Backhouse Lecture

The Backhouse Lecture series has been given annually since 1964 as a presentation at Quakers Yearly Meeting in Australia. It is similar in themes and structure to the Swarthmore Lecture series in Britain. Also known as the James Backhouse Lecture, as it is named for James Backhouse.

Past Lectures

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Year ! Venue ! Presenter ! Topic ! Link
2024 \| Adelaide, South Australia (and on-line) \| Jackie Leach-Scully \| (60th anniversary) God’s ways, not our ways: A dissident Quaker response to disability \| [https://ipoz.biz/product/gods-ways-not-our-ways-a-dissident-quaker-response-to-disability/ book»]
2023 \| Hobart, Tasmania (and on-line) \| Jon Watts \| Quakers, the Internet, and What’s Next \| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8prYFMA4aY video»]
2022 \| on-line \| Yarrow Goodley \| Creating hope: Working for justice in catastrophic times \| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEqIDFRZKrc video»]
2021 \| on-line \| (Panel discussion)panelists: Dorothy Broom, Gerry Fahey, Duncan Frewin, & Pamela Leach; moderator: Jennifer Burrell \| The 2021 Australian Backhouse Panel Discussion: Searching for Truth: Friends in a 'post-truth' - world \| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3LNT60S8QM video» ] [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/2021_Backhouse%20Panel%20Discussion_Transcription_FINAL_0.pdf transcript»] [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Backhouse21%20Discussion%20Questions_Pamela%20Leach.pdf resources»]
2020 \| on-line \| Fiona Gardner \| Seeking Union with Spirit: Experiences of Spiritual Journeys \| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVuNNyQu_8 video»]
2019 \| Hobart, Tasmania \| Jason MacLeod \| Animating Freedom: Accompanying Indigenous struggles for self-determination \| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqXaCPN19dU video»]
2018 \| Cooranbong, NSW \| Cho-Nyon Kim \| An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life \| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJ4HNfv5B8 video»] [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Backhouse%20Lecture%202018_0.pdf transcript»]
2017 \| Adelaide, South Australia \| David Carline \| Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum in the context of two Aboriginal life stories \| [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCid4LJ99gKk9SGhgRioYc7A video»]
2016 \| \| Margery Post Abbott \| Everyday Prophets \| [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCid4LJ99gKk9SGhgRioYc7A video»]
2015 \| \| Sally Herzfeld and Alternatives to Violence Project Members \| This We Can Do: Quaker faith in action through the Alternatives to Violence Project \|
2014 \| \| Tracy Bourne \| Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; Bringing children into the centre of Quaker life and worship \|
2013 \| \| Jocelyn Bell Burnell \| A Quaker astronomer reflects: Can a scientist also be religious \| {{cite web \|url=https://womenyoushouldknow.net/life-astronomer-jocelyn-bell-burnell/ \|title=Studies In Expectation: The Life Of Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell \|date=16 June 2021 }}
2012 \| \| David Atwood \| From the inside out: Observations on Quaker work at the United Nations \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43893722 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=43893722 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|series=Quaker History \|title=Articles and Publications \|volume=102 \|issue=1 \|year=2013 \|pages=47–49 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2011 \| \| Rosemary (Rowe) Morrow \| A demanding and uncertain adventure: Exploration of a concern for Earth restoration and how we must live to pass on to our children - and their children, and all living things - an Earth restored \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947728 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947728 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=101 \|issue=1 \|year=2012 \|pages=39–46\|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2010 \| \| (54 contributors)listed contributors in alphabetical order: Lewis Albanis, Kate Barnard, Paul Barnier, Callista Barritt, Jerome Barty-Taylor, Miranda Barty-Taylor, Gareth Beyers, Connor Chaffey, Emily Chapman-Searle, Hannah Chapman-Searle, Rhys Dryzek, Aletia Dundas, Tom Dundas, Esther Fox, Sam Fry, Evan Gallagher, Amber Goedegebuure, Oliver Greeves, Bethany Growns, Verity Guiton, Imogen Hamel-Green, Chris Hall, Herman Itangakubuntu, Chris Jacques, Nadia Johnson, Stuart Johnson, Sally Kingsland, Cammie Kelly, Peter Kneale, Antoinette Kwizera, Dale Lund, Jess Lund (nee Dundas), Julie Martin, Kerensa McElroy, Melchiade Nishimwe, Adolf (Niyo) Niyonkuru, Caroline Plunkett, Kyle Purnell, Jensen Sass, Megan Sheard, Katana Smith, Sally Stokes, Warren Summers, Alexa Taylor, Jo Temme, Amy Thom, Aline Vyizigiro, Emily Walpole, Mary Webb, Rachael Westwood, Myf White, Ailsa Wild, Anna Wilkinson, Ben Williamson \| Finding our voice Our truth, community and journey as Australian Young Friends \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947693 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947693 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=99 \|issue=1 \|year=2010 \|pages=59–63 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2009 \| \| Helen Gould \| The Quaking Meeting Transforming our selves, our meetings and the more-than-human world \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Helen%20Gould.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947681 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947681 \|author=Densmore, Christopher, and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=98 \|issue=2 \|year=2009 \|pages=57–63 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2008 \| \| George Ellis \| Faith, hope and doubt in times of uncertainty Combining the realms of scientific and spiritual inquiry \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/George%20_%20Jean.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947671 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947671 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=98 \|issue=1 \|year=2009 \|pages=53–57 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2007 \| \| Jenny Spinks \| Support for our true selves - Nurturing the space where leadings flow \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Jenny%20Spinks.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947663 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947663 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=97 \|issue=2 \|year=2008 \|pages=58–63 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2006 \| \| Polly O. (Daksi) Walker \| One Heart and a Wrong Spirit: The Religious Society of Friends and Colonial Racism \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947601 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947601 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=96 \|issue=1 \|year=2007 \|pages=61–65 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2005 \| \| David Johnson \| Peace is a Struggle \|
2004 \| Armadale North, Victoria \| Ute Caspers \| Growing a Fruitful Friendship - A Garden Walk \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Ute%20Caspers.mp3 audio»] [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3083823 au-nla»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947570 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947570 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=94 \|issue=2 \|year=2005 \|pages=65–70 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }} [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143861/ ouevre»] [https://casperfilm.de/pge/hauptframe.html bio»](German)
2003 \| \| Helen Bayes \| Respecting the Rights of Children and Young People: A New Perspective on Quaker Faith and Practice \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Helen%20Bayes.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947559 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947559 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=94 \|issue=1 \|year=2005 \|pages=62–66 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }} [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947521 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947521 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=92 \|issue=2 \|year=2003 \|pages=68–72 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2002 \| \| Mark Deasey \| To Do Justly, And To Love Mercy: learning from Quaker service \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Mark%20Deasey.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947521 jstor»]
2001 \| \| Hendrik W van der Merwe \| Reconciling Opposites: Reflections on peacemaking in South Africa \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Hendrick%20Van%20Der%20Merwe.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947488 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947488 \|author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=91 \|issue=1 \|year=2002 \|pages=77–81 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
2000 \| Armadale North, Victoria \| Susannah Kay Brindle \| To Learn A New Song: A Quaker Contribution Towards Real Reconciliation with the Earth and its Peoples \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Susannah%20Brindle.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947488 jstor»]
1999 \| \| Norman Talbot \| Myth and Stories, Lies and Truth \|
1998 \| \| Charles Stevenson \| Embraced by Other Selves: Enriching personal nature through group interaction \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/BackhouseCharlesStevenson.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947651 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947651 \|author=Barbara E. Addison and Mary Ellen Chijioke \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=89 \|issue=2 \|year=2000 \|pages=69–74 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
1997 \| \| Richard G. Meredith \| Learning of one another The Quaker encounter with other cultures and religions \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Richard%20Meredith.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947367 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947367 \|author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=86 \|issue=2 \|year=1997 \|pages=60–64 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
1996 \| \| Elise Boulding \| Our Children, our Partners A new vision for social action in the 21st century \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947337 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947337 \|author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=85 \|issue=2 \|year=1996 \|pages=69–74 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
1995 \| (from Bangkok, Thailand) \| Donna Kyle Anderton & Barbara Baker Bird \| Emerging Currents in the Asia-Pacific \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Backhouse%20Donna%20Anderson%20Barbar%20Bird.mp3 audio»]
1994 \| \| Di Bretherton \| As the Mirror Burns Making a Film about Vietnam \|
1993 \| \| Ursula Jane O'Shea \| Living the Way Quaker spirituality and community \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947251 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947251 \|author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|year=1993 \|volume=82 \|issue=2 \|pages=114–118 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
1992 \|colspan=4\| No Backhouse Lecture given.
1991 \| \| David James and Jillian Wychel \| Loving the Distances Between: Racism, Culture and Spirituality \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947225 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947225 \|author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=81 \|issue=2 \|year=1992 \|pages=115–119 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
1990 \| \| Jo Vallentine and Peter D. Jones \| Quakers in Politics: Pragmatism or Principle? \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947189 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=41947189 \|author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter \|title=Articles and Publications \|series=Quaker History \|volume=80 \|issue=1 \|year=1991 \|pages=53–58 \|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}
1989 \| \| Erica Fisher \| A New-Born Sense of Dignity and Freedom \|
1988 \| \| David Purnell \| Creative Conflict \|
1987 \| \| Carol and Dougald McLean \| The Vision That Connects - Building The Future We Choose \|
1986 \| \| Susumu Ishitani \| Looking for Meanings of My A-Bomb Experience in Nagasaki \|
1985 \| \| Gerald Priestland \| For All The Saints \|
1984 \| \| Peter D. Jones \| Pilgrims for Justice and Peace \|
1983 \| \| Sabine Willis \| An Adventure into Feminism with Friends \|
1982 \| \| John Ormerod Greenwood \| Celebration: A Missing Element in Quaker Worship \|
1981 \| \| Roger C. Wilson \| What Jesus Means To Me: Jesus the Liberator \|
1980 \| \| Hector Kinloch \| Quakers and Sacramental History: Reflections on Quaker Saints by a Quaker Sinner \|
1979 \| \| J. Duncan Wood \| Quakers in the Modern World: The Relevance of Quaker Beliefs to the Problems of the Modern World \|
1978 \| \| Margaret Wilkinson \| Wisdom: The Inner Teacher \|
1977 \| Naarmaroo, NSW \| Mary Woodward \| Papua New Guinea: Third World on our doorstep \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/1977%20Lecture.pdf transcript»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25168344 jstor»] {{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=25168344 \|author=Susan Stratigos and Honore Forster \|title=Bibliography of Current Publications \|series=The Journal of Pacific History \|volume=13 \|issue=4 \|year=1978 \|pages=213–45 \|publisher=Journal of Pacific History Inc, Taylor & Francis }}
1976 \| \| Stewart and Charlotte Meacham \| Imperialism Without Invading Armies: peace, justice and the multinationals in Southeast Asia \|
1975 \| \| Winifred A. M McNaughton \| A Time To Reap, A Time To Sow: Retirement \|
1973 (Aug) \| \| Yukio Irie \| Pilgrimage Toward The Fountainhead: Quakerism and Zen Buddhism Today \| [https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-260126953/ oeuvre»] (date falls in FY 1974)
1973 \| \| Otto B. Van Sprenkel \| Friends and Other Faiths \|
1972 \| \| L. Hugh Doncaster \| The Quaker Message: a Personal Affirmation \| [https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-5158978834855792070/ oeuvre»]
1971 \|colspan=3\|No Backhouse Lecture was given this year; instead, David Hodgkin gave an address under the title "Quakerism-A Mature Religion for Today", which was printed but not as a James Backhouse Lecture. \|[https://universalistfriends.org/hodgkin.html subsequent revision»]
1970 \| Melbourne, Vic \| Keith A. W. Crook \| Security for Australia? \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/1970%20Lecture.pdf transcript»]
1969 \| Pymble, NSW \| A. Barrie Pittock \| Toward a Multi-Racial Society \| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/1969%20Lecture.pdf transcript»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/20704843 jstor»]{{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=20704843 \|year=1972 \|volume=81 \|issue=1 \|pages=138–139 \|series=The Journal of the Polynesian Society \|title=Publications Received }} [https://www.nma.gov.au/explore/features/indigenous-rights/people/barrie-pittock bio»]
1968 \| \| William N. Oats \| In The Spirit of the Family \| [https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/WN%20Oats.htm bio»]
1967 \| \| Douglas V. Steere \| On Being Present Where You Are \|
1966 \| \| Rudolf Lemberg \| Seeking In An Age Of Imbalance \| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/769741 jstor»] {{cite journal \|website=JSTOR \|jstor=769741 \|author=C Rimington & C H Gray \|title=Max Rudolf Lemberg. 19 October 1896 -- 10 April 1975 \|series=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society \|year=1976 \|volume=22 \| pages=257–294 }}
1965 \| \| Clive Sansom \| The Shaping Spirit \|
1964 \| \| Kenneth E. Boulding \| The Evolutionary Potential Of Quakerism \|

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Year

! Venue

! Presenter

! Topic

! Link

2024

| Adelaide, South Australia
(and on-line)

| Jackie Leach-Scully

| (60th anniversary)

God’s ways, not our ways: A dissident Quaker response to disability

| [https://ipoz.biz/product/gods-ways-not-our-ways-a-dissident-quaker-response-to-disability/ book»]

2023

|
Hobart, Tasmania
(and on-line)

| Jon Watts

| Quakers, the Internet, and What’s Next

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8prYFMA4aY video»]

2022

| on-line

| Yarrow Goodley

| Creating hope: Working for justice in catastrophic times

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEqIDFRZKrc video»]

2021

| on-line

| (Panel discussion)panelists: Dorothy Broom, Gerry Fahey, Duncan Frewin, & Pamela Leach; moderator: Jennifer Burrell

| The 2021 Australian Backhouse Panel Discussion: Searching for Truth: Friends in a 'post-truth' - world

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3LNT60S8QM video» ]
[https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/2021_Backhouse%20Panel%20Discussion_Transcription_FINAL_0.pdf transcript»]
[https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Backhouse21%20Discussion%20Questions_Pamela%20Leach.pdf resources»]

2020

| on-line

| Fiona Gardner

| Seeking Union with Spirit: Experiences of Spiritual Journeys

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVuNNyQu_8 video»]

2019

| Hobart, Tasmania

| Jason MacLeod

| Animating Freedom: Accompanying Indigenous struggles for self-determination

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqXaCPN19dU video»]

2018

| Cooranbong, NSW

| Cho-Nyon Kim

| An Encounter between Quaker Mysticism and Taoism in Everyday Life

| [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJ4HNfv5B8 video»]
[https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Backhouse%20Lecture%202018_0.pdf transcript»]

2017

| Adelaide, South Australia

| David Carline

| Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum in the context of two Aboriginal life stories

| [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCid4LJ99gKk9SGhgRioYc7A video»]

2016

| Margery Post Abbott

| Everyday Prophets

| [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCid4LJ99gKk9SGhgRioYc7A video»]

2015

| Sally Herzfeld and Alternatives to Violence Project Members

| This We Can Do: Quaker faith in action through the Alternatives to Violence Project

2014

| Tracy Bourne

| Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; Bringing children into the centre of Quaker life and worship

2013

| Jocelyn Bell Burnell

| A Quaker astronomer reflects: Can a scientist also be religious

| {{cite web |url=https://womenyoushouldknow.net/life-astronomer-jocelyn-bell-burnell/ |title=Studies In Expectation: The Life Of Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell |date=16 June 2021 }}

2012

| David Atwood

| From the inside out: Observations on Quaker work at the United Nations

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43893722 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=43893722 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |series=Quaker History |title=Articles and Publications |volume=102 |issue=1 |year=2013 |pages=47–49 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2011

| Rosemary (Rowe) Morrow

| A demanding and uncertain adventure: Exploration of a concern for Earth restoration and how we must live to pass on to our children - and their children, and all living things - an Earth restored

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947728 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947728 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=101 |issue=1 |year=2012 |pages=39–46|publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2010

| (54 contributors)listed contributors in alphabetical order:

Lewis Albanis,

Kate Barnard,

Paul Barnier,

Callista Barritt,

Jerome Barty-Taylor,

Miranda Barty-Taylor,

Gareth Beyers,

Connor Chaffey,

Emily Chapman-Searle,

Hannah Chapman-Searle,

Rhys Dryzek,

Aletia Dundas,

Tom Dundas,

Esther Fox,

Sam Fry,

Evan Gallagher,

Amber Goedegebuure,

Oliver Greeves,

Bethany Growns,

Verity Guiton,

Imogen Hamel-Green,

Chris Hall,

Herman Itangakubuntu,

Chris Jacques,

Nadia Johnson,

Stuart Johnson,

Sally Kingsland,

Cammie Kelly,

Peter Kneale,

Antoinette Kwizera,

Dale Lund,

Jess Lund (nee Dundas),

Julie Martin,

Kerensa McElroy,

Melchiade Nishimwe,

Adolf (Niyo) Niyonkuru,

Caroline Plunkett,

Kyle Purnell,

Jensen Sass,

Megan Sheard,

Katana Smith,

Sally Stokes,

Warren Summers,

Alexa Taylor,

Jo Temme,

Amy Thom,

Aline Vyizigiro,

Emily Walpole,

Mary Webb,

Rachael Westwood,

Myf White,

Ailsa Wild,

Anna Wilkinson,

Ben Williamson

| Finding our voice Our truth, community and journey as Australian Young Friends

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947693 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947693 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=99 |issue=1 |year=2010 |pages=59–63 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2009

| Helen Gould

| The Quaking Meeting Transforming our selves, our meetings and the more-than-human world

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Helen%20Gould.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947681 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947681 |author=Densmore, Christopher, and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=98 |issue=2 |year=2009 |pages=57–63 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2008

| George Ellis

| Faith, hope and doubt in times of uncertainty Combining the realms of scientific and spiritual inquiry

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/George%20_%20Jean.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947671 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947671 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=98 |issue=1 |year=2009 |pages=53–57 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2007

| Jenny Spinks

| Support for our true selves - Nurturing the space where leadings flow

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Jenny%20Spinks.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947663 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947663 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=97 |issue=2 |year=2008 |pages=58–63 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2006

| Polly O. (Daksi) Walker

| One Heart and a Wrong Spirit: The Religious Society of Friends and Colonial Racism

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947601 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947601 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History

|volume=96 |issue=1 |year=2007 |pages=61–65 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2005

| David Johnson

| Peace is a Struggle

2004

| Armadale North, Victoria

| Ute Caspers

| Growing a Fruitful Friendship - A Garden Walk

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Ute%20Caspers.mp3 audio»]

[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3083823 au-nla»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947570 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947570 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=94 |issue=2 |year=2005 |pages=65–70 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143861/ ouevre»]

[https://casperfilm.de/pge/hauptframe.html bio»](German)

2003

| Helen Bayes

| Respecting the Rights of Children and Young People: A New Perspective on Quaker Faith and Practice

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Helen%20Bayes.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947559 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947559 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=94 |issue=1 |year=2005 |pages=62–66 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947521 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947521 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=92 |issue=2 |year=2003 |pages=68–72 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2002

| Mark Deasey

| To Do Justly, And To Love Mercy: learning from Quaker service

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Mark%20Deasey.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947521 jstor»]

2001

| Hendrik W van der Merwe

| Reconciling Opposites: Reflections on peacemaking in South Africa

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Hendrick%20Van%20Der%20Merwe.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947488 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947488 |author=Christopher Densmore and Barbara Addison |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=91 |issue=1 |year=2002 |pages=77–81 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

2000

| Armadale North, Victoria

| Susannah Kay Brindle

| To Learn A New Song: A Quaker Contribution Towards Real Reconciliation with the Earth and its Peoples

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Susannah%20Brindle.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947488 jstor»]

1999

| Norman Talbot

| Myth and Stories, Lies and Truth

1998

| Charles Stevenson

| Embraced by Other Selves: Enriching personal nature through group interaction

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/BackhouseCharlesStevenson.mp3 audio»] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947651 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947651 |author=Barbara E. Addison and Mary Ellen Chijioke |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=89 |issue=2 |year=2000 |pages=69–74 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

1997

| Richard G. Meredith

| Learning of one another The Quaker encounter with other cultures and religions

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Richard%20Meredith.mp3 audio»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947367 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947367 |author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=86 |issue=2 |year=1997 |pages=60–64 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

1996

| Elise Boulding

| Our Children, our Partners A new vision for social action in the 21st century

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947337 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947337 |author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=85 |issue=2 |year=1996 |pages=69–74 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

1995

| (from Bangkok, Thailand)

| Donna Kyle Anderton & Barbara Baker Bird

| Emerging Currents in the Asia-Pacific

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/Backhouse%20Donna%20Anderson%20Barbar%20Bird.mp3 audio»]

1994

| Di Bretherton

| As the Mirror Burns Making a Film about Vietnam

1993

| Ursula Jane O'Shea

| Living the Way Quaker spirituality and community

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947251 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947251 |author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |year=1993 |volume=82 |issue=2 |pages=114–118 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

1992

|colspan=4| No Backhouse Lecture given.

1991

| David James and Jillian Wychel

| Loving the Distances Between: Racism, Culture and Spirituality

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947225 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947225 |author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=81 |issue=2 |year=1992 |pages=115–119 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

1990

| Jo Vallentine and Peter D. Jones

| Quakers in Politics: Pragmatism or Principle?

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41947189 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=41947189 |author=Mary Ellen Chijioke and Claire B. Shetter |title=Articles and Publications |series=Quaker History |volume=80 |issue=1 |year=1991 |pages=53–58 |publisher=Friends Historical Association }}

1989

| Erica Fisher

| A New-Born Sense of Dignity and Freedom

1988

| David Purnell

| Creative Conflict

1987

| Carol and Dougald McLean

| The Vision That Connects - Building The Future We Choose

1986

| Susumu Ishitani

| Looking for Meanings of My A-Bomb Experience in Nagasaki

1985

| Gerald Priestland

| For All The Saints

1984

| Peter D. Jones

| Pilgrims for Justice and Peace

1983

| Sabine Willis

| An Adventure into Feminism with Friends

1982

| John Ormerod Greenwood

| Celebration: A Missing Element in Quaker Worship

1981

| Roger C. Wilson

| What Jesus Means To Me: Jesus the Liberator

1980

| Hector Kinloch

| Quakers and Sacramental History: Reflections on Quaker Saints by a Quaker Sinner

1979

| J. Duncan Wood

| Quakers in the Modern World: The Relevance of Quaker Beliefs to the Problems of the Modern World

1978

| Margaret Wilkinson

| Wisdom: The Inner Teacher

1977

| Naarmaroo, NSW

| Mary Woodward

| Papua New Guinea: Third World on our doorstep

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/1977%20Lecture.pdf transcript»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/25168344 jstor»] {{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=25168344 |author=Susan Stratigos and Honore Forster |title=Bibliography of Current Publications |series=The Journal of Pacific History |volume=13 |issue=4 |year=1978 |pages=213–45 |publisher=Journal of Pacific History Inc, Taylor & Francis }}

1976

| Stewart and Charlotte Meacham

| Imperialism Without Invading Armies: peace, justice and the multinationals in Southeast Asia

1975

| Winifred A. M McNaughton

| A Time To Reap, A Time To Sow: Retirement

1973 (Aug)

| Yukio Irie

| Pilgrimage Toward The Fountainhead: Quakerism and Zen Buddhism Today

| [https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-260126953/ oeuvre»]

(date falls in FY 1974)

1973

| Otto B. Van Sprenkel

| Friends and Other Faiths

1972

| L. Hugh Doncaster

| The Quaker Message: a Personal Affirmation

| [https://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-5158978834855792070/ oeuvre»]

1971

|colspan=3|No Backhouse Lecture was given this year; instead, David Hodgkin gave an address under the title "Quakerism-A Mature Religion for Today", which was printed but not as a James Backhouse Lecture.

|[https://universalistfriends.org/hodgkin.html subsequent revision»]

1970

| Melbourne, Vic

| Keith A. W. Crook

| Security for Australia?

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/1970%20Lecture.pdf transcript»]

1969

| Pymble, NSW

| A. Barrie Pittock

| Toward a Multi-Racial Society

| [https://www.quakersaustralia.info/sites/aym-members/files/pages/files/1969%20Lecture.pdf transcript»]

[https://www.jstor.org/stable/20704843 jstor»]{{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=20704843 |year=1972 |volume=81 |issue=1 |pages=138–139 |series=The Journal of the Polynesian Society |title=Publications Received }}

[https://www.nma.gov.au/explore/features/indigenous-rights/people/barrie-pittock bio»]

1968

| William N. Oats

| In The Spirit of the Family

| [https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/WN%20Oats.htm bio»]

1967

| Douglas V. Steere

| On Being Present Where You Are

1966

| Rudolf Lemberg

| Seeking In An Age Of Imbalance

| [https://www.jstor.org/stable/769741 jstor»] {{cite journal |website=JSTOR |jstor=769741 |author=C Rimington & C H Gray |title=Max Rudolf Lemberg. 19 October 1896 -- 10 April 1975 |series=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |year=1976 |volume=22 | pages=257–294 }}

1965

| Clive Sansom

| The Shaping Spirit

1964

| Kenneth E. Boulding

| The Evolutionary Potential Of Quakerism

Further details on Quakers Australia's website.{{cite web

| title=Backhouse Lectures, Australia Yearly Meeting

| date=18 December 2017

| url=https://www.quakersaustralia.info/resources/backhouse-lectures

| access-date=2022-07-09

}}

References

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