiere Hotel and Suites

- The Study Hotel

- The Omni New Haven

Contact

If you have questions please contact the conference coordinator via email at ismevents@yale.edu.

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