Keynote lectures

The keynote lectures were scheduled thematically on four mornings and were held in English, German and French.

  • The abstracts and biographies can be found in the ‘Detailed information on the conference programme’ (available here).
  • You can find the manuscripts and translations here.

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)