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

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

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

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

Day 1 | Thursday, June 24

11:00 am

Welcome

11:10 am - 12:10 pm

Special Session 1: Introducing Quaker Historiography

• Chairs: Ben Pink Dandelion and Stephen Angell

• Panelists: Oscar Lugusa Malande, Erica Canela, David Harrington Watt, David Hanson

Break

12:30 pm - 1:40 pm

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

2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

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

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

Day 2 | Friday June 25

CQHA Cafe: “Quaker Artifacts: Show and Tell,” hosted by Susan Garfinkel
10:20 - 10:50 am

11:00 am - 12:00 noon

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

Break

12:15 pm - 12:55 pm

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

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

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

CQHA Business Meeting

• Convener: Robynne Rogers Healey

Break

3:45 pm - 4:30 pm

“Drinks” and Trivia

Day 3 | Saturday June 26

CQHA Cafe: “Quakers Encountering Conflict,” hosted by Erica Canela and Richard Allen
10:20 - 10:50 am

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

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

Break

12:50 pm - 1:40 pm

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

2:15 pm - 3:15 pm

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

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

CQHA Online Interpretative Approaches Sessions: October 2022

Graphic Novels: Quakers in Pictures and Print
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

12:30-2:00 pm EDT  |  Session
   2:00-2:30 pm EDT  |  CQHA Briefing

Presenters:

• Marcus Rediker,Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh

• David Lester, Artist and musician (Mecca Normal) in Vancouver, Canada, and graphic novelist of Prophet against Slavery

• Will Fenton, Associate Director, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University

• Katelyn L. Lucas, Tribal Historic Preservation Assistant for Delaware Nation and PhD Candidate, Temple University

• Dash Shaw, American comic book writer/artist and animator, and cartoonist of Discipline

Thought and Action in Decolonizing Practices: A Conversation
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

12:30-1:00 pm EDT  |  CQHA Briefing
   1:00-2:30 pm EDT  |  Session

Presenters:

• Sa’ed Atshan, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University

• Paula Palmer, Co-Director of Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, a program of Friends Peace Teams

• Tanya Maus (moderator), Director, Peace Resource Center and Director, Quaker Heritage Center, Wilmington College

Quakers and Networks
Wednesday, October 26, 2022

12:30-2:00 pm EDT  |  Session
   2:15-3:15 pm EDT  |  CQHA Business Meeting

Presenters:

• Esther Sahle, Research Associate in Global History, Freie Universität Berlin

• Michael F. Suarez, S.J., Professor of English and Director of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia

• James Truitt, Senior Archives Technician, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

CQHA Online Methodology Sessions: June 2022

Researching Quaker History Online: A Workshop
Tuesday, June 14, 2022   |  12:30-2:00 pm EDT

• Presenters:

• Mary Crauderueff, Curator of Quaker Collections, Haverford College Libraries

• Susan Garfinkel, Collections/Research Specialist, Library of Congress

• Emily Higgs Kopin, Digital Archivist, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

History from Things: Quaker Material and Visual Culture
Wednesday, June 22, 2022  |  12:30-2:00 pm EDT

• Presenters:

• Laura Keim, Curator, Stenton

• Isabella Rosner, Ph.D. candidate, King’s College London

• Anne Verplanck, Associate Professor of American Studies, Penn State Harrisburg

Quakers in the Field: Ethnographic and Oral Histories
Tuesday, June 28, 2022  |  12:30-2:00 pm EDT

Presenters:

• Alex Primm, Oral History of the Ozarks Project

• Rebecca Hamilton-Levi, Video Producer for QuakerSpeak.

• Oscar Lugusa Malande, Ph.D. Candidate, Woodbrooke Study Centre and Instructor, Friends Theological College Kaimosi

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"