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Saturday 26th October 08:00 Registration/Drinks
09:00 Welcome
09:25 Session 1
Stream 1- Anglicanism and Justice Stream 2- Text
09:30 Abigail Cawte The performance of women instrumentalists in charismatic church worship bands Cathy Ann Elias Biblical Redactions in Musical Settings of Jonah and Jephte: What Happened to the Unrepentant One?
10:00 Katie Ambrose Choral music-making in gendered settings Rachel Adie-Rhodes Interpreting the Four Daughters of God in Eighteenth-century Italian Libretti
10:30 Hannah Willman Global Anglican Music-Making in a (Post-)Colonial World Joseph Sargent “A Crown of Prayer and Praise”: Thought and Feeling in Leo Sowerby’s La Corona
11:00 Drinks
11:25 Session 2
Stream 1- Congregational Music & Worship Stream 2- Composition
11:30 Ryan Mackey ‘As One We Sing…’: Convergence and Music
in the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches		 Tim Boniface Soloing on the Scriptures: reflections on jazz performance as theology in practice
12:00 Leander Franke “You cannot separate the medium from the message”:  On the development of ideals regarding music in church services within Svenska Missionsförbundet (Swedish Congregational Church) 1957–1986. Brian Inglis ‘Engaging with theological concepts via music composition: Ave generosa and The Song of Margery Kempe’
12:30 Tihomir Lazic Spiritual Communion in Digital Worship: A Netnographic and Ecclesiological Inquiry Chris Massa Musicking the Seven Last Words: A New Composition and a Novel Approach
13:00 Lunch
13:55 Session 3
Stream 1- Music-worship-faith Stream 2- Nineteenth Century
14:00 Jane Pettegree Study and Sing: parish choir direction as practical theology Zig Reichwald Psalms without Words: What Mendelssohn’s Late Chamber Music Can Teach Us About Psalms
14:30 Lydia Padfield Musical Experience, Glossolalia, and the Mystical Tradition Joanna Bullivant John Henry Newman, Edward Elgar, and naturalistic views of music history
15:00     Sukai Chen Music and a Theology of Hope
15:30 Drinks
15:55 Session 4
Stream 1- Experience Stream 2- Music and the World Stream 3- Time
16:00 Donna Matthews Improvisation as a Liminal Experience  James Broad Powers and Principalities: an examination of themes of social justice in UK Christian rap music  Victoria Costa Sacred Music in Sacred Time: Towards a Liturgical Theology of Music through the Church Year
16:30 Frederico Dinis Memory performativity, deep listening and (in)visibilities in religious places Brent Keogh Towards a Theistic Ecomusicology Catherine Jenkins The significance of musical rests in Saint Augustine’s aesthetics and theology of time
17:00 Keynote 1- Professor June Boyce-Tilman
An Inclusive Theology of Sound
18:00 Book Launch & Wine Reception
Music and Spirituality: Theological Approaches, Empirical Methods, and Christian Worship (ed. George Corbett and Sarah Moerman)
19:30

Optional Dinner

Details TBC– we will be looking to book somewhere in Durham but please note spaces may be limited
 
Sunday 27th October 08:00 Registration/Drinks
08:55 Session 5- Concurrent
Panel 1- Discographic Possibilities: Theological Complexity in Pop Music's Conceptual Albums Panel 2- Music and Biblical Reception
09:00 Charles Howell Spiritual Complexity: Theological Reflections on Willie Nelson’s Spirit Album Andrew Mein The Bible in Music: Problems and Prospects
09:20 Benjamin Holsteen ‘The Heart Breaks and the World Explodes’: Grief, Wonder, the Fracturing of Time and Intimations of Eternity on Nick Cave & The Bad Seed’s Ghosteen Paul Middleton Sound Devotion: Scordatura as Biblical Commentary in Heinrich Biber’s "Rosary Sonatas"
09:40 Elspeth Manders Theological Complexities in Transgressive Popular Music, Specifically the Concept Albums Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden and Tales of Creation by Candlemass Sarah Moerman On Gods of Brass and Concubines! Music as Exegesis in Walton’s "Belshazzar’s Feast"
10:00 Session 6- Concurrent
Stream 1- Contemporary Music Stream 2- Archives
10:00 Micah Patterson ‘Who Said Gospel’s Boring?’ Exploring the Sono-Spiritual Fruits of Gospel Drill Anna Maria Plischka A new Patron for musica sacra? The Failed Glorification of Pius X
10:30 Michael Tang Beyond Lyric: Sigur Rós and The Divine Resonance Antony Pitts Outward and visible signs in Eton’s Choirbook
11:00 Drinks
11:25 Session 7- Concurrent
Stream 1- Mysticism Stream 2- Organology Stream 3- Sacred/Secular
11:30 Chiara Bertoglio The Song of the Trinity in Medieval mysticism and poetry Anna Steppler Reason without words: Evocations of the voice in early modern debates on musical instruments in liturgy Parvis Hejazi Composition as Prayer – Musical Signs and Theological Meaning in Olivier Messiaen’s Sacred Music by the Example of Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus
12:00 George Haggett Bernard of Clairvaux Goes to the Opera: Christian mysticism in medievalist operas by Robert Saxton, Julian Philips, and Kaija Saariaho Mikkael Halonen Contemplatio Polyhymniae Pro Organicis – Christologically Inspired Exultation and Exercise of Etymological Figures, Exclamations, and Equivocal Emblems in the Latin Writings and the Ecclesiastical Organ Music of Michael Praetorius (1571–1621) Anthony Mangin You’re Dead: Examining Theomusicologically-Mediated Imagery of Death (and life after death) of Sufjan Stevens and Flying Lotus
12:30 Christina Labriola Song Sweet as Fire: Music in the Medieval Mystical Sensorium Giorgio Farabegoli & Elena Borelli Barbieri’s auto-organ: a new way of sacred music-making in twentieth-century Italian churches Jennifer Walker Hector Berlioz’s Sonic Theology
13:00 Lunch
13:55 Session 8- Concurrent
Stream 1- Global Perspectives on Catholic Worship Stream 2- Disciplines
14:00 Teresa O'Donnell Sing a new song: migrant Catholic liturgical music practices in Ireland Ming Wilson "Music Encompasses All the Disciplines" - The Theology of Maximus Confessor for the Contemplation and Composition of Sacred Music
14:30 Gabriela Henríquez Negotiating the politics of Masses: How the Salvadoran Popular Mass shaped the relation between the Working
Class and the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador		 Christopher Blakey Harmony and Theology in Rebecca Clarke’s God Made a Tree
15:00 Tin Cugelj Listening to the Past Experience(s): On the Performance of the (Polyphonic?) Mass in Early Modern Dubrovnik Michael O'Connor Fifty Shades of Scholarship: Mapping the Bewildering Array of Methods in Music and Theology 
15:30 Drinks
16:00 Keynote 2- Dr Chelle Stearns
Harrowed Poetics: Music, Theology, & Trauma
17:00 Panel Discussion
18:00 Address