2020 Annual Meeting
Sheraton Downtown Atlanta Hotel
January 2-4, 2020
President: Bruce Morrill
Vice President: Gennifer Brooks, “Irrelevant Wisdom: NAAL and the Margins”
Berakah Award: Joyce Ann Zimmerman
Response: “The Relationality of Gratitude”
2019 Annual Meeting
Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel
January 3-5, 2019
President: Melinda Quivik
Vice President: Bruce Morrill, “Can the Easter Season’s Mysticism Empower Ethical Praxis?”
Berakah Award: Martin Seltz
Response: “Booking Worship: Thanksgivings and Petitions after Fifth Years of Lutheran Liturgical Publishing”
2018 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada
January 4-6, 2018
President: Jennifer Lord
Vice President: Melinda Quivik, “Preaching: The Preservation of Fire”
Berakah Award: Ruth Duck
Response: “The Open Table of the World”
2017 Annual Meeting
Marriott Renaissance Downtown, Washington DC
January 5-7, 2017
President: Joyce Ann Zimmerman
Vice President: Jennifer Lord, “Their Proclamation Has Gone Out into All the Earth: An Account of Orthodox Church Bells”
Berakah Award: Gerard Austin, O.P.
Response: Liturgy/Church: Two Sides of One Coin
2016 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Houston, TX
January 7-10, 2016
President: Donald LaSalle
Vice President: Joyce Ann Zimmerman, “Living the Evangelical Counsels or, Doing Liturgy with a Heart”
Berakah Award: Marjorie Procter-Smith
2015 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Minneapolis, MN
January 1-4, 2015
President: Maxwell Johnson
Vice President: Donald LaSalle, “Liturgy and the Poesis of Time”
Berakah Award: Ruth Langer, “The Blessings and Challenges of Interreligious Prayer”
Diekmann Award: Virgilio Elizondo
Plenary Speaker: Hugh Page, Jr., “Biblical Laments, Blues and the Music of Prince”
2014 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Orlando, FL
January 2-5, 2014
President: Michael Witczak
Vice President: Maxwell Johnson, “Sancrosanctum Concilium, A Liturgical ‘Magna Carta’ Then and Now”
Berakah Award: Gil Ostdiek, “Reflections on the Place of Worship”
2013 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Albuquerque, NM
January 3-6, 2013
President: Craig Satterlee
Vice President: Michael Witczak
Vice Presidential Address: “The Liturgical Movement: A Personal Examen”
Berakah Award: Edward Foley
Response: “Practical Liturgics: A ‘Fusionary’ Tale”
2012 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Montreal, Quebec, CANANDA
January 5-8, 2012
President: Catherine Vincie
Vice President: Craig Satterlee
Vice Presidential Address: “Speaking a Hospitable Word in Worship: Becoming Good Liturgical Guests”
Berakah Award: Louis Weil
Response: “An Invitation into a Larger Room”
2011 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco, California
January 6-9, 2011
President: Jill S. Crainshaw
Vice President: Catherine Vincie
Vice Presidential Address: “Praying with the New Cosmology”
Berakah Award: Richard S. Vosko
Response: “The Language of Liturgical Space: Archetypes and Clichés”
2010 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Milwaukee, Wisconsin
January 7-10, 2010
President: H. Richard Rutherford
Vice President: Jill S. Crainshaw
Vice Presidential Address: “Wording Wisdom: The Wise, Strange, and Holy Work of Worship”
Berakah Award: Gail Ramshaw
Response: “A Conversation with Julian of Norwich about Liturgical Language”
Plenary Address: Aminah Beverly McCloud
“Worship in Islam: What Muslims Want Jewish and Christian Liturgists to Know”
2009 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Baltimore, Maryland
January 2-5, 2009
President: Judith M. Kubicki
Vice President: H. Richard Rutherford
Vice Presidential Address: “Baptismal Anointing in the Eastern Mediterranean: Old Questions—New Evidence from Cyprus”
Berakah Award: Janet R. Walton
Response: “Dwelling in Possibility”
Godfrey Diekmann Award: Louis-Marie Chauvet
Response: “Are the Words of the Liturgy Worn Out? What Diagnosis? What Pastoral Approach?”
2008 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Savannah, Georgia
January 3-6, 2008
President: Ruth C. Duck
Vice President: Judith M. Kubicki
Vice Presidential Address: “Worship in a Time of Violence and Disruption: Celebrating an Eschatological Vision with a Broken World”
Berakah Award: Paul F. Bradshaw
Response: “Is Liturgical History a Thing of the Past?”
Plenary Address: Griffin Lotson
“The Darien Shouters”
2007 Annual Meeting
Park Hyatt, Toronto, Ontario
January 4-7, 2007
President: Paul Turner
Vice President: Ruth C. Duck
Vice Presidential Address: “Holy Ground: On Being Liturgical Artists and Scholars”
Berakah Award: John F. Baldovin SJ
Response: “The Usefulness of Liturgical Theory”
Plenary Address: Richard Schneider
“Orthodox Iconography as Liturgical Art: Call and Response between the Painted Icon and the Living Icon”
2006 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Islandia, San Diego, CA
January 5-8, 2006
President: Thomas H. Schattauer
Vice President: Paul Turner
Vice Presidential Address: “What We’re Not”
Berakah Award: Gordon Lathrop
Response: “Ordo and Coyote: Further Reflections on Order, Disorder and Meaning in Christian Worship”
Diekmann Award: Catherine Bell
Plenary Address: Orlando Espín
“Whose Lex Orandi? Whose Lex Credendi? Popular Catholicism as a Theological Problem for Liturgy”
2005 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Louisville, KY
January 6-9, 2005
President: Doris Donnelly
Vice President: Thomas H. Schattauer
Vice Presidential Address: “Re-imaging the Christian Assembly: The Search for an Alternative Practice of Worship”
Berakah Award: Kevin Seasoltz, OSB
Response: “Berakah Response”
Plenary address: M. Cathleen Kaveny
“Salvation and The Sopranos: Is Redemption Possible?
2004 Annual Meeting
Grand Hyatt, Grand Central Station, New York City, NY
January 2004
President: Ruth Meyers
Vice President: Doris Donnelly
Vice Presidential Address: “Amen”
Berakah Award: Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman
Response: “A Rendezvous of Ancestors: Wrestling for Ritual Truth”
Plenary Address: Leo D. Lefebure
“Memory, Mimesis, Healing: Ritual Responses to Violence in the Abrahamic Traditions”
2003 Annual Meeting
Indianapolis, Indiana
January 2-5, 2003
President: Michael Driscoll
Vice President: Ruth Meyers
Vice Presidential Address: “‘It Really Does Matter’: Liturgists and Worshiping Communities”
Berakah Award: Dr. Hoyt Hickman
Response: “Berakah Response”
Diekmann Award: Edward Sovik
Plenary Address: Frank Burch Brown
“Religious Music and Secular Music: What Is the Difference?”
2002 Annual Meeting
Reston, Virginia
January 3 – 6, 2002
President: Gabe Huck
Vice President: Michael Driscoll
Vice Presidential Address: “Finding Our Voice ”
Berakah Award: Fr. Clarence Rivers
Response: “Berakah Response”
Plenary Address: Peter Phan
“Popular Religion and Liturgical Inculturation: Perspectives and Challenges from Asia”
2001 Annual Meeting
St. Louis, Missouri
January 4 – 7, 2001
President: Gail Ramshaw
Vice President: Gabe Huck
Vice Presidential Address: “How Will They Know What to Do?”
Berakah Award: Mr. Robert Rambush
Plenary Address: Rosemary Radford Ruether
“Greening Liturgy: Integrating Ecology into Liturgical Theology and Practice”
2000 Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida
January 2-5, 2000
President: Emmanuel Cutrone
Vice President: Gail Ramshaw
Vice Presidential Address: “The Valley of Dry Metaphors”
Berakah Award: Fr. John Gallen SJ
Response: “The Role of the Artist in Liturgical Inculturation”
Plenary Address: Rodney Clapp
“At the Intersection of Eucharist and Capital”
1999 Annual Meeting
Vancouver, BC
January 2-5, 1999
President: Alan Barthel
Vice President: Emmanuel Cutrone
Vice Presidential Address: “Looking through the Blur: Academy, Church and Reception of Reform”
Berakah Award: Dr. Geoffrey Wainwright
Response: “The Nature of Communion”
Plenary Address: Michael Ingham
“Christians and Inter-Faith Dialogue: Singing Two Songs in a Strange Land”
1998 Annual Meeting
San Antonio, TX
January ____, 1998
President: Edward Foley
Vice President: Alan Barthel
Vice Presidential Address: “_______________________________,” Worship ___________________.
Berakah Award: Dr. Nathan Mitchell
Response: “____________________,” Worship ______________________.
Plenary Address:
1997 Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL
January 4-7, 1997
President: Frank Senn
Vice President: Edward Foley
Vice Presidential Address: “Academy Membership: A Case Study in Liturgical Methodology”
Berakah Award: Mr. Frank Henderson
Response: “Full Participation in the Liturgy: A Continuing Search”
Plenary Address: R. Stephen Warner
“Observations about Liturgical Catechesis: Clueing in the Visitor”
1996 Annual Meeting
Cincinnati, OH
January 4-7, 1996
President: Janet Walton
Vice President: Frank Senn
Vice Presidential Address: “In All Particulars: A Postliberal Approach to Ecumenical and Interfaith Worship”
Berakah Award: Dr. Hans Boehringer
Response: “Response to the Berakah Award”
Plenary Address: William J. Schickel
“A Tribute to Grailville at Fifty”
1995 Annual Meeting
Boston, MA
January 5-8, 1995
President: Peter Fink
Vice President: Janet Walton
Vice Presidential Address: “Toward a Measure of Worship”
Berakah Award: Dr. Harold Daniels
Response: “Service Books and Ecumenism”
1994 Annual Meeting
Charleston, SC
January 2-5, 1994
President: Paul Bradshaw
Vice President: Peter Fink
Vice Presidential Address: “Diversity in Communion; or, Whatever Happened to BEM?”
Berakah Award: Fr. Edward Kilmartin SJ
Response: “Catholic Tradition of Eucharistic Theology”
Plenary Address: Wade Clark Roof
“The Changing American Religious Landscape: Implications for Ritual”
1993 Annual Meeting
Albuquerque, NM
January 2-5, 1993
President: Gil Ostdiek
Vice President: Paul Bradshaw
Vice Presidential Address: “Worship in an Alien Land”
Berakah Award: Sr. Mary Colllins OSB
Response: “An Adventuresome Hypothesis: Women as Authors of Liturgical Change”
Plenary Address: Hilaire Valiquette, OFM
“Pueblos and Catholicism”
1992 Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
January 2-5, 1992
President: Larry Hoffman
Vice President: Gil Ostdiek
Vice Presidential Address: “Unfinished Conversations”
Berakah Award: Dr. Donald Saliers
Response: “The Ecstatic and the Quotidian”
Plenary Address: Robert Michael Franklin
“Definite Spirituality: Worship and Formation in the Black Churches”
1991 Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, MN
January 2-5, 1991
President: John Baldovin
Vice President: Larry Hoffman
Vice Presidential Address: “Marshall McLuhan, How’re We Doin’? Academy As Medium, Academy as Message”
Berakah Award: Fr. David Power OMI
Response: “When Words Fail: The Function of Systematic Theology in Liturgical Studies”
1990 Annual Meeting
St. Louis, MO
January 2-5, 1990
President: Kathleen Hughes
Vice President: John Baldovin
Vice Presidential Address: “The Ecumenical Challenge to the Academy”
Berakah Award: Sr. Theophane Hytrek OSF
Plenary Address: Ron Grimes
“Emerging Ritual”
1989 Annual Meeting
Nashville, TN
January 2-5, 1989
President: Horace T. Allen, Jr.
Vice President: Kathleen Hughes
Vice Presidential Address: “The History and Hopes of the Liturgical Movement: A Tribute on the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy”
Berakah Award: Dr. Balthasar Fischer
Response: “Some Memories”
Symposium: “Tradition and Enculturation in the Music of the Liturgy”
- Edward Foley, Capuchin, “Introduction”
- Sue Seid-Martin, “Which Music?”
- Fred R. Anderson, “Tradition and Enculturation of the Music of the Liturgy”
- Virgil C. Funk, “Reflections on the Issues of Enculturation, Style, and the Sacred-Secular Debate”
- Peter Jeffery: “A Response”
1988 Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA
January 4-7, 1988
President: David Power
Vice President: Horace T. Allen, Jr.
Vice Presidential Address: “Politics as the Business of Liturgy”
Berakah Award: Fr. Michael Marx OSB and Fr. Aelred Tegels OSB
Response: “Response to the Berakah Award” given by Aelred Tegels, OSB
Plenary Address: Regis A. Duffy, OFM
“Alternative Futures for Worship: Genesis and Implications”
Plenary Address: Joseph M. Powers, SJ
“Liturgy and ‘Dignity'”
1987 Annual Meeting
Tarrytown, New York
January ____, 1987
President: John Barry Ryan
Vice President: David Power
Vice Presidential Address: “_______________________________,” Worship ___________________.
Berakah Award: Dr. Thomas Talley
Response: “____________________,” Worship ______________________.
Plenary Address:
1986 Annual Meeting
Durham, NC
January ____, 1986
President: Mary Collins
Vice President: John Barry Ryan
Vice Presidential Address: “_______________________________,” Worship ___________________.
Berakah Award: Fr. Gerard Sloyan
Response: “____________________,” Worship ______________________.
Plenary Address:
1985 Annual Meeting
Philadelphia, PA
January ____, 1985
President: Gordon Lathrop
Vice President: Mary Collins
Vice Presidential Address: “_______________________________,” Worship ___________________.
Berakah Award: Fr. Robert Taft SJ
Response: “____________________,” Worship ______________________.
Proceedings: ____________.
1984 Annual Meeting
Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois
January 3-5, 1984
President: Mark Searle
Vice President: Gordon W. Lathrop
Vice Presidential Address: “A Rebirth of Images: on the Use of the Bible in Liturgy” Worship 58(1984) 291-304.
Berakah Award: Dr. Eugene L. Brand
Berakah Response, “Ecumenism and the Liturgy” Worship 58(1984) 305-315.
Proceedings: Worship 58(1984) 290-383.
1983 Annual Meeting
Cathedral College, Douglaston, and St. John’s University, Queens, New York
3-6 January, 1983
President: John H. McKenna
Vice President: Mark Searle
Vice Presidential Address: “New Tasks, New Methods: The Emergence of Pastoral Liturgical Studies” Worship 57(1983) 291-308.
Berakah Award: Dr. James F. White
Response: “Making Changes in United Methodist Euchology” Worship 57(1983) 333-344.
Proceedings: Worship 57(1983) 290-384.
1982 Annual Meeting
Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
4-7 January 1982
President: Don E. Saliers
Vice President: John H. McKenna
Vice Presidential Address: “Liturgy: Toward Liberation or Oppression?” Worship 55(1981).
Berakah Award: Fr. Robert W. Hovda
Response: Worship 55(1981) 344-356.
Proceedings: Worship 56(1982) 290-384.
1981 Annual Meeting
Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles, California
5-8 January, 1981
President: Louis Weil
Vice President: Don E. Saliers
Vice Presidential Address: “The Integrity of Sung Prayer” Worship 55(1981) 290-303.
Berakah Award: Mr. Frank Kacmarcik
Response, “We are Formed or Deformed by our Environments and Arts” Worship 55(1981) 359-380.
Proceedings: Worship 55(1981) 290-384.
1980 Annual Meeting
Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
2-5 January, 1980
President: Gerard Austin
Vice President: Louis Weil
Vice Presidential Address
“Liturgy in a Disintegrating World” Worship 54(1980) 291-302.
Berakah Award: Fredrick R. McManus
Response, “The Genius of the Roman Rite Revisited” Worship 54(1980) 360-378.
Proceedings: Worship 54(1980) 209-382.
1979 Annual Meeting
Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey
2-5 January, 1979
President: James F. White
Vice President: Gerard Austin
Vice Presidential Address
“The Constitution and the Academy: A Coincidence of Anniversaries” Worship 53(1979) 291-301.
Berakah Award: Horton M. Davies
Response, “A Protestant Vindication of Liturgics” Worship 53(1979) 371-378.
Proceedings: Worship 53(1979) 290-383.
1978 Annual Meeting
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
3-6 January, 1978
President: Charles W. Gusmer
Vice President: James F. White
Vice Presidential Address
“Outside the Liturgical Establishment or Who Needs Us?” Worship 52(1978) 291-299
Berakah Award: Massey H. Shepherd Jr.
Response, “The Berakah Award: Response” Worship 52(1978) 299-313.
Proceedings: Worship 52(1978) 290-384.
1977 Annual Meeting
Casa San Jose, San Antonio, Texas
3-6 January, 1977
President: Daniel B. Stevick
Vice President: Charles W. Gusmer
Vice Presidential Address
“A Bill of Rites: Liturgical Adaptation in America” Worship 51(1977) 283-289.
Berakah Award: Godfrey Diekmann
Response, “Some Memories” Worship 51(1977) 362-372.
Proceedings: Worship 51(1977) 282-376.
1976 Annual Meeting
Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana
5-8 January, 1976
President: John Gallen
Vice President: Daniel B. Stevick
Vice Presidential Address
“Responsibility for Liturgy” Worship 50 (1976) 291-306.
Berakah Award: Aidan Kavanagh
Response, “Liturgical Business Unfinished and Unbegun” Worship 50 (1976) 354-364.
Proceedings: Worship 50(1976) 290-367.
1975 Annual Meeting
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
2-5 January 1975
Convened by John Gallen who is elected first President
Keynote by Mary Collins, “Liturgical Methodology and Cultural Evolution of Worship in the United States” Worship 49(1975) 85-102.
“A Response to the Keynote” Hans Boehringer, Worship 49(1975) 103-106.
Proceedings: Chronicle of Worship 49(1975) 113-117.
1973 First discussion meeting
Scottsdale, Arizona
4-7 December 1973
Founder: John Gallen
First gathering explored the possibility of forming a Liturgical Academy
Major addresses published in Theological Studies 35, #2 (1974) 233-311.
- Walter J. Burghardt, “Theologian’s Challenge to Liturgy”
- Langdon Gilkey, “Symbols, Meaning, Divine Presence”