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Liturgy
Symposium Series 2006-2007
Mondays at 4:30pm
ISM Great Hall
409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
Refreshments for mind, body, and spirit will be served. Free and
open to the public.
October 2, 2006
The Reverend James W. Farwell, Ph.D. is Associate
Professor in the H. Boone Porter Chair of Liturgics at The General
Theological Seminary. He is also an affiliate member of the doctoral
faculty at Drew University and teaches at Hunter College/CUNY. He
earned his Ph.D. in religion at Emory University. He is a member
of the American Academy of Religion, the North American Academy
of Liturgy, and the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies.
Dr. Farwell’s publications include This Is the Night
(T and T Clark International, 2005) a counter-modern interpretation
of suffering rooted in the liturgies of the Paschal Triduum. His
current interests include the implications of trauma theory for
liturgical memory; the significance of the philosophical critique
of metaphysics for sacramental theology; and the relationship between
ritual, ethics, and belief.
November 6, 2006
Dr. Judith Marie Kubicki, C.S.S.F., is assistant
professor of Theology at Fordham University. She earned a Ph.D.
in liturgical studies and a Master of Liturgical Music at The Catholic
University of America in Washington, D.C. She also has a BA in Music
from Daemen College, and an MA in English from Canisius College,
both in Buffalo, New York. Dr. Kubicki is the music reviewer for
the journal Worship and has published articles in many
journals, including Studia Liturgica, Theological Studies,
and Worship. Her books include Liturgical Music as
Ritual Symbol: A Case Study of Jacques Berthier's Taizé Music
(1999) and The Presence of Christ in the Gathered Assembly
(Oct. 2006).
December 4, 2006
Jill Burnett Comings has been Assistant Professor
in Liturgical Studies at the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies
at Drew University since 2003. After receiving her B.A. in English
from Nyack College, she earned her M.A.R. (Liturgics Concentration)
from Yale Divinity School and her Ph.D. in Liturgical Studies from
Drew University. Her dissertation, entitled Aspects of the Liturgical
Year in Cappadocia (325-430) was published by Peter Lang in
2005, and she is also the author of several articles, essays and
book reviews. Dr. Comings’s research and teaching interests
include early Christian liturgical history, Anglican liturgical
history and liturgical time.
March 5, 2007
After graduating MA in English Language and Literature at Oxford
University, Peter N. Davies embarked on a career
in education, working for 20 years as a high school teacher in schools
in England and New Zealand, and for a further 20 years as inspector
of schools. Concurrently, he developed a strong interest in the
language of Christian worship since the 1960s and has written and
lectured on the uneasy transition from traditional Cranmerian liturgy.
In 2003, after graduating PhD at the University of Birmingham, he
published Alien Rites: A Critical Examination of Contemporary
English in Anglican Liturgies.
Click here for an audio recording of this event.
April 9, 2007
Éamonn Ó Carragáin was born
in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary in 1942. He received his B.A. from St
Patrick's College, Maynooth (1962),his M.A. from University College,
Dublin (1965) and his Ph.D. from the Queen's University of Belfast
(1975). He has lectured at Trinity College, Dublin (1964-66), the
Queen's University of Belfast (1966-72) and University College,
Cork (1972 to date).
He has been Professor of Old and Middle English, and joint Head
of Department, at Cork since 1975. He has published on Old English
literature, Insular art and sculpture, the early liturgy, and the
city of Rome and its symbolic landscapes. He has been elected to
the Royal Irish Academy, the Society of Antiquaries of London and
(as scientific correspondent) to the Istituto Nazionale Italiano
di Studi Romani. His most recent publications include Ritual
and the Rood: Liturgical Images and the Old English Poems of the
"Dream of the Rood" Tradition.
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