James Walvin: Quakers, Money, and Morals
March 13 - 14, 2000 (public welcome)
James Walvin is Professor of History at University of York, England. The author or editor of thirty books, he is best known for his work on Atlantic slavery. His book Black and White won the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for 1975. Walvin has been Visiting Professor of the College of William and Mary and has held visiting positions in Australia. The recipient of various fellowships and awards Walvin's book The Quakers, Money and Morals was published in 1997. The city of York, where Walvin lives, has been a Quaker center for more than two centuries. Its main industry - chocolate - was founded by Quakers (the Roundtrees) as were its two main schools (Bootham and the Mount). The Retreat, the local mental hospital, was founded by local Quakers. Currently, Professor Walvin is working on the links between West Indian slavery and the creation of British wealth.
These three Willson lectures will confront a number of key issues in the shaping of Quaker experience in the 18th and 19th centuries. Each of these lectures will address a specific aspect of Quaker history, but all form part of an overall reassessment of the Quaker experience. It is a story with a resonance and significance for Friends today.
Schedule
MONDAY, MARCH 13, 2000
7:30 p.m. Successful Friends: Why Were Quakers Good In Business? Stout Meetinghouse Earlham College
Reception immediately following in the Wymondham Room
TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 2000
10:00 a.m. The Quaker Conscience Quigg Worship Room Earlham School of Religion Community Building
11:20 a.m. Common Meal ESR Dining Room Earlham School of Religion Community Building
12:00 p.m. Quakers, Slavery, and Abolition ESR Dining Room
The Willson Lectureship was established at Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion in 1967 by Dr. and Mrs. J.M. Willson of Floydada, Texas.
Previous Willson Lecturers Include: Charles Davis, Wayne Oates, Langdon Gilkey, Bishop Stephen Neill, J. Calvin Keene, Martin Marty, James Fowler, Virginia Ramey, Mollenkott Demaris Wehr, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Krister Stendahl, Walter Brueggemann, Schubert M. Ogden, Elise Boulding, John Howard Yoder, Alan Geyer, James Forbes, Barbara G. Wheeler, Donald Bloesch, Majorie Hewitt Suchocki, and Daniel Smith-Christopher.
For more information contact:
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