Crossings and Dwellings: Restored Jesuits, Women Religious, American Experience, 1814-2014
October 16 – October 18, 2014
Lewis Towers, Water Tower Campus, Loyola University Chicago
Thursday, October 16
4:00-6:00 pm |
LUMA galleries open |
6:30 pm |
Opening address (Regents Hall)
Carol K. Coburn (Avila University)
“Crossing Boundaries and Cultural Encounters: Women Religious as Builders and Shapers of Catholic Culture and American Life.”
Moderator: Janet Sisler (Loyola University Chicago)
Respondents:
- Ellen Skerrett (Independent Scholar, Chicago)
- Rima Lunin Schultz (Independent Scholar, Chicago)
- Ann Harrington, BVM (Loyola University Chicago)
Reception follows |
Friday, October 17
9:00 – 10:00 |
Plenary presentation over coffee and rolls (Regents Hall)
Timothy J. Gilfoyle (Loyola University Chicago)
“God and Urban History”
Respondent: Robert Orsi (Northwestern University)
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10:00-10:15 |
BREAK |
10:15-11:45 |
Morning panel
Restoration, Nationalism, and Memory (Regents Hall)
Chair: Thomas Worcester, SJ (College of the Holy Cross)
- Ronald Binzley (Viterbo University and Madison College)
“Drinking the chalice usque ad feces: the Restored American Jesuits’ turbulent first decade, 1814-1824”
- Thomas Murphy, SJ (Seattle University)
“Constitutionalism and Nationalism of the Alumni of Clongowes Wood and Holy Cross, 1860-1914”
- Sarah Barthélemy (Université catholique de Louvain)
“Leaving Europe Behind: The Foundations of the Faithful Companions of Jesus in America (XIX century)”
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11:45-1:00 pm |
Lunch in the neighborhood |
1:30-3:00 pm |
Afternoon Panels 1
A. “Death Stops Here”: Daniel Berrigan’s Witness in an Era of War (Regents Hall)
Chair: Michelle Nickerson (Loyola University Chicago)
- Mark Massa, SJ (Boston College)
“Death Shall Have No Dominion”: Dan Berrigan, the Catonsville Nine, and the Crafting of a New American Catholic Identity
- Eric Martin (Fordham University)
Experiments With the Future: Berrigan, Civil Disobedience, and Deconstructing America
- Daniel Cosacchi (Loyola University Chicago)
Death of the Jesuit Mission? Dan Berrigan, The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice
B. Post-Restoration Theater (Beane Hall)
Chair: Thomas Lucas, SJ (Seattle University)
- Michael A. Zampelli, SJ (Santa Clara University)
Restoration and Migration: Jesuit Performance on American Stages
- Roy L. Brooks II (University of Georgia)
Pageant, Race, and Theater of Pilgrimage
- Stephen Werner (Saint Louis University)
Daniel Lord, S.J.: The Restless Flame
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3:00-3:30 |
BREAK |
3:30-5:00 pm |
Afternoon Panels II
A. Birth Control, Ecumenism, and Conscientious Objection: Jesuits in the Era of American Pluralism, 1945-2000 (Regents Hall)
Chair: Susan Ross (Loyola University Chicago)
- Paul Crowley, SJ (Santa Clara University)
Twentieth Century Jesuit-Protestant Collaboration: Robert McAfee Brown and Ecumenical Theology
- Peter Cajka (Boston College)
Consistently Askew: Theologies of Conscience of John Ford, SJ, 1944-1968
- Katherine Dugan (Northwestern University)
Millennial Missionaries: Recycling Jesuit Fragments for the 21st Century
B. Post-Restoration Science (Beane Hall)
Chair: John J. Hardt (Loyola University Chicago – Stritch School of Medicine)
- Joshua Wachuta (Loyola University Chicago)
Where is Darwin in a Jesuit College Library?
- Dana Freiburger (University of Wisconsin)
“To Any Degree” – Jesuit Medical Schools in Nineteenth-century America
- Paula Kane (University of Pittsburgh)
Jesuits and Responses to Psychoanalysis, 1900-1940
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5-7:00 pm |
LUMA galleries open / reception |
7:00 |
Conference Banquet (Regents Hall)
- John T. McGreevy (University of Notre Dame)
Globalization: Rewriting 19th-century American Jesuits
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Saturday, October 18
9:00-10:00 |
Plenary presentation over coffee and rolls (Regents Hall)
- Rima Lunin Schultz (Independent Scholar, Chicago)
“Jane Addams’s Dilemma: American Catholic Education in the Progressive Era, 1890-1925”
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10:00-10:15 |
BREAK |
10:15-11:30 |
Morning panel
A. Native America (Beane Hall)
Chair: Theodore Karamanski (Loyola University Chicago)
- Mary Ewens, OP (The Sinsinawa Dominican Research Center)
Icy Crossings and Dwellings: John Fox, SJ and The Sisters of Our Lady of the Snows
- Frédéric Dorel (École Centrale de Nantes)
Oregon Province of the Society of Jesus with Native American People
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11:45-1:00 |
Lunch (Regents Hall)
Digital Future of Jesuit Studies
Chair: Kyle B. Roberts (Loyola University Chicago)
- Jessica Hagen
Jesuit Libraries Project
- Michael Polowski
Visualizing the Correspondence of Pierre-Jean DeSmet, S.J.
- Hope Shannon
Jesuit History and Public History
- Evan Thompson
Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
Respondent: Monica Mercado (Bryn Mawr College) |
1:00-1:15 |
BREAK |
1:15-2:45 |
Afternoon panels
A. Nineteenth-Century Inter-Religious Relations (Simpson Lecture Hall)
Chair: Kathleen Neils Conzen (University of Chicago)
- David Dzurec (University of Scranton)
The Jesuit and the ‘Maine Law’: The Temperance Efforts of Fr. John Bapst, SJ
- Charlotte Hansen (University of Chichester)
“Wanton” Nineteenth-Century American Catholic Attacks on the Jesuits: An Examination of Catholic Reactions to the Jesuits
- Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University)
Jesuit Theorhetoric in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Education
B. Twentieth-Century Catholic Education and Gender (Beane Hall)
Chair: Ann Marie Ryan (Loyola University Chicago)
- Rachel Daack (Clarke University)
BVMs: Decentralized School System
- Mary J. Oates, CSJ (Regis College)
The Coeducation Question
- James O’Toole (Boston College)
Jesuits and Madames: The Life and Death of Newton College of the Sacred Heart
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2:45-3:00 |
BREAK |
3-4:30 |
Closing address (Beane Hall)
- Kathleen Sprows Cummings (University of Notre Dame)
Nation Saints: U.S. Catholics and the Afterlives of American Women Religious
Wine and cheese reception |