Race, Slavery, and Land. Moravian Legacies in a Global Context,
1722-2000
Moravian University, 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 Link to Recording on Friday Forum. Visibility Through Voices From Bethlehem's Black Community |
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4:45-5:00. Saal, The Moravian Theological Seminary. Words of Welcome. President Bryon Grigsby. Heikki Lempa Link to Recording on Welcome, Awarding Ceremony, and Keynote |
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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 Link to Recording on 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 Köstlbauer | University of Bonn | Eighteenth-Century Moravians and Contemporary Perceptions of Slavery and Dependence |
| Craig Atwood | Moravian University | 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 Link to Recording on 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 Link to Recording on Race in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Moravian Communities |
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| Moderator: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian University | ||
| 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, Moravian University | ||
| 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 Link to Recording on Moravians and Land in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century America and Africa |
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| Moderator: Richard Anderson, Moravian University | ||
| Sharon Muhlfeld | Moravian University | 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 Link to Recording on Legacies of Racism and Slavery in Moravian Communities in the Twentieth Century |
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| Moderator: Belinda Waller-Peterson, Moravian University | ||
| Frank Crouch | Moravian University | Rev. Dr. Charles Martin: A Black Immigrant Moravian’s Resistance to Slavery’s 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 Münster | (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 Link to Recording on Legacies of Racism and Land in Contemporary Moravian Communities |
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| Moderator: Craig Atwood, Moravian University | ||
| Riddick Weber | Moravian University | Desegregating Sunrise: The Vexing Legacies of Segregation for Modern Liturgical Practice |
| Jørgen Bøytler | 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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Moravian University 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.