Updated December 18, 2020
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
9:30 am |
WELCOME |
10:00 – 11:30 am |
Walter Vivian Moses Lecture in Moravian Studies
When the Moravians Returned to Georgia: A Forgotten Mission During the American Revolution
Jon Sensbach, University of Florida |
Lunch Break |
1:00 – 3:00 pm |
SESSION 1: Panel
“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
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SESSION 2: Presentations
- 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
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Wednesday, April 21, 2021
8:30 – 10:00 am |
SESSION 3: Lecture, Film and Participation
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
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10:30 – 12:00 Noon |
SESSION 4: Presentations
- 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
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SESSION 5: Presentations
- 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
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12:00 Noon – 1:15 pm |
Lunch Roundtable
History
Moderator: Paul Peucker |
Lunch Roundtable
Music
Moderator: Nola Reed Knouse |
1:30 – 3:00 pm |
SESSION 6: Presentations
- 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
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SESSION 7: Presentations
- 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
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Thursday, April 22, 2021
8:30 – 10:00 am |
SESSION 8: Presentations
- 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
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SESSION 9: Presentations
- 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
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10:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 10: Panel
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
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SESSION 11: Presentations
- 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
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Lunch Break |
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1:00 – 3:00 pm |
SESSION 12: Panel
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
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SESSION 13: Presentations
- David Blum, Moravian Music Foundation, Beethoven among the Moravians
- Jewel Smith, University of Cincinnati, The Van Vleck Sisters: Dynamic Moravian Musical Women
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Friday, April 23, 2021
9:30 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 14: Panel
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
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SESSION 15: Panel
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
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Lunch Break |
Book Roundtable
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
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1:00 – 2:30 pm |
Concert
Beethoven in Bethlehem
presented by Moravian Music Foundation
Introduction by Nola Reed Knouse |
Saturday, April 24, 2021
10:00 – 11:30 am |
SESSION 16: Presentations
- 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
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SESSION 17: Presentations
- 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
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Lunch Break |
Center for Moravian Studies presentation
‘David A. Schattschneider Award of Merit’ |
1:00 – 3:00 pm |
Keynote Lecture
Conversion and Conflict: Christian Ignatius Latrobe Visits South Africa, 1807-1816
presented by Moravian Historical Society
Jenna Gibbs, Florida International University |