Keynote lectures

The keynote lectures will be held in German, English or French. Please note that only a limited number of printed copies of the keynote lectures’ manuscripts will be available in both languages (German and English). We would ask you to download them online where possible; they will be available from the evening before each respective lecture.

The keynote lectures are taking place on the university campus, at Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences sociales et des Humanités d’Alsace (MISHA), Salle de Conférence: 5, allée du Général Rouvillois, 67083 Strasbourg.

Hymns and hymnologyin Strasbourg (Tuesday 1 September)

  • Daniel Trocmé-Latter: Hymn singing in Strasbourg during the 16th century: Hymnody and legacy under the Strasbourg reformers
  • Beat Föllmi: Straßburg als Laboratorium hymnologischer Forschung und Praxis. Friedrich Spittas Evangelisches Gesangbuch für Elsass-Lothringen (1899)

Databases and research (Wednesday 2 September)

  • Phil Price: Databases for English Hymnody
  • Christiane Schäfer & Beat Föllmi: Die Hymnologische Datenbank HDB

Windows totheworld (Thursday 3 September)

  • Becca Whitla: Cultivating Liturgical Soil in a Decolonial Key
  • Jacques Hippolyte Tayo Nij: Les pratiques de chant dans l’église évangélique du Cameroun

Hymn books in the digital world (Friday 4 September)

  • Andrew Pratt: Hymn books in the digital world
  • Panel with David Scott Hamnes, Teija Tuukkanen und Susanne Hasselhoff (in English and German)