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Scholars, activists, students and literary, performing and visual artists alike are invited to submit proposals for consideration to \u201cCrossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries<\/a>,\u201d a conference hosted by Eastern Mennonite University June 22-25, 2017.<\/p>\n

Conference participants are encouraged to think creatively and across disciplines about how Anabaptists, Mennonites, Amish and related groups have crossed and continue to cross lines, borders and boundaries.<\/p>\n

Applicants should submit a one-page CV and a 250-word abstract describing the paper, presentation, performance or panel\/workshop session (with presenters indicated) to awcrossingtheline@gmail.com<\/a> by Sept. 1, 2016.<\/p>\n

Maturing field of study<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference builds on a 21-year-old legacy of a groundbreaking conference on women of Anabaptist traditions in history at Millersville University in 1995. That conference was titled \u201cThe Quiet in the Land? Women of Anabaptist Traditions in Historical Perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n

The phrase women of Anabaptist traditions<\/em> has been retained in the new title to highlight the significant contributions to the field made both at Millersville and in the years since then, says planning committee chair Professor Kimberly Schmidt<\/a> of Eastern Mennonite University.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen\u2019s history among Mennonite scholars was definitely in its infancy in 1995,\u201d says Schmidt, professor of history and director of the Washington Community Scholars\u2019 Center<\/a> in Washington D.C. \u201cThere was a group of us who had graduated from American and Canadian universities who wanted to push forward the field, not only for scholars of Mennonite history, but to make sure we were engaging with the broader field of women\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Significantly, four other members on the 1995 planning committee have joined Schmidt to lead the efforts for the 2017 event. Schmidt returns in her role as chair.<\/p>\n

One important objective of the 1995 conference, Schmidt says,\u00a0was to \u201cto engage in a dialogue with American and Canadian women\u2019s historians who had already made names for themselves to help us all to think about how Mennonite women\u2019s history relates to the broader regional and global women\u2019s histories.\u201d<\/p>\n

Major contribution to the field<\/strong><\/p>\n

The mentorship and energy of that conference resulted in several publications, including Strangers At Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History<\/a><\/em> (Johns Hopkins Press, 2002), co-edited by Schmidt with Diane Zimmerman Umble and Steven D. Reschly. The essay collection features work from leading scholars on the diverse experiences of Amish, Mennonite and other women of Anabaptist traditions, from sixteenth-century Europe to contemporary North America.<\/p>\n

Schmidt is looking forward to seeing \u201cnew topics, approaches and viewpoints among a wide variety of participants.\u201d Possible themes of boundaries and borders could include \u201chow women have challenged, traversed and negotiated various lines between church and the world; gender lines and constructions; and lines of race, ethnicity and class,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

An overarching question, she adds, is \u201cHow does the religious lens that women of Anabaptist traditions have inform their agency?\u201d<\/p>\n

Conference organizers hope the event will contribute to \u201csimilar mentoring relationships that crossed traditions and disciplines and age groups,\u201d Schmidt said.<\/p>\n

She encourages women of color, women of the global South, junior scholars and students to attend and present their work.<\/p>\n

The planning committee includes artists and scholars in a variety of academic disciplines, including Mary Sprunger<\/a>, professor of history, Eastern Mennonite University; Rachel Epp Buller<\/a>, a feminist art historian, printmaker and professor at Bethel College; poet<\/a>\u00a0Julia Spicher Kasdorf, professor of English and women\u2019s studies<\/a> at Penn State; Marlene Epp<\/a>, interim dean and professor of history and peace and conflict studies, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo; Kerry Fast<\/a>, independent scholar; Luann Good Gingerich<\/a>, professor of social work and scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Refugee Studies, York University; Rachel Waltner Goosen<\/a>, professor of history, Washburn University; and Jan Bender Shelter<\/a>, professor of history, Goshen College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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