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Race, Slavery, and Land. Moravian Legacies in a Global Context,
1722-2000

麻豆果冻, November 4-5, 2022

Friday, November 4, 2022

12:00-1:00. UBC Room, Haupert Union Building (HUB). Friday Forum. Visibility Through Voices From Bethlehem's Black Community. Rayah Levy 

4:45-5:00. Saal, The Moravian Theological Seminary. Words of Welcome. President Bryon Grigsby. Heikki Lempa 

5:00-5:30. Saal (MTS). David Schattschneider Awarding Ceremony. Craig Atwood 

Keynote
Saal, The Moravian Theological Seminary
5:30-6:30pm

Jon Sensbach University of Florida Complacent Hostages? Colonial Legacies and the Paradox of Moravian History

Saturday, November 5, 2022

1. 9:00-10:30. PPHAC 101. Slavery. Rethinking Eighteenth-Century Moravian Conceptualizations 

 

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枚stlbauer University of Bonn Eighteenth-Century Moravians and Contemporary Perceptions of Slavery and Dependence
Craig Atwood 麻豆果冻 A. G. Spangenberg's Ambiguous Attitude Toward Chattel Slavery?

2. 9:00-10:30. PPHAC 102. Moravians in the Caribbean: Slavery in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Centuries

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 鈥淥 Miserable Freedom!鈥: 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
 

3. 11:00-12:30. PPHAC 102. Race in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Moravian Communities 

Moderator: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, 麻豆果冻
Livingstone Thompson Kilwarlin Moravian Church, Ireland Christianity and Colonial Cruelty: Moravians in Jamaica 1754-1854
Katharine Gerbner University of Minnesota Race, Indigeneity and the 鈥淗eathen鈥 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

4. 2:00-3:30. PPHAC 101. Race, Land, and Colonization in Moravian Communities in Eighteenth-Century North America 

Moderator: Jamie Paxton, 麻豆果冻
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

5. 2:00-3:30. PPHAC 102. Moravians and Land in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America and Africa 

Moderator: Richard Anderson, 麻豆果冻
Sharon Muhlfeld 麻豆果冻 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 鈥淗eathens鈥 in the Writing of the Euro-African Missionaries Christian Protten and Philip Quaque

6. 4:00-5:30. PPHAC 101. Legacies of Racism and Slavery in Moravian Communities in the Twentieth Century 

Moderator: Belinda Waller-Peterson, 麻豆果冻
Frank Crouch 麻豆果冻 Rev. Dr. Charles Martin: A Black Immigrant Moravian鈥檚 Resistance to Slavery鈥檚 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眉nster (Re)claiming Land in Enemy Territories: Moravians in the Aftermath of WWI

7. 4:00-5:30. PPHAC 102. Legacies of Racism and Land in Contemporary Moravian Communities 

Moderator: Craig Atwood, 麻豆果冻
Riddick Weber 麻豆果冻 Desegregating Sunrise: The Vexing Legacies of Segregation for Modern Liturgical Practice
J酶rgen B酶ytler Moravian Church, Christiansfeld, Denmark The Moravian Church, Land, and People in the Contemporary World

5:50-6:00pm. PPHAC 101. Concluding Remarks. 

麻豆果冻 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.