SEPTEMBER 2023 CAMBRIDGE CONFERENCE
‘Inventing the Future’: the 1723 Constitutions
QUEENS’ COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
ENGLAND
22 – 24 September 2023
Three days of outstanding lectures, seminars and debates.
Booking closes in just a few weeks.
FRIDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER |
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11.00-14.00 | Conference Registration | |
14.00-14.15 | Welcome: Jonathan Spence, ProGM, & Dr Ric Berman, Conference Chair | |
‘Context, Content, & Consequences: The 1723 Constitutions’ | ||
A European Perspective | ||
14.15-15.15 | Prof. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire: ‘A European Overview’ | |
Prof. Olivier Badot: ‘The influences of the 1723 Constitutions on C18th French Freemasonry’ | ||
15.15-15.45 | Profs. Cécile Révauger & Margaret C. Jacob – discussant | |
‘Women’s Freemasonry in eighteenth-century France and its legacy’ | ||
15.45-16.00 | Coffee / Break | |
16.00-16.40 | Lucio Artini: ‘Freemasonry’s Tenets: A threat to Absolutism’ | |
Olivier Badot & Ric Berman: discussants | ||
16.40-17.40 | Leif Endre Grutle, Andreas Önnerfors, Niels Arne Dam & Haukur Óskarsson: | |
‘Nordic Freemasonry & the Swedish Rite’ | ||
Panel Presentation & Discussion | ||
18.30 | College Bar – Reception | |
SATURDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER |
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09.15-09.30 | Welcome & Introduction | |
Origins, Britain and America | ||
09.30-10.30 | Prof. Margaret C. Jacob: Freemasonry & the Enlightenment | |
Cécile Révauger & Ric Berman – discussants | ||
10.30-11.00 | Coffee / Break | |
11.00-12.15 | Freemasonry and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Part I | |
Dr Andrew Thompson: ‘Hanoverian Britain: Culture & Society’ | ||
Dr Patricia Fara: ‘Desaguliers, the Royal Society & the Scientific Enlightenment’ | ||
12.15-13.30 | Lunch | |
13.30-14.15 | Freemasonry and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Part II | |
Dr Bridgett Orr: ‘Freemasonry, Theatre & the Arts’ | ||
Discussion and Q&A | ||
14.15-15.15 | Profs. Susan Sommers & Andrew Prescott: | |
‘James Anderson: Philosophical Imperatives’, Part I’ | ||
15.15-15.45 | Coffee / Break | |
15.45-16.30 | Prof. Henrik Bogdan | |
‘James Anderson, Philosophical Imperatives’, Part II | ||
16.30-17.15 | Akram Elias, PGM, Washington D.C.: ‘The 1723 Constitutions. | |
The Indispensable Trowel: Cementing America’s Foundations’ | ||
Q&A | ||
18.30 | UGLE Reception, The Old Hall, Queens’ College | |
19.30 | Formal Dinner, Cripps Hall, Queens’ College | |
(Black Tie or Business Attire) | ||
SUNDAY 24 SEPTEMBER |
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09.00-09.10 | Welcome & Introduction | |
09.10-10.00 | ‘Breaking Barriers’ | |
Profs. Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire & Andreas Önnerfors: | ||
‘Freemasonry & Revolutionary Europe’ | ||
10.00-10.40 | Prof. John Kyle Day & Dr Oscar Alleyne (discussant) | |
‘Black Freemasonry in America’ | ||
Q&A | ||
11.00-11.20 | Coffee / Break | |
11:20-12:30 | ‘The 1723 Constitutions: Inventing the Future’ | |
Floor / Panel Discussion | ||
Please note that events, panels and speakers may be subject to change. |
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