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  • 2012 CQHA Sessions

     

    Friday

    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