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2023 ASDAH ConferenceThe 10th Triennial ASDAH Conference
Southern Adventist University, Collegedale, TN, USA April 13 to 15, 2023 |
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Registration: 12:00-5:00—Collegedale Church South Atrium Welcome—1:00-1:10—Dr. Ken Shaw, President Southern Adventist University Session 1: 1:10-2:40—Collegedale Church South Atrium 19th Century Adventist Theology (Location: “Serve”) Chair: Brenden Bliss, Hawaii Pacific University Hiram Edson: the Man and the Myth Brian Strayer, Emeritus, Andrews University NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS”: A Millerite Contribution to the Abolitionist Movement Kevin Burton, Andrews University Curating the Past: Libraries, Historians, and the Archive (Location: “Act”) Chair, Julie-Ann Bocock-Bliss, Hawaii Pacific University Barbara Stovall, Oakwood University Katherine Van Arsdale, Andrews University Stanley Cottrell, Southern Adventist University Bethany Howard, Southern Adventist University Break 2:40-3:00 Refreshments—Atrium Session 2: 3:00—4:30—Collegedale Church South Atrium Global Adventism (Location: “Serve”) Chair: John Markovic, Andrews University Ntonso Notes: A Ghana Historical Spotlight (Valley View University, Retired) Kofi Owusu-Mensa In The Fullness of Time: An Analysis of The Growth and Decline of The Adventist Mission in China During The Past 120 Years” Bruce Lo, University of Wisconsin (Eau Claire) Exploring our Global Roots with ESDA Dragoslava Santrac, General Conference, Archives Statistics and Research Disruptive Theology (Location: “Act”) Chair: Kevin Burton, Andrews University Fundamentalists, Presentism, and the Power of Definition Paul McGraw, Hong Kong The Adventist Sabbath: A Disruptive Force in the American Context Edward Allen, Union College Dinner: 5:00 pm (Not 6.00 pm)—Presidential Banquet Room Welcome—Dr. Robert Young, Academic Vice President Plenary Lecture 7:00: The Southern Scholars Inaugural McArthur Lecture Eric Anderson, Pacific Union College Ackerman Auditorium Friday, April 14, 2023 Registration: 8:00-12:00—Collegedale Church South Atrium Session 1: 8:30-10:00—Collegedale Church South Atrium How (Not) to Study Adventist Women (Location: “Serve”) Chair, Joan Francis, Independent Scholar The Fifty-two Percent Challenge: Women in Adventist Historiography Ashlee Chism, General Conference Archives, Statistics and Research Messy Women and Messy Histories: Epistemic and Ethical Implications of Gatekeeping HerStory" Lindsay Morton, Pacific Union College The Challenge of Modernization and Urbanization (Location: “Act”) Chair: Matthew Lucio, Adventist History Project Early Adventists and Technological Change” Willy Logan, Pacific Union College City Missions and Immigrant Politics: the New York City Mission and Tract Society, 1870-1890, Mark Joslin, University of Tennessee (Knoxville) From SBC to SDA and Back Again: The Curious Odyssey of John A. Brunson Doug Morgan, Independent Scholar Break 10:00-10:30—refreshments—Atrium Session 2: 10:30-12:00 Dramatic Incidents in the Life of Early Modern England (Location: “Serve”) Chair: David Trim, General Conference, Archives, Statistics, and Research Wicked William Whiston Gregory Dodds, Walla Walla University A Philosophy of Suffering: An Analysis of Early Sixteenth Century Protestant Martyrs in John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments Rachel Clark Byrd, Southern Adventist University Noli Me Tangere Heidi Olson Campbell, Baylor University Methods in Local History (Location: “Act”) Chair: Sabrina Riley, Independent Scholar Does Collegedale Exist? Mills McArthur, Southern Adventist University Historical Rhymes in West African Oral History Alexander C. Ugwukah, Babcock University Recovering the Past at Khirbat al-Balu'a, An Iron Age Moabite City Monique Roddy, Walla Walla University Lunch 12:00-1:30—Presidential Banquet Room, Wright Hall Early Career Scholars lunch discussion at designated table(s) hosted by Mills McArthur and Michel Sun Lee Session 3: 1:30-3:00—Collegedale Church Engaging Students Through Historical Gaming (Location: “Serve”) Ben Tyner, Michael Weismeyer, Ed Allen, Phillip Warfield, Elizabeth Anderson Bowser Women’s Work (Location: “Act”) Chair, Emily McArthur, Southern Adventist University Loyalty and Protest: Contrasting Examples of Women in a Gendered Wage System Laura Wibberding, Pacific Union College Adventist Women Cookie-Makers Kris Erskine, Athens University SMI Henry and the Women’s Christian Temperance Union Michel Sun Lee, Southern Adventist University Adventists in World War II (Location: “Grow”) Chair: Greg Dodds, Walla Walla University Civilian Public Service and Seventh-day Adventists, 1941-1945. Sabrina Riley, Independent Scholar Unlikeliest Heroes: Conscientious Objector Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor Howard Munson, Pacific Union College Lived Conflict: Japanese-American Adventists during World War II Brenden Bliss, Hawaii Pacific University Break 3:00-3:30—Collegedale Church South Atrium Session 4: 3:30-5:00—Reacting to the Past “Chicago: 1968” Dinner 5:30—Presidential Banquet Room NAD Roundtable Session: New Methods in Teaching, Research, and Publishing Michael Campbell, North American Division Archives 7:30 Plenary: The Past and Future of Adventist Historiography Presidential Banquet Room David Trim (General Conference), Christie Chow (Princeton Theological Seminaries), Ben Baker, Phillip Warfield (Howard University) Chair: Lisa Clark Diller, Southern Adventist University Sabbath, April 15, 2023 9:30—tour at Red Clay State Park with ranger 10:30-12:30 Sabbath School/Church –Amphitheater at Red Clay State Park Historians, Lament, and Forgiveness Michel Sun Lee, Seneca Vaught, and Joan Francis 12:30 Sabbath Picnic Lunch Boxed Lunches Provided by the Academic Administration of SAU Outings 1:00-4:30 Graysville and Dayton: Adventist and Scopes Trial History Leaves from Red Clay, led by Michael Campbell Chickamauga Battlefield and Civil War History Leaves from Red Clay, led by Michael Weismeyer and local Civil War historian, Ed Lowe Supper—6pm at Lisa Diller’s house, 2509 Ivy St, Chattanooga Soup and Salad provided by SAU History and Political Studies Department Backyard fire plus supper on screened in back porch, so families welcome—plenty of room Saturday night business meeting—Diller house (those not interested in the business meeting can socialize in back yard during the formal session in Lisa’s living room) |