Meeting Program: 2011 ACHA Meeting, Boston
Thursday, January 6
3:00 P.M. – Hynes Convention Center, Room 202
Women of Independent Means? The Construction of Spiritual Life Stories in Late
Medieval and Early Modern European Society
Chair: Sarah Ross, Boston College
Papers:
- Joan of Arc: Neither Prophet Nor Puppet
Larissa Taylor, Colby College - The Devil and the Saint: The Case of Teresa of Jesus
Elizabeth Rhodes, Boston College - “In the End, God Helped Me Defeat Myself”: The Spiritual Life of Camilla
Battista da Varano
William V. Hudon, Bloomsburg University
Comment: Jodi Bilinkoff, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
3:30 P.M.–5:00 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Nantucket Room
Meeting of the Executive Council
Friday, January 7
9:30 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Hyannis Room
Roman Catholic Modernism and the Role of Leonce de Grandmaison
Chair: Janice Farnham, Boston College
Papers:
- A Courageous Manifesto: The French Jesuit Response to Integrisme
Peter Bernardi, Loyola University Chicago - Reading the Signs of the Times: Leonce de Grandmaison’s Anticipation of
the Modernist Crisis - I. Michael Bellefiore, University of Scranton
Comment: Harvey Hill, Berry College
9:30 A. M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Orleans Room
The Changing Tides of Twentieth-Century Shanghai Catholicism
Chair: Angelyn Dries, Saint Louis University
Papers:
- French Jesuit Priests and Chinese Jesuit Brothers: Painting a Picture of Ministry
at the Shanghai Tushanwan Orphanage
Jeremy Clarke, Boston College - Culture Shock or Comfort from the Voyage: The First Glimpse of American
Catholic Missionaries to Shanghai in the 1920s
Robert E. Carbonneau, Passionist Historical Archive - An Army Set in Battle Array: The 1951 Attack on the Shanghai Legion of Mary
Paul Mariani, Santa Clara University
Comment: The Audience
2:30 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Yarmouth Room
American Catholic History: The State of the Conversation
Convener: Steven M. Avella, Marquette University
Discussant: Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Catholic University of America
2:30 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Falmouth Room
German Catholics Negotiate National Socialism: Three Case Studies
Chair: Beth Griech-Polelle, Bowling Green State University
Papers:
- Catholic Clergy and Jews under National Socialism
Kevin Spicer, Stonehill College - Negotiating “Volksgemeinschaft”: Roman Catholics and the National
Socialist State
Ulrike Ehret, University of Erlangen - Walter Adolph and the Commemoration of Catholic Martyrs of National
Socialism
Mark Edward Ruff, Saint Louis University
Comment: James Bernauer, Boston College
5:00 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Berkeley Room
Business Meeting
Saturday, January 8
9:00 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Falmouth Room
Cultural Conflicts, Cultural Change: Catholic Higher Education in Twentieth-Century America
Chair: David O’Brien, University of Dayton
Papers:
- Surviving a Hostile Time: Catholic Higher Education and the Second Ku Klux
Klan in the 1920s
William Vance Trollinger, Jr., University of Dayton - Advancing Christian Culture: Catholic Higher Education and the Engendering of
Theology
Sandra Yocum, University of Dayton - “A General Cultural Education Prior to Marriage”: The Little-Known History of
Catholic Junior Colleges
Fernanda Perrone, Rutgers University
Comment: David O’Brien, University of Dayton
9:00 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Clarendon Room
Words and Deeds: New Perspectives on Catholic Laywomen in Twentieth-Century America
Chair: Carol Coburn, Avila University
Papers:
- “What a Blessing It Is To Be Fond of Reading Good Books”: Reading Circles
and Catholic Women in Turn-of-the-Century America
Monica Mercado, University of Chicago - “Up Against a Stone Wall”: Gender, Power, and the National Catholic
Community Houses
Jeanne Petit, Hope College - The Ladies in Hats Have Their Say: The National Council of Catholic Women,
Vatican II, and the Women’s Movement, 1962-1975
Mary Henold, Roanoke College
Comment: Mel Piehl, Valparaiso University
11:30 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Regis Room
Presidential Luncheon
Presiding: Larissa Taylor, Colby College
Greeting and Blessing: Sean Cardinal O’Malley, O.F.M., Cap., Archbishop of Boston
- Report of the Committee on the John Gilmary Shea Prize
- Report of the Committee on the Howard R. Murraro Prize
Presentation of Awards:
- Lifetime Distinguished Scholarship
- Service to Catholic Studies
- Teaching
- John Tracy Ellis Dissertation Award
- Presidential Graduate Scholarships
American Catholicism in the Twentieth Century West: The Next Frontier
Steven M. Avella, Marquette University
2:30 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Vineyard Room
French Catholicism and the Crises of the Twentieth Century
Chair: Brenna Moore, Fordham University
Papers:
- Patriotism and Religion: French Priests in World War I
Anita May, University of Oklahoma - The Catholic Family in Postwar Rural France: L’Exposition de la Maison
Rurale, 1947-1950
Sheila Nowinski, University of Notre Dame - Christian Democrats and Their Critics in the Catholic Public Sphere: The
Politics of Faith and French Decolonization in the 1950s
Arthur Plaza, New York University
Comment: Andrew Orr, Sam Houston State University
2:30 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Hyannis Room
The Franciscan Movement in the United States since 1840: A Roundtable
Chair: Jeffrey Burns, Academy of American Franciscan History
Panelists:
- Margaret E. Guider, Boston College
- Timothy Kulbicki, St. Mary’s Seminary and University
- Patrick McSherry, St. Joseph Province of the Capuchins Archives
- Jack Clark Robinson, Our Lady of Guadalupe Province
- William Wicks, Past National President S.F.O.
Comment: Joseph P. Chinnici, Franciscan School of Theology
2:30 P.M. – Mariott Boston Copley Place, Yarmouth Room
Graduate Student Networking
Convener: James M. O’Toole, Boston College
5:00 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Berkeley Room
Mass for the Living and Deceased Members of the Association
Principal Celebrant and Homilist: Cyprian Davis, O.S.B., Saint Meinrad’s Abbey
6:00 P.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Regis Room
Social Hour
Sunday, January 9
8:30 A.M. – Hynes Convention Center, Room 102
Locating the Origins of thee Second Vatican Council: Global Transformations, Spatial Shifts, and Refashioning the Sacred in Twentieth-Century Catholicism
Chair: Terence Fay, University of Toronto
Papers:
- The Dynamic 1950s: The American Laity before Vatican II
Timothy Kelly, St. Vincent College - In the Shadow of the Vatican: Producing and Defining the Spirit of Vatican II
in a Florentine Parish, 1954-1969
Trevor Kilgore, University of Michigan - Repositioning the Sacred: Roman Catholic Church Architecture in Britain and
the Second Vatican Council
Robert Proctor, Mackintosh School of Architecture - Decolonization of the Filipino Church
Terence Fay, University of Toronto
8:30 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Hyannis Room
Twentieth-Century American Catholicism Addresses the Social Question: Three Vignettes
Chair: Jeffrey Burns, Academy of American Franciscan History
Papers:
- Father Nelson Baker’s Fight with the State of New York
Richard Gribble, Stonehill College - “Get[ting] a Clean Victory”? The Nonviolent Spirituality of Dorothy Day and
Cesar Chavez”
Anne Klejment, University of St. Thomas - In the Matter of Karen Ann Quindlan: Catholicism and the Ethics of Life and
Death in the 1970s and Beyond
James P. McCartin, Seton Hall University
8:30 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Falmouth Room
Getting Published: An Introduction
Chair: Timothy Meagher, Catholic University of America
Panelists:
- Christopher Bellitto, Kean University
- Nelson Minnich, Catholic Historical Review
- Elaine Maisner, University of North Carolina Press
8:30 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Orleans Room
Reimagining Christianity in the Early Middle Ages: Communities and Contexts
Chair: Mary Frances Giandrea, American University
Papers:
- Afterlife and Underworld in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History
Sally Shockro, Boston College - Grave Goods, the Cult of the Saints, and Making Christian Burial Communities
in Early Medieval England
Austin Mason, Boston College - Real Christians Can Wear Pants! Manners, Motivations, and the Loci of
Christianization in the Ninth Century
William L. North, Carleton College
Comment: Mary Frances Giandrea, American University
11:00 A.M. – Hynes Convention Center, Room 204
Therese Neumann: Modern Stigmatic, International Cult Figure, and Anti-Nazi Symbol
Chair: Kevin Spicer, Stonehill College
Papers:
- Konnersreuth, USA: American Catholics and the Cult of Therese Neumann
Paula M. Kane, University of Pittsburgh - The Issue of Resistenz: Therese Neumann and Her Circle during the Era of
National Socialism
Ulrike Wiethaus, Wake Forest University - Sacred, Secular, or Fraudulent: Competing Representations of the Therese
Neumann Phenomenon in Germany
Michael E. O’Sullivan, Marist College
Comment: Thomas Kselman, University of Notre Dame
11:00 A.M. – Marriott Boston Copley Place, Hyannis Room
American Catholicism and Print Culture
Chair: Carrie T. Schultz, Boston College
Papers:
- The Making of “Ours”: Religious Life as Described in Jesuit Custom Books
Casey Beaumier, S.J., Boston College - Januarius De Concilio and the American Catechism: New Evidence Questioning
the Authorship of the Baltimore Catechism
Biff Rocha, Benedictine College - Indiana’s Catholic Print Culture and Anti-Catholic Movements in the 1920s
Joseph M. White, Catholic University of America
Comment: Carrie T. Schultz, Boston College
