Swedenborg Lecture Series
The Swedenborg Lecture Series supports research and critical reflection on the topic of American Swedenborgianism.
This annual program provides an award to a recognized scholar who delivers a lecture on the topic and conducts research in the university's Swedenborgian special collection. For more information or to be considered as a lecturer, contact Dr. Cheryl Fenno, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, at cfenno@urbana.edu.
Past Lectures
2012 "Hieroglyhps Written with Sunbeams: John Muir, William Keith, and Swedenborgian Ecology," Dr. Devin Zuber, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Pacific School of Religion and the Swedenborg House of Studies
2010 "Robert Frost's Critical Appropriation of Swedenborg's Theology," Rev. Dr. David Feteke ('80), Pastor, Church of the Holy City, Edmonton, Alberta
2009 "Beyond the Miracle Worker: The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller," Dr. Kim E. Nielson, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2008 "From Bush to Suzuki; The Possibility of a Pluralistic Spirituality," Inese Radzins, Pacific School of Religion
2007 "Approaches to Biblical Truth; Emmanuel Swedenborg and the influence of Biblical allegory on the New Thought Movement at the end of the Nineteenth Century," J. Gordon Melton, Institute for the Study of American Religion and the University of California - Santa Barbara
2003 "The Buckeye Swedenborgians; The Impact of a Second Coming Movement in Ohio, 1797-2003," Jane K. Williams-Hogan, Bryn Athyn College of the New Church
2002 "Johnny Appleseed and the Swedenborgian Vision on the Ohio Frontier," William Kerrigan, Muskingum College
2001 "Swedenborg and Sherlock Holmes," Robert S. Ellwood, University of Southern California
2000 "Spilled Religion; Swedenborgian Contributions to Modern Culture," Paul Jerome Croce, Stetson University
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