Freemasons For Dummies: Quatuor Coronati North American Conference at GW Memorial: Sept. 14-16

Monday, July 02, 2018

Quatuor Coronati North American Conference at GW Memorial: Sept. 14-16

Just a reminder that late this summer, England's renowned Quatuor Coronati Lodge of Research No. 2076 will host a rare North American Conference with a program of research papers and debates featuring an international lineup of outstanding Masonic and academic historians.

The Conference will be held in Alexandria, Virginia at the George Washington National Masonic Memorial, September 14-16, 2018.

The theme is Freemasonry in the Transatlantic World.

Photo: Ron Cogswell

The program includes two and a half days of lectures and discussions, beginning Friday morning, and concluding on Sunday. Attendees will also have the opportunity to attend a convivial dinner on Saturday evening, a Universal Lodge, a convocation of Academic Lodges, plus a talk on Masonic Symbolism and tour of Washington, D.C.

FRIDAY

The Conflicted Identity of Early 18th Century English Freemasonry – Paul Monod

Panel: Freemasonry in the Caribbean – Neil Wynes Morse, Susan Snell and Andreas Önnefors

Scottish-American Freemasonry in the Eighteenth Century – Bob Cooper and Mark Wallace

Freemasonry in North America – John Laurence Busch and Jeffrey Croteau

Panel: French Lodges and Connections in the Americas – Eric Saunier and Jeffrey Kaplan

Transatlantic and Back Again – Marsha Keith Schuchard and Hans Schwartz

A Universal Lodge (Tyled)

Masonic symbolism in Washington DC

SATURDAY

The Patriot Lodge (host) – Tyled Meeting of the Convocation of Academic Lodges

The Multifaceted Freemasons of Jamaica – Jackie Ranston

Panel: Freemasonry in North America – Andrew Hammer, Erich Morgan Huhn and Shawn Eyer

Panel: Religion & Freemasonry – Lucio Artini, Roberto Pertocucci, Fenando Gill Gonzalez, and John Acaster

Panel: Material & Print Culture Felipe Corte Real de Camargo – Hilary Anderson Stelling and John Slifko

Bringing Masonry to the University – Larry Adamson, PGM of California

Conference Dinner, followed by an evening in Alexandria

SUNDAY

Welcome – Arturo de Hoyos and Brent Morris

The role of men of color in the early period of Freemasonry – Oscar Alleyne

The First Grand Lodge: 1717 or 1721? – Ric Berman and Susan Mitchell Sommers
A debate and discussion followed by Q&A

Guided Tour of Washington

For prices, registration, hotel information and more details, visit the Conference website HERE.

Program below. Click images to enlarge:

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A mythic past.
A visionary future.
A legendary brotherhood.

Freemasonry is the largest, oldest and best-known gentleman's fraternity in the world. Historically, it is based on the Medieval stonemason guilds who built the great castles and cathedrals of Europe. Mythologically it is founded upon the building of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, as told in the Old Testament of the Bible.

King Solomon was considered to be the wisest and most just man in history, and the temple he had built to God was said to be the holiest place on Earth. Modern Freemasons likewise use the tools, traditions and terminology of those Biblical stonemasons as allegories for building Temples in the hearts of men, using Solomon as our ideal example of wisdom, justice and faith.

At its core, Freemasonry is simply an attempt to make the world a better place, one man at a time. For each man, it can become as simple or as complicated as he himself desires.

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In 2018 he was awarded the Caleb B. Smith Medal of Honor by the Grand Lodge F&AM of Indiana for his "distinguished service to Freemasonry in Indiana and worldwide."

Chris is a 33° Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (NMJ), Indianapolis Valley. He is a Past Sovereign Master of Imhotep Council No. 434 of the Allied Masonic Degrees. He is a founding member of Levant Preceptory, a medieval Knights Templar period recreation degree team in the York Rite, and he is an officer of the Indiana College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Civitatibus Foederatis. He belongs to numerous other Masonic appendant organizations.

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Chris was a commercial filmmaker for twenty-three years with Dean Crow Productions in Indianapolis. Hodapp and Alice Von Kannon developed scripts for the History Channel program, Brad Meltzer's Decoded in 2010, and contributed material on conspiracies and secret societies for TruTV and the American Heroes Channel. They have both appeared on National Public Radio, the History Channel, Discovery, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and the American Heroes Channel - most recently in 2017 on America: Facts vs Fiction.

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Quatuor Coronati North American Conference at GW Memorial: Sept. 14-16

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