Conference Announcement: Celebrating the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, November 13-15, 2011
ACCH Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2011
Conference Announcement: Celebrating the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition, November 13-15, 2011, Union Theological Seminary, New York.
By Victoria J. Barnett
Plans are well under way for the upcoming conference celebrating the completion of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition. Organized by the International Bonhoeffer Society, “Bonhoeffer for the Coming Generations” will take place at Union Seminary in New York, where Bonhoeffer came to study and teach in 1931 and 1939. The conference program is as follows:
Sunday | November 13
11:00 a.m. Optional Worship at Abyssinian Baptist Church
3:00 p.m. Check-in at Union Theological Seminary
8:00 p.m. Keynote Address “Bonhoeffer: Theologian, Activist, Educator. Challenges for the Church of the Coming Generations” | Sam Wells, Duke University
Monday | November 14
Bonhoeffer, Ethics, Public Life 1945-2010
“Inspiration, Controversy, Legacy. The Response to Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Three Germanys” | Wolfgang Huber, Germany
Panel: Bonhoeffer in International Contexts | John de Gruchy, South Africa; Keith Clements,
United Kingdom; Larry Rasmussen, USA; Carlos Caldas, Brazil; Kazuaki Yamasaki, Japan
Emerging Issues, New Research 2011-
“Bonhoeffer’s Strong Christology and Religious Pluralism” | Christiane Tietz, Mainz
Panel: New Research, New Issues | Florian Schmitz, Mainz; Reggie Williams, Pasadena; Brigitte Kahl, Union Theological Seminary
Tuesday | November 15
Translation and the Interpretation of History and Theology
“Translating Bonhoeffer. Intercultural Theological Challenge” | Hans Pfeifer, Düsseldorf
Translators Panel: Bonhoeffer in Translation: Challenges and Discoveries | moderated
by Victoria Barnett, USA
Historians Panel: History and Theology in Bonhoeffer Interpretation | moderated
by Andrew Chandler, Chichester
Theologians Panel: Reading Bonhoeffer the Theologian | Michael DeJonge and Clifford Green
Concluding Banquet
A banquet celebrating all the translators, editors, publishers, financial supporters and volunteers of the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English Edition will mark the conclusion of the conference on Tuesday evening.
For more information about the conference, as well as the registration form, please go to http://dietrichbonhoeffer.org/BonhoefferConf.brochure_Feb.2011.pdf.
