Conference 2012


1662 Revisited 1662


Saturday 26 May 2012

THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED.


Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square WC1H 0AR

 

The eighth annual one-day conference of the Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, a collaboration between the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London, and Dr Williams's Library

 

10.00am - Registration and coffee
10.20am - Welcome

10.30-11.30am - Panel 1 Politics:
Mark Goldie (Cambridge), 'The Power of the Civil Magistrate in the Settlement of Religion'
Paul Seaward (History of Parliament), 'Clarendon and the Politics of Uniformity, 1660-62'


11.30-11.45am - Discussion

11.45-12.45pm - Panel 2 Religion:
Stephen Taylor (Reading) and Kenneth Fincham (Kent), 'The Re-Establishment of the Church of England 1660-63 Revisited'
Cory Cotter (Virginia), 'Going Dutch: Beyond Black Bartholomew's Day'
Mark Burden (Oxford), 'Edmund Calamy, John Walker, and the Concept of the "Ejected Minister" '


12.45-1.00pm - Discussion

1.00–2.00pm - Sandwich Lunch

2.00–3.00pm - Panel 3 Literature:
David Appleby (Nottingham), ' "All things to all men": Interpreting the Farewell Sermons of 1662'
Michael Davies (Liverpool), ' "The silencing of God's dear Ministers": John Bunyan and his Church in 1662'
N. H. Keeble (Stirling), 'The Great Ejection in Nonconformist Memory'


3.00-3.15pm - Discussion

3.15–4.15pm - Panel 4 The Three Kingdoms and the Colonies:
Alasdair Raffe (Northumbria), 'Alternative Settlements: the Failure of Episcopacy in Scotland'
Robert Armstrong (Trinity College Dublin), 'Restoration, Dissent and Protestant Ireland'
Owen Stanwood (Boston College), 'Crisis and Opportunity: The Restoration Viewed from New England'


4.15–4.30pm - Discussion

4.30-5.15pm - Tea