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Paper Abstracts

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Anderson, Richard, Interpreting World Heritage Through Undergraduate Video Documentary: A Case Study

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

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 *

Boonzaaier, Devandré, Embodied Spirituality: The Role of the Body in Moravian Congregational Music

Bray, John, Moravian Christianity in the Tibetan Buddhist World of the Western Himalayas

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

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
The Moravian Seminary and College for Women’s Newspaper Digitization Project

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 *

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
Sister Shawkirk: Our First World Heritage Guide – A Transatlantic Moravian Life

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

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

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

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

Koscinski, Mark, How Jan Hus’s life and works had impacted the theology and practices on the Polish National Catholic Church, the largest of the independent Catholic movement

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

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 *

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 *

McCullough, Thomas J., The Role of Moravian Archives in Supporting World Heritage

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

Montenegro, Giovanna, Saamaka Resilience: Amidst Environmental and Cultural Destruction

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

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

Petterson, Christina, History as Heritage, Heritage as History

Peucker, Paul, Zinzendorf, Slavery, and the Curse of Ham

Pires, Rogério Brittes W., “God above”: Notes on Saamaka Moravian Maroons in the 21st century

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

Reeh, Tine Ravnsted-Larsen, The priesthood of all believers” – on access to cultural heritage in the digital realm

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 *

Romero, Vanessa, The French Moravian Diaspora, 1806-1870

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

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

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 *

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

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

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?

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

Wheeler, Rachel, Remembering Gnadenhütten

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

Wilkening, Anca, Making Relatives: Indigenous Kinship Governance and Early Moravian Missions

Williams, Andrew, Post-emancipation settlement near New Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, Jamaica, 1835–1865

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

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