2014 Swarthmore lecturer announced
Ben Pink Dandelion will be the Swarthmore lecturer in 2014
The 2014 Swarthmore Lecture, it has just been announced, is to be given by the Quaker author and academic Ben Pink Dandelion and will explore the theme of ‘transformation’.
‘I use the term “transforming” to refer to how early Quakers were transformed in their spiritual experience’, Ben Pink Dandelion explained, ‘how they tried to transform the world around them, how the tradition has transformed, and how we can be transformed, transform our Meetings today and act as agents of transformation in the world, all of which is what it means to be a Quaker in the world today.’
The Swarthmore Lecture is overseen and supported by the Swarthmore Lecture Committee, which is appointed by trustees of the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham.
The lecture will take place during Britain Yearly Meeting Gathering, to be held at the University of Bath from 2 to 9 August 2014. The theme of the Gathering is ‘what it means to be a Quaker today’.
Ben Pink Dandelion, who has worked at Woodbrooke for twenty years, is currently honorary professor and programmes leader for the Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Ben currently serves as an elder in Sawley Local Meeting. He is also writing a book connected with the lecture, which will be published in August 2014.
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