Myth and Reality of Anabaptist/Mennonite Women
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Myth and Reality of Anabaptist/Mennonite Women
International Conference 31 August & 1 September 2007
In both the past and present, Anabaptist/Mennonite women have stirred the imagination. During the sixteenth century, female martyrs were considered heroines of steadfast belief. In later eras, they were labeled as role models for their sobriety and piety, whereas the general public satirically criticized their sanctimoniousness.
During the conference, 26 distinguished scholars from six countries will examine the images of Anabaptist/Mennonite women from a variety of multi-disciplinary perspectives – a new approach for both gender history in general and the history of Anabaptism/Mennonitism in particular. Unlike previous approaches, the conference will not concentrate, for example, on the level of freedom that women achieved or the roles that they played within the movement. Instead, both the construction of images of women and the relevance of the stereotypes applied to them will form the nucleus, as studied within the broader context of society, church and culture. How and for what reasons did those images come into being, under what circumstances, and by whom? In what ways did the ‘typical’ Anabaptist/Mennonite women of the urbanized Low Countries differ from their ‘sisters’ in rural Germany, Switzerland or the Ukraine? Did those images become subject to change in the course of time, and if so, how and why?
Programme
All plenary sessions will take place in the Auditorium, the lecture hall on the first floor behind the registration desk. Parallel sessions will be held on Friday in the Auditorium and the Atrium room, and on Saturday in the Auditorium and the Agora room (follow the signs). The recreational event on Friday evening will take place in the Doopsgezinde Kerk, Singel 452, downtown.
Friday, August 31
08.45-09.25: Registration at the Auditorium desk & coffee in the nearby foyer
09.30-10.30: General session – Auditorium
09.30: Els Kloek (NL): Mennonite women in Dutch historiography – an overview
10.00: Joep Leerssen (NL): An economy of virtues10.30-10.55: Coffee (& tea) – foyer
11.00-12.20: Parallel session I: Art and culture – Auditorium
11.00: Martina Bick (G): ‘Gelobet sei Gott, Liebe Hausfrau und Schwester in dem Herrn’. Genderaspekte im Liedergut der frühen Täuferbewegung
11.20: Wijnand Mijnhardt (NL): Mennonite women in Céremonies et Coutumes Religieuses de Tous Les Peuples du Monde (1723-1733)
11.40: Christoph Wiebe (G): Frieda Friesen und Nomi Nickel. Mennonitische Frauenrollen im Spiegel der Literatur
12.00: discussion
11.00-12.20: Parallel session II: Church and community – Atrium
11.00: Mary S. Sprunger (USA): Deaconesses, fish wives and the burden of Mennonite respectability: Amsterdam women in a 17th-century congregation
11.20:Yme Kuiper (NL): ‘Sisters in Christ’. Images and practices of marriage,widowhood and piety in Harlingen during the 18th-century
11.40: Anna Voolstra (NL): Grumpy old women? The (self) image of the elderly sisters of the Mennonite ‘Oudevrouwenhuis’ in 19th-century Amsterdam
12.00: discussion
12.30-13.25: Lunch in a reserved area of the VU-Mensa restaurant (at your own cost)
13.30-14.00: General session – Auditorium
13.30: Gary K. Waite (C): Naked harlots or devout maidens? Images of Anabaptist women in the context of the iconography of witches in Europe
14.10-15.05: Parallel session III: Art and culture – Auditorium
14.10: Mirjam de Baar (NL): The stereotype of the sanctimonious ‘Menniste Zusje’ (Mennonite Sister) reconsidered
14.30: Piet Visser (NL): L’Honneste Femme – a French, Roman Catholic role model for Dutch Mennonite Sisters
14.50: discussion
14.10-15.05: Parallel session IV: Status within society – Atrium
14.10: Linda Huebert Hecht (C.): Anabaptist women and property. Cases from court records of 16th-century Tirol
14.30: John Staples (USA): Reflections of women in early tsarist Mennonite society (Ukraine)
14.50: discussion
15.05-16.30: Coffee (& tea) including visit to the exhibition at the VU Rare Book Department
18.00-21.30: Evening program 'Art and food in the historic setting of one of the oldest Doopsgezind churches in the Netherlands (1608)' at Singel 452
18.00: Mennonite hymns and other songs from the 16th- and 17th-centuries, performed by the ‘Camerata Trajectina’ company
18.35: Scenes from Jan Claasz of de Gewaande Dienstmaagd (Jan Claasz, or the maid-imposter), a dramatic comedy by Thomas Asselijn (1682), performed by ‘Act Fast’
19.00: Indonesian banquet (mild; includes drinks as well as vegetarian dishes)
Note 1: Singel 452 is easy to find. From the VU main entrance head right and take streetcar #5 (not #51!), which takes you in 25 minutes to downtown (3 ‘strippen’); depart the streetcar at the ‘Koningsplein’ stop (near the Flower market); cross the streetcar tracks and walk 100 m. along the Singel canal.
Note 2: For the sake of proper catering arrangements, registration in advance (admission € 45) is absolutely required – too late, no date!Read the registration options and offers below.
Saturday, September 1
08.45-09.25: Registration at the Auditorium desk & coffee in the nearby foyer
09.30-10.00: General session – Auditorium
09.30: Volker Manuth (NL): Rembrandt’s Catrina Hoogsaet (1657), a portrait of a remarkable Mennonite woman
10.05-11.00: Parallel session V: Church and community – Auditorium
10.05: Astrid von Schlachta (A): Frauen und ihre Repräsentationen. Täuferinnen in der konfessionelle Phase zwischen Schein und Sein
10.25: Marion Kobelt-Groch (G): Geldgierig, gewalttätig und verlogen. Zum Image der Täuferin in Thomas Bircks Ehespiegel (1598)
10.45: discussion
10.05-11.00: Parallel session VI: Marriage and family – Agora
10.05: Michael Driedger (C): Mennonites, marriage and the emergence of civil society in the Netherlands
10.25: Cor Trompetter (NL): Her mother’s mother. Maternal lines in mixed Mennonite / Reformed family trees
10.45: discussion
11.05-11.30: Coffee (& tea) – foyer
11.35-12.30: Parallel session VII: Martyrs and monsters – Auditorium
11.35: Marjan Blok (B): ‘Your mother in bonds’. The testament of Soetken van den Houte
11.55: Sylvia Brown (C): She-monsters of Münster. Conjuring with Anabaptist women during the English Civil Wars
12.15: discussion
11.35-12.30: Parallel session VIII: Marriage and family – Agora
11.35: Mirjam van Veen (NL): ‘… polué et souillee …’. The Reformed polemics against Anabaptist marriages (1560-1650)
11.55: Mark Jantzen (USA): The trouble with marrying Lutheran boys. How dogma and politics combined to end exogamous marriages in the Mennonite community in the Polish Vistula delta, 1713-1803
12.15: discussion
12.35-13.30: Lunch in the foyer (free of charge)
13.35-14.30: Parallel session IX: Marriage and family – Auditorium
13.35: Katharina Reinholdt (G): Herzliebe Hausfrau und Schwester. Idealbilder täuferischer Ehefrauen in Send- und Märtyrerbriefen der mennonitischen und hutterischen Tradition im 16. Jahrhundert
13.55: Steven D. Reschley (USA): ‘She would not permit that I should stay away from church’. The emotions of a Hausvater and Hausfrau in Europe and the New World, 1821-1868
14.15: discussion
13.35-14.30: Parallel session X: Martyrs of faith and fashion – Agora
13.35: Nicole Grochowina (G): Images of women in early modern martyrologies
13.55: Marieke de Winkel (NL): Sobriety and restraint in the Dutch Golden Age. The Mennonite dress code
14.15: discussion
14.35-15.00 Coffee (& tea) – foyer
15.05-15.35: Closing session – Auditorium
15.05: Piet Visser (NL): Man, those women! Pre-harvesting some conference images and impressions
15.20: Marion Kobelt-Groch (G): Farewell address: see you again, auf Wiedersehn, tot ziens
