CALL FOR PAPERS

SGAS SYMPOSIUM 2010

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Historic New Harmony, Indiana

April 22-25, 2010

The 34th Annual Symposium of the Society for German-American Studies will be held in New Harmony, Indiana, at the Conference Center of the New Harmony Inn.

HISTORY:

In 1814, German Pietists led by Father George Rapp left their Pennsylvania colony of Harmony and founded New Harmony on the Wabash, not far from its junction with the Ohio River. The utopian religious community flourished, but after ten years the Harmonists elected to return to Pennsylvania, where they founded their third town, Economy. They left behind a spiritual legacy that is still cultivated in New Harmony today. Many of the original Harmonist buildings remain, and docent-led tours of the town provide insight into what life was like for those German pioneers on the Indiana frontier.

PROGRAM:

We plan to have sessions devoted to the following:

• Utopian studies
• German-American religious communities
• Homiletics of German-American spiritual leaders
• German migration to the Ohio River valley.
• German-American linguistic communities
• Teaching German-Americana at secondary and post-secondary levels
• German-American prose and poetry

Papers on any other topic of German-American Studies are also welcome!

SUBMISSIONS:

Send papers or abstracts by December 1, 2009, to:

            Dr. J. Gregory Redding

            Department of Modern Languages

            Wabash College

            Crawfordsville IN 47933

Or electronically to:       reddingg@wabash.edu