What's up?! Chaplaincy in times of change CEUC, June 1.-6. 2009 - Kristiansand, Norway

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Keynote speakers Professor Jorunn Økland Centre for Gender Research University of Oslo Academic Appointments From September 2007-: Professor of interdisciplinary gender studies in the Humanities at the Centre for Gender Research, Researcher at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Oslo University of Oslo. 2000-2007: Lecturer and later Senior Lecturer in the New Testament, Department of Biblical Studies, University of Sheffield, UK, 1994-2000: Norwegain  Research Council-Research Fellow, the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo She has been a Chairman, KILDEN, Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway, and a  member of the board for the program ”Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible”, Society of Biblical Literature. From 2006 a member of the av  editorial board for Journal for the Study of the New Testament and also co-chair of the Paul-seminar in British New Testament Conference, together with Dr. Ward Blanton, Glasgow University. Current research Gender-critical interaction with New Testament texts; gender-critical reception history: The Bible and Women: An Encyclopaedia of Exegesis and Cultural History. See separate webpages here and on Die Bibel und die Frauen here: http://www-theol.uni-graz.at/cms/ziel/120985/DE/ She is also in the process of submitting a book manuscript on the reception history of the Apocalypse of John, edited jointly with Dr. W. John Lyons, University of Bristol. The book will appear in late 2008. In addition she is currently editing the proceedings (jointly with Turid Karlsen Seim) from a one-year research project at the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, on notions of metamorphosis and transformation of the human body in early Christian theory and practice (http://www.cas.uio.no/research/0607metamorphoses/index.ph), to be submitted to de Gruyter in 2008. She also supervising a research group with a project in Feminist Text Studies, Philosophy and History of Ideas, called Canonicity, Gender and Critique. Publications etc: http://www.sfk.uio.no/English/researcher_okland.html Professor Owe Wikstrøm Departement of Theology, Psychology of Religions Uppsala University, Sweden Owe Wikström teaches regularly psychology of religion on different levels, both in the department of theology at the University of Uppsala and in departments of social sciences, psychiatry and medicine in Nordic countries and participates in a variety of interdisciplinary projects in Sweden and Europe. The main research area of professor Wikström has been clinical and psychiatric problems in relation to religious issues. Wikström is member of several research counsels, editor of two journals, supervisor for doctoral students, and part of European and Nordic academic co-operations. Wikström is also an ordained minister, a part time psychotherapist, and author of public literature. Wiktröm has a long list of published books and articles. He is also invited by media to comment on religious, psychological or cultural issues. He is columnist and book-reviewer in several Swedish journals. http://www.teol.uu.se/staff/owewikstrom/ Translated litterature: The Icon in My Pocket Litterature in Swedish   Revd. Kari Veiteberg Dr Theol, on Liturgical Theology, Oslo; (Only in Norwegian at the moment) http://www.kyrkja.no/bjorgvin/tekstsider.cfm?id=200208 Associate Professor Kristin Molland Norderval Departement of Education Tromsø University (Only in Norwegian at the moment) http://www.hitos.no/afl/fagseksjoner/Kristin_Molland_Norderval.html June Boyce-Tillman Professor of Applied Music King Alfred`s College, Winchester UK Is giving a keynote lecture on: Unconventional Wisdom as well as a Workshop on Music in Liturgy - In tune with heaven? June Boyce-Tillman read Music at St Hugh's College Oxford. She has written widely in the areas of intercultural issues in music, -particularly in composition and education - the spirituality of the musical experience and recently in music and peace making, contributing to an international anthology in this area.  She has organised an Interfaith act of sharing for 20 years and written compositions drawing on insights from different faith traditions.  She has taught in primary and secondary schools in London and pioneered composing activities in the classroom.  Her research has been translated into five languages including Chinese and Portuguese.  She is a composer writing a variety of music, including hymns and anthems which have been widely sung in the UK and the English speaking world. Her operas on the women mystics have been performed in Salisbury and Norwich cathedrals. A collection of 150 hymns, many of them written for international liturgical events, was published in 2006.  She has written a number of large scale works many performed in Winchester Cathedral involving performers in helping to create episodes in the work and using processions.  She wrote a large scale piece for the Queen’s Jubilee entitled The Healing of the Earth. Her latest piece Step into the Picture written for the Southern Sinfonia was performed with 500 performers including 400 children in March 2008. She has developed interdisciplinary one person performances which have been performed in four continents.  Four of these concern women mystics including Hildegard of Bingen and Julian of Norwich. She has written widely and run workshops internationally on the association between music and education, gender, healing and spirituality, working particularly on Hildegard of Bingen (Canterbury 2000). These are brought together in her book Constructing Musical Healing: The Wounds that sing (Jessica Kingsley 2000). She is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester, UK and has been a Visiting Fellow and Scholar in residence in Indiana and Cambridge US. She is supervising research students in all of these areas. Her book on Wisdom Theology – Unconventional Wisdom - was published by Equinox in 2008. She is at present working on a book on women in liturgical music. She lives London where she is a non-stipendiary priest. She is an associate chaplain at the university.  Gregory Collins, O.S.B. teacher and monk of Glenstal Abbey, Ireland Author Biography Gregory Collins OSB is a native of Belfast. He taught Byzantine Studies at Queen's University. He has been a monk of Glenstal Abbey for thirteen years, head-master of the Abbey school for four, and used to be a lecturer in Orthodox theology at the Benedictine University of Sant' Anselmo, Rome. He is the author of the bestseller The Glenstal Book of Icons.