A scholarly conference, open to those in postgraduate study and beyond, exploring the historical and theological expressions of the Anglican Communion, with special reference to the 150th celebrations of the Diocese of Queensland but open to scholars researching any aspect of the Anglican Church in Australia and abroad.

Dr Lindsay Henderson (USQ), Dr Gillian Colclough (USQ), Marcus Harmes (UQ), Dr Catherine Dewhirst (USQ) – further input from St Francis’ required and desirable.

Conference Rationale:  The pre-modern, Victorian and colonial expressions of Anglicanism have never lacked interpreters, but it is only recently that the Anglican Church in Australia has started to receive mainstream scholarly attention.  This conference would aim to bring together different currents of thought in the scholarly approaches to the Church of England, the Anglican Communion and the Anglican Church of Australia, combining the recent proliferation of scholarly activity into Australian Anglicanism and the traditional strengths of research into pre-modern, Victorian and colonial Anglicanism.  Built into this approach will be the scholarly commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Anglicanism in Queensland.

Major themes could include: education and schooling; missionary activities; Protestant diasporas; church government; charity; indigenous history; historiography; ecumenism; canon law; archives; religion in fiction; the colonial church; church music; art and architecture; formation of religious identities; histories of religious orders; reformations and long reformations; heresy; economic history; female ordination and feminism; Christology; apologetics; environmentalism and the Church.