NAAL Annual Academy Meeting History
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| 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1995 | 1994 | 1993 | 1992 | 1991 | 1990 |
| 1989 | 1988 | 1987 | 1986 | 1985 | 1984 | 1983 | 1982 | 1981 | 1980 |
| 1979 | 1978 | 1977 | 1976 | 1975 | 1973 |
2006 Annual Meeting
Hyatt Islandia, San Diego, CA
January 5-8, 2006
Meeting Details
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"
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
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
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
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
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, Jamaica, 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"