2025 IBS-ELS Annual Members’ & Friends of the Society Dinner and Program

The International Bonhoeffer Society – English Language Section invites you to our annual Bonhoeffer Society Dinner and Program, which is held conjointly with the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. All are welcome.

WHEN:

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st, 2025 

TIME: 

5:30PM, GATHERING & WINE RECEPTION

6:00-7:15PM, DINNER – Seasonal, Farm-to-Table Menu

7:15-8:30PM, PROGRAM: Lecture Recital

WHERE: 

Union United Methodist Church, 485 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02118

(The church is 1/2 mile from the Hynes Convention Center.)

PLEASE RSVP – SEATS STILL AVAILABLE!

The cost of the dinner & program is $50.

(Limited student scholarships are available. Please email Lori Brandt Hale, [email protected], for more information.)

Program: Lecture Recital

The IBS-ELS Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Dr. Chandi Plummer will present a lecture recital on how spirituals influenced Bonhoeffer’s resistance to the Nazis.

Chandi Millet Plummer, D.M.A., is a voice and music professor based in Louisville, Kentucky. She is the coordinator for vocal studies at Boyce College, and is also a part time lecturer in voice at the University of Louisville. As a lyric coloratura soprano, she regularly performs chamber music, oratorios, and lecture recitals based on her extensive research found in her dissertation: How Spirituals Influenced Both Resistance to Nazis and Civil Rights Protests. She was honored to give a lecture recital in Cambridge, England (2025).  She presented a poster presentation on this same topic at the NATS National Conference in 2024, and performed a lecture recital later that summer at the Bay View Music Festival in Michigan. 

Dr. Plummer received a B.M. in voice performance with an honors scholarship from The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Patricia Berlin; a M.M. in voice performance and a M.A. from Southern Seminary; and a D.M.A. in voice performance from the University of Kentucky where she studied with Dr. Everett McCorvey. Her dissertation is How Spirituals Influenced Both Resistance to Nazis and Civil Rights Protests: https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2024.54

Dr. Plummer will be accompanied by Bethany Aiken.