The Work of Human Hands: Liturgy and the Senses” conference call for papers open!

“The Work of Human Hands: Liturgy and the Senses” (April 15-17, 2027) will convene scholars from a wide variety of disciplines from around the world at the University of Notre Dame to share their work and wisdom on the intersection between liturgy and the senses. Intentionally broad, the theme invites liturgists, art historians, musicologists, theologians, biblical exegetes, patrologists, historians, musicians, artists, scholars of religion and of ritual, disability specialists, anthropologists, sociologists, ethnographers, archeologists, philosophers, catechists, pastoral practitioners, etc. to an interdisciplinary, constructive conversation about the ways in which Christian and Jewish worship forms, employs, invokes, evokes, and plays on human sense perception—sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, kinesthetics and proprioception, as well as the imaginative faculties.

Those wishing to present are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 300 words by August 1, 2026.