Conference Program

Download a PDF version of the program here.
Paper abstracts available here.
Information on Conference Speakers.
Program time is in AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).
Papers will be live-streamed, including those presented face-to-face.
Paper presentations are 30 minutes with 10-15 minutes for Q&A.

* Friday 6 August *

7.00pm: Introduction to ACWR Conference - Dean Smith

7.15pm: “The Domestication of the ‘Spirited Woman’: Clothing Radicalism in Supposed Feminine Weakness” - Christine Faragher

8.00pm: “The Stressed Ideal Woman: The Anxious Emotionology of Catherine Booth” - Emma Moore

8.45pm: Light refreshments

9.15pm: ACWR Members Meeting

9.45pm: Close of day

* Saturday 7 August *

8.45am: PLENARY SESSION 1 - “Negotiating ‘Andromania’ and Other Disputed Borders in the Wesleyan Deaconess Movement” - Priscilla Pope-Levison

10.00am: Morning Tea

10.30am: PLENARY SESSION 2 - “‘Her Distinctive Dress:’ Clothing and Conflicts in the Late-Nineteenth Century Deaconess Movement” - Priscilla Pope-Levison

11.45am: Break

12.00pm: “Margaret Gaines: Persistent Pentecostal, Friend of Palestinians” - Kimberley Alexander

12.45pm: “Women Preachers on the Rock: The Slow Silencing of Vigorous Voices” - Ewen Butler

1.30pm: Lunch

2.15pm: “Courageous Calling: Experiences of female Pentecostal theological students in Australia” - Glenda Hepplewhite

3.00pm: “Enspirited by the Masculine/Feminine Divine” - Irene Alexander

3.45pm: Afternoon Tea

4.15pm: “‘Calvinistic Controversialist’: Anne Dutton’s Spirited Opposition to John Wesley’s Conception of the Doctrines of Perfection and Election, 1739-43” - Ian Maddock

5.00pm: “Ann's Story” - Leanne Davis

5.45pm: Close of day

* Sunday 8 August *

8.45am: PLENARY SESSION 3 - “A Deaconess Blueprint for the Revival of Global Methodism” - Priscilla Pope-Levison

10.00am: “Catherine Booth on Female Ministry: A Question of Salvation” - Jennifer Hein

10.45am: Morning Tea

11.15am: Worship Service

12.30pm: Close of Conference