Welcome to the joint conference of 2024! Here is our draft schedule [as of Feb 2024]
Sessions:
1. Archivists roundtable panel: "Quaker archives and dream projects"
Participating archives:
● Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, USA
● Quaker Archives, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC USA
● Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford, PA, USA
● Earlham Friends Collection and College Archives, Richmond, IN, USA
● Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London, UK
● Quaker Heritage Center, Wilmington College, Wilmington OH, USA
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
Sean Connolly and Jennifer Gray, "Presenting Quaker History to the Nation: Preparing for 8 million visitors during the Semiquincentennial of the United States"
Jim Fussell, "Tracing the 'Valiant Sixty': A Comparative Exploration of Quaker Revival Movements
Oscar Lugusa Malande, "Work-in-progress presentation: Quakerism in Africa"
Kelvin Beer-Jones, "Appeal for the formation of a ‘Quaker Digital Humanities Research Hub’"
Celia Caust-Ellenbogen (in-person) and Stephen Curley (virtual), "Quaker research in the National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive (NIBSDA)"
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. The language of seventeenth-century Quakerism
Vittoria Feola, "Philology, experiments, and the language of enthusiasm in George Fox’s works"
Ariel Hessayon, "The reception of Jacob Boehme’s writings among seventeenth-century Quakers"
Ivana Ledda, "Building the Quaker emotional community: Shared language and experience in Fox’s Journal and late seventeenth-century women Friends’ self-narratives"
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"