Annual conference of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies (CRQS), Woodbrooke, Birmingham UK and the Quaker Studies Research Association (QSRA)
Online Events
7 April, 12 May, 8 September, and 13 October 2022
Quakers and Encounters
The 2022 annual conference of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies (CRQS) and the Quaker Studies Research Association (QSRA) is exploring the theme of Quakers and Encounters in a series of four short online sessions spread across the year.
Online Events
7 April, 12 May, 8 September, and 13 October 2022
Quakers and Encounters
The 2022 annual conference of the Centre for Research in Quaker Studies (CRQS) and the Quaker Studies Research Association (QSRA) is exploring the theme of Quakers and Encounters in a series of four short online sessions spread across the year.
All listed times are British Summer Time (BST)
7 April 2022
6.30pm – 6.35 Introduction and welcome and housekeeping
6.35 – 7.00 Panel 1 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Mark Frankel
T. Edmund Harvey’s encounter with American Friends: his visit to the United States in 1922
Betty Hagglund
Female authors, male editor: the shaping of a seventeenth-century Quaker text
7.00 – 7.25 Panel 2 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Judith Roads
Responding to George Keith following his disownment: Friends’ reconciliation methods, and possible lessons for Quakers today
Spencer Wells
Visiting Friends: American Quakers and the Politics of Pastoral Care in a Revolutionary Era
7.25 – 7.35 Break
7.35 – 8.25 Ben Pink Dandelion
Plenary talk and discussion: Quakers and Host Cultures: towards a theory of accommodation
8.30 – 9.00 Poetry reading - Quaker poems through the centuries
6.35 – 7.00 Panel 1 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Mark Frankel
T. Edmund Harvey’s encounter with American Friends: his visit to the United States in 1922
Betty Hagglund
Female authors, male editor: the shaping of a seventeenth-century Quaker text
7.00 – 7.25 Panel 2 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Judith Roads
Responding to George Keith following his disownment: Friends’ reconciliation methods, and possible lessons for Quakers today
Spencer Wells
Visiting Friends: American Quakers and the Politics of Pastoral Care in a Revolutionary Era
7.25 – 7.35 Break
7.35 – 8.25 Ben Pink Dandelion
Plenary talk and discussion: Quakers and Host Cultures: towards a theory of accommodation
8.30 – 9.00 Poetry reading - Quaker poems through the centuries
12 May 2022
6.30pm – 8.00pm
George Richardson Lecture
Professor Emeritus Angus Winchester of Lancaster University
George Fox’s Pulpits: Place and Story in Quaker History
Focusing on the sites in north-west England associated with early Quakerism, specifically the two hillsides which contain rocks known as ‘Fox’s Pulpit’, Firbank Fell near Sedbergh, and Pardshaw Crag, near Cockermouth, this lecture will examine how and why these particular sites came to be charged with meaning for the Quaker community, both locally and internationally.
8.15 – 9.00 Quaker Studies Research Association Annual General Meeting 2022
George Richardson Lecture
Professor Emeritus Angus Winchester of Lancaster University
George Fox’s Pulpits: Place and Story in Quaker History
Focusing on the sites in north-west England associated with early Quakerism, specifically the two hillsides which contain rocks known as ‘Fox’s Pulpit’, Firbank Fell near Sedbergh, and Pardshaw Crag, near Cockermouth, this lecture will examine how and why these particular sites came to be charged with meaning for the Quaker community, both locally and internationally.
8.15 – 9.00 Quaker Studies Research Association Annual General Meeting 2022
8 September 2022
6.30pm – 6.35 Introduction and welcome and housekeeping
6.35 – 7.00 Panel 1 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Kathie McLelland
My Quaker-like Waiting on the Spirit
Laura Arcila Villa
Encounters at Ragley Hall
7.00 – 7.35 Panel 2 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Cal Pringle
Organised Sports and US Quaker Educational Institutions
Windy Cooler
Process and Power: Identity and Agency in Quaker Workplaces
Oscar Lugusa Malande
Mission work in the African Christian Quaker Context
7.35 – 7.45 Break
7.45 – 8.25 Rhiannon Grant
Plenary talk and discussion: Integrity and Tradition: Benefits of Theological Disagreement within Quaker Communities
8.30 – 9.00 Video tour of Birmingham Quaker Trail
6.35 – 7.00 Panel 1 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Kathie McLelland
My Quaker-like Waiting on the Spirit
Laura Arcila Villa
Encounters at Ragley Hall
7.00 – 7.35 Panel 2 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Cal Pringle
Organised Sports and US Quaker Educational Institutions
Windy Cooler
Process and Power: Identity and Agency in Quaker Workplaces
Oscar Lugusa Malande
Mission work in the African Christian Quaker Context
7.35 – 7.45 Break
7.45 – 8.25 Rhiannon Grant
Plenary talk and discussion: Integrity and Tradition: Benefits of Theological Disagreement within Quaker Communities
8.30 – 9.00 Video tour of Birmingham Quaker Trail
13 October 2022
6.30 – 6.35 Introduction and welcome and housekeeping
6.35 – 7.00 Panel 1 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Rachel Kirkwood
What can a corpus analysis of the emotion metaphors and figurative language of influential Quaker writers tell us about the emotional style of relationships in the early Quaker community?
Jacob Preene
“The lamb made war with the beast and overcame him”: The Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee 1933-1939
7.00 – 7.25 Panel 2 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Betsy Cazden
Quakers and indigenous people in 17th century New England
Sue Kozel
Thomas Jefferson’s Complicated Quakers: Those employed by Jefferson
7.25 – 7.35 Break
7.35 – 8.50
Stephen Brooks
Quakers on Film
6.35 – 7.00 Panel 1 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Rachel Kirkwood
What can a corpus analysis of the emotion metaphors and figurative language of influential Quaker writers tell us about the emotional style of relationships in the early Quaker community?
Jacob Preene
“The lamb made war with the beast and overcame him”: The Peace Section of the American Friends Service Committee 1933-1939
7.00 – 7.25 Panel 2 (discussion of pre-circulated papers)
Betsy Cazden
Quakers and indigenous people in 17th century New England
Sue Kozel
Thomas Jefferson’s Complicated Quakers: Those employed by Jefferson
7.25 – 7.35 Break
7.35 – 8.50
Stephen Brooks
Quakers on Film