Program

When the Moravians Returned to Georgia: A Forgotten Mission During the American Revolution

Jon Sensbach, University of Florida

“Obedient subjects” “mingling in worldly affairs”? Social and Political Entanglements of Moravian Communities in the Transatlantic World

• Jessica Cronshagen (Panel Chair), Oldenburg University, “Necessary Presents”: Moravian Missionaries, British Privateers and Local Colonial Rulers in late 18th -Century South America
• Frank Marquardt, Oldenburg University, Avoiding Contraband and Privateers? Moravian networks of trust in the Caribbean colonial setting of the 18th century
• Jonas Schwiertz, Oldenburg University, “Agitator” and “Trouble Maker”: The Expulsion of Gottlob Fischer from the Moravian Church

• Katherine Faull, Bucknell University, Experiencing the Digital: Moravian Lives in a Time of Separation
• Grant McAllister, Wake Forest University, Odes to the Schreiber Collegium: a Textual Communion
• Stephanie McCormick-Goodhart, Independent Scholar, Moravian Footsteps: Single Sister, Missing Persons and Bastardy Bonds

Singing Box 331:  Re-Sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymns from the Moravian Archives

• Sarah Eyerly, Florida State University
• Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

• Nicole Crabbe, Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem, My Dear Miss Fries: The Correspondence of Archivist Adelaide Fries, 1911-1949
• Rowena McClinton, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Early Nineteenth Century Voices of Cherokee Converts, Second Principal Chief Charles Renatus Hicks and Margaret Scott Vann Crutchfield: Sharing Their Concerns with Moravian Missionaries about the Cherokee Land Base

• Stewart Carter and Kirk Lyons, Wake Forest University, Whatever Happened to Julius Leinbach’s Cornet?
• John Watson, Independent Scholar, A Moravian Piano Gains a Voice and Speaks About Its Mid-18th Century Origins
• C. Riddick Weber, Moravian College, Brother Bowles and the Builders in the Basement

History

Moderator: Paul Peucker

Music

Moderator: Nola Reed Knouse

• Christoph Beck, Independent Scholar, Sexual Counseling and Pastoral Care: Peter Swertner’s essay about the nocturnal seminal flow (1779)
• Pieter Boon, University of the Free State, South Africa, Self-Sacrificing Ministry or Fundraiser? Moravian Ministry to South Africa’s Leprosy Institution in the 19th Century
• Stephen McGeary, Florida Atlantic University, Fanaticism and Funding: Obeah Acts in Jamaican Moravian Missionary Communities, 1834-1850

• Alice Caldwell, University of Bridgeport, What Lutherans (and Other Denominations) Can Learn from the Moravian Lovefeast
• Mary Kategile, Teofilo Kisanji University, The Heritage of Music in the Mission of Women in the Moravian Church in Tanzania
• Donna Rothrock, Salem College, The Salem Band at 250

• Jared Burkholder, Grace College, Digging out the Well: Herrnhut in the Pentecostal Imagination
• Chaz Snider, Calvary Moravian Church, Bonhoeffer a Bohemian Brethren? Moravian Influence in the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Jill Vogt, Moravian Church, Herrnhut, The Readings for Holy Week: History, Practice, and Spiritual Relevance

• Claudia Mai, Unity Archives, Herrnhut, Stammtafeln: Allegorical Representations of Moravian Congregations as an Archival Object and Source
• Wilson Nkumba, Teofilo Kisanji University, The Beginning of the Moravian Church in Western Tanzania
• Lorraine Parsons, Moravian Archives, London, Digitization of the Lantern Slides of Moravian Missions

Medical Knowledge, the Church, and a Chapel: Moravians and Global Connections, 1750-1970

• Heikki Lempa (Panel Chair), Moravian College, Moravian Medical Knowledge in a Global Context: The Case of Christian Oldendorp, 1721-1787
• Jenna Gibbs, Florida International University, Multi-Racial Culture and the Challenge of Apartheid: The Moravian Chapel in District Six, Cape Town, 1800-1966
• Felicity Jensz, University of Münster, Moravian Church in the Aftermath of WWI: Global Connections

• Devandré Boonzaaier, University of Fort Hare, The Moravian Music Heritage in South Africa
• Tom Gordon, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Christian Ignatius LaTrobe in Labrador
• Mark Turner, Memorial University, The Transmission of the Moravian Labrador Inuit Wind Tradition After 1959

The Moravians and Eighteenth-Century Politics

• Christina Petterson (Panel Chair), Australian National University
• Josef Köstlbauer, University of Bremen, Subjects, Serfs, and Slaves: Semantics and Practices of Dependence
• Paul Peucker, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, Zinzendorf on Church and State
• Benjamin Pietrenka, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Bodies of Dissimilarity: Transporting Moravian Notions of Equality to the New World

• David Blum, Moravian Music Foundation, Beethoven among the Moravians
• Jewel Smith, University of Cincinnati, The Van Vleck Sisters: Dynamic Moravian Musical Women

Brothers and Sisters: Moravian Identity and Community within Eighteenth-Century Protestantism

• Alexander Schunka (Panel Chair), Freie Universität Berlin, Brethren’s Commons: Resource Management and Community Building in the Early Years of Moravian Bethlehem
• Lennart Gard, Freie Universität Berlin, “Beloved Brother”, “Angelic Sister”: Religious Semantics of ‘Brother’ and ‘Sister’ in Early Eighteenth-Century Protestantism
• Michael Leemann, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, The Limits of Spiritual Kinship: Race and Religion in the Moravian Mission to the Danish West Indies, 1750–1770

New Perspectives on Material Culture

• Scott Gordon (Panel Chair), Lehigh University, The Puzzle of Signatures
• Laurence Libin, Metropolitan Museum of Art (retired), Three Spinets from David Tannenberg’s Workshop
• Christopher Malone, Winterthur, Within and Without: Strangers in a Communal World
• Mark Turdo, Museum of the American Revolution, The Best Mode: Moravian Mission Material Culture

Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania

Author: Sarah Eyerly
Moderator: Heikki Lempa

• Tanya Kevorkian, Millersville University
• Nola Reed Knouse, Moravian Music Foundation
• Rachel Wheeler, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Beethoven in Bethlehem

presented by Moravian Music Foundation
Introduction by Nola Reed Knouse

• Craig Atwood, Moravian Theological Seminary, Confronting or Avoiding the Challenges of American Culture Since 1957? An Examination of the Synods of the Northern Province
• Peter Vogt, Moravian Church, Herrnhut, The Victorious Lamb: History, Iconography, and Theology of the Moravian Seal
• Fabian Zubia-Schultheis, Biblioteca Nacional de Argentina, The Influence of the Brüdergemeindekolonie Sarepta Among the German Protestant Colonies of the Volga

• Christina Ekström, University of Gothenburg, Scandinavian Perspectives on Women’s Musicking within the Moravian Church
• Nola Reed Knouse, Moravian Music Foundation, A Moravian Music Timeline
• Dianne McMullen, Union College, Eighteenth-Century Halle Pietists and Herrnhut Brethren in Sound: Aural Vignettes from Freylinghausen 1741 and Gregor 1784

Conversion and Conflict: Christian Ignatius Latrobe Visits South Africa, 1807-1816

presented by Moravian Historical Society
Jenna Gibbs, Florida International University