WESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
|
Recent Annual
Lectures |
2013 |
Revd Margaret P, Jones
MA, M Phil |
2014 |
Professor Michael Hughes, |
2015 |
Rev Dr Stephen Hatcher
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2016 |
Emeritus Professor John
Richard Watson
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2017 |
Mr Gary M. Best M.A.
(Headmaster Kingswood School 1987-2008)
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2018 |
Dr. Clive Field OBE.
Honary Senior Research Fellow, University of Birmingham. |
2019 |
Rev. Dr. Ceri Jones,
BA, FRHISTS, Reader in Early Modern History, Prifysgol Aberystwyth
University. |
2021 |
Dr Kate Tiller, OBE, DL,
BA, PhD Birmingham, MA Oxford, FSA, FRHistS. |
2022 |
Professor Douglas Strong. Paul T. Walls of Weslyan Studies and
the History of Christianity. Seattle Pacific University. |
Draft programme
Thursday 16 June
19.00
Informal
conference dinner
Friday 17 June
10.00
Arrivals; coffee available from 10.30; New Room museum open
11.00-11.15
Introduction and welcome (Rev. Dr Tim Macquiban)
11.15-11.30
Rev. P. J. Jackson (Bristol and
South Gloucestershire Methodist
Circuit)
11.30-12.00
Dr Edson Burton (Bristol-based historian)
'Renewal and action: Bristol reimagines the Transatlantic Slave Trade 1994-2021'
12.00-12.30
Dr John Lenton (WHS)
'Two Black Methodist female evangelists compared: Zilpha Elaw Schum and Amanda Berry Smith in Britain
12.30-14.00
Lunch; optional visit to New Room library and archive or Charles
Wesley’s house
14.00-15.00
Dr Clive Norris (WHS)
'John Wesley and enslavement revisited'
Daniel Johnson (University of Leicester)
'"And Wash the Ethiop White": Whiteness as salvation and the reception
history of Wesley's Conversion Hymn'
15.00-15.15
Readings and prayers (Rev. Dr Tim Macquiban)
15.15-16.15
Annual
Lecture (Professor Douglas Strong)
'A Practical
Wesleyan-Holiness Theology as Foundational for 19th Century
Transatlantic Racial Justice Advocacy'
16.15-16.45
Members' update (brief presentations on current research etc.)
16.45
Afternoon Tea / End of Conference