Alphabetical listing of participants and topics

  • Roland Betancourt

    “Nicholas of Andida’s Commentary on the Liturgy“

    Bio & Abstract

  • Magdalene Breidenthal

    “Mary of Egypt’s Communion on the Edge: Rethinking Sacred Space”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Mary Farag

    “Prayer, Ekstasis, and Sights of the Invisible Realm”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Crina Gschwandtner

    “Why Liturgy is not Ludic: Distinguishing Between the Phenomena of Play, Ritual, and Artistic Performance”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Tracy Gustilo

    “Against the Beautification of Tragic Suffering in Orthodox Holy Week”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Fr Sergius Halvorsen

    “Heartbreaking Beauty”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Susan Ashbrook Harvey

    “Sacred Song in Ancient Syriac Christianity”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Junius Johnson

    Title TBA

    Bio

  • Fr Ivan Moody

    “Liturgy, Music, Scripture, Hymnology”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Harrison Russin

    “ ‘The basic key to the liturgy’: liturgical-artistic conservatism and music theology”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Rossitza Schroeder

    “Becoming the Body of Christ: Revisiting the Mandylion in Late Byzantine Church Decoration”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Nebojša Stanković

    “Liturgy and Architecture in Dialogue: Function and Meaning, PHysical and Transcendental, Present and Eschaton”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Haig Utidjian

    “Imploring the Spirit with tearful sighs from the depths of our souls”: a confluence of music, theology and iconography within the Armenian Divine Liturgy”

    Bio & Abstract

  • Grant White

    “ ‘What Did You Go Out to See?’: Orthodox Liturgy, Spectacle, and Liturgical Participation in Late Modernity”

    Bio & Abstract

Listeners/accompanists

  • Peter Bouteneff (facilitator) - Bio

  • Makoto Fujimura - Bio

  • Vitaly Permiakov - Bio

  • Richard Schneider - Bio