{"id":33923,"date":"2017-06-29T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=33923"},"modified":"2017-07-24T15:28:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T19:28:24","slug":"crossing-line-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/crossing-line-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Crossing the Line&#8217; Anabaptist women&#8217;s history conference attracts scholars, artists and boundary-crossers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women casting off their bonnets, pushing at the margins of traditional behavior, moving away from their faith communities and into different cultures, writing and speaking of what they were told to forget \u2014 these histories and many more of Anabaptist boundary-breakers were featured during a June 22-25 conference at Eastern Mennonite University (EMU).<\/p>\n<p>More than 340 participants from 11 countries and 19 states attended the conference, titled \u201cCrossing The Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries.\u201d <strong>Dr. Susan Schultz Huxman<\/strong>, EMU&#8217;s first female president, was warmly received during <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/06\/dr-susan-schultz-huxman-welcomes-crossing-line-anabaptist-womens-history-conference-emu\/\">her welcome address<\/a>, which included the &#8220;Tale of Two Margarets,&#8221; highlighting persecuted Anabaptist heroine Margaret Hellwart and EMU&#8217;s own Dr.<a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/05\/gehman-speeding-to-90\/\"> Margaret &#8220;Speedy&#8221; Martin Gehman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The conference brought together esteemed scholars, such as keynote speaker <strong>Hasia Diner<\/strong>, professor of history at New York University, and Old Colony artists such as <strong>Veronica Enns<\/strong>, of Chihuahua, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><aside class=\"highlight highlight-right\"><strong>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/06\/dr-susan-schultz-huxman-welcomes-crossing-line-anabaptist-womens-history-conference-emu\/\">here<\/a> to read the welcome address of Dr. Susan Schultz Huxman, EMU&#8217;s first female president.<\/aside><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though nervous about sharing her stories and artwork with strangers, Enns says she quickly found warmth, hospitality and a deep commonality with conference attendees from different educational backgrounds and geographic roots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all had walked common grounds as woman who often encounter similar boundaries,\u201d she said. \u201cI had found my tribe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For more conference coverage, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/anabaptisthistorians.org\/\">Anabaptist Historians website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Comparative dialogue encouraged<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cCrossing the Line\u201d was initiated and planned by a bi-national committee, some of whom were involved in the first conference in the United States on the history of women of Anabaptist tradition. This conference, titled \u201cQuiet in the Land?\u201d took place in 1995 at Millersville University. About 35 participants returned for the 2017 event.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33925\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/06\/crossing-line-conference\/crossing-the-line-speakers-inset2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33925 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Line-speakers-inset2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Line-speakers-inset2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Line-speakers-inset2.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Plenary speakers Dr. Hasia Diner, Dr. Sofia Samatar and Cynthia Peacock. (Photo by Mary Sprunger)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professors <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/sprungms\">Mary Sprunger<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/kds273\">Kimberly Schmidt<\/a><\/strong>, of EMU, were conference organizers. Schmidt had also co-chaired the 1995 planning committee.<\/p>\n<p>A common theme of both conferences was the fostering of engagement with the broader field of United States women\u2019s history. That comparative dialogue was encouraged from the first plenary session, in which Diner spoke about Jewish American women\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequent evenings brought perspectives of <strong>Cynthia Peacock<\/strong>, with 38 years experience working with Mennonite Central Committee in India, and <strong>Dr. Sofia Samatar<\/strong>, an award-winning author of European Mennonite and Somali heritage, who has confronted challenges in both her personal life and in leadership of a women\u2019s organization in the church.<\/p>\n<p>Diner, professor of history at New York University, opened the conference with a lecture on American Jewish women: \u201ca group of women who represent a globally dispersed community \u2026 shaped by the inability to disconnect religion and group identity, shaped by what religion demanded of them as articulated in sacred texts as well as traditions that developed over time, and defined as outsiders in the many places they lived around the world \u2026 experiencing persecutions and opportunities in societies of male hierarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diner pointed out that her scholarly work focused on a different group of women, \u201cbut maybe not so different at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the rest of the conference, which focused on Mennonite and Brethren in Christ women, \u201cattendees could then draw comparisons to the ways in which Jewish women in America gradually gained voices\u2014by asking for, begging for, demanding or claiming public presence and rights,\u201d Sprunger said.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Step forward with more confidence&#8217;<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33936\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/06\/crossing-line-conference\/crossing-the-lines-web-13\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33936 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-13-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-13-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-13-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-13.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna Wall, of St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada, joined Veronica Enns and Abigail Carl-Klassen to share creative work by and about women in Mennonite colonies in northern Mexico. Wall blogs about her experiences growing up as an Old Colony Mennonite in Durango, Mexico, at www.mennopolitan.com. (Photo by Joaquin Sosa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Twenty-four panel sessions focused on a variety of themes and topics: expressive arts, peace and feminist theology, mission fields and experiences of women from various denominations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe also saw other themes emerge over the course of the conference, such as LGBTQ themes, sexual abuse in church institutions and women being shut out of pastoral ministry,\u201d Sprunger said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessie Hyejung Yum<\/strong>, a doctoral student at Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, spoke of her experiences within the Korean patriarchal ministerial community. She was particularly encouraged \u201cto hear many stories and discuss topics mostly in women\u2019s perspectives in diverse forms, from dance, music and art to personal, communal and social stories from around the world.\u201d The experience of learning from and with \u201cwise and courageous women of many different fields and locations was great encouragement to me to step forward with more confidence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Art exhibits, readings of poetry and non-fiction, and performances of literary and musical memoirs were also offered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Esther Muhagachi<\/strong>, of Tanzania, especially enjoyed the bus tour exploring Shenandoah Valley Mennonite women\u2019s history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very much encouraged to hear how women have been struggling to cross over the traditional boundaries for decades and decades,\u201d she said, noting her own unique experience as the wife of a bishop in the Tanzanian Mennonite Church.<\/p>\n<h3>Looking ahead for new boundaries to cross<\/h3>\n<p>Session moderator <strong>Rosalind Andreas<\/strong>, a retired professor and university administrator with degrees from Bethel College, University of Kansas and University of Michigan, traveled from Kansas to enjoy fellowship and support the scholarship of former colleagues and friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been watching many of these scholars work for some time \u2026,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m coming away from each session with wonderful reflections on how boundaries get crossed in very challenging areas, which leads to some discernment about where next and what new boundaries can we look for.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33948\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33948\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/06\/crossing-line-conference\/crossing-the-lines-web-11\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33948 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-11-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Crossing-the-Lines-WEB-11.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33948\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Networking during a coffee break.(Photo by Joaquin Sosa)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When asked if she was a boundary-breaker herself, Andreas shared that she was the first female dean of students at University of Arizona \u2014 a role she\u2019s been recognized for in the university\u2019s Women\u2019s Plaza of Honor. Andreas was later vice president of student affairs at University of Vermont from 1989-1995.<\/p>\n<h3>Panel explores impact on women working and worshiping in global mission fields<\/h3>\n<p>Like the diverse offerings of the plenary speakers, concurrent sessions brought together both speakers and participants with varied backgrounds. For example, in a session titled \u201cLines of Memory and Encounter on the \u2018Mission Field,\u2019\u201d panelists described women in missions and the impacts of missionary work on women in receiving countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joel Horst Nofziger \u201813<\/strong>, of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, noted the changes over time for women missionaries in Ethiopia, who experienced fewer social constraints for women than in their home communities, but were still dissuaded from inter-cultural marriages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan Bender Shetler<\/strong>, professor of history at Goshen College, described how the personal narratives of spiritual testimony, shared at revivals, created a new self-consciousness for women in the Tanzania Mennonite Church. [Her paper was delivered by Goshen student <strong>Jeanne Longenecker<\/strong>.]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33949\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/06\/crossing-line-conference\/ctl-audience\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33949\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-33949 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/CTL-audience-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/CTL-audience-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/CTL-audience-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/CTL-audience-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/CTL-audience.jpg 1263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drawn into discussion during a session. (Photo by Mary Sprunger)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And for the Dalit \u2014 the untouchables \u2014 of India, said <strong>Reverend Yennamalla Jayaker<\/strong> of the Mennonite Brethren Centenary Bible College, the educational roles of mission workers \u201cbrought political, social, economic, and religious consciousness,\u201d leading to many teachers, lawyers and politicians who are both Dalit and Christian. The first such missionary, he said, was Elizabeth Neufeld, who opened a primary school with eight students in 1904. In following years, mission schools opened boarding homes for students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was thrilled with the international presence at the conference and by the significant investment from younger scholars,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cJudging from the breadth of topics and the ability of these younger scholars to engage in critical history, Mennonite history is in good hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>For more coverage<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Shirley Showalter, author and president emeritus of Goshen College. writes about the conference on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirleyshowalter.com\/encountering-borders-and-crossing-boundaries-metaphorically-and-literally\/\">blog<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>as does author <a href=\"http:\/\/salomafurlong.com\/aboutamish\/2017\/06\/about-the-crossing-the-line-conference-at-eastern-mennonite-university\/\">Saloma Furlong<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li>and as mentioned above, <a href=\"https:\/\/anabaptisthistorians.org\/\">Anabaptist Historians<\/a>, provides excellent and thorough coverage of plenary speakers and some concurrent sessions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Staff writer Chrisopher Clymer Kurtz contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women casting off their bonnets, pushing at the margins of traditional behavior, moving away from their faith communities and into different cultures, writing and speaking of what they were told <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/crossing-line-conference\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about &#8216;Crossing the Line&#8217; 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