Marginal or Mainstream?
Anabaptists, Mennonites and Modernity in European Society
Bethel College, North Newton, Kansas
June 25 and 26, 2010
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| Friday, June 25, 2010 | ||
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| 8:30-8:45 a.m. | Plenary Session Welcome and Introduction | Krehbiel Auditorium |
| 8:45-10 a.m. | Keynote Address: The Cost of Context: Anabaptist/Mennonite
History in the Early Modern European Past and in the Future Thomas Brady, Professor of the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley | Krehbiel Auditorium |
| 10-10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break | BCMC Sanctuary |
| 10:30 a.m.-noon | Concurrent Session One A: Contemporary Applications of Anabaptist Theology Chair: Duane Friesen Anabaptist Sacramentalism and Its Contemporary Appropriation Brian Brewer, George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University Mennonite Confessions of Faith: At the Margins or at the Center of Modern Expression? Karl Koop, Canadian Mennonite University A 'Marginal' Religious European Community: The Twentieth-Century Italian Mennonite Church Andrea Borella, University of Turin | Kaufman House (KIPCOR offices) |
| Concurrent Session One B: Creating and Responding to German Developments in the Long Nineteenth Century Chair: Lois Barrett A Rural Middle Class: Mennonite Peasant Merchants in the Palatinate, Rhine-Hesse and the Northern Upper Rhine Valley (1780-1880) Frank Konersman, University of Bielefeld Changing Definitions of Treason and Religious Freedom for Mennonites in Prussia, 1780-1880 Mark Jantzen, Bethel College New Ways or Old Paths? Thoughts and Tips on Childrearing from Anna Brons (1892) Marion Kobelt-Groch, University of Hamburg | Bethel College Mennonite Church Sanctuary | |
| noon-1 p.m. | Lunch | Schultz Student Center |
| 1-2 p.m. | Concurrent Session Two A: Never Rural, Always Urban - Congregational Microhistories Chair: John Thiesen Isaac von den Block, Painter and Mennonite at Gdansk in the Early Seventeenth Century Rainer Kobe, University of Trier From the Margins to the Center: Four Centuries of Mennonites in Krefeld Christoph Wiebe, Krefeld | Kaufman House (KIPCOR offices) |
| Concurrent Session Two B: Issues in Dutch Mennonite History Chair: John Sharp Church Discipline and State Infrastructure Troy Osborne, Bluffton University Mennonites, Capitalism and Modernity: Weber Revisited Mary S. Sprunger, Eastern Mennonite University | Bethel College Mennonite Church Sanctuary | |
| 2-3 p.m. | Coffee Break | BCMC Sanctuary |
| 3-6 p.m. | Bus Tour of Russian Mennonite immigration to Central Kansas - Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church and Immigrant House, Goessel, and Peter Paul Loewen Adobe House, Hillsboro | Kauffman Museum Parking Lot |
| 6-7:30 p.m. | Breadbasket's German Buffet amidst the exhibits at Kauffman Museum (museum entrance fee included in meal ticket price) | |
| 7:30-8:30 p.m. | After Dinner Lecture: Light in the West: The International Educational Mission of Bethel College Keith Sprunger, Bethel College | |
| Saturday, June 26, 2010 | ||
| 9-10:30 a.m. | Session Three: Mennonites and the Dutch Enlightenment Chair: Keith Sprunger Doopsgezinden, Nonresistance, and the Radical Impulse in the Early Modern Dutch Republic Michael Driedger, Brock University Dutch Mennonites and Enlightenment Natural Knowledge Ernie Hamm, York University The Dutch Enlightenment Revisited: Mennonites and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Friesland Yme Kuiper, University of Groningen | Bethel College Mennonite Church Sanctuary |
| 10:30-11 a.m. | Coffee Break | BCMC Sanctuary |
| 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Session Four: Mennonite Interactions with Russian Society Chair: John Roth The Mennonite Privileges and Russian Modernization: Communities on a Path Leading from Separateness to Legal and Social Unification (18th and 19th Centuries) Nataliya Venger, Dnipropetrovsk University P.A. Stolypin and the Mennonite-Evangelical Alliance: Government's Perceptions of the Anabaptist Threat in Late Imperial Russia 1905-1914 Andrey Ivanov, Yale University Mennonites as Catalytic Agents in the Free Church History in Russia Johannes Dyck, Bibelseminar Bonn | Bethel College Mennonite Church Sanctuary |
| 12:30-1:30 p.m. | Lunch | Schultz Student Center |
| 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
Session Five: Mennonites and Modernization in Central Asia Chair: James Juhnke Mennonites in Central Asia: Investment into Modernizaiton of Economics and Culture (ca. 1880 to 1940) Dilaram Inoyatova, National University of Uzbekistan Mennonites in Khiva: A Modernizing Community Walter Ratliff, Associated Press, Washington, D.C. | Bethel College Mennonite Church Sanctuary |
| 2:30-3 p.m. | Coffee Break | BCMC Sanctuary |
| 3-4:30 p.m. | Session Six: Mennonites and the Third Reich Chair: Rachel Waltner Goossen Reception of the 'Two Kingdoms Doctrine' as a Key to Understanding Protestant Responses to National Socialism in Germany Jeremy Koop, York University Mennonites and National Socialism: Historiography and Open Questions John D. Thiesen, Bethel College Mennonites and the SS: Ethnic German Resettlement Policy in Province Poznan and the Reichsgau Wartheland James Regier, University of Notre Dame | Bethel College Mennonite Church Sanctuary |
| 4:30-5 p.m. | Initial Conclusions: Mark Jantzen | Bethel College Mennonite Church Sanctuary |
| 6 p.m. | Dinner | Schultz Student Center |