It’s Here!
The Quaker History Roundtable opens Thursday evening, June 8. Its focus is 20th Century American Quakerism, and it will continue through Sunday morning, June 11.
If you can’t join us in person, you can watch it online. It will be webcast online here.
Background on the Roundtable is at its own webpage, newquakerhistory.net.
The schedule is below. (Fuller descriptions are on the QHR website.)
Thursday – June 8
7:15-7:45 PM – Chuck Fager – Opening – Welcome & Overview &
Introductions
8:00-9:30 PM – Gwen Erickson: History & Historiography & Friends
Mary Craudereuff: Quaker Archives & Civil Rights &
marginalized groups
Friday – June 9
8:00-9:00 am – Breakfast – ESR – 9:25 am Welcome by Jay Marshall, Dean of ESR
9:30-11:15 am – Betsy Cazden: Friends World Committee for Consultation & Modernism: a Critique
Guy Aiken: AFSC, Neutrality & Justice
Noon-1:00 pm – Lunch – ESR
1:15-2:45 pm – Tom Hamm: U.S. Young Friends groups and their 20th century impact
Steve Angell: The Dog That didn’t Bark: The Reunification of Canadian Yearly Meetings
3:00-4:30 pm – Janet Gardner & Dick Nurse, documentarians, on their film The Quiet Revolutionaries, showing of work-in–progress, discussion
5:00-6:00 pm – Dinner – ESR
7:30-9:00 pm – Stephen McNeil: Quakers & Japanese Americans
Lonnie Valentine: Quaker Tax Resistance, 20th Century
Saturday June 10
8:00-9:00 am – Breakfast – ESR
9:30-11:15 am – Emma Lapsansky: Quakers and 20th Century Intentional Communities
Kathy Adams: Willie Frye: Controversial North Carolina Quaker Pastor & Activist [Read by Chuck Fager]
Noon-1:00 pm – Lunch – ESR
1:30-3:00 pm – Greg Hinshaw: Friends United Meeting & The Mainline
Doug Gwyn: An overview of FGC’s first 20 years
3:15-4:30 pm – Archivists’ panel & Tour (Tom Hamm leading):
Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, Swarthmore College Friends Historical Library
Mary Craudereuff, Haverford Quaker Archives
Gwen Gosney Erickson, Guilford College Friends Historical Collection
Tom Hamm, Earlham College Library Quaker archives (with tour)
5:00-6:00 pm – Dinner – ESR
7:30-9:00 pm – Isaac May: Quakers, Herbert Hoover & the 1928 Election
Larry Ingle: A Quaker Elite & Whittaker Chambers
Sunday – June 11
8:00 – 9:00 am – Breakfast – ESR
9:30-11:30 am – Agenda for Research & Close
Noon-1:00 pm – Lunch – ESR & departure
