Programme

Programme / Ohjelma

The programme is subject to minor changes. / Ohjelmaan voi tulla vielä pieniä muutoksia.

Conference venue / Konferenssipaikka: House of Science and Letters / Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki

Abstracts can be read here (the file will be updated):

Wed / Ke 5/8

11:00–11:15 Opening / Avaus

• Samuli Korkalainen, chair of the Finnish Society for Hymnology and Liturgy / Hymnologian ja liturgiikan seuran puheenjohtaja
• Lisa Hagman Hall

11:15–12:15 Keynote I

• Elin Lockneus: Polyphony as an approach to diverse unity

• Chair: Samuli Korkalainen

• Lisa Hagman Hall

12:15–13:30 Lunch break / Lounastauko 
13.30–15:00 Session I

• Cedercreutz Hall: Kinga Marjatta Pap: Maintaining unity and celebrating diversity: Trends in the global assembly hymnals of the Lutheran World Federation 1947–2023, Sofija Lazić Pedersen: Missing the obvious?, JenYoon Choi: Surprised by Grace: Culture, Language, and Identity in Korean “Amazing Grace”

• Arokallio Hall (session in Finnish) (puheenjohtaja Terhi Paananen): Jenni Urponen & Teija Tuukkanen: Moninaisuus jumalanpalvelusmusiikissa – virret ja muu musiikki radiojumalanpalveluksissa vuonna 2025, Kati Pirttimaa: Liturgisen suomen kielen kehittyminen tradition ja modernisointitarpeiden ristipaineessa, Titti Kallio & Terhi Paananen: Messukokemus: Psykofysiologinen näkökulma osallistujan kokemukseen

15:00–15:30 Coffee / Kahvi
15:30–17:00 Session II 

• Cedercreutz Hall: Marcell Silva Steuernagel: “Caipira e Crente”: Regionalism in Brazilian Church Music, Márcio André Silva Steuernagel: “Stretching the Aesthetic Envelope”: Expectation, Functionality and Aesthetics in South Brazilian Lutheran Hymnody, Samuli Korkalainen: Lutheran merger efforts from the perspective of compiling a joint hymnal in the United States in the 1950s
• Arokallio Hall (chair: Kati Pirttimaa): Chia-An (Victor) Tung: Singing the Same Hope: Unity as Liturgical Practice in a Cross-Denominational Chinese Choir, Griffin Shoemaker: When Many Voices Sing As One, Helen Rossil: The sounding priesthood of all believers: socio-religious unity through vocal diversity in traditional Nordic hymnody
   

19:00 Organ concert / Urkukonsertti 

• Yoko Sakiyama

• Old Church / Vanhakirkko, Lönnrotinkatu 6
   

Thu / To 6/8

8:30 Catholic Morning Prayer / Katolinen aamurukous

• Studium Catholicum, Ritarikatu 3b A

9:00–9:45 Coffee / Kahvi
9:45–10:45 Keynote II

• Mark Porter: Musical Diversity in a time of Ecological Crisis

• Chair: Leena Lampinen

• Lisa Hagman Hall

11:00–11:45 Panel discussion / Workshop

• Cedercreutz Hall: Panel discussion (Maria Takala-Roszczenko, Samuli Korkalainen, Marcell Silva Steuernagel)

• Arokallio Hall: Luomakunnan aika -rukousjakso/Season of Creation, workshop, Kati Pirttimaa & Vilppu Huomo

11:45–13.00 Lunch break / Lounastauko 

13:00–14:30 Session III

• Cedercreutz Hall: Eerik Jõks: Cursive Cadence Revisited: The Estonian Experience in Formula-Based Psalmody, Maria Takala-Roszczenko: Music as Catalyst for Liturgical Renewal: The Divine Liturgy (1964) by the Finnish Orthodox Archbishop Paul, Michael Capps: Curating the Religious Imagination: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Liturgical Arts in North American Christian Subcultures
• Arokallio Hall: Aleksi Sakkolan-Leppänen: Unity manifested in creation: the Romantic conception of God in J. L. Runeberg’s hymnology, Tatum Earp: (Title will be published soon)

14:45–15:30 Lecture-recitals

• Cedercreutz Hall: Hanna Rijken: Viriditas and Diverse Unity: Ecospirituality in Liturgical Chants of Hildegard of Bingen

• Anna Pulli-Huomo: The Sacred, Experience, and Popular Music: A Music-Theological Perspective in an Organist’s Lecture Concert (location will be announced later)
   

Excursion to Suomenlinna Fortress / Retki Suomenlinnaan

16:20 Start / Lähtö

• Market Square / Kauppatori

17:00 Lutheran Weekday Communion Service / Luterilainen viikkomessu

• Suomenlinna Church / Suomenlinnan kirkko

18:00 Conference Dinner / Konferenssi-illallinen

• Officers’ Club / Upseerikerho
   

Fri / Pe 7/8

8:30 Eastern Orthodox Matins / Ortodoksinen aamupalvelus

• Pyhän Kolminaisuuden kirkko (Church of the Holy Trinity), Unioninkatu 31

9:30–10:15 Coffee / Kahvi
10:15–11:45 Session IV 

• Cedercreutz Hall: Hilkka-Liisa Vuori, Jaakko Tahkokallio & Jorma Hannikainen (final seminar of the research project, ‘Tradition and Variation: Medieval Chant in the Diocese of Turku’)

• Arokallio Hall (chair: Arto Vallivirta): Toni Kokkonen: Cultural Appropriation or Religious Continuity? Messianic Judaism and the Boundaries of Jewish and Christian Liturgy, Miika Ahola: Has Christ been divided? Liturgy, unity and ecclesiologies of commmunion, Anthony Elia: Hymn as Tool, Hymn as Weapon, Hymn as Love: An Epistemology of Hymnody through Diversity & Hope

12:00–13:00 Keynote III (Workshop)

• Hilkka-Liisa Vuori, Jaakko Tahkokallio & Jorma Hannikainen (final seminar of the research project, ‘Tradition and Variation: Medieval Chant in the Diocese of Turku’)

• Lisa Hagman Hall

13:00–13:30 Ending / Päätös