Chair: Jamie Paxton, Moravian College

a. Rowena McClinton, Southern Illinois University: Moravian Missionary Anna Rosina Gambold and Her Sojourn in the Cherokee Nation 1805-1821

b. Claudette Robertson, Claudette, Stillwater, Oklahoma: The Massacre of Moravian Christian Indians in Eastern Pennsylvania 1715-1790

c. Mark Everingham, Southwestern University and University of Wisconsin, Green Bay and Edwin Taylor, University of the Autonomous Regions of the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua (URACCAN), Nicaragua: Moravian Missions in the Nicaraguan Mosquitia from 1894 to 1936. Spiritual Conversion and Resistance in Indigenous Communities

Comment: Jean Soderlund, Lehigh University

Chair: Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College

a. Jared Burkholder, Grace College: Betwixt and Between: Moravians, Liminality and the Tragic Tale of Jacob Lischy

b. Bettina Hessler, Northwestern University: The Physical Self in an Eighteenth-Century Moravian Atlantic World

c. Peter Vogt, Niesky, Germany: "Gloria Pleurae!" - The Adoration of the Side Wound of Jesus in 18th Century Moravian Piety

Comment: Heikki Lempa, Moravian College

Chair: Bart Shaw, Cedar Crest College

a. Julie Tomberlin Weber, Winston-Salem: Mapping Erdmuth Dorothea von Zinzendorf´s Legacy to the Moravian Church

b. Keri Davies, Nottingham Trent University, UK (Retired): "The Swedishman at Brother Brockmer´s": Moravians and Swedenborgians in Eighteenth-Century London            

c. Craig D. Atwood, Wake Forest University: Apologizing for Zinzendorf: Spangenberg´s Idea Fidei Fratrum

d. Peter Yoder, University of Iowa: Zinzendorf the "Anti-Pietist"? Applying Prototype Theory to Zinzendorf´s Self-Conception

Comment: Katherine Faull, Bucknell University

Chair: Thomas Cragin, Muhlenberg College

a. Pia Schmid, University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany: John Heckewelder´s "An Account of the History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations Who Once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the Neighbouring States" (1918). A Missionary as Protoethnologist

b. Helen Blouet, Syracuse University: Burial and Commemoration in the Former Danish West Indies and Moravian Communities: A Milieu of European and African Practices

c. Crystal Jannecke, Stellenbosch University, South Africa: The Construction of a Moravian Identity at the Clarkson Moravian Mission Station in South Africa

Comment: Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Michael Baylor, Lehigh University

a. Alexander Schunka, University of Stuttgart, Germany: Gateway to the Wider World: German Protestants in London and the Atlantic Colonies

b. Riddick Weber, Winston-Salem: Herrnhaag Remembered: Transatlantic Influences of Wetteravia on Wachovia

c. Jonathan Yonan, Eastern University: The Fulneck Single Brethren in 1772 and 1773: A Second Sifting Time?

Comment: Gregg Roeber, Pennsylvania State University

Chair: Paul Peucker, Moravian Archives

a. Kerstin Bast-Haider, Görlitz, Germany/Read by Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College: Die Diakonissen von Emmaus-Lebensgeschichten

b. Holly M. Kent, Lehigh University: "Writing to Take the Place of Talking": Racial Politics and Regional Identity in the Diary of Mary Holland Rice

c. Andrew Burgess, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque: Kierkegaard´s Taler, Moravian Reden

d. Anne Folke Henningsen, University of Aarhus, Denmark: The Autoethnography of William S. Mazwi, Black Moravian Minister in South Africa

Comment: Robert Beachy, Goucher College