Conference

ACHA Spring Meeting

Religion Matters Symposium

AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
SPRING MEETING 2006

Schedule of Events
Friday, April 7th

ACHA Home

Saturday, April 8th

Coffee and refreshments available throughout the day
beginning at 8:00 a.m. outside Rehm Library, 3rd Floor Smith Hall.

8:30 - 10:15	Session I
Rehm Library Smith Hall	Catholic Imagery before the English Reformation and in the Italian Baroque Chair/Commentator: Joanne Pierce, College of the Holy Cross Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross Two Books of Hours: The Gold Scrolls Group, England and Internationalism in the 15th Century (exhibited) Virginia Blanton, University of Missouri – Kansas City Imagining the Catholic Past through Imagery on Parish Roodscreens Lisa Wuliang Tom, Brown University Orazio Fidani’s “Tobias Healing his Father’s Blindness (1654): 17 th-Century Change in the Florentine Youth Confraternity of the Arcangelo Raffaello
Room 406 Hogan Campus Center	European Catholics Confront the “Other” 1919-45 Chair: Noel Cary, College of the Holy Cross Richard Francis Crane, Greensboro College Jacques Maritain, the Mystery of Israel, and the Holocaust Martin R. Menke, Rivier College French Catholics and Polish: German Catholics and their Neighbors Commentator: Donald Dietrich, Boston College
10:30 - 12:15	Session II
Rehm Library Smith Hall	Female Orthodox Monasticism in Imperial Russia : New Line of Research Chair, James T. Flynn, College of the Holy Cross William G. Wagner, Williams College The Transformation of Female Orthodox Monasticism in Nizhnii Novgorod Diocese, 1764-1929, in Comparative Perspective Nadieszda Kizenko, SUNY at Albany Nuns’ Confessions in Imperial Russia Marlyn L. Miller, Brandeis University Mothers Superior: Authority, Hierarchy and Obedience in the Imperial Russian Convent Commentator: Vera Shevzov, Smith College
Room 406 Hogan Campus Center	Childhood Chair/Commentator: David Hummon, College of the Holy Cross Carrie Schultz "Let the Little Children Come to Me”: Catholic Children’s Moral Development in the United States 1920-1965 David Endres, The Catholic University of America “Babes Whom the Christ Child Loves”:Childhood, Infancy, Innocence in the American Catholic Foreign Mission Movement
Room 407 Hogan Campus Center	English Recusants and Responses Chair: Thomas Worcester, S.J., College of the Holy Cross Robert Scully S.J., LeMoyne College Polemical Literature of the Elizabethan Catholic Recusants Anne Davenport, Boston College A Catholic Recusant from Coventry: Francisus a Sancta Clara Julie Conroy, Catholic University of America Late-Seventeenth-Century English Catholic Controversial Writing as Portrayed by Contemporary Anglican Divines. Commentator: John Patrick Donnelly, S.J., Marquette University
12:30 - 2:00 Suites B&C Hogan Campus Center	Lunch
2:15 - 4:00	Session III
Room 406 Hogan Campus Center	Early America and Germany Chair/Commentator: Thomas Jodziewicz, University of Dallas at Irving Richard Schaefer, Cornell University Enlightenment on Trial Johanna Schmid, University of Augsburg Two Worlds Gaping Apart: German Jesuits in the United States. 1740 – 1833 Augustine Curley O.S.B., Newark Abbey Three Early New Jersey Communities and the Lack of Priests
Rehm Library Smith Hall	Music of the Early Recusant Era Chair: James Kee, College of the Holy Cross Samuel Schmitt, Falls Church, VA Edward Paston and the Place of Music in the English Recusant Community Holy Cross Chamber Singers director, Pamels Getnick, and Jessica Waldoff, College of the Holy Cross Music of Josquin des Près
4:00 p.m. Cantor Art Gallery	Reception and viewing of the exhibition Catholic Collecting: Catholic Reflection 1538-1850
6:00 p.m. Suites B&C Hogan Campus Center	Banquet Dinner
7:00 p.m. Suites B&C Hogan Campus Center	Illustrated Lecture by Janet Graffius, Curator Stonyhurst College St. Omers to Stonyhurst: The Jesuit Role in the Preservation of English Catholic Culture, 1580s-1800
8:00 p.m. Brooks Concert Hall	Chamber Singers with Chamber Orchestra Music of Mozart