The 2018 conference, on the theme "Space, Place, Context," was held October 11-14 in Montreal, Quebec. The day-to-program is available on the Arete Event Services web site.

Keith Francis has also put together a collection of photos from the conference. Follow the links below to see the presenters' abstracts, biographical sketches, and other information.

Schedule

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Ebenezer Parkman’s World of Sermons: An Eighteenth-Century Minister’s Experience

Ross Beales, College of the Holy Cross

Montréal, QC

Zvi Hirsch Masliansky, the American Context, and Popular Yiddish-Language Preaching

Matthew H. Brittingham, Emory University

Montréal, QC

The Engines of Tyranny? The Court Sermons of James II, 1685-8.

William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University

Montréal, QC

Preaching in Britain’s “Parish Church” – Sermons at St Paul’s Cathedral, c.1700-1900

Frances Knight, University of Nottingham

Montréal, QC

"'Wild Mobs, to mad Sedition prone': Preaching the American Revolution in Pennsylvania"

R. Barry Levis, Rollins College

Montréal, QC

Of Birds and Bees: A Sermon by Caesarius of Arles

Bernadette McNary-Zak, Rhodes College

Montréal, QC

Showing Tolerance While in Supremacy and Power (Commentary on the Sermon of the Prophet during conquest of Mecca)

Arshad Munir, University of Gujrat

Montréal, QC

The Death of Death: Political Preaching at the Funeral of Anne of Denmark

Nathan Perry, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Montréal, QC

Sermonizing the Great Tyne Flood of 1771: Responding to Disaster with Vested Interest

Kyle Robinson, Western Colorado University

Montréal, QC

"Islamophobia in African American Revolutionary Theologizing and Antebellum Sermonizing"

John Saillant, Western Michigan University

Montréal, QC

Preachers and the Foundling Hospital Chapel: "There but for the grace of God go I"

Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma

Montréal, QC

Samuel Johnson's Charity Sermon for Henry Hervey Aston in St. Paul's Cathedral, May 23, 1745

Howard Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Montréal, QC

From Prescriptive to Reflexive Sermon: The Insertion of Philosophy in the Mosque

Youssef Yacoubi, Seton Hall University

Montréal, QC

From pageantry to piety: heraldic art as a preaching tool in early modern England

Hannah Yip, University of Birmingham

Montréal, QC