If you are attending, please stop by the Masonic Society table in the Marketplace area, and if you aren't a member, consider signing up. Also, because the Conference does not publish the papers, if you are a presenter, I'd like to take the opportunity to invite you to submit your paper to the Journal of the Masonic Society for publication.
The Conference runs today through Sunday. Lacking my own boots on the ground, I'm hoping someone there will take lots of notes and photos and share them.
One maddening statistic: organizers tell me there were only about 200 attendees signed up this year, and over half of them are the presenters themselves. The Conference was well publicized for at least a year, and It is astonishing to me that the North American Masonic community did not step up and support this incredible event with larger numbers. A poor turnout like this will undoubtedly result in no strong desire of the organizers to return to these shores anytime in the near future.
How we do so love to take careful aim at our own foot and blast away with both barrels.
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Below is the preliminary lineup of speakers and papers:
FRIDAY MAY 27TH, 2011
Plenary lecture 1: Professor Steven Bullock: The First Capital Cornerstone Laying: Masonry, Alexandria, the Nation, and the
o Freemasonry as a Factor in American Society
1a. Daniel Egel, USA
Did Freemasonry Help Solve the Common Good Problem? An Examination of the Historical Expansion of American Education in the Western United States
1b. Brent Morris, USA
American Masonic Membership Trends
1c. John Belton, UK
An Ungolden Age of Fraternalism?: A Comparison of Craft Masonic Membership in Confederate and Union States 1850-1900.
o Freemasonry and Religion I
2a. Klaus-J"urgen Gr"un, Germany
Celebrating Nature. Freemasonry and its Contribution to the Secularization of Religion
2b. Jan Snoek, Germany
The Female Case: The Religious Dimension of the Adoption Rite
2c. Martin Papenheim, Germany
Albert Pike's and Eug`ene Goblet d'Alviella's Reforms of the Scottish Rite and the Theory of Religion in the late 19th Century
2d. Hans-Hermann Hoffmann, Germany
"Christian", "humanitarian" and "reformist" positions in conflict: The religious discourse of German Freemasons from "Vorm"arz" up to the republic of Weimar 1840-1933
o Mozart and Freemasonry
3a. Neva Krysteva, Bulgaria
Mozart: The Contrapuntal Temple in the last Symphony
3b. Ruben Gurevich, Canada
Does Mozart's "Die Zauberfl"ote" have a "meaning"?
3c. Gabriel Mancuso, Italy
Eine kleine Freymaurer-Kantate (A Short Masonic Cantata). Genesis, development and musical characteristics of the last work
o Freemasonry in the Far East
4a. Pauline Chakmakjian, UK
General MacArthur ">Saturday May 28th, 2011
o Plenary lecture 3: Professor Chernoh Sesay, Jr: 'All things here are frail and changeable': The Social and Political Origins of Prince Hall Freemasonry in the late 18th century.
o Early American Freemasonry I
13a. John Wade, UK
Public Masonic Processions in the Thirteen American Colonies
13b. John B. Slifko, USA
Dolley Madison and the Freemason Benjamin Latrobe in the Making of the President's House, Washington City, and beyond
13c. Roger Burt, UK
Freemasonry and the Gold Rushes
o Anti-freemasonry and Conservatism in Europe around 1800: lines of development
14a. Andrew McKenzie- McHarg, Germany
Visions of Conspiracy: the Anti- Masonry of Former Masons in late 18th century Germany
14b. Damien Amblard, France
The Early Writings of a Famous Anti-Mason: Politics in the Writings of the Abb'e Barruel, 1788-1797.
14c. Claus Oberhauser, Austria
John Robison and his 'Proofs of a Conspiracy'
o Freemasonry in the Middle East
15a. Stephan Schmid, Lebanon
Freemasonry during the Arab Nahda, 1860 - 1914: A New Reading of the Evolution of the Arabic Printing Press and the Modern Arab Intellectual Elite.
15b. Thierry Millet, France
The rise of American Masonry in French Levant
15c. Sa"id Chaaya, France
The "Nahda" in the 19th century Lebanon and its relationship with the Masonic Lodges: The Intellectual and Cultural
Renaissance, an Oriental "Aufkl"arung"
o Aspects of Fraternalism
16a. James Jack, UK
Free Gardeners and Freemasons - A comparison
16b. Bob James, Australia
A Response to Snoek: Fraternal Societies in Australia, 1788- 2010.
16c. William D. Moore, USA
Darius Wilson, Confidence Games, and the Limits of American Fraternal Respectability, 1875-1915
o Session 17: Early American Freemasonry II
17a. Alan Capps, USA
The First Band of Brothers - George Washington and the Freemasons of Alexandria Lodge No. 22
17b. Ami Pflugrad-Jackisch, USA
'Our Illustrious Brother George Washington': Fraternal Orders, Public Space, and Civic Brotherhood in Antebellum Virginia
o Dynamic Freemasonry in 18th and early 19th century Lancashire
18a. John Astbury, UK
Scottish Freemasons in Manchester and the USA 1800- 1830
18b. David Hawkins, UK
Relationships within and between lodges around Bolton in Georgian England
18c. John Belton, UK
The Royal Arch within early Lancashire Masonry
o Freemasonry in Latin America
19a. Miguel Guzm'an-Stein, Costa Rica
Woman, Freemasonry and the Order of the Eastern Star in Latin America. The times of Andres Cassard (1865-1875)
19b. Ricardo Martin'ez Esquivel, Costa Rica
Mystical sociability: Freemasons and Theosophists in the organization of the Co- Freemasonry and the Liberal Catholic Church in Costa Rica during the 1920s
o Contradictions of Fraternalism: Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion I
20a. Panel A Inclusion: Community Formation and Social Action
Kristofer Allerfeldt, UK & Jeffrey Tyssen, Belgium
20b. Jeffrey Tyssens
Ghost Town Brotherhood: Virginia Fraternities in West American Mining Towns, 1879-1912
20c. Ana"is Maes
Brothers in Temperance: Good Templar Lodges in Belgium and the Netherlands (Early 20th Century)
o Early American Freemasonry III
21a. Michael S. Kaulback, USA
A Scottish Lodge in the Grand Jurisdiction of Massachusetts
21b. Todd Wm. Kissam, USA
A Founder's Faith: The Contributions and Example of Illustrious Brother Frederick Dalcho, original member of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
21c. Hannah M. Lane, USA
Maine and New Brunswick freemasons and contested political geographies, 1770 - 1870
o Women and Freemasonry
22a. James Allen, USA
Freemason Women and Modern Civic Life in George Sand's 'La Comtesse de Rudolstadt' (1843)
22b. N.N., N.A.
The Reverend, The Bluestocking, and Freemasons Behaving Badly: An Exploration and Close Reading of "A Series of Letters on Freemasonry" by "a Lady of Boston"
22c. Karen Kidd, USA
Co-Masonry's Place in the History of North American Freemasonry
o Impacts of Freemasonry II
23b. Shawn E. Eyer, USA
The Degree Lectures of Waller Rodwell Wright: A Critical Analysis of the Ritual Drafts of a Member of William Preston's Inner Circle
o Contradictions of Fraternalism: Practices of Inclusion and Exclusion II
Panel B Exclusion: Racism and Denominational Closure
24a. Adam Gfrey Kendall, USA
The Masonic Whitewash Committee of California: American Anti-Catholicism, Freemasonry and the Knights of Columbus in the 1910s
24b. Kristofer Allerfeldt, UK
The Ku Klux Klan and Fraternalism in the 1920s.
24c. Joesphe G. Stiles, USA Using Progressive-era Ku Klux Klan Activity in Kansas to Understand Changes in Freemasonry and Similar Fraternal Organizations
o Plenary lecture 4: Robert Cooper: Scottish Freemasonry in the Thirteen Colonies
o Gala Dinner
SUNDAY MAY 29TH, 2011
o Plenary round table: Freemasonry, gender and history.
Chaired by Andrew Prescott, with Margaret Jacob, Cecile Revauger and James Smith Allen.
o Afro-American Freemasonry
25a. Jose O. Diaz, USA
"A Long Vexed Question:" The Alpha Affair, Black Masonry, and Northern Reconstruction.
25b. Jeff Croteau, USA
Black Abolitionists in White Lodges: Richard P.G. Wright and Theodore Sedgwick Wright
25c. Stephen Hill Sr., USA
John Wesley Dobbs
o Irish Freemasonry and its Impact I
26a. Patrick J. Flynn, Ireland
Freemasonry in North America, the Irish Influence
26b. Petri Mirala, Finland
Irish Masonry: a key to wider Atlantic networks?
o Performing the Political: Speech and Song as Ideological Vehicles in 19th Century Belgian Freemasonry
27a. Jimmy Koppen, Belgium
Agap`e and the Polis: Table Rhetoric and Political Mobilization of Belgian Lodges in the 19th Century
27b. Ana"is Maes, Belgium
Informal or Official? The Lodge's "Conf'erences" and "Morceaux d'Architecture" and their Political Message, 1798- 1872
27c. David Vergauwen, Belgium Masonic Songs: Themes and Political Discourse in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
27d. NN, N.A.
Music at the Cradle: Belgian Masonic Music and the Birth of a State (1830-1865)
o Central and Eastern European Freemasonry
28a. Guilia Delogu, Italy
Masonic lexicon and themes in Italian and French poetry, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Age
28b. Ljubinka Toseva Karpowicz, Croatia The Role of Masonic Lodges
Sirius and Italia Nuova in the Political History of Rijeka (1901-1926)
o Material Culture of Freemasonry
29a. Aimee E. Newell, USA Sparkling through Time: Paul Revere's Masonic Jewels
29b. Heather K. Calloway
Use of regalia in the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
29c. Helge Bj"orn Horrisland, Norway
The Roosevelt Picture - an episode of restitution
o Irish Freemasonry and its Impact II
30a. Breand'an Mac Suibhne, USA
The Freemasons and the Fannet Ghost: An Episode in Irish Cultural History, 1786-1822
30b Geraldine Stubbs, UK
Conviviality, Sociability: Fraternity & Commotions, Ructions & Shenanigans: Freemasonry in Ballybay 1746 - 1843
o Eighteenth century Russian freemasonry
31a. Natalie Bayer, USA
Mind, Matter, Soul and a Mechanical Chess-Playing Turk: Some Cartesian Elements in Russian Eighteenth-Century Masonic Thought
31b. Tatiana Artyemeva, Russia
Philosophy of History in Russian Eighteenth-Century Masonry
o Freemasonry and Music
32a. India D'Avignon, USA
Freemasons Franklin, Mozart, Mesmer and the Glass Armonica
32b. David Vergauwen, Belgium
Making Wagner happen
o Plenary lecture 5: Dr. Andreas "Onnerfors: Researching the History of Freemasonry: 3x3 ways forward!
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