Quaker Studies Research Association
  • Home
  • News
  • Join QSRA
    • Donations
    • Gift Aid
  • Quaker Studies Journal
    • Subscriptions
    • Quaker Studies Index
    • Quaker Studies - Style Guidelines
    • Quaker Studies - Guidelines for Book Reviewers
  • 2019 QSRA Conference
    • 2019 George Richardson Lecture
    • 2019 QSRA Conference Programme
  • David Adshead Visiting Scholarship
  • Past Conferences and Lectures
    • 2018 QSRA Conference Programme
    • 2018 George Richardson Lecture
    • 2017 George Richardson Lecture
    • 2017 QSRA Conference
    • 2016 George Richardson Lecture
    • 2016 QSRA and CQHA Joint Conference
    • 2015 George Richardson Lecture
    • 2015 QSRA Conference
  • Contact Us


Quaker Studies: an open-themed conference
to celebrate the 25th anniversary event of the Quaker Studies Research Association (QSRA) and twenty years of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies (CRQS)
​

June 21 – 23, Woodbrooke, Birmingham, UK

​Booking Information


PROGRAMME


FRIDAY JUNE 21
 
Arrivals from 2pm:
Why not pay a visit to Birmingham Central Archives Quaker Collection or the Birmingham University Cadbury Research Library?
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/archives
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/facilities/cadbury/index.aspx
 
Both have major Quaker holdings. Do contact the collections before turning up!
 
Tea available from 3.30pm
 
4 – 4.20pm: Introduction and welcome (Cadbury Room)
 
4.30pm – 6pm:  
Relationships with others 1 (Cadbury Room)
David Prosser, ‘Protection’ but no treaty: Quakers and Indigenous land rights in Australia, 1832-40
Marion Strachan, Quaker-Led Relief Work in Northern Norway after the Second World War: motivations, models of relief work and perceptions of need
Sian Roberts, Quaker Women and voluntary social service: friendship, personal experience, and the foundation of authority
 
 
Theology 1 (Quiet Room)
Ann Wrightson, Worshipping at the Edge of Words: the Work of Silence and Speech in Meeting for Worship
Iļja Marija Boļšakovs, Quakers Ideas in New Kinds of Christianity: Progressive and Religionless Christianity
David Pocta, Thomas Kelly’s Mystical Itinerary as a Lynchpin to Spiritual Orientation for Personal Spirituality
 
 
6.15pm : Dinner
 
 
7.30 – 9pm
Relationships with others 2: (Cadbury Room)
Elaine Pryce, The French Connection: Quakers, Quietism and the Royal Courts of Britain and France in the later seventeenth-century
Judith Pocock,  Interesting Events on the Early Quaker Journey to Convert the “Other”
Lindsay-Rose Dykema, The Light Within, As Viewed Through Clinical Gaze: Understanding Transinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill Through a Foucauldien Perspective
 
 
Theology 2 (Quiet Room)
David Harrington Watt, “Can we be Certain that Rufus Jones was a Eugenicist?”
Hilary Marson, The Role of Emotion in Quaker Convincement 
Paul Harris, Why Did London Yearly Meeting neither adopt nor reject the Richmond Declaration, 1887? A case study in the avoidance of religious schism
 
 
9.30pm: Woodbrooke holds an end of day ‘epilogue’
 
 
SATURDAY JUNE 22
 
7.45 – 9am: Breakfast
(Woodbrooke holds a meeting for worship 8.30 – 9am)
 
9.30 – 11am
Leading Quakers 1  (Cadbury Room)
Stephen W. Angell, Leaving Father or Mother for Christ’s Sake: William Penn’s Veiled Autobiography through Scripture References
Anna Lloyd Hellier, William Penn and the development of a discourse of ‘Civil Rights’
Catie Gill, ‘Ye defence of ye faith’: George Fox’s reflections on Imprisonment (1650-1656)
 
 
Expressions of Testimony 1 (Quiet Room)
Shannon E. Duffy, The Long Roots of Quaker Pacifism in Revolutionary Pennsylvania
Mark Frankel, Quakers and the Munich Agreement
Patricia C. O’Donnell, Navigating the Quaker Plainness Testimony in London and Philadelphia in the Eighteenth Century
 
 
11am: Morning Drinks
 
 
11.30 – 12.30
Leading Quakers 2 (Cadbury Room)
Pippa Andrews, Samuel Fothergill and the ‘secret fellowship’ of the ‘saints’: new light on the mid-eighteenth-century ministry
Robynne Rogers Healey, Elizabeth Robson, Transatlantic Women Ministers, and the Hicksite-Orthodox Schism
 
Expressions of Testimony 2 (Quiet Room)
Jim Fussell, The Transformation of Quaker Testimony in the U.S. since 1900
Irena Mediated learning experience as a means to educate children in (Quaker) values
 
 
12.30: Lunch, and free time.
The Woodbrooke Library will be open. There will be tours at  1.30pm and 2.30pm (limited to 15 places: sign up on Friday).
Walking Tour of Bournville (1.30 – 3.30pm)???
 
Birthday Tea available from 3.30pm
 
 
 
4.30 – 5.30pm
Leading Quakers 3 (Cadbury Room)
Penelope Cummins, Seeking Stephen Grellet: Reading the gaps in a thousand-page Quaker autobiography
Carlos Figueroa, Bayard Rustin’s Quaker Heritage and the U.S. Labor, Civil and Gay Rights Movements
 
 
Expressions of Testimony 3 (Quiet Room)
Rosalind Johnson, Quaker doubts concerning the testimony against tithes, 1660-1736
Chris Skidmore, The distinctiveness of Quaker architecture: a reassessment
 
 
5.45 – 6.15pm: QSRA AGM (Quiet Room)
 
6.15pm: Dinner
 
 
7.30 – 9: George Richardson Lecture, Hilary Hinds (Cadbury Room)
 
9.30pm: Woodbrooke holds an end of day ‘epilogue’
 
 
 
SUNDAY JUNE 23
 
8 – 9am: Breakfast
If leaving today, please clear rooms by 9.30am
 
 
9.30 – 11am
Persuasion, refutation, and representation 1 (Cadbury Room)
Judith Roads, The Art of Persuasion through Language, early Quaker Style
Richard C. Allen, ‘Deceivers made Manifest’: Quakers and public disputations in mid-seventeenth century Wales
Andrew Jack, Three Philosophers’ Writings about Quakers
 
 
Politics, class, and business 1 (Quiet Room)
Nicholas Burton and Sunny Jeong, Family Owned Business VS Business for Family:
Cross Case Analysis of Amish and Quaker Family Business
Ian Cook, Eighteenth Century Quakers, the Iron Industry and Occupational Analysis - some preliminary thoughts.
Manfred Henke, Quaker Social History in North West England 1653 to 1674
 
 
 
11am: Morning Drinks
 
 
 
11.30am – 1pm
Persuasion, refutation, and representation 2 (Cadbury Room)
Hans Eirik Aarek, Heterotopia in Quaker research
Stephen Brooks, Representations of Quakers in Television & Film – An Overview
Jo Dales, Ways of Seeing: Stephen Hobhouse, William Law and the Quakers
 
 
Politics, class, and business 2 (Quiet Room)
Blair Ellis, Friend’s Not for Prophets Industrial Complex: An Uneasy Relationship with the Anti-Authoritarian Left 
Andrew Fincham, Faith in Numbers: a re-examination of Quaker Population in the Late Eighteenth Century
Allison Andrade, The Intersection of Quaker Practice and Productivity
 
​
1pm: Lunch, conference closes

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.