Race, Slavery, and Land. Moravian Legacies in a Global Context,
1722-2000
91心頭, November 4-5, 2022
Friday, November 4, 2022 |
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12:00-1:00. UBC Room, Haupert Union Building (HUB). Friday Forum. Visibility Through Voices From Bethlehem's Black Community. Rayah Levy |
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4:45-5:00. Saal, The Moravian Theological Seminary. Words of Welcome. President Bryon Grigsby. Heikki Lempa |
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5:00-5:30. Saal (MTS). David Schattschneider Awarding Ceremony. Craig Atwood |
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Keynote |
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| Jon Sensbach | University of Florida | Complacent Hostages? Colonial Legacies and the Paradox of Moravian History |
Saturday, November 5, 2022 |
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1. 9:00-10:30. PPHAC 101. Slavery. Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Moravian Conceptualizations
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| Moderator: Scott Gordon, Lehigh University | ||
| Peter Vogt | Moravian Church, Herrnhut, Germany | What did Moravians Say about Slavery? An Overview of Relevant Passages in 18th Century Moravian Publications |
| Josef K旦stlbauer | University of Bonn | Eighteenth-Century Moravians and Contemporary Perceptions of Slavery and Dependence |
| Craig Atwood | 91心頭 | A. G. Spangenberg's Ambiguous Attitude Toward Chattel Slavery? |
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2. 9:00-10:30. PPHAC 102. Moravians in the Caribbean: Slavery in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Centuries |
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| Moderator: Paul Peucker, Moravian Archives | ||
| Jessica Cronshagen; Frank Marquardt | University of Oldenburg | Possession and "Madness" as Political Knowledge. On the Justification of Deviance and Violence in the Moravian Mission in the Danish Caribbean and Suriname (ca. 1735-1790) |
| Wolf Behnsen | University of Hanover | O Miserable Freedom!: The Moravian Church and the Abolition of Slavery in Suriname in the 19th Century |
| Winelle Kirton-Roberts | The Geneva Moravian Fellowship, Switzerland | Did You See My Chains? An Inquiry into the Moravian Mission at Sharon in Barbados and Its Justification for Shackled Africans, 1795-1834 |
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3. 11:00-12:30. PPHAC 102. Race in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moravian Communities |
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| Moderator: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, 91心頭 | ||
| Livingstone Thompson | Kilwarlin Moravian Church, Ireland | Christianity and Colonial Cruelty: Moravians in Jamaica 1754-1854 |
| Katharine Gerbner | University of Minnesota | Race, Indigeneity and the Heathen in the Moravian Missions to Shekomeko and Jamaica |
| Natasha Lightfoot | Columbia University | Moravians and the Regulation of Families and Intimacies in Post-Emancipation Antigua |
| Lunch 12:30-2:00pm |
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4. 2:00-3:30. PPHAC 101. Race, Land, and Colonization in Moravian Communities in Eighteenth-Century North America |
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| Moderator: Jamie Paxton, 91心頭 | ||
| Benjamin Pietrinka | University of Heidelberg | Observing Otherness: Articulations of Nature and Race in Eighteenth-Century Moravian Mission Fields |
| BJ Lillis | Princeton University | Losing Shekomeko: Mohicans, Moravians, and the Dynamics of Dispossession in the Colonial Hudson Valley |
| Rachel Wheeler | Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis | Moravians, Missions, and Settler Colonialism in the Eighteenth Century |
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5. 2:00-3:30. PPHAC 102. Moravians and Land in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America and Africa |
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| Moderator: Richard Anderson, 91心頭 | ||
| Sharon Muhlfeld | 91心頭 | To Preach, Celebrate, and Discuss: Delawares and their Moravian Neighbors in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley |
| Menja Holtz | Technical University of Brunswick | Moravians and the Lenape Land in Fairfield, Canada, in the Early Nineteenth Century |
| Maximilian Rose | University of Hamburg | Africanness, Personal Failure, and Interactions with Heathens in the Writing of the Euro-African Missionaries Christian Protten and Philip Quaque |
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6. 4:00-5:30. PPHAC 101. Legacies of Racism and Slavery in Moravian Communities in the Twentieth Century |
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| Moderator: Belinda Waller-Peterson, 91心頭 | ||
| Frank Crouch | 91心頭 | Rev. Dr. Charles Martin: A Black Immigrant Moravians Resistance to Slaverys Legacies, 1908-42 |
| Crystal Jannecke | Cornerstone Institute, South Africa | A South African Moravian Mission Experience in the 20th Century: Land, Slavery, Race and Community |
| Felicity Jensz | University of M端nster | (Re)claiming Land in Enemy Territories: Moravians in the Aftermath of WWI |
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7. 4:00-5:30. PPHAC 102. Legacies of Racism and Land in Contemporary Moravian Communities |
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| Moderator: Craig Atwood, 91心頭 | ||
| Riddick Weber | 91心頭 | Desegregating Sunrise: The Vexing Legacies of Segregation for Modern Liturgical Practice |
| J淡rgen B淡ytler | Moravian Church, Christiansfeld, Denmark | The Moravian Church, Land, and People in the Contemporary World |
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5:50-6:00pm. PPHAC 101. Concluding Remarks. |
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91心頭 is located in "Lenapehoking," the traditional homelands of the Lenape, whose homeland includes Delaware, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Southern New York. We honor the traditional Native inhabitants of these lands and revere their historic and everlasting relationships with this land, which is their ancestral homeland.