91Ƶ

Race, Slavery, and Land. 91Ƶ Legacies in a Global Context,
1722-2000

91Ƶ, 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 91Ƶ 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 91Ƶ Theological Seminary
5:30-6:30pm
Jon Sensbach University of Florida Complacent Hostages? Colonial Legacies and the Paradox of 91Ƶ History

Saturday, November 5, 2022

1. 9:00-10:30. PPHAC 101. Slavery. Rethinking Eighteenth-Century 91Ƶ Conceptualizations 

 
Moderator: Scott Gordon, Lehigh University
Peter Vogt 91Ƶ Church, Herrnhut, Germany What did 91Ƶs Say about Slavery? An Overview of Relevant Passages in 18th Century 91Ƶ Publications
Josef Köstlbauer University of Bonn Eighteenth-Century 91Ƶs and Contemporary Perceptions of Slavery and Dependence
Craig Atwood 91Ƶ A. G. Spangenberg's Ambiguous Attitude Toward Chattel Slavery?

2. 9:00-10:30. PPHAC 102. 91Ƶs in the Caribbean: Slavery in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Centuries
Moderator: Paul Peucker, 91Ƶ Archives
Jessica Cronshagen; Frank Marquardt University of Oldenburg Possession and "Madness" as Political Knowledge. On the Justification of Deviance and Violence in the 91Ƶ Mission in the Danish Caribbean and Suriname (ca. 1735-1790)
Wolf Behnsen University of Hanover “O Miserable Freedom!”: The 91Ƶ Church and the Abolition of Slavery in Suriname in the 19th Century
Winelle Kirton-Roberts The Geneva 91Ƶ Fellowship, Switzerland Did You See My Chains? An Inquiry into the 91Ƶ 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 91Ƶ Communities 
Moderator: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, 91Ƶ
Livingstone Thompson Kilwarlin 91Ƶ Church, Ireland Christianity and Colonial Cruelty: 91Ƶs in Jamaica 1754-1854
Katharine Gerbner University of Minnesota Race, Indigeneity and the “Heathen” in the 91Ƶ Missions to Shekomeko and Jamaica
Natasha Lightfoot Columbia University 91Ƶs 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 91Ƶ Communities in Eighteenth-Century North America 
Moderator: Jamie Paxton, 91Ƶ
Benjamin Pietrinka University of Heidelberg Observing Otherness: Articulations of Nature and Race in Eighteenth-Century 91Ƶ Mission Fields
BJ Lillis Princeton University Losing Shekomeko: Mohicans, 91Ƶs, and the Dynamics of Dispossession in the Colonial Hudson Valley
Rachel Wheeler Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis 91Ƶs, Missions, and Settler Colonialism in the Eighteenth Century

5. 2:00-3:30. PPHAC 102. 91Ƶs and Land in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America and Africa 
Moderator: Richard Anderson, 91Ƶ
Sharon Muhlfeld 91Ƶ To Preach, Celebrate, and Discuss: Delawares and their 91Ƶ Neighbors in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
Menja Holtz Technical University of Brunswick 91Ƶs 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

6. 4:00-5:30. PPHAC 101. Legacies of Racism and Slavery in 91Ƶ Communities in the Twentieth Century 
Moderator: Belinda Waller-Peterson, 91Ƶ
Frank Crouch 91Ƶ Rev. Dr. Charles Martin: A Black Immigrant 91Ƶ’s Resistance to Slavery’s Legacies, 1908-42
Crystal Jannecke Cornerstone Institute, South Africa A South African 91Ƶ Mission Experience in the 20th Century: Land, Slavery, Race and Community
Felicity Jensz University of Münster (Re)claiming Land in Enemy Territories: 91Ƶs in the Aftermath of WWI

7. 4:00-5:30. PPHAC 102. Legacies of Racism and Land in Contemporary 91Ƶ Communities 
Moderator: Craig Atwood, 91Ƶ
Riddick Weber 91Ƶ Desegregating Sunrise: The Vexing Legacies of Segregation for Modern Liturgical Practice
Jørgen Bøytler 91Ƶ Church, Christiansfeld, Denmark The 91Ƶ Church, Land, and People in the Contemporary World

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

91Ƶ 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.