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Koreshan State Historic Site
CSA Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting Program
October 2-4, 2008
Thursday, October 2, 2008
The following is the tentative program of our annual conference at the Koreshan State Historic Site
and the Crowne Plaza, Bell Tower. Any changes will be posted here prior to the conference.
For registration click here.
8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CSA Board meeting at the Crowne Plaza, Bell Tower
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Registration: Crowne Plaza, Bell Tower: Lobby
5:00 p.m. Wine Tasting (enjoy a wonderful experience and pick up a bottle of wine--don't forget your corkscrew!)
Vivo 100
The Park Shops at Andrea Lane
14261 S. Tamiami Trail
(239) 332-8466 (VINO)
Visit website
6:30 p.m. : Opening Banquet: Crowne Plaza, Bell Tower
9:00 p.m. to ?
Hospitality Room, Crowne Plaza, Bell Tower
Friday, October 3, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Registration: Koreshan State Historic Site
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
1A. Plenary Session: " Transformations In Community”
Presiding: Timothy Miller
University of Kansas
TITLE: The More Things Stay the Same, the More They Change: Maturation and Transition in Intentional Communities
PRESENTER: Timothy Miller
University of Kansas
TITLE: The Last Baptism at Snow Hill
PRESENTER: Denise Seachrist
Kent State University
TITLE: The Koreshan Unity: Transformation Over a Half Century
PRESENTER: Lynn Rainard
President, Communal Studies Association
10:00 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. Break -- Outside Founder’s Home
10:30-noon Concurrent Sessions, A, B, C and Park Tour
2A. Sex & Conflict – Historical & Contemporary Amana, Native Americans, and Social Contexts
Location: Art Hall
Presiding: Matthew J. Grow
Center for Communal Studies, University of Southern Indiana
PRESENTER: Peter Hoehnle
Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development
TITLE: “Colonisten und Indianer”: The Relationship between the Amana Society
and the Meskwaki Nation, 1855-2008
PRESENTER: Lawrence Foster
Georgia Institute of Technology
TITLE: Sex and Conflict in New Religious Movements: A Comparison of the
Antebellum
Oneida Community under John Humphrey Noyes with the Mormons under Joseph Smith
2B. Transformations in the Fellowship for Intentional Community
Location: Administrative Building, Anna Lewis House
Presiding:
PRESENTER: Deborah Altus
Washburn University
TITLE: Continuity and Change in the FIC: Moving from the Fellowship of Intentional Communities
to the Fellowship for Intentional Community
PRESENTER: Harvey Baker
Dunmire Hollow Community
TITLE: The Fellowship for Intentional Community: Reflections on Continuity and Change from the Inside
PRESENTERS: Deborah Altus & Harvey Baker
TITLE: Reflections on Personal Transformations Influenced by the Fellowship for Intentional Community
2C. Trends in Community Theory and Practice
Location: Founder’s Home
Presiding: Susan Palmer
Concordia University, Canada
PRESENTER: Yaacov Oved
ICSA, Israel
TITLE: Multicultural and Pluralistic Trends in Communities
PRESENTER: Josh Lockyer
University of Georgia
TITLE: From Developmental Communalism to Transformative Utopianism:
An Imagined Conversation with Don Pitzer
2D. Koreshan State Historic Site Tour
Location: Meet outside Damkohler House
12:00-1:00 - Friday, half-day Registration: Koreshan State Historic Site
12:00- 1:15 p.m. - Lunch and Members Business Meeting
Tents Outside Founders Home
1:30-3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions, A, B, C and Boomer House Tour
3A. “Reflections on Gertrude Rapp and Harmonist Communities”
Location: Art Hall
Presiding: Etta Madden
Missouri State University
TITLE: “Negotiating Space and Difference: Gertrude Rapp’s Silk Letters”
PRESENTER: Michelle Smith
Pennsylvania State University
TITLE: Three Harmonist Towns: The Pursuit of Perfection
PRESENTER: Paul Douglas
Towson University, Baltimore, MD
3B. " Introspection and Perspective of Communal Life"
Location: Administrative Building, Anna Lewis House
Presiding: Deborah Altus
Washburn University
TITLE: Seeing the Faces (Reflection on People’s Temple)
PRESENTER: Laura Johnston Kohl
Peoples Temple Survivor and former Synanon resident
TITLE: Kashi Ashram: Living The Yoga of Relationship
PRESENTER: Douglas Canterbury-Counts aka Kailash Shankara, Kashi Ashram
3C. Literary and Disaster-Focused Communities
Location: Founder’s Home
Presiding: Chuck LeWarne, Edmonds, WA
TITLE: Between ‘Topias’: Orwell and Jack London Reconsidered from Afar
PRESENTER: Martin Haber
John Dewey High School
City University of New York
TITLE: Marie Ogden and Elizabeth Clare Prophet: Perspectives on
Two Leaders of Disaster-Focused Communities
PRESENTER: Brad Whitsel
Pennsylvania State University-Fayette Campus
3D. Bommer House Tour (sign up reqired-10 person limit)
Meet at Art Hall Parking Lot
3:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Break
Outside Founder’s Home
and Administrative Building: Anna Lewis House
3:30-5:00 - Concurrent Sessions, A, B, C
4A. "Communal Dreams Denied"
Location: Art Hall
Presiding: Patrick Harris
Auroa Colony, OR
TITLE: After the End at China Bend: The Latter Days of the Love Israel Family
PRESENTER: Charles LeWarne
Edmonds, Washington
TITLE: No Place In Oregon: Unrealized Dreams Of A Religious Community And An Art Colony
PRESENTER: Jim Kopp
Watzek Library, Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon
4B. " Transforming Society with a French Style"
Location: Administrative Building, Anna Lewis House
Presiding:
TITLE: Transforming Christianity: Ecumenism and Supersessionism
in the Fourierist Movement
PRESENTER: Dan McKanan
Harvard Divinity School
TITLE: 1879: Women and Icaria’s Community Split
PRESENTER: Diana M. Garno
4C. "Transforming Belief into Community: The Saga of Dr. Teed and His Rise to Prominence"
Location: Founder’s Home
Presiding: Lynn Rainard
TITLE: “The Origins of Dr. Cyrus R. Teed’s National Following: Chicago and
the Mental Science National Association”
PRESENTER: Irvin D. S. Winsboro
Florida Gulf Coast University
TITLE: “Dr. Cyrus R. Teed: New Thought Physician and Mental Cure Healer”
PRESENTER: Donald K. Routh
Professor Emeritus, University of Miami
5:45-7:45 Koreshan Dinner and Ghost Walk
Outside Founder’s Home
9:00 p.m. to ? Hospitality Room, Crowne Plaza, Bell Tower
Saturday, October 4, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Registration: Koreshan State Historic Site
8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
5A. Plenary Session: " Transformations In Understanding: Multidisciplinary
Approaches to the Study of Community
Presiding: Susan Love Brown
Florida Atlantic University
PANNEL:
Beate Rodewald
Palm Beach Atlantic University (Literature)
Deborah Altus
Washburn University
(Psychology)
Lyda Jackson
Jesus People, USA
(Community)
Patrick Harris
Aurora Colony
Historic Society (Historical Site Curator)
Joshua Lockyer
University of Georgia
(Anthropology)
10:00 a.m. to 10:20 a.m. Break -- Outside Founder’s Home
10:30-noon Concurrent Sessions, A, B, C and Park Tour
6A. “Community Conflict, and Communication”
Location: Art Hall Presiding:
Presiding: Carol Brown
Edison College, Fort Myers, FL
PRESENTER: Etta Madden
Missouri State University
TITLE: Disaffiliation from Damanhur: What’s New in Communal Dissatisfaction?
PRESENTER: Charles Nuckolls
Brigham Young University
TITLE: Community Formation, Solidarity, and the Problem of Free-Riders
PRESENTER: Christine Donahue
Nova Southeastern University
TITLE: Building Bridges through Better Communication
6B. Telling the Story of Community with Film: Shalam Colony and the Koreshan Unity
Location: Administrative Building, Anna Lewis House
Presiding: Irvin D. S. Winsboro
Florida Gulf Coast University
PRESENTER: Robin Riley
Robin Riley Productions and Northwestern College
TITLE: Screening of the documentary Shalam on the Rio Grande
COMMENTOR: Irvin D. S. Winsboro
Florida Gulf Coast University
TITLE: The Koreshan Unity: A Quest for Utopia
6C. Defining Community Over Time and Space
Location: Founder’s Home
Presiding: Dan McKanan
Harvard Divinity School
PRESENTER: Emily Mieras
Stetson University
TITLE: Building Community: Cohousing, Space, and the Redefinition of Private Life
PRESENTER: Mary Lou Mayo
Kean University, Union, New Jersey
TITLE: The Many Ways of Community: A Thirty-five Year Study of Transformation
6D. Koreshan State Historic Site Tour
Location: Meet outside Damkohler House
12:00-1:00 - Friday, half-day Registration: Koreshan State Historic Site
12:00- 1:15 p.m. – Lunch and Annual Auction
Tents Outside Founders Home
1:30-3:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions, A, B, C and Boomer House Tour
7A. “The Shakers in Social Context and the Era of Manifestations”
Location: Art Hall
Presiding: Mario DePillis
Professor Emeritus University of Massachusetts, Amherst
TITLE: “The Use and Abuse of Spirit Messages during the Shaker Era of Manifestations:
'A hard time of it in this hurricane of gifts, to know what is revelation and what is not,”
PRESENTER: Glendyne Wergland
Independent Scholar
TITLE: Region, Politics, and Customs in Shaker Foodways
PRESENTER: Marc Rhorer
Florida Atlantic University
7B. " Owen, New Harmony and Their Legacies"
Location: Administrative Building, Anna Lewis House
Presiding: Denise Seachrist
Kent State University
TITLE: England Learns of the Harmonists, 1812-1820
PRESENTER: Joe White
University of Pittsburgh
TITLE: New Harmony, the Owen Boys, and the Origin of the Smithsonian
PRESENTER: Lucy Jayne Kamau
Professor Emeritus, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
7C. Mormon Life: RLDS and LDS Memories
Location: Founder’s Home
Presiding: Charles Nuckolls
Brigham Young University
TITLE: Between RLDS Reunions at Kirtland Temple: 20 th Century Attempts
to Recapture Early Mormon Communal Living
PRESENTER: Barbara Walden
Kirtland Temple, Ohio
TITLE: “We are glad the time is come to go; we have looked for it for years”: The 1845
Fall of Nauvoo, Illinois, and the Recasting of Mormon Collective Memory
PRESENTER: Stephen Taysom
Franklin College, IN
TITLE: Polygamy, Publishing, and “Joint Stockism”: Parley P. Pratt and the Mormon
Periphery during the Succession Crisis of 1844-1847
PRESENTER: Matthew J. Grow
Center for Communal Studies, University of Southern Indiana
7D. Bommer House Tour (sign up reqired-10 person limit)
Meet at Art Hall Parking Lot
3:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Break
Outside Founder’s Home
and Administrative Building: Anna Lewis House
3:30-5:00 - Concurrent Sessions, A, B, C
8A. "Communal Studies 101: The Visual Landscape of Community:
A Pictorial Journey though Historic Communities”
Location: Art Hall
Presiding: Presiding: Lucy Jayne Kamau
Professor Emeritus, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
TITLE: One Hundred Thousand Miles of Community: A Visual Tour of Shaker
and Other Historic and Contemporary Communal Villages
PRESENTER: Donald Janzen
8B. "Space & Boundaries on Earth and in the Cosmos"
Location: Administrative Building, Anna Lewis House
Presiding: Lawrence Foster
Georgia Institute of Technology
TITLE: The “Hollow Earth” in Quebec’s Mystical Geography” Sectes, Schisms and Symbols
PRESENTER: Susan Palmer
Concordia University, Canada
TITLE: Windows on the World: Cellular Cosmology, Zetetic Astronomy, And the Legend of Agartha
PRESENTER: Holly Folk
Western Washington University
8C. "Shakers and Koreshans: Connections and Transitions”
Location: Founder’s Home
Presiding: Marc Rhorer
Florida Atlantic University"
TITLE: Personal Entitlement Versus Gospel Order: The War Pension Claims
of an Early Shaker Elder
PRESENTER: Carol Medlicott
Northern Kentucky University
TITLE: Heaven in a Hollow Earth: The Koreshan-Shaker Connection
PRESENTER: Christian Goodwillie
Hancock Shaker Village
TITLE: The Ruskin Community in Florida: An Alternative to the Koreshan Universe
PRESENTER: Arthur “Mac” Miller
Professor Emeritus of Literature
New College of Florida
5:30-6:30 President's Farewell Reception
Enjoy a Margarita and appetizers Cantina Loredo (across from the Crowne Plaza)
(Tickets available with purchase of Saturday night Closing Banquet and Awards Ceremony Dinner)
7:00-9:00 Conference Closing Banquet and Awards Ceremony, Crowne Plaza,
Bell Tower Ball Room
Awards:
Donald Durnbaugh Starting Scholar Award
Kathryn Turner, "Becoming “Two-in-One”: Imaginary Space and Androgyny in Koreshan Universology"
Presenter: Peter Hoehnle
Accepting for Ms. Turner: Emily Mieras
Stetson University
Gina Walker Outstanding Project Award
Koreshan State Historic Site
Art Hall Restoration and
Founder's Sitting Room
Presenter: Kathy Willins
Donald E. Pitzer Distinguished Service Award
Donald Janzen
Presenter: Jayne Kamau
Distinguished Scholar Award
Priscilla Brewer
University of South Florida
Presenter: Lawrence Foster
Conference Preview:
Old Aurora Colony
Patrick Harris, Curator
Aurora Colony
Historic Society
Induction of New CSA Officers
Heather Van Wormer, President
Christian Goodwillie, Vice President
9:00 p.m. to ? Hospitality Room, Crowne Plaza, Bell Tower
Please Contact Rod Janzen, Fresno Pacific University, Editor, Communal Societies, at rajanzen@fresno.edu, to if you
wish to have your paper considered for publication in our journal.
