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Monday, June 28th
Registration, Amana Heritage Museum, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Welcome & Opening Remarks, Auditorium, Amana Heritage Museum, 3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Tim Miller, President, ICSA
Plenary I: Amana at 150 . . . Or Is It 300? Auditorium, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Moderator: Jon Andelson, Grinnell College
Panelists:
Jon Andelson, “An Overview of the Community’s History”
Janet Zuber, Amana, “The Pietist Heritage and Inspirationism”
Peter Hoehnle, Iowa State Univ., “The Communal Period and Reorganization”
Emily Hoppe, Amana, “The Amana Church Today”
Mike Shoup, Amana, “The Amana Society, Inc. Today”
Lanny Haldy, Amana Heritage Society, “The Amana Community Today”
Opening Reception, location TBA, 5:00- 7:00 p.m.
Dinner on your own (see registration packet for dining suggestions.
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Tuesday, June 29th
Registration, Amana Heritage Museum, 8:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Session I 9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
(A) Ethics & Practices in the Study of Community
Chair TBA
Bill Metcalf, Griffith University (Australia), “Communicating about Intentional
Communities”
Susan Love Brown, Florida Atlantic University, “The Ethics of Doing Research in Contemporary Communities”
Bill Metcalf, Griffith University (Australia), “The Encyclopedia of Community”
(B) Youth Movements and the Search for Community
Chair TBA
Eli Avrahami, Yad Tabenkin (Israel), “Idealists in Search of the Commune” Daniel Rosalio, Haifa University & West Galil College (Israel), “Communes and Youth Movements: A Social or Psychological Phenomenon, or Both?”
Cassandra Amesley, Iowa State Univ., “Communities Writ Small: Collective Visions in Late Capitalist Society”
(C) A Guide to American Utopian Literature: Creating A Reading List
Chair: Peter Hoehnle, Iowa State University
Marlyn Klee, Adelphi University, “Oneida Perfectionists”
Elizabeth De Wolfe, University of New England, “The Shakers”
Peter Hoehnle, Iowa State University, “Amana”
Break & Refreshments 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Plenary II: The End of the Kibbutz? Auditorium, 11:00 - 12:30
Moderator TBA
Eliezer Ben Rafael, Tel Aviv University, “The New Responsibilities of The Kibbutzniks”
Michal Palgi, Emek Yezreel College (Israel), “A Longitudinal Perspective of Value Changes – The Case of the Kibbutz”
Yechezkel Dar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Communality, Rationalization, and Distributive Justice: Changing Evaluation of Work in the Israeli Kibbutz”
Menachem Topel, Yad Tabenkin, “‘Identity’ Politics Within and Around the Kibbutz”
Lunch on your own 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (see registration packet for dining suggestions)
Session II 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
(A) Community and Ecology
Chair: Bill Metcalf, Griffith University (Australia)
Ina Meyer Stoll, ZEGG (Germany), “Global Ecovillage Network, Ecovillages and International Communities: The Learning and Living Centers of the Future”
Michael Livni, Kibbutz Lotan, “Kibbutz Lotan: Eco-Zionism and Kibbutz”
(B) State and Community
Chair TBA
Nir Tsuk, University of Cambridge (U.K.), “Community, State and Utopia: National Policy and Local Prosperity in England and Israel”
Baruch Kanari, Yad Tabenkin & Tel-Hai Academic College, “Garden-Cities in Eretz, Israel”
Adrienne Lamberti, Iowa State University, “Blurred Vision: Agricultural Communities Under Fire”
(C) Healing, Philosophy and Vision
Chair TBA
Andrew Gemmell, Ontario, Canada, “Jean Vanier: The Healing Community”
David Connell, Ontario, Canada, “Philosophical Reflection on the Communitarian Vision”
Dan McKanan, St. John’s University (Minnesota, USA), “Self-Unfolding Communitarian Vision: Brook Farm’s Challenge for Contemporary Communities”
(D) Tour of Amana Villages
Sign up for tour at the registration desk, Amana Heritage Museum
Break & Refreshments 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Session III 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
(A) Community Videos
ZEGG (x minutes): Achim Ecker, ZEGG
Damanhur (40 mins.): Lepre Viola, Damanhur Federation
(B) Parenting in Community
Chair TBA
Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Yad Tabenkin, “We Were All Mother: Women in the Kibbutz, 1910-2004"
Bron Ingoldsby, Brigham Young University, and, Suzanne Smith, Washington
State University, “Hutterite Parenting Practices”
Erella Lamdan, Kibbutz Negba and Achva Academic College of Education, “Motherhood in the Kibbutz: Three Generations at the End of the 1990s”
(C) Challenge and Change in Community
Chair TBA
David Ostrom, California, “Daily Life among the Bruderhoff”
Marvin Ceynar, New Hope, Minnesota, “Four Historic Changes in Amana: Lay Preaching in the Early 1960s”
Sarah Gyorog, University of Massachusetts, “Conflict and Community”
Social Hour & Dinner, Ox Yoke Inn, 6:30 p.m.
International Communities Fair, following dinner
The International Communities Fair offers all conference participants the opportunity to share resources and information, sell products and books, and be available to answer questions about your community. If you would like to have a table at the International Communities Fair, please contact Lanny Haldy at amherit@juno.com
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Wednesday, June 30th
Registration, Amana Heritage Museum, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Session IV 9:00-10:30 a.m.
(A) New Theoretical Approaches to Intentional Community
Chair: Susan Love Brown, Florida Atlantic University
Susan Love Brown, “Revitalization and Community: Building on a Theory”
Lawrence Foster, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Between Two Worlds: Community, Liminality, and the Development of Alternative Marriage
Systems among the American Shakers”
Heather Van Wormer, Michigan State University, “The Ties that Bind: Ideology, Material Culture and Intentional Communities”
(B) Kibbutz Studies
Chair TBA
Aryei Fishman, The Religious Roots of the Secular Kibbutz
Shula Keshet, Kibbutz Givat Brenner & Kibbutzim College of Education, “The Realities of Pioneering Life as Fuel for Fantasy: Poetics in Children’s
Literature in the Early Kibbutz, 1930-1950"
Arza Avrahami, Oranim College & Kibbutz Palamchim, “Gender and the Effect of Self-Selection in Higher Education: The Case of Kibbutz Young Adults”
(C) Life & Work
Chair: Bill Metcalf, Griffith University (Australia)
Sol Encel, University of New South Wales (Australia), “Montsalvat: An Artist’s Commune”
Chris Coates, (England), “Abode of Love: Free Love in 19th-Century Somerset”
Jan Bang, Solborg Camphill Village (Norway), “Camphill: Social Ecology in Practice”
Break & Refreshments 10:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Session V 11:00 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.
(A) Communities and the Future
Chair: Bill Metcalf
Don Pitzer, University of Southern Indiana, and Rachel Wright-Summerton,
Padanaram, “Padanaram Settlement in Transition: Ongoing Developmental Process”
Caitlin Didier, University of Kansas, “If you Build It, They Will Come: Vedic City and the Future of Transcendental Meditation in Fairfield, Iowa”
Michael Livni, Kibbutz Lotan, “Kibbutz and Its Future: Historical Perspective”
(B) A World of Communities
Chair TBA
Chuck LeWarne, Edmonds, Washington, “Communes in the Pacific Northwest”
Saskia Poldervaart, Werkgroep Vrouwenstudies (Holland), “Different Communitarain Visions in Dutch Communities”
(C) Idealization in Contemporary Communities (tentative)
Lunch on your own 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. (see registration packet for dining suggestions)
Session VI 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
(A) Eco-Villages in Europe
Chair TBA
Ina Meyer-Stoll, ZEGG (Germany), “Global Ecovillage Network: A Slide Presentation”
Lepre Viola, Damanhur (Italy), “The Federation of Damanhur”
(B) Economics
Chair TBA
Diana Christian, Earthaven Ecovillage (North Carolina, USA), “Sustainable Economics in Ecovillages and Intentional Communities.”
Jonathan Warner, Dordt College, “Community Money and Coherence of Community: The Stamp Scrip Scheme of Charles Zylstra”
Kate Adamson and Valerie Renwick-Porter, Twin Oaks (Louisa, Virginia, USA) “Drifting Ideals? Liberalization and Privatization in and Egalitarian, Income-Sharing Community”
(C ) Creating Community
Chair TBA
Elph Morgan, “Steps in Creating a Cohousing Community: A Case Study of Sunward and Great Oak Cohousing”
Valerie Seitz and Machiel Van Dorst, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands),
“Transformation of Qualities of Communal Life: The New Plans for Eco-village Almere, NL”
Achim Ecker, ZEGG (Germany), “ZEGG Community: Creating a Community Means Creating a Whole Region!”
(D) Walking Tours of the Village of Amana
Sign up for tours at the registration desk, Amana Heritage Museum
Break & Refreshments 3:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Plenary III: Closing Address Auditorium, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m.
Moderator: Bill Metcalf, Griffith University
Yaacov Oved, Yad Tabenkin & Tel Aviv University,
“Communes and Intentional Communities as a Global Phenomenon” Commentary to follow
Social Hour and Closing Banquet, Colony Inn Restaurant, 6:30 p.m.
Entertainment and social hour to follow dinner
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