2016 QSRA and CQHA Joint Conference
Conference Programme
Friday, June 24, 2016
Welcome: 2:45 pm-3:00 pm
Session 1a: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm: Quakers Confront the Spanish Civil War
• Pour la renaissance des villages abandonnés: Quaker humanitarian aid in a France at war - Gemma Caballer (CEHI, University of Barcelona) and Bernard W. Wilson (Independent researcher)
• Removing the Occasion of War: Quaker Relief Work and the Peace Testimony during the Spanish Civil War - Alexandra Corcoran (Haverford College)
• ‘Humanitarian Literature’ and ‘Intimate Ethics’: Reading the Quaker Spanish Civil War Fundraising Pamphlets as Modernist Pacifist Documentary Projects - Ashley Foster (Haverford College)
Moderator: Mary Crauderueff
Session 1b: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm: New Perspectives on Quaker Abolitionism
• “Nearer the confines of the dwelling of Slavery:” North Carolina Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma in the 1830s - Gwen Erickson (Guilford College)
• The Reinventing of an Abolitionist: The transatlantic study of the United States, Sierra Leone, England, and the quest for an imaginary home land in Africa through the eyes of Paul Cuffe, 1776-1817 - Damon Turner (Morgan State University)
• Meeting Culture, Testimony, and the Development of Quaker Abolitionism - Robert Williams (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Moderator: Betsy Cazden
Session 2a: 5:00 pm-6:00 pm: Relief and Reconstruction in the Wake of WWII
• “From the nameless to the nameless” – The Role of Quakers in Saving European Jews during the Nazi Period - Lucinda Martin (University of Erfurt)
• Quaker relief and reconstruction work in Finnmark after the Second World War - Marion Strachan (University of Birmingham)
Moderator: Walter Hjelt Sullivan
Session 2b: 5:00 pm-6:00 pm: Case Studies from the WWI British Home Front
• ‘Enemy Aliens’: German Prisoners and British Quakers during World War I - Betty Hagglund (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre)
• Albright and Wilson: a Quaker business divided by the First World War - Nicola Sleap (University of Birmingham)
Moderator: Erica Canela
Session 3a: 7:30 pm-9:00 pm: Before, During and After the American Revolution
• The French and Indian War and the Quaker Peace Testimony: A Collision of Events and Ideals - David Crosby (Independent researcher)
• Philadelphia Quakers and the Test Act of 1777: A Politics and Poetics of Loyalty - Susan Garfinkel (Library of Congress)
• A Peculiar People Move North: Domesticity and the Replanting of an American Quaker Community in Upper Canada; 1784-1824 - Greg Finnegan (University of Saskatchewan) and Robynne Healey (Trinity Western University)
Moderator: Geoffrey Plank
Session 3b: 7:30 pm-9:00 pm: Quaker Organization on the Eve of Modernity
• John Willam Graham and American Quakers - Joanna Dales (Independent researcher)
• The Blessed Channel of Work: Gender, Power and the Union of the Women’s Foreign Mission Societies in the Religious Society of Friends - Isaac May (University of Virginia)
• ‘Developing our own gifts and those of others’: the educational role of the Warwickshire North Women’s Conferences, 1895-1960 - Sian Roberts (University of Birmingham)
Moderator: Ben Pink Dandelion
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Session 4a: 9:15 am-10:15 am: Empowerment Starts at Home
• Living Room Utopias: Cultural Democracy & the Late Activism of Rachel Davis DuBois - Joan Bryant (Syracuse University)
• The Charitable Work of Mrs Eleanor Clark of Street: The Olive Leaf Society and ‘Grand Fancy Bazaars’ in the 1850s - Anna Vaughan Kett (University of Brighton)
Moderator: Gwen Erickson
Session 4b: 9:15 am-10:15 am: Quaker Theology in Historical Contexts
• Quaker Christology in the seventeenth century: a response to Maurice Creasey - Madeleine Ward (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
• “The Search for Order”: Friends Bible Institute and the Emergence of Urban Bible Institutes - Jacci Welling (Malone University)
Moderator: Paul Anderson
Session 5a: 10:30 am-11:30 am: New World Encounters
• Seeking a New World: the emergence of Quaker faith amongst Seekers in early modern North America - Garry Duncan (Avondale College)
• Pastorius’s Natives: “[T]he so-called savages” - Margo Lambert (Blue Ash College, University of Cincinnati)
Moderator: David Crosby
Session 5b: 10:30 am-11:30 am: Fighting Quakers in Fact and Fiction
• Quaker, Innkeeper, Father of the Marine Corps: Why Don’t we Remember Samuel Nicholas? - Lynne Calamia (Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• “The Warlike Man of Peace”: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Fighting Quaker (1822-1845) - William Fenton (Fordham University)
Moderator: Patricia O'Donnell
Libraries and Archives Session: 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Representatives from Earlham College, Friends House Library, Guilford College, Haverford College, Library of Birmingham, Swarthmore College, and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre will give brief presentations and answer questions on the holdings of their repositories and opportunities for research.
Moderator: John Anderies
Excursion: 1:50 pm-4:30 pm
Coach to Birmingham City Library for Library Tour and display of local Quaker records and artefacts.
George Richardson Lecture: 5:00 pm-6:30 pm: Robynne Healey
Lightning Talks: 7:45 pm-9:00 pm
• CLIRing the Air for Access: Processing Two Collections into Hundreds - Mary Crauderueff (Haverford College)
• ‘We simply can’t risk another Yearly Meeting like the one in 1960!’: Trust, mistrust, and the management of change in London Yearly Meeting - Penelope Cummins (University of Birmingham)
• The Meaning of “Quaker History” - Jeffrey Dudiak (The King’s University)
• Amelia Opie and her Norwich Friends - Ann Farrant (Independent researcher)
• Consequences of the testimony against tithes for Quaker commerce - Andy Fincham (Birmingham University)
• Breaking Every Yoke: North Carolina Anti-Slavery Friends & Their Times - Roger N. Kirkman (Winston-Salem State University)
• Early 20th century Quakers & Business - Karen Tibbals (Independent researcher)
Moderators: John Anderies and Susan Garfinkel
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Session 6a: 9:30 am-11:00 am: Using Quaker Records
• The Importance of Quaker Records in the History of African American Education in Early National Philadelphia - Elise Kammerer (University of Cologne)
• Creating and using digital texts for corpus-based Quaker research investigations - Judith Roads (University of Birmingham) and Rachel Kirkwood (University of Manchester)
• The eloquence of lists; the usefulness of Rebecca Jones’s memorandum books as source material for 18th-century Quaker history - Gil Skidmore (Independent researcher)
Moderator: Susan Garfinkel
Session 6b: 9:30 am-11:00 am: The Curious Case of the Quaker Lifecycle
• Eulogising a Seventeenth Century Friend – The Commendable Life and Noble Death of Humphry Smith - Erica Canela (University of South Wales)
• Quakers and marriage legislation in England before 1753 - Rosalind Johnson (University of Winchester)
• “We hope that he behaved like a good child”: Quaker Childrearing and Spiritual Practice in Antebellum Philadelphia - Janet M. Lindman (Rowan University)
Moderator: Robynne Rogers Healey
CQHA/QSRA Business Meetings: 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Welcome: 2:45 pm-3:00 pm
Session 1a: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm: Quakers Confront the Spanish Civil War
• Pour la renaissance des villages abandonnés: Quaker humanitarian aid in a France at war - Gemma Caballer (CEHI, University of Barcelona) and Bernard W. Wilson (Independent researcher)
• Removing the Occasion of War: Quaker Relief Work and the Peace Testimony during the Spanish Civil War - Alexandra Corcoran (Haverford College)
• ‘Humanitarian Literature’ and ‘Intimate Ethics’: Reading the Quaker Spanish Civil War Fundraising Pamphlets as Modernist Pacifist Documentary Projects - Ashley Foster (Haverford College)
Moderator: Mary Crauderueff
Session 1b: 3:00 pm-4:30 pm: New Perspectives on Quaker Abolitionism
• “Nearer the confines of the dwelling of Slavery:” North Carolina Quakers and the Abolitionist Dilemma in the 1830s - Gwen Erickson (Guilford College)
• The Reinventing of an Abolitionist: The transatlantic study of the United States, Sierra Leone, England, and the quest for an imaginary home land in Africa through the eyes of Paul Cuffe, 1776-1817 - Damon Turner (Morgan State University)
• Meeting Culture, Testimony, and the Development of Quaker Abolitionism - Robert Williams (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Moderator: Betsy Cazden
Session 2a: 5:00 pm-6:00 pm: Relief and Reconstruction in the Wake of WWII
• “From the nameless to the nameless” – The Role of Quakers in Saving European Jews during the Nazi Period - Lucinda Martin (University of Erfurt)
• Quaker relief and reconstruction work in Finnmark after the Second World War - Marion Strachan (University of Birmingham)
Moderator: Walter Hjelt Sullivan
Session 2b: 5:00 pm-6:00 pm: Case Studies from the WWI British Home Front
• ‘Enemy Aliens’: German Prisoners and British Quakers during World War I - Betty Hagglund (Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre)
• Albright and Wilson: a Quaker business divided by the First World War - Nicola Sleap (University of Birmingham)
Moderator: Erica Canela
Session 3a: 7:30 pm-9:00 pm: Before, During and After the American Revolution
• The French and Indian War and the Quaker Peace Testimony: A Collision of Events and Ideals - David Crosby (Independent researcher)
• Philadelphia Quakers and the Test Act of 1777: A Politics and Poetics of Loyalty - Susan Garfinkel (Library of Congress)
• A Peculiar People Move North: Domesticity and the Replanting of an American Quaker Community in Upper Canada; 1784-1824 - Greg Finnegan (University of Saskatchewan) and Robynne Healey (Trinity Western University)
Moderator: Geoffrey Plank
Session 3b: 7:30 pm-9:00 pm: Quaker Organization on the Eve of Modernity
• John Willam Graham and American Quakers - Joanna Dales (Independent researcher)
• The Blessed Channel of Work: Gender, Power and the Union of the Women’s Foreign Mission Societies in the Religious Society of Friends - Isaac May (University of Virginia)
• ‘Developing our own gifts and those of others’: the educational role of the Warwickshire North Women’s Conferences, 1895-1960 - Sian Roberts (University of Birmingham)
Moderator: Ben Pink Dandelion
Saturday, June 25, 2016
Session 4a: 9:15 am-10:15 am: Empowerment Starts at Home
• Living Room Utopias: Cultural Democracy & the Late Activism of Rachel Davis DuBois - Joan Bryant (Syracuse University)
• The Charitable Work of Mrs Eleanor Clark of Street: The Olive Leaf Society and ‘Grand Fancy Bazaars’ in the 1850s - Anna Vaughan Kett (University of Brighton)
Moderator: Gwen Erickson
Session 4b: 9:15 am-10:15 am: Quaker Theology in Historical Contexts
• Quaker Christology in the seventeenth century: a response to Maurice Creasey - Madeleine Ward (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
• “The Search for Order”: Friends Bible Institute and the Emergence of Urban Bible Institutes - Jacci Welling (Malone University)
Moderator: Paul Anderson
Session 5a: 10:30 am-11:30 am: New World Encounters
• Seeking a New World: the emergence of Quaker faith amongst Seekers in early modern North America - Garry Duncan (Avondale College)
• Pastorius’s Natives: “[T]he so-called savages” - Margo Lambert (Blue Ash College, University of Cincinnati)
Moderator: David Crosby
Session 5b: 10:30 am-11:30 am: Fighting Quakers in Fact and Fiction
• Quaker, Innkeeper, Father of the Marine Corps: Why Don’t we Remember Samuel Nicholas? - Lynne Calamia (Arch Street Meeting House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
• “The Warlike Man of Peace”: Robert Montgomery Bird’s Fighting Quaker (1822-1845) - William Fenton (Fordham University)
Moderator: Patricia O'Donnell
Libraries and Archives Session: 11:45 am-12:45 pm
Representatives from Earlham College, Friends House Library, Guilford College, Haverford College, Library of Birmingham, Swarthmore College, and Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre will give brief presentations and answer questions on the holdings of their repositories and opportunities for research.
Moderator: John Anderies
Excursion: 1:50 pm-4:30 pm
Coach to Birmingham City Library for Library Tour and display of local Quaker records and artefacts.
George Richardson Lecture: 5:00 pm-6:30 pm: Robynne Healey
Lightning Talks: 7:45 pm-9:00 pm
• CLIRing the Air for Access: Processing Two Collections into Hundreds - Mary Crauderueff (Haverford College)
• ‘We simply can’t risk another Yearly Meeting like the one in 1960!’: Trust, mistrust, and the management of change in London Yearly Meeting - Penelope Cummins (University of Birmingham)
• The Meaning of “Quaker History” - Jeffrey Dudiak (The King’s University)
• Amelia Opie and her Norwich Friends - Ann Farrant (Independent researcher)
• Consequences of the testimony against tithes for Quaker commerce - Andy Fincham (Birmingham University)
• Breaking Every Yoke: North Carolina Anti-Slavery Friends & Their Times - Roger N. Kirkman (Winston-Salem State University)
• Early 20th century Quakers & Business - Karen Tibbals (Independent researcher)
Moderators: John Anderies and Susan Garfinkel
Sunday, June 26, 2016
Session 6a: 9:30 am-11:00 am: Using Quaker Records
• The Importance of Quaker Records in the History of African American Education in Early National Philadelphia - Elise Kammerer (University of Cologne)
• Creating and using digital texts for corpus-based Quaker research investigations - Judith Roads (University of Birmingham) and Rachel Kirkwood (University of Manchester)
• The eloquence of lists; the usefulness of Rebecca Jones’s memorandum books as source material for 18th-century Quaker history - Gil Skidmore (Independent researcher)
Moderator: Susan Garfinkel
Session 6b: 9:30 am-11:00 am: The Curious Case of the Quaker Lifecycle
• Eulogising a Seventeenth Century Friend – The Commendable Life and Noble Death of Humphry Smith - Erica Canela (University of South Wales)
• Quakers and marriage legislation in England before 1753 - Rosalind Johnson (University of Winchester)
• “We hope that he behaved like a good child”: Quaker Childrearing and Spiritual Practice in Antebellum Philadelphia - Janet M. Lindman (Rowan University)
Moderator: Robynne Rogers Healey
CQHA/QSRA Business Meetings: 11:30 am-12:30 pm