SCHEDULE (as of 9/13)
Thursday
12:00 pm Tours of DC Museums (optional—see below)
3:00 pm Registration opens
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm Collegium Scholar Talk 1
“Bring Up the Bodies” –Mark Harris
Friday
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Chapel
9:00 am Programming
- Room A: “An English Businessman, Transylvanian Bishops, & an American Unitarian Woman”—Claudia Elferdink;“Ralph Waldo Emerson: How India Created America's First Universalist Unitarian” – Lauren Levwood
- Room B: “Catholic Heart, Unitarian Mind: Identity in William Sullivan’s The Priest” – Isaac May; “George Pullman’s Religious World” – Nicole Kirk
10:30 am Break
11:00 am UUHHS Speaker Talk 1
“Liberal Theology and American Abolitionism” – Christopher Cameron
12:15 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Programming
- Room A: “Re-Assessing Origins of Women's Ministry” – Barbara Cooeyman; ""This far away ... western country"": Cogwell's mission to Nebraska” – Jo Paoletti
- Room B: “Universalists and the Struggle to Define ""Heresy"" 1770-1840” – Spencer Wells; “""A God Clothed In Our Form"": Intensifying Channing's Iconoclasm” – Jeffrey Speaks
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Programming
- Room A: “Bucking the Patriarchy: Florence Buck's Education Advocacy As Queer Feminist” – Denise Cawley; “Who are these church women? Institute for Religious Education 1916” – Kimberlee Carlson, Kim Mason
- Room B: “Who was Jared Sparks?” – Arliss Ungar; “The Beginnings of Unitarianism in Baltimore” – Catherine Evans
5:00 pm Trip to First Unitarian, Baltimore
Keynote by Dan McKanan
(Transportation and dinner included with registration)
Saturday
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Worship – Award Sermon by Karyn Marsh
9:15 am Collegium Scholar Talk 2
“Riding the Circuit to Salvation” –Mark Harris
10:30 am Break
11:00 am White Supremacy Workshop
12:15 pm Lunch
12:45 pm Collegium Business Meeting
2:00 pm Panel—“Black UU Living History: Recording History as We Live It”—
Paige Ingram and members of Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU)
3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Programming
- Room A: “Rev. George L. Chaney and the Existence of Southern Unitarianism” – Jim Kelley; “Origins of Universalism in South Carolina 1780-1900” – Jay Kiskel
- Room B: “Rev. Samuel West: Savior of the U.S. Constitution?” – Richard Kellaway; “Channing in the Panic of 1819” – Frank Carpenter
5:15 pm Performance “Love Notes”—Murray Grove Players
6:00 pm Dinner
7:00 pm UUHHS Speaker Talk 2
“Black Freethought from Slavery to Civil Rights” –Christopher Cameron
8:30 pm Recorded Performance “Plays on Principle”—Pat Montley
Sunday
7:30 am Breakfast
8:30 am Chapel Led by Harvard Divinity School Students
9:00 am Programming
Room A: “Origins of Unitarianism and Universalism in New Orleans” – Paul Beedle; “Moncure Daniel Conway’s Exodus through Baltimore, 1862” – Scott Holland
Room B: ““UU Ordained Ministers and Lay Ministers: History, Compatibility, Potential” – Holly Dempsey; “Lessons from Unitarian Advocacy for the Mentally Ill” –Janet Holden
10:30 am Break
11:00 am Panel—"The Berry Street Essays; 200 years Inside Inquiry” – Kate Walker, moderator with authors of forthcoming book
12:00 pm Lunch