Welcome to the joint conference of 2024! Here is our draft schedule [as of Feb 2024]
Sessions:
1. Archivists roundtable panel
2. Laws and Power
Sally Jane Gold, “In the Mortal World, the Quality of Justice Depends upon the Available Mechanism”
Andy Fincham, "When Truth was Power: Quaker Causes in the Ordinances of the Interregnum"
3. Quakerism Expands
Steve Angell, "Fox’s Great Mistery of the Great Whore Unfolded and the American Puritan returnees"
Andrew Murphy, "Beyond Fox and Fell: Penn, Furly, Barclay, and the “Second Period” of Quakerism"
4. Lightning round panel
5. Quakers in "Faith & Practice"
Laura Arcila Villa, "Silent Worship and Inward Light in Early Quaker Practice: A Philosophical Appraisal"
Jennifer Buck, "The Role of Margaret Fell Fox in George Fox’s Legacy"
Rosalind Johnson, "The Valiant Sixty and beyond: early Quaker evangelism in southern and western England"
6. 17th century language panel
7. Material Culture
Penelope Cummins, "Holding history in our hands: George Fox’s teapot"
Gwen Erickson, "Fox in Carolina: Exploring Difficult Truths in a Colonial Hinterland"
Lucy Saint-Smith, "The Recipe Book of Mrs Meade: Domestic medicine, George Fox, and the Quaker medical network in the 17th century"
8. Beyond the Surface: Understanding the Early Quaker Experience
Erin Bell, "George Fox and the masculinity of others in constructing Quaker manhood"
Erica Canela, "War and Renewal: The Civil Wars, Trauma, and Quakers"
Betsy Cazden, "Valiant Sixty: Unwitting Agents of Settler-Colonialism?"
9. Fox's Legacy
Robynne Rogers Healey, "Quakerism after George Fox: The Paradox of ‘Quietism’ in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Justin Meggitt, "George Fox and Islam: A Neglected Legacy"
Joanna Dales, "The changing faces of George Fox: Fox at three hundred"