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2024 HSEC Annual Meeting

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2023 VIRTUAL

The 2023 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Wednesday, July 26, 2023 via Zoom.



2022 VIRTUAL

The 2022 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Wednesday, July 27, 2022 via Zoom.


2021 VIRTUAL

The 2021 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Wednesday, July 28 via Zoom.


2020 VIRTUAL

The 2020 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Wednesday, July 29 via Zoom.


2019 TORONTO

The 2019 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Thursday, June 20 at Trinity College, University of Toronto during the Tri-History Conference.


2018 VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

The 2018 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Saturday, June 16 at Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia. The evening included the Manross Lecture by Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Comparative Religion and American Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. His topic was "Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression" which dealt with what Williams calls the "Episcopal Project" of bringing into being a network of institutions, social movements, cathedrals and churches, and philanthropic projects in American society.


2017 SEWANEE, TENNESSEE

The 2017 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Saturday, June 24 at the Sewanee Inn of the University of the South, Sewanee, TN. A lecture was given by ​Dr. John C. Willis, Jessie Ball duPont Professor of History at Sewanee, the University of the South, on the topic Beyond Words: Reports from Nature's Archive. Dr. Willis shared his current research on the southern Cumberland Plateau, giving special attention to the interaction of human ambitions and the natural environment.


2016 ONEIDA, WISCONSIN

The 2016 Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 in Oneida, Wisconsin during the triennial Tri-History Conference.

2015 SALT LAKE CITY

The Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The gathering included the Manross Lecture given by Professor Philip Barlow of Utah State University, whose topic was “White Lies That Tell The Truth Of The Landscape: Mapping The Episcopal Church & The Impact Of 'Place' On Religion.”


2014 CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA

​The Annual Meeting was held June 21, 2014 at Bloy House, Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. A lecture was given by Dr. Stephanie Muravchik, Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College. She received a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia and is an Associate Fellow for the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (University of Virginia). Her research has focused on twentieth-century American religion and the way self and community have been historically constituted in the United States. Dr. Muravchik will speak on “The Episcopal Clergy in the Age of Psychology” based on her book American Protestantism in the Age of Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2011) which challenges the claim that psychology has been used to weaken American religion, virtue and community.


2013 SAN ANTONIO

The Annual Meeting of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church was held June 10th, 2013 at the St. Anthony Hotel in San Antonio, Texas during the triennial Tri-History Conference. A lecture by  the Rev. Will Wauters was delivered entitled "The Borderland Cultures Encounter the Church and a Church Gave Birth to a New Chicano Culture," in which talk he described how the Church of the Epiphany in East Los Angeles, the oldest standing Episcopal Church in Los Angeles, opened its doors in a new way to the revolutionary times of the 1960's in the barrio and how both the Church and Los Angeles culture and history were transformed by one another.

2012 CHRIST CHURCH, INDIANAPOLIS

The Annual Meeting was held Tuesday, July 3 at Christ Church, Indianapolis.

2011 ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA

The annual membership meeting was held Saturday evening, June 18, 2011 at Virginia Theological Seminary. Dr. Richard Jones, Professor Emeritus of Missions and World Religions at Virginia Theological Seminary, and the Al-Alwani Chair of Muslim-Christian Studies at the Washington Theological Consortium, spoke on the history of the Christian churches in Sudan at the society’s banquet dinner.

2010 RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA

The Annual Meeting was held June 20, 2010 in Raleigh, North Carolina during the triennial Tri-History Conference. An address entitled "Globalization and Catholicity: The Historiography of a Recent Tri-lateral Dialogue" was given by the Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright, historiographer of the Episcopal Church and professor of Church History at the General Theological Seminary.

2009 ANAHEIM

The Annual Meeting was held during General Convention in Anaheim, California. A lecture was made by the Rev. Canon Dr. Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, Oxford, and teaches history and theology in the University of Oxford.

2007 WILLIAMSBURG


2000 DENVER


1996 BERKELEY

The Annual Meeting was held at St. Mark's, Berkeley, California. The speaker was the Rev. Dr. J. Rebecca Lyman, Samuel Garrett professor of Church History at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, who challenged the assembled members and guests to explore how history informs their consciousness of themselves as Episcopalians, as Anglicans, and as Americans. Examining five contemporary publications --The Anglican Digest, Episcopal Life, The Living Church, Ruach, and The Witness-- Lyman reported that she discovered very few historical and scriptural references in articles about current events. "Is this an educational gap, an editorial oversight, or some cultural bias that the past is passe?" she asked.

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