10 February, 2024
The Winner of the World Interfaith Harmony Week award 2023
P R E S E N T S
PART I
11:00-12:00 Interfaith Harmony: Singing Together, Across Languages and Times
Led by Professor Henrike Lähnemann with St Edmund Consort, a part of the One World Family Festival at the Ashmolean Museum.
Venue: Gallery 14, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford. OX1 2PH.
This event presents music from medieval religious illuminated manuscripts from the Bodleian Library. The performance will also feature songs in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, German, and English for all to join, and will be interspersed with the sound of shofar and shell horn.
Music list: Shofar: Call to celebrating unity; ‘Cantate domino’ (Bodleian, MS. Don. e. 248, 247v); ‘Cantate domino’ (Giuseppe Pitoni); ‘Lumen ad revelacionem’ (MS. Lat. liturg. e. 18, 8r); Shell horn: Call to preserving nature; ‘Every part of this earth shall holy be for us’ (round by Stephan Vesper); Sea weed horn: Call to peace; ‘Hinema tov’ (round, orally transmitted); Horn: ‘Üsküdar’a gider iken’; ‘Victime paschali’ & ‘Christ ist erstanden’ (Bodleian, MS. Lat. liturg. f. 4); ‘Dona nobis pacem’ (round, orally transmitted).
Image: Shofar player opening Psalm 80, with the caption ‘Sing a new song unto the Lord’ in a Psalter manuscript from the German convent of Medingen, ca. 1500, Bodleian Library, MS. Don. e. 248, fol. 145v.
PART II
14:00-15:30 The Johannes Lähnemann Interfaith Peacebuilding Lecture
If you would like to attend online, please, register below:
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Venue: Taylor Institution Library, Room 2, St Giles, Oxford. OX1 3NA.
PROGRAMME:
Welcome: Dr Thea Gomelauri, Director of the Oxford Interfaith Forum
Opening Address
Professor Julian Stern, Director of the World Religions and Education Research Unit at Bishop Grosseteste University
Keynote lecture: Building Effective Resilience in Troubled Times: Interfaith Women Peacebuilders.
Professor Azza Karam, a Member of the United Nations Secretary General’s High-Level Advisory Board on Effective Multilateralism, and President and CEO of Women’s Learning Partnership.
Closing Address
Bhai Sahib Mohinder Singh Ahluwalia OBE KSG, Chair of Guru Nanak Nishkam Sewak Jatha.
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