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Paper Abstracts

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Anderson, Richard, Interpreting World Heritage Through Undergraduate Video Documentary: A Case Study [ABSTRACT PDF]

Balz, John, The Creole Diaries: Carriols in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Mission Stations on St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John [ABSTRACT PDF]

Biro, Zack, Carol Smith and Walt Rice, A Demonstration of the Philadelphia Congregations Project’s Interactive AI Using Records from the First Moravian Church of Philadelphia [ABSTRACT PDF] *

Boonzaaier, Devandré, Embodied Spirituality: The Role of the Body in Moravian Congregational Music [ABSTRACT PDF]

Bray, John, Moravian Christianity in the Tibetan Buddhist World of the Western Himalayas [ABSTRACT PDF]

Breul, Wolfgang, Constructing an European Network of True Believers – The Moravian Diaspora Conferences 1760-1765 [ABSTRACT PDF]

Caldwell, Alice M., Christina Ekström and Joel Speerstra, Presenting and Interpreting Cultural Heritage: Echoes from a Symposium in Christiansfeld 2025 [ABSTRACT PDF] *

Crouch, Rev. Frank L., Moravian Resistance to and Complicity with Segregated Education in the US, 1890s-1920s and Beyond [ABSTRACT PDF]

Dieterly, Cory, Sustainable Foundations: Examining the Moravian Settlement of Bethlehem and the UN’s 17 Goals for Sustainable Communities [ABSTRACT PDF]
and The Moravian Seminary and College for Women’s Newspaper Digitization Project [ABSTRACT PDF]

Ekström, Christina, Alice M. Caldwell and Joel Speerstra, Presenting and Interpreting Cultural Heritage: Echoes from a Symposium in Christiansfeld 2025 [ABSTRACT PDF] *

Ellis, Susan and Katelyn Lucas, Ph.D, Lenape Ancestors Return Home: Building Relationships Between Moravian Cultural Institutions and Indigenous Communities [ABSTRACT PDF} *

Eyerly, Sarah, Interpreting Moravian Heritage Through Sound and Music [ABSTRACT PDF]

Follweiler, Joshua, Moravian Communities in Transition: Bethlehem and Winston-Salem in the Mid-Nineteenth Century [ABSTRACT PDF]

Gerbner, Katharine, Damma’s World: Translating Nation, God, and Race in the Afro-Moravian Atlantic World (Moses Lecture) [ABSTRACT PDF]

Gordon, Tom, Meeting through Song: Pre-contact Inuit and Moravian Music Traditions in Dialogue [ABSTRACT PDF]

Hartley, Martha, Historic Preservation and Moravian Legacy in the Southern Province: Old Salem and Beyond [ABSTRACT PDF]

Johnston, David J., Reviving Gracehill’s Old Shop: A Case Study in Heritage Preservation and Community-Led Restoration [ABSTRACT PDF]
and Sister Shawkirk: Our First World Heritage Guide – A Transatlantic Moravian Life [POSTER ABSTRACT PDF]

Johnston, Sally Ann, To See Ourselves as Others See Us: 18th–19th Century Travellers’ Accounts of the Moravian Settlement of Gracehill [ABSTRACT PDF]

Johnston, Kyle, Creating a (Nearly) Complete Collection of Moravian Chorales [ABSTRACT PDF]

Kennedy, Susan Lena, Paradise Garden: Jerusalem’s Leper Home 1865 to the Present [ABSTRACT PDF]

Kirton-Roberts, Winelle, NEW HERRNHUT TO NORRE GADE: Architectural and ideological shift of Moravian Missions in the Danish Caribbean [ABSTRACT PDF]

Kodzik, Joanna, Arctic Life Stories – Conceptualizing the Indigenous “self” in missionary writing from Greenland [ABSTRACT PDF]

Koscinski, Mark, Jan Hus: The Pre-Reformation Root of Moravianism and Independent Catholicism [ABSTRACT PDF]

Lampe, Armando, John was Their Name: About the Conversion of Two Maroons to the Moravian Church in the Slave Society of Suriname [ABSTRACT PDF]

Lasch, Alexander, Research into Moravian history and world cultural heritage [ABSTRACT PDF}

Lauter, Olga, Creation of Indigenous Moravian Spaces in an Alaskan City [ABSTRACT PDF]

Lucas, Ph.D, Katelyn and Susan Ellis, Lenape Ancestors Return Home: Building Relationships Between Moravian Cultural Institutions and Indigenous Communities [ABSTRACT PDF} *

Macco-Winter, Cosima Edith, At Home in Cities, Temples, Tents, and Nests: “Heimat” as Metaphor in Zinzendorf’s Sermons on the Litany of the Wounds [ABSTRACT PDF]

Mbao, Ronald J. and Dr. Revocatus Meza, Moravian Bishopric Office historical developments and its pitfalls in the Tanzanian Context [ABSTRACT PDF] *

McCullough, Thomas J., The Role of Moravian Archives in Supporting World Heritage [ABSTRACT PDF]

Meza, Dr. Revocatus and Ronald J. Mbao, Moravian Bishopric Office historical developments and its pitfalls in the Tanzanian Context ABSTRACT PDF] *

Montenegro, Giovanna, Saamaka Resilience: Amidst Environmental and Cultural Destruction [ABSTRACT PDF]

Moore, Catherine, The Benigna Monologues: Interpreting Moravian History Through Performance [ABSTRACT PDF]

O’Riordan, Meaghan, Digitizing the Daily Text [ABSTRACT PDF]

Ogburn, Christopher, Finding a Voice: Music and Identity for Nineteenth Century American Moravians [ABSTRACT PDF]

Palmore, Aaron, The role of Latin in the Moravian world of the early Americas [ABSTRACT PDF]

Parsons, Lorraine, The Pioneering Medical Work of Dr Arthur and Adie Keevill with the Moravian Missions in Tanzania [ABSTRACT PDF]

Petterson, Christina, History as Heritage, Heritage as History [ABSTRACT PDF]

Peucker, Paul, Zinzendorf, Slavery, and the Curse of Ham [ABSTRACT PDF]

Rabbach, Justin, What We Wish We Knew: Designing Born-Digital Mission Archives for Future Moravian Heritage [ABSTRACT PDF]

Rice, Walt, Zack Biro and Carol Smith, A Demonstration of the Philadelphia Congregations Project’s Interactive AI Using Records from the First Moravian Church of Philadelphia [ABSTRACT PDF] *

Romero, Vanessa, The French Moravian Diaspora, 1806-1870 [ABSTRACT PDF]

Rosenvinge Lundbye, Steen, Christiansfeld – 10 years as a world heritage site – the past and the future [ABSTRACT PDF]

Ruhland, Thomas, Moravian Botany – The Scientific Legacy of the Moravian Church’s Global Network [ABSTRACT PDF]

Sharma, Pragya, Moravian Missionaries and Hand-Knitting in Colonial India c.18th-19th [ABSTRACT PDF]

Smith, Carol, Zack Biro and Walt Rice, A Demonstration of the Philadelphia Congregations Project’s Interactive AI Using Records from the First Moravian Church of Philadelphia [ABSTRACT PDF] *

Snider, Chaz, The Heart Still Speakers: The Heritage and Theology of Arthur J. Freeman [ABSTRACT PDF]

Speerstra, Joel, Alice M. Caldwell and Christina Ekström, Presenting and Interpreting Cultural Heritage: Echoes from a Symposium in Christiansfeld 2025 [ABSTRACT PDF] *

Starbuck, Victoria, Quantifying the Count: A Network Analysis of Themes in Count Ludwig von Zinzendorf’s Hymns [ABSTRACT PDF]

Strungytė-Liugienė, Inga, Where are the limits of religious text transformation? The case of Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf’s hymn [ABSTRACT PDF]

Thompson, Rev. Dr. Livingstone , Exile, Refuge and Commemoration: Rev B. Patras Zula’s Thermopylae Garden at Kilwarlin Moravian Church [ABSTRACT PDF]

Vogt, Rev. Dr. Peter, Corpse House and Burial Vaults. Unexpected Discoveries and Challenges of Heritage Preservation in Herrnhut [ABSTRACT PDF]

von Baumbach, Elisabeth, Zinzendorf’s 34 Homilies on the Litany of the Wounds – A Moravian Emotional Style? [ABSTRACT PDF]

Weber, C. Riddick, The Single Brothers Deal with the Death of Their “Never-to-be Forgotten Christel” [ABSTRACT PDF]

Wheeler, Rachel, Remembering Gnadenhütten: Painful Histories and Public History [ABSTRACT PDF]

Wiethaus, Ulrike, Citizens of the World? The Moravian Mission to the Cherokee in the Early Nineteenth Century as Cosmopolitan Hub and Politico-Theological Crossways [ABSTRACT PDF]

Wilkening, Anca, Making Relatives: Indigenous Kinship Governance and Early Moravian Missions [ABSTRACT PDF]

Woodward, Dr. Simon, Getting the message across: interpreting World Heritage values for multiple audiences (MHS Keynote Lecture) [ABSTRACT PDF]

Last updated October 20, 2026.

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