CQHA Core sessions meet 11:00 am (find my time) through approximately 4:00 pm EDT (find my time) each day.
CQHA Cafe gatherings are add-ons held before, between, or after core sessions. These are informal opportunities for conversation, sometimes around specific themes, hosted by members of the CQHA conference committee.
11:00 am | find my time
Welcome
11:10 am - 12:10 pm | find my time
Special Session 1: Introducing Quaker Historiography
- Chairs: Ben Pink Dandelion and Stephen Angell
- Panelists: Oscar Lugusa Malande, Erica Canela, David Harrington Watt, David Hanson
This session offers an overview of three dominant strands in Quaker historiography, as well as identifying major gaps in scholarship and showcasing new research that disrupts received wisdom or expands its boundaries. While the session will serve as an introduction for first-time CQHA attenders, it will also provide new insights for those with a deeper background in Quaker studies.
Break
12:30 pm - 1:40 pm | find my time
Paper Session 1.1: Women in Professional Roles
- Chair: Tanya Maus
- James Truitt, "Graceanna Lewis: Naturalist and Radical" (lightning talk)
- Gwen Gosney Erickson, "No Ordinary Daughter: Clara I. Cox’s Many Ministries"
- Marlene Mayo, "Trans-Pacific Friends: Tomiyama Toki, Esther B. Rhoads, and the Friends Girls School, Tokyo, 1920s-1950s"
- Jayne R. Beilke, Aaron Charles Bruewer and Gilbert Park, "Indiana Quaker Women Teaching the Freedpeople during Reconstruction"
Break -or- CQHA Cafe: Open Discussion
1:40 - 2:10 pm | find my time
2:10 pm - 3:00 pm | find my time
Paper Session 1.2: Building the Archive
- Chair: Mary Crauderueff
- Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, "In Her Own Right: Documenting Women’s Activism in the Century Before Suffrage" (lightning talk)
- Tanya Maus, "Archives as Sites of Knowledge Production for Peace: The Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College"
- Beth McGowan, "Amy Winslow, The American Friends Service Committee, and a Philosophy of Librarianship"
Break
3:15 pm - 4:05 pm | find my time
Paper Session 1.3: Interdisciplinary Approaches
- Chair: Julie Holcomb
- Laura Rediehs, "Quaker Epistemology" (lightning talk)
- Isabelle Cosgrave, "19th-century Quaker Attitudes to Writing Fiction: Differences Between the UK and the US"
- Susan Garfinkel, "Stratigraphies of Meaning: Excavating ‘W Penn’s Treaty’ Plate"
CQHA Cafe: “Quaker Potent (and Not Potent) Potables,” hosted by Jordan Landes
4:15 pm - 4:45 pm | find my time
CQHA Cafe: “Quaker Artifacts: Show and Tell,” hosted by Susan Garfinkel
10:20 - 10:50 am | find my time
11:00 am - 12:00 noon | find my time
Special Session 2: What US/UK Quaker Archives Are Collecting - And What We're Not
- Moderator: Patricia O’Donnell
- Panelists: Thomas Hamm, Jordan Landes, Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, Mary Crauderueff, Libby Adams, Lisa McQuillan, Gwen Gosney Erickson, Jenny Freed, Aaron Rubinstein
This session combines brief updates on acquisitions and activities from major Quaker archives, followed by a discussion among panelists and the audience about ethics- and mission-based questions for Quaker repositories going forward.
Break
12:15 pm - 12:55 pm | find my time
Paper Session 2.1: Governance
- Chair: Thomas Hamm
- Sydney Harker, "Following Discipline?: Policing Practices in Upper Canadian Quaker Communities, 1810-1828"
- Greg Hinshaw, "Peace, Prohibition, and Public Morals: The Changing Legislative and Social Concerns of Five Years Friends, 1902-2002"
Break -or- CQHA Cafe: Open Discussion
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | find my time
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm | find my time
Paper Session 2.2: Quaker Influence Outside the Society of Friends
- Chair: Elizabeth Cazden
- Calvin Dark, "Trusty Friends and Neighbors of Confidence: The Broad Influence of Quakerism on Friends of Friends’ Struggle to End Slavery"
- Katherine Freedman, "Quakers, Congregationalists, and the Origins of Antislavery in Eighteenth Century in Rhode Island"
- Vivien E. Sandlund, "’For the Oppressed’: The Antislavery Efforts of Quaker Benjamin Lundy"
Break
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm | find my time
CQHA Business Meeting
- Convener: Robynne Rogers Healey
All conference participants are invited to attend the CQHA business meeting. Significant business includes appointing our Steering Committee and planning our 2022 conference. This is also an important opportunity for questions, and for discussion of additional CQHA initiatives.
Break
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm | find my time
“Drinks” and Trivia
- Please join us for an interactive social opportunity, including Quaker trivia!
CQHA Cafe: “Quakers Encountering Conflict,” hosted by Erica Canela and Richard Allen
10:20 - 10:50 am | find my time
11:00 am - 12:30 pm | find my time
Special Session 3: Visions for Quaker Historiography
- Moderators: Oscar Lugusa Malande and Robynne Rogers Healey
- Panelists: Oscar Lugusa Malande, Robert Wafula, Gwen Gosney Erickson, Sydney Harker, Jon Kershner
This participatory session will track trends in memory-making, archive-building, and historical analysis, while exploring challenges and opportunities for the future of scholarship on global Quakerism around three themes: Disrupting Memory, Disrupting Archives, and Disrupting Power.
Break
12:50 pm - 1:40 pm | find my time
Paper Session 3.1: Representation
- Chair: Isaac May
- Billystrom Jivetti, "Quakerism From the Eyes of a Kenyan In America" (lightning talk)
- Mary Crauderueff, "Representation Within the Archives: Beginning a New Quaker Archives in Africa"
- Mikaela Prescott, "A Localized History of Quakers and Indigenous Relations: With Special Consideration of Indigenous Perspectives"
Break -or- CQHA Cafe: Open Discussion
1:40 pm - 2:10 pm | find my time
2:15 pm - 3:15 pm | find my time
Paper Session 3.2: Rethinking the 18th Century
- Chair: Richard Allen
- Ian Cook, "An Occupational Analysis of Quakers in England in the Eighteenth Century."
- Jeffrey D. Kovach, "Marital Regulations of the New England Yearly Meeting in the 17th and 18th Centuries"
- Katy Telling, "Southbound: Sophia Wiginton Hume and Quaker Constructions of White Southern Womanhood"
Break
3:30 pm - 4:10 pm | find my time
Paper Session 3.3: New Approaches
- Chair: Stephen Angell
- Jim Fussell, "The Transformation of Quaker Testimony since 1900"
- Isaac May, "Towards a Quaker View of Same-Sex Marriage: Liberal Friends and Marriage Debates before Obergefell v. Hodge"
CQHA Cafe: “Closing Discussion,” hosted by members of the CQHA Steering Committee
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm | find my time
*Location: All events take place in Room 163C, UMass Campus Center, unless otherwise noted.*
Friday, June 22, 2018
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Archives Workshop 1
• History in the Making: Best Practices for 21st Century Recordkeeping - Pat O’Donnell (Swarthmore College), Celia Caust-Ellenbogen (Swarthmore College)
1:00 pm
Residence Hall Check-In Begins
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm
Break
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Archives Tour: Location: 25th floor, W.E.B. DuBois Library
• Tour of University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Special Collections & University Archives
3:00 pm
Hotel Check-In Begins
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Archives Workshop 2
• Care and Handling of Quaker Family Collections: From Analog to Digital - Sean Ferguson (Northeast Document Conservation Center)
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Break
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Welcome and Session 1: Belief on the Ground in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia
• Times and Travails of Christopher Marshall - Spencer Wells (The College of William and Mary)
• Defiantly Neutral: The Friends of Revolutionary Philadelphia - Shannon Duffy (Texas State University)
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner: Location: Amherst Room, UMASS Conference Center (10th Floor)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Session 2: Seagoing Friends
• Newport’s Role in Creating the Quaker Whaling Empire on Nantucket - Jeffrey Kovatch (Independent Scholar)
• Whaler, Traitor, Coward, Spy!: William Rotch, the Quaker Ethic & the Spirit of Capitalism - Sarah Crabtree (San Francisco State University)
• Quakers at Sea - Stephen Berry (Simmons College)
Saturday, June 23, 2018
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Session 3: Centers and Margins: Context and Critique
• Asylum, Agency, and Retirement in the Poems of Mark Holman Shephard - Kevin Binfield (Murray State University) and Kaley Owens (Murray State University)
• A Complex Faith: Strategies of Marriage, Family and Community among Upper Canadian Quakers - Sydney Harker (Trinity Western University) and Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University)
• Philadelphia-based Quaker Historical Associations: Then and Now, a Review and Critique - Mary Crauderueff (Haverford College)
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Session 4: Controversial Quakerism in the Seventeenth Century
• The Radical Origins of Quaker Spirituality: The Reconceptualization of the Divine in the Transition Space of the English Civil War - Robert Williams (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Cross Referencing Besse – An Exploration of Sources Concerning Quaker Persecution in the English Restoration - Sally Gold (Reading University)
• Quakers and Transatlantic Politics: The Multiple Audiences of the 1672 Rhode Island Debate - Adrian Weimer (Providence College)
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch (On Your Own)
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time/Optional Activities
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Session 5: Written Forms of Quakerism
• “Our dear Friend has departed this life”: Testimony Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century - Erica Canela (University of Birmingham) and Robynne Rogers Healey (Trinity Western University)
• The Power of Discipline: Unity, Purity or Salvation? - Andrew Fincham (University of Birmingham)
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Session 6: War and Peace and Politics, 1850-1920
• Quaker delegates at the Founding Republican National Convention in 1856 - Jim Fussell (Independent Scholar)
• Ely S. Parker, Quakers, and the Origins of Ulysses S. Grant’s Indian “Peace Policy” - Glenn Crothers (University of Louisville)
• Five Year Friends and the Great War - Greg Hinshaw (Independent Scholar)
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Dinner (On Your Own)
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Lightning Talks
• Katie Bednark
• Rachel Cope
• Scott Gerber
• David Hanson
• Julie Holcomb
• Frederick Martin
• Isaac May
Sunday, June 24, 2018
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Session 7: Atlantic Slavery and its Aftermath
• Sustaining Faith: Quakers and Slavery in the Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Atlantic - Katherine Freedman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• The Many Sounds of Silence: Crafting Slave Law in Seventeenth-Century Pennsylvania - Kyle Repella (University of Pennsylvania)
• Legacies of Slavery & Freedom: A Recount of History’s Most Famous Emancipation and Reparation Effort - Keith Stokes (1696 Heritage Group) [Withdrew from the program]
10:30 am - 11:00 am
Break
11:00 am
Check Out Deadline
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
CQHA Business Meeting
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch (On You Own)
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Optional Tour Departs for Providence, RI
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
Monday, June 16, 2014
Session I: 3:30 pm-5:30 pm - You've Got a Friend in Pennsylvania
• Universal Free Grace Denied: George Keith, Benjamin Furly, and the Founding of Pennsylvania -- Geoffrey Plank, University of East Anglia
• Building upon Restraint: William Penn, Community, and Pennsylvania’s Security Culture -- Patrick Cecil, The University of Alabama
• The Authorship of “An Earnest Address” and Why It Matters -- David Crosby, Independent Researcher
• Friendly Fire: Free Quakers and the Politics of Citizenship and Belief in the Early American Republic -- Spencer Wells, The College of William and Mary
Moderator: Susan Garfinkel
Session II: 7:30 pm-9:00 pm - Innovative Approaches in Quaker Studies
• The Strange Career of Benjamin Lay: Disabled Quaker Abolitionist -- Nate Kogan, University of Texas at Arlington
• 7,459 Miles in the Name of the Lord: Traveling Ministers and the Possibilities of Digital Scholarship for Quaker Historians -- Kathryn Falvo, The Pennsylvania State University
• Threads of Useful Learning: Quaker Education through the Eye of a Needle -- Mary Brooks, Westtown School
Moderator: John Anderies
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Session III: 9:00 am-10:30 am (concurrent with Session IV) - Quaker Religious Movements on the Wane
• “Failure to Thrive”: The Decline of Hicksite Quakerism West of the Appalachians, 1827-1900 -- Tom Hamm, Earlham College
• The Decline of “Western Quakerism” in Eastern North America -- Greg Hinshaw, Independent Researcher
• Personalist Renewal in 20th-Century Liberal Quakerism and at Pendle Hill -- Doug Gwyn, Pendle Hill
Moderator: Betsy Cazden
Session IV: 9:00 am-10:30 am (concurrent with Session III) - Religion, Education, and Reform Through the Lense of Biography
• Five Generations of Wilburites … or Six?: Finley Perry and the continuity of “The Smaller Body” in New England -- Frederick Martin, Independent Researcher
• John Jackson and Rachel Jackson: On Education, Peace, and Religious Reform -- Ellen Ross, Swarthmore College
• Medicine, Religion, and Social Activism: The Life of Dr. Virginia M. Alexander, A Forgotten Black Quaker -- Vanessa Northington Gamble, The George Washington University
Moderator: Chris Densmore
Session V: 11:00 am-12:00 pm (concurrent with Session VI) - African Americans and Quaker Community in the 19th Century
• The Clocks of Peter Hill: Production and Patronage in a Quaker Community, 1780-1820 -- Lynne Calamia, The Pennsylvania State University
• The Life of Moses Small of Maryland (1790 – 1861): The Earliest Documented African-American Student at a Friends’ School -- Peter Curtis and Douglas P. McElrath, University of Maryland at College Park
Moderator: Mary Brooks
Session VI: 11:00 am-12:00 pm (concurrent with Session V) - Open Space for Unplanned Meetings and Collaboration
Session VII: 1:30 pm-2:30 pm (concurrent with Session VIII) - Quakerism and the Political Right
• “Learn to Listen Courteously to Each Other”: Quaker Decision-Making in the McCarthy Era -- Allison Hepler, University of Maine at Farmington
• The Quaker Republicans: Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon and the Weighty Quakers in the Republican Party -- Isaac May, University of Virginia
Moderator: Tom Hamm
Session VIII: 1:30 pm-2:30 pm (concurrent with Session VII) - Finding Friends in the Archives
• Still, Small Voices: Uncovering Quaker Collections at Small Archives -- Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• Walking the Walk: Preserving an Historical Association’s Materials -- Mary Crauderueff, Organize. Preserve. Simplify!
Moderator: Gwen Gosney Erickson
Session IX: 3:00 pm-4:00 pm (concurrent with Session X) - Borders and Crossings: 17th Century Quakers in Britain and Holland
• ‘Lamentation over England’: Morgan Watkins (-c.1675), Polemics and Restoration Quakerism on the English Borders -- Erica Canela, University of South Wales
• Going Dutch: The Travels of the First Quakers in the Netherlands in 1655 -- Stephen Wright, Independent Researcher
Moderator: Ann Upton
Session X: 3:00 pm-4:00 pm (concurrent with Session IX) - Issues of Land Use on the American Frontier
• Quaker Naturalists and the Roots of Agricultural Reform in the Greater Antebellum Trans-Appalachian West -- John Henris, Kent State University
• 'a difference of opinion...has arisen between us': The Society of Friends and the Civilization Fund of 1819 -- Lori Daggar, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Kevin Gallagher
Session XI: 4:30 pm-6:00 pm - Book and Project Lightning Talks
• Stephen Angell, Earlham School of Religion
• David Crosby, Independent Researcher
• Gordon Davies and Betsy Brinson, Independent Researchers
• Kaye Edwards, Haverford College
• Chuck Fager, Independent Researcher
• Joy Totah Hilden, Independent Researcher
• Geoffrey Plank, University of East Anglia
• Philip Valenti, Independent Researcher
Moderators: John Anderies and Susan Garfinkel
Session XII: 7:30 pm-9:30 pm - Examining "Quaker Values in Action"
• With Bread in Both Hands: American Quakers in Post-WWI Germany -- Guy Aiken, University of Virginia
• Quaker Relief and Rehabilitation during the Bengal Famine, 1942-1945 -- Steven Baumann, Brooklyn College
• Beulah Hurley Waring: A Friend to Those in Need -- Diana Peterson, Independent Researcher
• The American Friends Service Committee and the Black Power Movement: Reconciling Quaker Activism with Grassroots Empowerment -- Tracy K'Meyer, University of Louisville
Moderator: Robynne Rogers Healey
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Session XIII: 9:00 am-10:00 am - Update on Digitization of Quaker Records
• Roundtable discussion with Chris Densmore, Gwen Erickson, Tom Hamm, Pat O'Donnell, and Ann Upton.
Moderator: John Anderies
Closing Session: 10:00 am-11:15 am - CQHA Business Meeting (all invited and encouraged to attend)
Convenor: Robynne Rogers Healey
2012 CQHA Sessions
Friday
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Session I: 7:30 – 9:00 pm
"Changing the Usual Harmful Patriotism": Quakers, the Civil War, and the Reinterpretation of American History – Aaron Jerviss, University of Tennessee
Reconciling Approaches to Non-Violence and Apartheid: Pacifist Conflict between Southern African Quakers and the AFSC in the 1970s and 1980s – Robynne Rogers Healey, Trinity Western University, British Columbia
"Academic Barnstorming": The AFSC’s Visiting Lectureship Program and New Approaches to Postwar Interracial Activism – Allan W. Austin, Misericordia University
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Saturday
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Session II: 9:00 – 10:30 am
The Brothers' Grim Reality: Confronting Slavery, Family, and Masculinity in Revolutionary America – Bill Leon Smith, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey.
"The Punishment of a Few" for the "Preservation of Multitudes": Capital Punishment, Penal Reform, and Social Order in late Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia – Gabriele Gottlieb, Grand Valley State University, Mich.
The 1755 "Crisis of Conscience" Reconsidered: A View from Rhode Island – Betsy Cazden, Independent Researcher, Rhode Island
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Session III: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (concurrent sessions)
Mazo de la Roche (1879-1961) – Sandra McCann Fuller, Independent Researcher, Ontario
Who am I? Exploring Quaker Identity in Children's Literature – Mary Crauderueff, Independent Researcher, Pennsylvania
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Session IV: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (concurrent sessions)
Varieties of Interpretation of Francis Howgill's Works: Apocalypse, Light and Convincement in Tension – Frederick Martin, Andover-Newton Theological School, Massachusetts
Beyond Liberalism: Rufus Jones and Thomas Kelly – Guy Aiken, University of Virginia
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Session V: 1:30 – 3:00 pm
The Progressionists of Battle Creek, Michigan: The Impact of Hicksite Quakers on a 19th-Century Midwestern Town – Brian C. Wilson, Western Michigan University
"Being Firmly Persuaded that Barclay Hath Erred"; or, Samuel Wetherill's Free Quaker Theology – Susan Garfinkel, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
A New Look at Progressive Friends, Founders and shapers of Liberal Quakerism – Chuck Fager, Quaker House, Fayetteville, North Carolina
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Session VI: 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Quaker Collection at Ancestry – Lisa Arnold and Eric Horne, Ancestry.com, Utah
The Canadian Quaker Register/Directory of Built Heritage – Ian Woods, Built Heritage of the Canadian Friends Historical Association, Ontario
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Session VII: 7:30 – 9:00 pm at Sharon Temple