Sixth Annual New Sweden History
Conference Gloria Dei Church:
A Celebration in Print, Brick & Sacred Song

Click here to download brochure/registration form (490k).

Saturday, October 14, 2006
Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church
Columbus Boulevard & Christian Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19147

This conference celebrates the Swedish Colonial Society’s publication of the first two volumes of the records of Gloria Dei Church and the other early Swedish Lutheran churches of Pennsylvania. Entitled Colonial Records of the Swedish Churches in Pennsylvania, Volume 1: The Log Churches at Tinicum Island and Wicaco 1646-1696 and Volume 2: The Rudman Years 1697-1702 will be available for purchase at a special conference discount.

Schedule

9:30 Registration, Parish Hall

10:30 Welcome & Announcements:
Kim-Eric Williams, Governor, Swedish Colonial Society

10:45 Morning Program: The Gloria Dei Records Project

Joy Segal, Rector, Gloria Dei Church, Moderator

Peter Stebbins Craig, Historian, Swedish Colonial Society, and Editor, Gloria Dei Records Project “The Records of Gloria Dei Church: The Richness and Diversity of the Early Swedish-American Experience”

Kim-Eric Williams, Assistant Editor, Gloria Dei Records Project. “‘Heroic’ Translating: Rendering the Gloria Dei Records from ‘Ancient’ Swedish into Modern ‘American’ in a Few Not Very Easy Steps”

Questions and Discussion

12:00 Luncheon, Parish Hall

1:00 Afternoon Program:
Church Architecture and the Architecture of Sacred Song

Tracey R. Beck, Executive Director,
American Swedish Historical Museum, Moderator

Charles B. Tonetti, Chief Historical Architect, Independence National Historical Park “The Architecture of Philadelphia’s “Old Swedes’”

Kim-Eric Williams. “America’s First Hymnals, 1700”

The Swedish Museum Singers of the American Swedish Historical Museum will perform selections from Andreas Rudman’s hymnals, under the direction
of Andrew Robinette

Questions and Discussion

Click here to download brochure/registration form (490k).