Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists
The 17th Biennial Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists is planned for June 27 - 29, 2008 at Woodbrooke in Birmingham, England. The Quaker Studies Research Association will meet jointly with CQHA and provide their annual George Richardson Lecture in Quaker Studies as a part of the conference program.
CQHA presenters and members of QRSA and FHA have priority booking through December 31. Those wishing to utilize an MS Word version of the form can click here.
Paper copies were mailed directly to individuals meeting the criteria for priority booking. Open booking is available through Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre after December 31.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM AND SCHEDULE
Friday, June 27, 2008
3:00 Tour of Library
4:30 Opening Session - Publications and Research Tools
John Anderies, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.
Creating the Digital Dictionary of Quaker Biography: The Wikification of a Hallowed Reference Source.
Sylvia Stevens, Independent Scholar
Bringing Together the Results of our Research: Reflections and Suggestions Arising from the 50th Anniversary in 2006 of Henry Cadbury’s Revision of William Charles Braithwaite’s The Beginnings of Quakerism in the “Rowntree” Quaker Histories Series.
6:15 Supper
7:30 - 9:15 George Richardson Lecture
Thomas D. Hamm, Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana
From Mercenary Ministry to Brothers in Christ: The Transformation of the Testimony against Hireling Priests in the Nineteenth Century.
Moderator: Ben Pink Dandelion, Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, Woodbrooke and the University of Birmingham.
9:30 Epilogue
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Worship
9:15-10:45 Sessions IA and IB
1A – Quakers in the Libraries and in the Theatre
Jordan Landes, (PhD Candidate, University of London)
The Quaker Book Trade of the Late Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries
Jesse M.E. Freedman, (Friends Select School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
“To Make Use of Its Liberal Advantages”: A History of the Friends Library of Philadelphia
James Emmett Ryan (Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama)
Staging Quakerism in Anglo-American Theatre and Film
1B - Quaker Religious Thought and Its Implications
Michael P. Graves (Communications Studies, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia)
Adventures in Truth-Telling: An Examination of Key Passages from the Journals of Elizabeth Ashbridge and Thomas Chalkley.
Elaine Pryce (PhD Candidate, Quaker Studies at the Graduate Institute of Theology, Birmingham University).
“Negative To A Marked Degree” or “An Intense and Glowing Faith” : Rufus Jones and Quietism Re-Appraised
Tim Hayburn (PhD Candidate, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
Learning to Rule: Quaker Reactions to the Death Penalty in Colonial Pennsylvania.
Tea and Biscuits
11:15 - 12:45 Sessions IIA and IIB
2A- Muscular and Feminist Quakerism
Jody Cross-Hansen (Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, New York)
Hanna Johnson Bailey: Keeping Peace in the Heart and Home.
Freeman, Mark (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Muscular Quakerism? British Friends and character-training, c.1900-1960.
2B – Quakers in Canada and Norway
Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University, British Columbia)
“The only thing we want is agreeable society”: A British North American Family and the Nineteenth Century Quaker Atlantic.
Hans Eirik Aarek (University of Stavanger, Norway)
The transformation of The Norwegian Religious Society of Friends in the first half of the twentieth century – a transition into modernity?
Lunch
2:00–4:00 Tours (walking tour of Bourneville, garden tour, etc.)
4:30-6:00 Session III – British Quaker Women in the 19th Century
Jenny Paull (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, England)
“Cleanliness, Order and Instustry”: Goals and Realities in the Work of Elizabeth Fry with Female Transportees, 1818-1835.
Julia Bush (University of Northhampton)
Caroline Stephen and the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage in Britain, 1880-1918.
6:15 Supper
7:30 - 9:15 Session IV – Quakers and Print Culture
Jonathan D. Sassi (College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY, Staten Island, New York)
The Quaker Print Culture Context of Anthony Benezet’s Antislavery Activism
Dee E. Andrews (California State University, East Bay) and Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner (Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania)
Thomas Clarkson’s History of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade: The Quakers and an Abolitionist Classic
9:30 Epilogue
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Breakfast and check-out
9:30 - 10:45 Business Session
1:00 Lunch
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.
