Papers presented at the DABOH Conference: Mission and Memory: Documenting World Christianity in the 21st Century, Balaton, Hungary, 16-23 August 2008

Papers presented at the
DABOH Conference: Mission and Memory: Documenting World Christianity in the 21st Century
International Association for Mission Studies
Balaton, Hungary, 16-23 August 2008

Compiled by Michael Poon, DABOH Convener

Introduction

• Michael Poon, A Note of Welcome
  


• Opening Keynote
  Address -- Andrew Walls, A Century of Mission Documentation
  

Taking Stock

The Americas

• Mariel Deluca Voth, LatinAmerican Archives: A survey of historical protestant sources
  


• Tito Paredes, Documentation at Centro Evangelico de Misiologia Andino-Amazonica
  


• Paul Stuehrenberg, Mission Documentation in North America
  

Africa

• Edmond Cabutey-Adodoadji, Primary Sources: A Survey of Research and Literature on Early Christian Activity In Ghana (presented in absentia)
  


• Frederick Mukungu, Repositories of Church Archives in the Christian University in Uganda, and How Western Support can Empower Church of Uganda to Write and Own its History
  


• Berthe Raminosoa, The Archives and Library Centre of FJKM – a tool better to understand the past, and act today and tomorrow
  

Western Europe

• Rosemary Seton, Missionary Archives in Western Europe: Overview and Developments
  


• Emilie Gangnat and Claire-Lise Lombard, Preservation and Dissemination Project for the Paris Evangelical Mission Society Iconographic Archive
  


• Rüdiger Kröger, Reflections about the impact of creating identity and the Moravian Archives
  

China

• Kan Baoping, Present Situation of the Protestant Church in China
  


• Augustine Lee (Li Jianhua), Saving History: The urgent need for collecting historical data on the Catholic Church in China
  

South East and South Asia

• Beth Pulanco and Christabel Wong, Documentation of Christianity in Southeast/South Asia and the Role of ForATL
  


• Michael Nai Chiu Poon, The Documentation of Christianity in Asia Consortium
  


• Siga Arles, DABOH -- An India Account

Issues and Strategies for Extending Access

• Jean-Paul Wiest, Issues in Collecting and Preserving Oral Histories


• Paul Stuehrenberg, The Economic, Political, and Legal Issues in Disseminating Material


• Jon Bonk (Chair), Identifying New Opportunities and Challenges in Documentation (North and South)


• Dwight Baker, Introduction to the History of Missiology website and the "Biblioteca Electronica de Misiologia" website

Issues and Strategies for Regional Partnership

• Jon Bonk, Dictionary of African Christian Biography
  


• Marek A. Rostkowski, Challenges of Maintaining and Cataloguing the Collections in the Pontifical Urbaniana (and Pontifical Missionary) Library
  


• Paul Stuehrenberg (Chair), Roundtable on Developing National, Regional and International Partnerships

Giving Birth to a Successor Generation

• Guy Thomas, Nurturing a New Generation of (Mission) Archivists and Historians
  


• Closing Keynote Address -- John Roxborogh, DABOH's Tasks: Past, Present and Future
  


• John Roxborogh & Michael Poon (Chair), Programme Design Group Presentation: Mapping DABOH's Tasks