The 2019 conference, on the theme "The Technologies of Preaching," was held September 5-7 in Dublin, Ireland. The day-to-program is available on the Arete Event Services web site. Follow the links below to see the presenters' abstracts, biographical sketches, and other information.

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Christian Audience Theory in Augustine’s De Catechizandis Rudibus

Emily Murphy Cope, York College of Pennsylvania

Creating a Community of Sermon Scholars: GEMMS – The Gateway to Early Modern Manuscript Sermons

Jennifer Farooq, University of Regina
Hannah Yip, University of Birmingham

Developing a Corpus on Islamic Sermons Performed by Islamic Global Preachers on YouTube

Cipto Wardoyo, Coventry University

Digitizing Sermons in the Marshall University Libraries

Robert Ellison, Marshall University

“Fortunate Art”: Short-Writing by Ministers and Sermon Notetakers in Colonial New England

David M. Powers, independent scholar

From Dublin to Jerusalem: Sermons of Rabbi Isaac Herzog

Marc Saperstein, Leo Baeck College, London

"May God Defend the Right!": The Idea of Just War and British Sermons on the Crimean War

Petros Spanou, University of Oxford

Preaching in the "Valley of the Shadow of Death" -- Fr. Joseph Kentenich at Dachau

Eileen Lyon, SUNY Fredonia

Publishing Fundamentalism? The Preaching of W.P. Nicholson

Andrew Holmes, Queen's University Belfast

Remnants of Rhetorical Humanism in the Non-Conformist “Arts of Listening” of Early Modern England

Curry Kennedy, The Pennsylvania State University

Sermon Studies: Where Are We? Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

Robert Ellison, Marshall University
Keith Francis, Oxford Brookes University

"The Christian Neighbor" by White Kennett: How a Sermon Published in 1711 is Still Relevant Today

Bradley Havenar, Phillips Theological Seminary

"The Scum of Controversy": Recantation Sermons in Eighteenth-Century England and Ireland

Simon Lewis, Trinity College Dublin

The Sermon as Story and News Source: Funeral Sermons for Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Winchester

Keith Francis, Oxford Brookes University

The Spurgeon Sermons Project at Baylor University

Keith Francis, Oxford Brookes University

What is a Sermon? The Importance of Text, Production, and Performance, Part I

Robert Ellison, Marshall University
Jennifer Farooq, University of Regina
David Powers, Independent Scholar
Cipto Wardoyo, Coventry University

What is a Sermon? The Importance of Text, Production, and Performance, Part II

Emily Murphy Cope, York College Pennsylvania
Robert Ellison, Marshall University
Curry Kennedy, The Pennsylvania State University
Sally Norris, Independent Scholar