2006 Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists

Thanks to all our participants for a wonderful conference. The 17th Biennial Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists is planned for June 2008 at Woodbrooke in Birmingham, England.

The 16th Biennial Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists was held at Guilford College June 23 - 25, 2006. This event was sponsored by the Friends Historical Association and hosted by the Friends Historical Collection at Guilford College.

 

Friday, June 23

1:30-4:00 P.M. Archivists Preconference

The Archivist Preconference will be an open forum and progress reports on issues concerning the creation, acquisition, cataloging and on-line description of Quaker archives and manuscripts. Specific topics include Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, Haverford College, on Encoded Archival Description. All are welcome to attend.

7:00-9:00 P.M. Opening
Welcome

Session I: Studying Friends through Material Culture

Presiding: Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Haverford College

Patricia O'Donnell, Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
This Side of the Grave: American Quakers and the Rituals of Death to 1830
Maida Barton Follini, Independent Scholar
The Migration of Nantucket Quaker Whalers to Nova Scotia and Wales., ca. 1785-1850

Isabel Jenkins, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.
A Quaker Family in 1790s Philadelphia: Revising the Todd House Furnishing Plan at Independence National Historical Park

Saturday, June 24

Concurrent Sessions, 9:00-10:30

Session II: The Trans-Atlantic Quaker Community and Its Limits

Presiding: Betsy Cazden

Marnie Miller-Gutsell, Archivist, New England Yearly Meeting
The Road to Ballitore

Steven Jay White, Bluegrass Community and Technical College
Walk Cheerfully over the Earth: The Seventeenth-Century Origins of the Transatlantic Quaker Community"

Matthew A. Zimmerman, Lehigh University
Accommodating the Faith: The Salem, Massachusetts, Monthly Meeting of Friends, 1650-1780

Session III: Quaker Thought at the End of the Seventeenth Century

J. William Frost, Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore College
The Enigmatic Mr. William Penn: A Biographer’s Dilemmas

Concurrent Sessions, 10:45-12:15

Session IV: Disorderly Friends

Presiding: Tom Hamm, Earlham College

Betsy Cazden, Independent Scholar
UnChristian and Unhuman: A Disownment for Slave-Abuse

Jeffrey Kovach, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Violating the Marriage Covenant: Bigamy in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Communities

Response: H. Larry Ingle

Session V: Liberal Quakerism and Its Conflicts

Jody Cross-Hansen, Hofstra University
Putting the Bible into Proper Perspective: Hicksites and the Theological Treatment of the Bible in Progressive Reform

Roger Hansen, Independent Scholar
The Blessed Community: The Mutual Influences of Friends General Conference and the New Meetings Movement, 1918-1941

Allison L. Hepler, University of Maine at Farmington
Quakerism and Anti-Communism: The Mary Knowles Controversy

Reponse: Chuck Fager, Quaker House, Fayetteville, NC

Lunch, 12:15-1:30

Concurrent Sessions, 1:30-3:00

Session VI: Friends and Race

Presiding: Christopher  Densmore,  Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College

Dee E. Andrews, California State University, East Bay
Abigail Mott's Biographical Sketches: Making Black History in the First Emancipation

Allan W. Austin, College Misericordia
The 'Friendly Principle of Brotherhood': The American Friends Service Committee's Interracial Section and the Quaker Approach to Race Relations in the United States, 1924-1929

A Glen Crothers, University of Louisville/Filson Historical Society
I Conceive Myself Called to Labour in This Field: Antislavery Quakers in the Upper South

Response: Stephen Angell, Earlham School of Religion

Session VII: New Light on Friends and Their Adversaries

CANCELLED

Break, 3:00-3:30

3:30-5:00 Session VIII: Archival Roundtable Discussion: Engaging Researchers and Easing Access to Quaker Sources

Moderating: Mary Ellen Chijioke, Guilford College

5:00-6:30 Dinner

7:00-9:00 P.M. Session IX: The Peace Testimony: Foundations, Expressions, Limits

Michael J. Goode, University of Illinois at Chicago
Envisioning the Kingdom of the Spirit: A Reexamination of the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Peace Testimony in the English Atlantic

Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University, British Columbia
Thirty-One Hours on Grindstone Island: The Canadian and American Friends Service Committees' Experiment in Civil Defense"

Noeleen McIlvenna, Wright State University
The North Carolina Quakers and the Tuscarora War

Amy Shaw, University of Lethbridge, Alberta
The Society of Friends and Conscientious Objection in Canada During the First World War

Response: Jane Calvert, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Sunday, June 25

9:00 A.M. Business Meeting