Conference: Self, Community, World: Liberal Arts and Moravian Education. April 21-23, 2006 at the Moravian College
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
This conference takes a secular look at the long educational tradition of the Moravian community. It explores the thoughts and practices of the Moravians and their meaning for the current discussion on the liberal arts.
The leading thinkers of the Moravian tradition are Jan Hus, the President of the Prague University, executed in Konstanz in 1415; Jan Amos Comenius, the bishop of the United Brethren, a leading intellectual of seventeenth-century Europe; Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, the founding father of the Renewed Moravian Church (in German: Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine); Friedrich Daniel Schleiermacher, the father of modern literary criticism (hermeneutics) and an architect of the modern research university (as designed in the University of Berlin, 1810).
Please send a proposal of 300 words that relates to one or more of the following five topics to the email address provided below:
- Music and Arts. Some of the themes could be but are not limited to:
- Music and community
- Meanings of music in Moravian communities
- Meanings of image and art in Moravian communities
- The Role of community for Moravian education. Some of the themes could be but are not limited to:
- Autobiography
- Forms of community, choirs
- Moravian communities as learning communities
- Social change and education
- The History of Moravian educational thought. Some of the themes could be but are not limited to:
- Moravian educational tradition and liberal arts
- Individual and education
- Comenius
- Zinzendorf
- Schleiermacher
- Science and science education. Some of the themes could be but are not limited to:
- Moravian medicine
- Notions of sickness and health
- The concept of investigation
- Learning from others. Some of themes could be but are not limited to:
- Native Americans
- Africans
- Meanings of languages
The deadline for proposals is April 30, 2005. The selection committee will notify those whose proposals are accepted by June 10. All participants will get a grant that covers housing and travel costs.
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