COMMUNAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION
33rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Marconi Conference Center
Marshall, California
September 28-30, 2006
[Tentative Program]
THURSDAY, September 28
8:30 a.m. CSA Board Meeting
12:00 p.m. CSA Board Luncheon
1:00 p.m. CSA Board meeting resumes
2:00-5:00 p.m. Registration, Marconi Check-In
6:00 p.m. Opening Dinner, Marconi Dining Hall
Welcome and Introductions, Deborah Altus, CSA President
After Dinner. Buck Hall
Synanon presentation
Leading introductions
A Hospitality Room will be open for conversation and refreshments following dinner.
FRIDAY, September 29
7:00-8:15 a.m. Breakfast, Marconi Dining Hall
8:00-10:30 a.m. Registration and book/media sales, Buck Hall Lobby
Conference participants are invited to bring their communal studies related books, videos or audio recordings, arts, crafts or other products to display and sell. If you would like to participate, please contact Gina Walker at gwalker@usi.edu for more information. Part of the proceeds of each sale will support the Communal Studies Association.
8:30-10:00 a.m. Session I: Plenary Session, Buck Hall
Presiding: Deborah Altus, Washburn University
Timothy Miller, University of Kansas, “California’s Communal History”
Yaacov Oved, Tel Aviv University, “ The Journal 'Cooperative Living' (1949-1956)”
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break and refreshments, Buck Hall Lobby/Patio and Pine Lodge Lobby\Patio
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Session II
(A) Communes Outside the Mainstream, Buck Hall
Presiding:
Martha Bradley, University of Utah. “Conceptual Maps for Understanding the FLDS Compound in Eldorado, Texas”
Susan Love Brown, Florida Atlantic University, “Pinnacle: A Rastafari Intentional Community”
(B) Theory and Practice in Community, Pine Lodge Main Room
Presiding:
Jade Aguilar, University of Colorado, Boulder, “World Wide Web of Intentional Communities: A Look at the Influence of the Internet”
Jesse Drew, University of California, Davis, “Communal Practices and Terminology”
Lawrence Foster, Georgia Tech University, “The Psychology of the Prophet: How Charismatic Leadership Influences the Success and Failure of Communal Experiments”
(C) Synanon, Pine Lodge Breakout Room (or Patio, weather permitting)
Presiding:
Elena Broslovsky, Exeter, California, “The Synanon Wire”
Francie Levy, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, “Synanon as a Religion”
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch, Marconi Dining Hall
1:30-3:00 p.m. Session III
(A) Communities in California and Oregon, Buck Hall
Presiding:
Jim Kopp, Lewis and Clark College, “Second Eden: A Novel Look at the Aurora Colony”
Stacy Kozakavich, University of California, Berkeley, “’The Center of Civilization’: Archaeology and History of the Kaweah Colony, ca. 1886-1892”
Robert Fogarty, Antioch College, “Mankind United: A California Cult or Social Movement?”
(B) The 60s and After, Pine Lodge Main Room
Presiding:
Megan Salhus, York University, “Then and Now: ‘Hip’ Communes to Urban Cohousing”
Margaret Hollenbach, Portland, Oregon, “’Couples Take Energy Away from the Group’: Charisma and Personal Power in a Taos, NM Commune”
Kathleen M. Willins, Portland, Oregon, “A Bit of Walden in the Woods: How a Summer Retreat in Rural Skagit County, WA Became a Communal Reenactment of Thoreau’s Experience and Ideals”
(C) Christian Communities, Pine Lodge Breakout Room/Patio
Presiding: Etta Madden, Missouri State University
Miriam Boeri, Kennesaw State University, “Exploring the Effects of a Sixties-Style Social Experiment: The Legacy of the Children of God”
Alexandra McGee, Starr King School for the Ministry, “Dorothy Day’s Vision: Is it Lived Out Today? An Examination of the Mission and Daily Work of Catholic Workers in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco”
Kathleen Fernandez, CSA Executive Director, “’The Hands of the Diligent’ – Zoar and the Ohio & Erie Canal”
3:00-3:30 p.m. Break and Refreshments, Buck Hall Lobby/Patio and Pine Lodge Lobby/Patio
3:30-5:00 p.m. Session IV
(A) Understanding the Beliefs and Practices of ‘Fundamentalist’ Mormon Polygamists Today, Buck Hall
Presiding:
A showing of the 50-minute documentary movie "A Matter of Principle," followed by a discussion led by Martha Bradley, University of Utah, and Lawrence Foster, Georgia Tech University
(B) The Shakers and the Amana Society, Pine Lodge Main Room
Presiding: Joseph White, University of Pittsburgh
John Chaimov and Sarah Duffel, Coe College, “The ‘Tagloehner’ in the Amana Colonies”
Rose Mary Lawson, Sevierville, Tennessee, “The Shakers in Ohio and Kentucky”
Mark A.Rhorer, Florida Atlantic University, “The Significance of Region: Variations between the Kentucky and Ohio Shakers and those of the Northeast”
(C) Social Experiments in Community, Pine Lodge Breakout Room/Patio
Presiding:
Leanna Wolfe, Los Angeles California, “How the Bough Bends: The Creation of Family, Kinship and Community Amongst Users of Donated Gametes”
Deborah Altus, Washburn University; L. Keith Miller, University of Kansas; and Tom Welsh, Florida State University, “Examining Behavior of the Behaviorists: Long-Term Data from a Walden Two Co-op”
Lyn Rainard, Tidewater Community College, “Cyrus Teed: The San Francisco Years”
6:30 p.m. Dinner, Marconi Dining Hall
Dinner served at table; beer and wine available at extra charge
After dinner, Buck Hall
A musical communal journey by Alicia Bay Laurel
Evening: Hospitality Room
Saturday, September 30
7:00-8:15 a.m. Breakfast, Marconi Dining Hall
8:00-10:30 a.m. Registration and book sales, Buck Hall Lobby
8:30-10:00 a.m. Session V
(A) Sustainability and Community, Buck Hall
Presiding:
Daniel Greenberg, Living Routes, “Ecovillages as Campuses for Sustainability Education”
Joshua P. Lockyer, University of Georgia, “From Cultural Critique to Permaculture: Environmental Values and Contemporary Intentional Community Building”
(B) Bellamy, Brocton, and Brothertown, Pine Lodge Main Room
Presiding:
Carl Guarneri, St. Mary's College of California (at Colgate University for Fall 2006), “Bellamy's Looking Backward and the Uses of Utopia”
Catherine McAllister. “Fictionalized Accounts of Communal Experience: New Perspectives on The Brotherhood of the New Life, Brocton”
Julius H. Rubin, Saint Joseph College, “The Creation of the Brothertown Tribe, 1785-1820: A Christian Indian Intentional Community”
(C) New Ways of Viewing Community, Pine Lodge Breakout Room/Patio
Presiding:
Anthony Denzer, University of Wyoming. “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin as an Intentional Community”
Jacqui May, Florida Atlantic University, “Welcome to the Shtetl: The Communal Life of Eastern European Jews”
Rebecca Kuhn, Jacqueline May, and Marc Rhorer, Florida Atlantic University, “From the Big Top to the Fringes: The Circus in America “
10:00-10:30 a.m. Break and Refreshments, Buck Hall Lobby/Patio and Pine Lodge Lobby/Patio
10:30 a.m.-12:00 noon Session VI
Plenary session: The 1960s Communal Experience in California
Presiding: Timothy Miller, University of Kansas
Panelists: Ramon Sender, Alicia Bay Laurel, Phil Morningstar, Arthur Kopecky
12:00-1:00 p.m. Lunch, Marconi Dining Hall
1:00-2:00 p.m., CSA Annual Auction, Buck Hall
Everyone is invited to donate communal studies related items for the auction that raises money for the Communal Studies Association's many programs. Please consider making a donation of books, audio or video recordings, arts, crafts or other items related to communalism. Donations may be left at the Registration Table or shipped in advance. Contact gwalker@usi.edu for shipping address. The auction is a highlight of every CSA conference--come join in the spirit of friendly bidding!
2:30-4:00 p.m. Session VII
(A) Hutterites and Gender, Buck Hall
Presiding:
Marge Stanton, Brigham Young University, Hawai’I, “A Woman's Work is Never Done: The Daily and Seasonal Tasks of a Hutterite Colony Woman”
Max Stanton, Brigham Young University, Hawai’I, “Followers and Leaders: The Daily and Seasonal Tasks of Adult Males in a Hutterite Colony”
Etta Madden, Missouri State University, “New Horizons and Notions of Home in Women’s Narratives of Bruderhof Life”
(B) The Source Family, Pine Lodge Main Room
Presiding:
Charlene Peters, Catherine Stone, Yahavah Mathison, “The Source Family in California and Hawai’I”
(C) Writing Communal History: A Roundtable Discussion, Pine Lodge Breakout Room/Patio
Presiding: Beth De Wolfe, University of New England
Panel discussion with four CSA Book Award recipients:
Beth De Wolfe (2003, Shaking the Faith)
Kathy Fernandez (2004, A Singular People)
Rod Janzen (2004, The Rise and Fall of Synanon)
Glendyne Wergland (2006, One Shaker Life).
4:15-5:30 p.m. Session VIII
Plenary session, Buck Hall
Musical drama: “Morning Star Idyll” by Nicholas Alva, in Collaboration with Some of Those Who Were There
6:30-7:45 p.m. Dinner, Marconi Dining Hall
Dinner served at table; beer and wine available at extra charge
8:00-9:30 p.m. Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony, Buck Hall
The Hospitality Room will be open after the awards ceremony.
See you next year at Kirtland, Ohio, home of the first Mormon Temple!