Friends Association for Higher Education
2008 Conference

Where Faith and Practice Meet

Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre

June 19-22, 2008

 

Conference Schedule

(To see a version of the schedule that includes abstracts, click here!)

 

Comings, goings, meals, and housekeeping items are green.

Contributed sessions are red or (for 90-minute sessions) in dark red.

The plenary sessions and small group meetings are in dark blue.

 

Thursday June 19

 

Arrivals, as indicated on booking form.

 

Other conferees arrive, register, and make choices for small groups between 10:00 AM and 4:30 PM

 

2:30 PM – Optional (free) Tours

 

3:30-4:15 - Afternoon Tea is available in Dining Room

 

4:20 – Conference Welcome:  Rebecca Mays and Jennifer Baraclough  (Cadbury Room)

 

4:30-6:00 – Plenary: Jocelyn Burnell, “Heavens Above and Heaven on Earth” (Cadbury Room)

 

6.15-7.15 – Dinner (Dining Room)

 

7:15-8:30 – Session B

 

James W. Hood: “John Keats & Ethical Practice”  (Cadbury Room)

 

Eric Kristensen: “Workshop: Religion and Spirituality in the Classroom: Where Faith and Practice Meet”  (Quiet Room)

 

Susan McNaught & Leslie Hickcox:  “Workshop: Learning Styles: Overview, Application, and Use in a Quaker Learning Setting”  (Art Room)

 

Yoko Koike: “Queries of a Teacher at a College with Quaker Roots: What Is It That I Do Differently Because I Am a Friend?" (Holland House Garden Room)

 

8:40-9:25 – First Small Group Meeting (lists in front hall)

 

9:30 – Epilogue (close of day worship) with Lenora Wilson in the Cadbury Room, followed by hot drinks and biscuits

 

10:15 – An opportunity to share 1 or 2 educational videos for those staying in the main facility at Woodbrooke in the Holland House Garden Room

 

10:15 – Minibuses depart for off-site accommodation.

 

Friday June 20

 

7:15 AM: Breakfast available at off-site accommodation

 

8:00 AM: Minibus collection for off-site accommodation

 

7.45-8.30 – Breakfast at Woodbrooke

 

8.30-9:00 – Unprogrammed House Worship  (Cadbury Room)

 

9:15-10:45 – Session C

 

Margaret Benefiel: “Being Present to Students and Colleagues: Where Faith and Practice Meet”  (Cadbury Room)

 

Ben Pink Dandelion, Michael Heller & Laura Rediehs:  “Plaining the Academy: How Are We To Write as Quakers?”  (Quiet Room)

 

Helene Pollock, Diana White & Jeffrey Dudiak:  “The Revivification of Quaker Truth in and for a Postmodern Age”  (Art Room)

 

Jan Sellers: "Quietness and Reflection: Working with a Labyrinth as a Teaching and Learning Resource" (Holland House Garden Room)

 

10.45-11.30 – Morning Drinks available (Dining Room)

 

11:30-12:45 – Session D

 

Deborah Shaw, Cheryl Snider Bridges: “Stories from the Faith and Practice Field”  (Cadbury Room)
 
Deni Elliott and Caroline Whitbeck: “Friends' Approaches to Practical Ethics”  (Quiet Room)
 
Pam Lunn & Lizz Roe:  “Workshop: Our Concern for Sustainability: How to Mainstream Across Our Institutions”  (Art Room)
 
Donald A. Smith: “Science, Religion, and Magic: Interdisciplinary Team-Teaching”; and Gary Farlow: “Walking Cheerfully into the Classroom and Detecting Intellect in Everyone”  (Holland House Garden Room)

 

12.45-2:00 – Lunch (Dining Room)

 

2:00-3:30 – Session E

 

Barbara Dixson, David Ross & Patricia Finley: “Making It Real”  (Cadbury Room)
 
“Philosophers Roundtable: In What Ways Does Your Quaker Faith Impact upon Your Philosophical Practice?” Jeffrey Dudiak, convener; with Newton Garver, Laura Rediehs, and Steven Smith  (Quiet Room)
 
Judith Jenner: “Leaving Quaker Values at the Classroom Door?” (Art Room)
 
“Historians Roundtable,” Jacci Welling & Muriel Blaisdell, conveners  (Holland House Garden Room)

 

3:30 – Afternoon Tea (Dining Room)

 

4:30-6:00 – Plenary:  John Punshon “The Pinnacles of the Temple” (Cadbury Room)

 

6.15-7.15 – Dinner (Dining Room)

 

7:15-8:30 – Session G

 

Jennifer Barraclough: “Presidents Panel”  (Cadbury Room)

 

Mike Heller & Deborah Shaw: “Workshop: To ‘Listen’ to Another’s Soul: Listening and Speaking in the Classroom”  (Quiet Room)

 

Steven Smith: “Scholarly Detachment and Quaker Spirituality”  (Art Room)

 

Elwood Parker: “Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) & Query-Based Faith”  (Hugh Lawson Room)

 

“Discussion: Are We Still, Collectively, ‘A Peculiar People’ or Just Quirky Individuals (Like Many Other Academics)?” with brief presentations from Eric Kristensen, Donn Weinholtz & Caroline Whitbeck  (Holland House Garden Room)

 

8:40-9:25 – Second Small Group Meeting

 

9:30 – Epilogue (Close of Day Worship) with Rebecca Mays in the Cadbury Room, followed by hot drinks and biscuits

 

10:00 – "Open Mic"  (Cadbury Room).  Share your talents!  No need to sign up.

 

10:15 & 11:00 Minibuses depart for off-site.

 
 

Saturday June 21

 

7:15 AM – Breakfast available at off-site accommodation

 

8:00 AM – Minibus collection for off-site accommodation

 

7.45-8.30 – Breakfast at Woodbrooke

 

8.30-9:00 – Semi-programmed Worship  (Cadbury Room)

 

9:15-10:45 – Business Meeting (Cadbury Room)

 

10.45-11.30 – Morning Drinks (Dining Room)

 

11:30-12:45 – Session H

 

Gary Farlow: “When is the Practice of Tenure Faithful?”  (Cadbury Room)

 

Douglas J. Burks:  “Attitudes of Students at U.S. Quaker and Non-Quaker Colleges towards War and Violence”  (Quiet Room)

 

Newton Garver: “Wittgenstein on Living Decently”  (Holland House Garden Room)

 

John Yoder: “Questing for Athens via Zurich and Pendle Hill: Reflections on the Nature of Two Universities with Mennonite and Quaker Origin” (Hugh Lawson Room)

 

Michael Birkel:  “Margaret Fell's Wisdom for Quaker Educators”  (Art Room)

 

12.45-2:00 – Lunch (Dining Room)

 

2:00 – FREE TIME

 

2:00-4:00 – Free Tour of Quaker Birmingham with Pam Williams - first fifteen to sign up at Registration. Meet in Front Hall.

 

2.30-3.30 – Tour of the Garden with Lizz Roe.  Meet on the Verandah.

 

3:30 – Afternoon Tea available until 4:25

 

4:30-6:00 – Plenary:  Satish Kumar “Education for a Sustainable Future”  (Cadbury Room)

 

6.15-7.15 – Dinner (Dining Room)

 

Those who want a box/pack lunch Sunday should order them between Saturday dinner and 10:00 pm.  Sign up outside the Dining Room.

 

List to sign up for taxis to the airport goes up outside Dining Room.

 

7:15-8:30 – Session J

 

Paul Anderson: “Dynamic Christocentricity -- The Center of Quaker Faith and Practice”  (Cadbury Room)
 
Mary Garman: “Quaker Women Reformers in the Mid-west of the USA”  (Quiet Room)
 
Donn Weinholtz, Diane Thistle Weinholtz, William Upholt, and Mary Lee Morrison: “The Intersection of Faith and Practice: Building Community Action toward a Sustainable World”  (Holland House Garden Room)
 
Malcolm Gold: “Patriarchy and Violence in an Evangelical Men’s Ministry”  (Art Room)

 

8:40-9:25 – Third Small Group Meeting

 

9:30 – Epilogue (Close of Day Worship) with Mike Heller in the Cadbury Room, followed by hot drinks and biscuits

 

10:15 – Possibly a second opportunity to share 1 or 2 educational videos in the Holland House Garden Room for those staying at Woodbrooke  

 

10:15 Minibuses depart for off-site accommodation

 
 

Sunday June 22

8:00 AM – Breakfast available at off-site accommodation

 

8:45 AM – Minibus collection for off-site accommodation

 

8:00-9:00 – Breakfast at Woodbrooke

 

Vacate Woodbrooke rooms by 9:30.  (A luggage room is available.)

 

List to confirm names who have signed up for taxis to the airport goes up outside Dining Room.

 

 9:30-10:45 – Session K

 

Laura Rediehs:  “Quaker Epistemology: A Different Kind of Empiricism?”  (Cadbury Room)

 

Timothy Ashworth: “Confident Quaker Faith: The Biblical Roots”  (Quiet Room)

 

C. Wess Daniels: “Convergent Friends”  (Art Room)

 

Mike Moyer: “The Professor as Change Agent?”  (Holland House Garden Room)

 

10:45 – Collect your Box Lunch, if you ordered one.

 

10:45-11.30 – Morning Drinks & Evaluations (Dining Room)

 

11:35-12:35 – Closing Worship  (Cadbury Room)

 

12.45-2:00 – Lunch and Farewells!

 

 

The above schedule for contributed papers was made in consideration of the following desiderata:

 

·       Fewer simultaneous sessions

·       Presentations of a similar type or on similar or closely related topics scheduled for different times, so that those presenting on a topic could attend others on that topic and develop a fuller exchange

·       Availability of AV equipment to those who want to use it and minimal to-ing and fro-ing of that equipment

 

Because of these constraints, it would be difficult to change the scheduling of a presentation.

 

Except at small group times, the Eva Koch and Sitting Rooms are available to groups of <20 looking for a place to meet.

 

The Silent Room (next to the Quiet Room) and the Gazebo in the garden are available for private prayer and contemplation.

 

Updated 11 June 2008; for a listing of changes made since the original version was posted, please click here.