Proclaiming Liberty:
The Unfinished Work of Freedom, Faith, and Living in a Fallen World

April 15-20, 2013

Gettysburg Seminary is expanding its traditional Spring Convocation into a weeklong feast of lectures, presentations and workshops, with worship, cultural and spiritually enriching activities for students, lay learners, alumni/ae, prospective seminarians and more. Nationally known historian Allen Guelzo and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (LIRS) Chief Executive Linda Hartke join Gettysburg faculty members in an array of presentations Monday through Saturday.
 
Prompted by a preview visit introducing the new Seminary Ridge Museum, the week features Guelzo’s Divided Understandings of Liberty, Hartke’s Fulfilling the Promise of Freedom, Nelson Strobert on Daniel A. Payne: Freedom at Home and Abroad, Maria Erling on What We Don’t Talk About: The Lutheran Debates about Slavery, Kristin Largen’s Freedom From and Freedom For, Leonard Hummel on Drums Beating Where the Scholar is Studying and much more. Music, Gettysburg! will present Song and Dance featuring Civil War music by the band “Dearest Home” and an introduction to 19th century social dance by Briant Bohleke.

As a part of this special week, the Seminary will be offering a 1.5 credit course Proclaim Liberty, an intensive experience that focuses on the diverse and conflicting understandings of liberty and freedom, not simply in the 19th century but in the present as well. The course integrates and includes all the presentations. Those not enrolled as students at Gettysburg Seminary who wish to take this course must apply for admission: http://www.ltsg.edu/Prospective-Students/Application-Forms (under “Other Programs”). To receive credit you need to submit a letter of recommendation from the pastor of your home congregation, academic transcripts, and a seminary release form (at the above link). To apply these course credits to a degree program at a later date, the fee is $787.50. To audit (no credit) the course the fee is $260. All materials must be received by Wednesday, April 3. For questions, please call 717-338-3008 or e-mail Julie Stecker at jstecker@Ltsg.edu.

Take advantage of this opportunity to be in conversation with scholars, seekers, lifelong learners and seminarians for audit, course credit, and/or personal enrichment. A low fee structure makes the week accessible to all and especially favorable to congregational groups of six or more people. Questions and registrations may be directed to tel. 717-338-3000 ext 2198 or Academy@LTSG.EDU .

Schedule for Spring Academy
(Includes Spring Convocation)

Monday, April 15  1:00pm  Opening Session for Course 4.600, “Proclaim Liberty” (Mark Oldenburg)

Tuesday, April 16 
8:30 am Registration opens

     Morning – “Faith on the Firing Line”  (Lutheran Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic)

9:15 am Presentation: Exploring Faith and Freedom at the Seminary Ridge Museum  (Barbara Franco)

10:45 am Presentation: The Shepherds and Their Armed Flocks: Religion and Chaplains in the American Civil War         
                                           (Col. W. Thomas Vossler)

11:55 am  Worship in the Chapel
12:15 pm Lunch 
 

     Afternoon – "Spring Convocation"

1:30 pm  Presentation: What We Don’t Talk about: Lutheran Debates about Slavery    (Maria Erling)
                                                                                                                                

2:45 pm  Presentation: Freedom From and Freedom For                      (Kristin Johnston Largen)  

4:00 pm  Presentation: Introduction to the Seminary Ridge Museum                 (Barbara Franco)
    Reception Coffee Shop

6:00 pm  Alumni Dinner (Refectory)
7:00 pm  Dessert and wine Reception (Valentine #206)
7:45 pm  Alumni Awards Program (in the Chapel)
8:45 pm  Reception – Reunion classes

Wednesday, Apr. 17  "Spring Convocation"   

9:00 am  Presentation Divided Understandings of Liberty                                       (Allen Guelzo)

10:15:am  Workshops  (Museum is open for tours at this time)

• Continued Conversation with Allan Guelzo
• Using the Seminary Ridge Museum in Learning  (Museum Staff)
• Daniel A. Payne: Freedom at Home and Abroad (Nelson Strobert)

11:30 am  Break for Lunch

1:15 pm  Eucharist in the Chapel

2:30 pm  Presentation: Fulfilling the Promise of Freedom                                 

3:45 pm  Workshops

• Continued conversation with Linda Hartke
• Building Just and Welcoming Communities (LIRS Staff)
• Daniel A. Payne: Freedom at Home and Abroad (Nelson Strobert)

4:45 pm  Conclusion and Sending: The Unfinished Work

Thursday, April 18  
                       
8:30 am     Second Session of Course 4.600 “Proclaim Liberty”
10:00 am   Is the Exodus Story About Freedom? (Brooks Schramm)  
11:55 am   Chapel
12:15 pm   Lunch (Refectory with advanced reservation)

1:30 pm Presentation: Pilgrimage and Holy Ground at Gettysburg: Experiencing a spiritual  
                                  practice for being opened to God’s activity in a hurting world.
                                                        (Walking shoes suggested -- John Largen and Virginia Price)

Friday, April 19    Options for Self-Guided Journeys for Pilgrims
    9:00am   Sending out of pilgrims
    3:00pm   Gathering in time of reflection/prayer for Pilgrimage and Holy Ground

7:00 pm  Presentation and Concert Song and Dance                                     (Music, Gettysburg!)
                   • Civil War Music on the Home Front                                       (Dearest Home Band)
                   • 19th Century Social Dance                                                             (Briant Bohleke)

Saturday, April 20  
    8:30 am      Interpretive Campus Tour                                                               (John Spangler) 
    10:00 am   Presentation: Drums Beating Where the Scholar is Studying:
                                          Teaching and Learning Religion in Gettysburg         (Leonard Hummel) 
    (Break for lunch on your own)

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm  Presentation: Inequality, Freedom and Peace in Civil War Music   
                                                                                                                    (Dearest Home Band) 


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717-338-3000  x. 2198 

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Cost of the Academy Events are broken down by the day                 (See group rates*)