Thursday, October 14th
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| 9:00am-12:00pm |
Business Meeting of Moravian Archivists (The Moravian Archives) |
| 3:00-5:00pm |
Undergraduate Presentations on Moravian History and Music (Saal, Moravian Theological Seminary)
Chair: Paul Peucker, Moravian Archives |
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• Charles Welsko, Moravian College: George Whitefield and the Moravians: An Examination of Their Relations [PDF*] |
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• Tara Finegan, Moravian College: Daily Life in the Boarding Schools for Girls [PDF*] |
| 6:00-7:00pm |
Dinner (Separate registration required for Dinner and Moses Lectures) |
| 7:00-8:00pm |
Moses Lecture (Saal, Moravian Theological Seminary) |
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• Craig Atwood, Moravian Theological Seminary: Heretics, Pacifists, and Teachers: What We Can Learn from the Old Moravian Brethren (Separate registration required) |
Friday, October 15th |
| 7:30am |
Registration (Hearst Hall, Brethren’s House) |
| 8:00-8:15am |
Words of Welcome (Peter Hall) |
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• Hilde Binford, Moravian College |
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• Christopher Thomforde, President of Moravian College |
| 8:30-10:00am |
Panel 1. Moravian Hymnody (Peter Hall)
Chair: Larry Lipkis, Moravian College
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• Peter Kubath, Moravian Church, Herrnhut: Living Tradition — The New Chorale Book of the Moravian Church
in Germany and Switzerland [PDF*] |
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• Nola Reed Knouse, Moravian Music Foundation and Daniel Crews, Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem:
Zinzendorf and Music [PDF*] |
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Panel 2. Moravian Art/Moravians after Zinzendorf (Gemeinhaus)
Chair: Deborah Appler, Moravian Theological Seminary
Commentator: Scott Gordon, Lehigh University
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• Sonia Hazard, Duke University Graduate School: Visualizing the Other: Racial Construction and Contradiction in the Paintings of Johann Valentin Haidt [PDF*] |
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• Paul Peucker, Moravian Archives and Moravian College: The Role of the Sifting Time in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century [PDF*] |
| 10:30am-12:30pm |
Panel 3. Ancient Unity (Peter Hall)
Chair: James Skalnik, Moravian College
Commentator: Daniel Crews, Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem
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• Jindřich Halama, Charles University, Czech Republic: The Old Unity's View of Education, Arts and Music [PDF*]
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• L. Allen Viehmeyer, Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center: Preserving the Tradition. Moravian and Schwenkfelder Use of Bohemian Brethren German Hymns and Hymnals [PDF*]
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Panel 4. Moravians and Native Americans (Gemeinhaus)
Chair: Don St. John, Moravian College
Commentator: Sarah Eyerly, Butler University
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• Amy Schutt, State University of New York, Cortland: Converging Influences on Children’s Education in Moravian Communities in the Eighteenth Century [PDF*]
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• Melissa R. Luberti, Wayne State University: Caught in the Revolution. The Moravians in Southeastern Michigan [PDF*] |
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• Katherine Faull, Bucknell University: The Experience of the World as the Experience of the Self.
The Environmental Subject of Moravian Pietism [PDF*] |
| 12:30-2:00pm |
Lunch (provided for paid registrations received by October 10) |
| 2:00-3:45pm |
Panel 5. Moravians and Education (Peter Hall)
Chair: Paul Larson, Moravian College
Commentator: Jonathan Yonan, Eastern University
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• Felicity Jensz, University of Münster: Education, Politics, and the Re-Established Moravian Mission School in New Fairfield, Canada in the 1870s [PDF*]
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• Heikki Lempa, Moravian College: Christian Gotthilf Salzmann in Barby. Moravians and late Eighteenth-Century German Educational Reform [PDF*] |
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• Candace Bailey, North Carolina Central University: Moravian Influence on Music Instruction at the Greensboro Female College [PDF*] |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
Featured Performance (Peter Hall)
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Duo Marchand (Andrew Rutherford, cittern, and Marcia Young, voice and harp)
Awake, My Cetra: Moravian Music and the Cittern |
| 7:30pm |
Concert: An Evening of Moravian Music (Central Moravian Church) |
Saturday, October 16th |
| 8:30-10:00am |
Panel 6. The Use of the Lot (Gemeinhaus)
Chair: Axel Hildebrandt, Moravian College
Commentator: Katherine Carté Engel, Texas A&M University
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• Anita Zimmerling Enkelmann, Königsfeld, Germany: The Use of the Lot in the Moravian Church 1724-1889 [PDF*] |
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• Shirley Brückner, University of Halle, Germany: The Archives of Faith. Providentia Dei in Lottery Box |
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Panel 7. Expressing Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Culture (Peter Hall)
Chair: Christian Rice, Ursinus College
Commentator: Nola Reed Knouse, Moravian Music Foundation |
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• Christina Ekström, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Empfindsamer Stil and Emotional Culture of the Moravian Church [PDF*] |
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• Sarah Eyerly, Butler University: "Their Mouths Were Filled with Blood." The Vibrational Alchemy of the Eighteenth-Century Herrnhuter [PDF*]
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| 10:30am-12:30pm |
Panel 8. Testing the Boundaries in the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Experience (Gemeinhaus)
Chair: Heikki Lempa, Moravian College
Commentator: Amy Schutt, State University of New York, Cortland |
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• Jonathan Yonan, Eastern University: British Moravians and the Gordon Riots in 1780 [PDF*] |
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• Katharine Gerbner, Harvard University: "They Call me Obea": The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of the Moravian Mission on Jamaica, 1754-1770 [PDF*] |
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Panel 9. Depictions of Moravian Music (Peter Hall)
Chair: Hilde Binford, Moravian College |
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• Alice Caldwell, Easton, Connecticut: John Gambold (1760-1795): A Many-Faceted Moravian Composer [PDF*] |
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• Laurence Libin, Oxford University Press and Lanie Graf, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem:
Database of Moravian Music Iconography [PDF*] |
| 12:30-2:00pm |
Lunch (on your own) |
| 2:00-3:45pm |
Panel 10. Other Voices within the Eighteenth-Century Moravian Communities (Peter Hall)
Chair: Sandra Aguilar, Moravian College
Commentator: Jared Burkholder, Grace University |
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• Riddick Weber, Moravian Theological Seminary: "Some Of Our Women Amazed Us." The Witness of Wachovia’s Women Regarding a Zinzendorfian Utopia [PDF*] |
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• Craig D. Atwood, Moravian Theological Seminary: German Pietism and the Origin of the Black Church in America [PDF*] |
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• Keri Davies, Nottingham Trent University, UK: George Whitefield, the Moravians, and "Andrew the Negro Boy" [PDF*]
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Panel 11. Discovering Moravian Material Culture (Gemeinhaus)
Chair: Claudia Mesa, Moravian College |
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• Brenda Hornsby Heindl, University of Delaware: Pottery and Piety. Moravian Potters in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1743-1768 [PDF*] | Extended version from thesis [PDF*]
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• Dorothea Hornemann, University of Halle, Germany: The Memory of Objects |
| 4:00-5:00pm |
Panel 12. Performance Lecture (Peter Hall)
Introduction: Hilde Binford, Moravian College |
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• Jewel Smith, University of Cincinnati (with Martha Schrempel and Tami Morris): The Piano Connection:
John C. Malthaner and the Moravian Young Ladies’ Seminary |
| 6:30pm |
Banquet ($25 registration, UBC Room, Moravian College, North Campus) |
Sunday, October 17th |
| 2:00-3:00pm |
Annual Meeting of the Moravian Historical Society (Prosser Auditorium, Moravian College) |
| 3:00-4:00pm |
Annual Lecture on Moravian History (Prosser Auditorium) |
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• Katherine Carté Engel, Texas A&M University:Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America
(Separate registration required) |
