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
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QSRA was set up in 1993 to foster the academic study of all aspects of Quakerism and 2020 marks its 25th conference year. Following the closure of the Centre for Quaker Studies at the University of Sunderland, that work moved to Woodbrooke in 1998 and a centre established there with connections to Birmingham University and more recently Lancaster University as well. Over seventy postgraduates have completed their studies since then.
This weekend conference seeks to celebrate the breadth and depth of the renaissance in this field of academic endeavour that has taken place in the last decades. Academic publishing in Quaker studies is at an all-time high and student numbers at CRQS continue to grow and broaden geographically. The co-sponsored journal Quaker Studies is now enjoying its broadest circulation ever. Other groups such as the Friends Historical Society and the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists are also thriving. The Quaker Studies Unit at the American Academy of Religion has consolidated Quaker studies as an academic field rather than a denominational one.
The response to the call for papers was very strong and we have accepted 36 papers covering all the different disciplinary areas of Quaker studies with scholars from Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, Norway and the USA. It promises to be a very exciting and rich weekend of cutting edge thinking.
This weekend conference seeks to celebrate the breadth and depth of the renaissance in this field of academic endeavour that has taken place in the last decades. Academic publishing in Quaker studies is at an all-time high and student numbers at CRQS continue to grow and broaden geographically. The co-sponsored journal Quaker Studies is now enjoying its broadest circulation ever. Other groups such as the Friends Historical Society and the Conference of Quaker Historians and Archivists are also thriving. The Quaker Studies Unit at the American Academy of Religion has consolidated Quaker studies as an academic field rather than a denominational one.
The response to the call for papers was very strong and we have accepted 36 papers covering all the different disciplinary areas of Quaker studies with scholars from Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, Norway and the USA. It promises to be a very exciting and rich weekend of cutting edge thinking.
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!
Optional Tour of Woodbrooke at 3pm (meet in Front Hall)
Tea available from 3.30pm
4 – 4.20pm: Introduction and welcome (Cadbury Room)
4.30pm – 6pm:
Relationships with others 1 (Cadbury Room)
Sian Roberts, Quaker Women and voluntary social service: friendship, personal experience, and the foundation of authority
Marion Strachan, Quaker-Led Relief Work in Northern Norway after the Second World War: motivations, models of relief work and perceptions of need
David Prosser, ‘Protection’ but no treaty: Quakers and Indigenous land rights in Australia, 1832-40
Theology 1 (Art 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 Foucauldian Perspective
Theology 2 (Art Room)
David Harrington Watt, “Can we be Certain that Rufus Jones was a Eugenicist?”
Hilary Marson, The Role of Emotion in Quaker Convincement
Jo Dales, Ways of Seeing: Stephen Hobhouse, William Law and the Quakers
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 (Art 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 (Art Room)
Jim Fussell, The Transformation of Quaker Testimony in the U.S. since 1900
Irena Marušincová, 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 with Maud Grainger (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 (Art 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 (Art 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 (Art Room)
Rosemary Moore, ‘“It was the Quakers who managed to endure”
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
Paul Harris, Why Did London Yearly Meeting neither adopt nor reject the Richmond Declaration, 1887? A case study in the avoidance of religious schism
Politics, class, and business 2 (Art 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
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!
Optional Tour of Woodbrooke at 3pm (meet in Front Hall)
Tea available from 3.30pm
4 – 4.20pm: Introduction and welcome (Cadbury Room)
4.30pm – 6pm:
Relationships with others 1 (Cadbury Room)
Sian Roberts, Quaker Women and voluntary social service: friendship, personal experience, and the foundation of authority
Marion Strachan, Quaker-Led Relief Work in Northern Norway after the Second World War: motivations, models of relief work and perceptions of need
David Prosser, ‘Protection’ but no treaty: Quakers and Indigenous land rights in Australia, 1832-40
Theology 1 (Art 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 Foucauldian Perspective
Theology 2 (Art Room)
David Harrington Watt, “Can we be Certain that Rufus Jones was a Eugenicist?”
Hilary Marson, The Role of Emotion in Quaker Convincement
Jo Dales, Ways of Seeing: Stephen Hobhouse, William Law and the Quakers
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 (Art 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 (Art Room)
Jim Fussell, The Transformation of Quaker Testimony in the U.S. since 1900
Irena Marušincová, 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 with Maud Grainger (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 (Art 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 (Art 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 (Art Room)
Rosemary Moore, ‘“It was the Quakers who managed to endure”
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
Paul Harris, Why Did London Yearly Meeting neither adopt nor reject the Richmond Declaration, 1887? A case study in the avoidance of religious schism
Politics, class, and business 2 (Art 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