Programme

Programme / Ohjelma

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

Abstracts can be read here: / Abstraktit voi lukea täältä:

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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 (chair: Anna Pulli-Huomo): Sofija Lazić Pedersen: Missing the obvious?, JenYoon Choi: Surprised by Grace: Culture, Language, and Identity in Korean “Amazing Grace”, Arto Vallivirta: What even is online worship? Videography in a local parish as a problem for liturgical theology

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

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

  • Cedercreutz Hall (chair: Sirkku Rintamäki): 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 

  • Yuko Sakiyama, Japan / Japani

  • Old Church / Vanhakirkko, Lönnrotinkatu 6

  • The organ concert is included in the conference fee. Show your conference name tag at the door for free admission. / Urkukonsertti sisältyy konferenssimaksuun. Näytä konferenssin nimikylttisi ovella, niin pääset ilmaiseksi sisään.

  • More information and the programme is available here. / Lisätietoa ja konsertin ohjelma on saatavilla täällä.
     

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): Ecumenical Perspectives on Cultural Appropriation: Adoption of Music across Traditions (Maria Takala-Roszczenko, Samuli Korkalainen, and Marcell Silva Steuernagel)

  • Arokallio Hall (workshop in Finnish): Luomakunnan aika -rukousjakso / Season of Creation, Kati Pirttimaa ja Vilppu Huomo

11:45–13.00 Lunch break / Lounastauko 

13:00–14:30 Session III

  • Cedercreutz Hall (chair: Helen Rossil): 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 (chair: Miika Ahola): Aleksi Sakkolan-Leppänen: Unity manifested in creation: the Romantic conception of God in J. L. Runeberg’s hymnology, Tatum Earp: (Title missing)

14:45–15:30 Lecture-recitals

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

  • Cathedral Chapel (Unioninkatu 29; side pavilion on the right-hand side from Senate Square): Anna Pulli-Huomo: The Sacred, Experience, and Popular Music: A Music-Theological Perspective in an Organist’s Lecture Concert 
     

Excursion to Suomenlinna Fortress / Retki Suomenlinnaan

16:20 Start / Lähtö

  • Market Square / Kauppatori
  • You need a Helsinki public transport ticket (zones AB) to board the ferry. Tickets can be purchased online, on the app, and at the ferry terminal at the Market Square. The easiest way is to pay by credit card using contactless payment. / Lautalla tarvitaan HLS:n kertalippu (vyöhykkeet AB). Lipun voi ostaa verkosta tai applikaatiosta, ja niitä on myynnissä myös lauttaterminaalissa Kauppatorilla. Helpointa on maksaa matka pankki- tai luottokortilla käyttäen lähimaksua.

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 Service / Ortodoksinen palvelus

  • Akathist to the Theotokos / Akatistos jumalansynnyttäjälle

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

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

  • Cedercreutz Hall (chair: Jaakko Tahkokallio): Jaakko Tahkokallio: Production of Liturgical Books in the Medieval Diocese of Turku, c. 1200–c. 1500, Hilkka-Liisa Vuori: The Earliest Missals and Diversity of Liturgical Melodies c. 1200–1400, Jorma Hannikainen: Melodic variation in the three graduals of the Turku diocese at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries: A Desired but Unattainable Musical Unity (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)

13:00–13:30 Ending / Päätös

  • Hanna Rijken & Teija Tuukkanen (closing remarks)

  • Samuli Korkalainen

  • Lisa Hagman Hall