2014 Rome Seminar Program

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Schedule:

Friday, June 6                               

► 7:00 p.m.
Thinking with Rome: Space, Place, and Emotion in the Making of the First World Religion
Simon Ditchfield
University of York

Reception to follow

Saturday, June 7                           

► 9:30 a.m.
Welcome
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, John McGreevy, Matteo Sanfilippo

► 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Opening Session
Thomas A. Tweed, Timothy Matovina

Readings:
Thomas A. Tweed, “Expanding the Study of U.S. Religion: Reflections on the State of a Subfield,” Religion 40 (2010), 250-8.

Timothy Matovina, “Remapping American Catholicism,” in Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church, (Princeton, 2011), 1-41.

► 1:15 p.m.
Lunch at La Pace

Sunday, June 8                                

Free Day

Monday, June 9                            

► 9:30–11:30 a.m.  
Catholicism and Global History
John T. McGreevy

Readings:
Introduction and Conclusion to Nineteenth Century Jesuits in the United States: A Global History
 
C. A. Bayly, The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914, (Oxford, 2004), 325-65.
 
Vincent Viaene, “International History, Religious History, Catholic History: Perspectives for Cross-Fertilization (1830–1914),” European History Quarterly 38 (2008): 578-607.

► 2:00–4:00 p.m.
From the Colonial Period to the Jacksonian Era: The Holy See’s Many Faces
Luca Codignola

Readings:
Jay P. Dolan, The American Catholic Experience: A History from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday, 1985), 101-24.

Leslie Woodcock Tentler, “On the Margins: The State of American Catholic History,” US Catholic Historian, XXI, 2 (Spring 2003): 77-95, esp. 88-9.

Tuesday, June 10                            

► 9:30–11:30 a.m.
The Archives of Propaganda Fide and the Missions among the Natives
Giovanni Pizzorusso

Readings:
Luca Codignola, “The Holy See and the Conversion of the Indians in French and British North America, 1486-1760,” in America in European Consciousness, 1493-1750, ed. Karen Ordahl Kupperman (University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1995), 195-242.

Luca Codignola, “The Holy See and the Conversion of the Aboriginal Peoples in North America, 1760-1830,” in Ethnographies and Exchanges: Native Americans, Moravians, and Catholics in Early North America, ed. Anthony Gregg Roeber (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), 77-95.

► 2:00–4:00 p.m.
A Peculiar Relationship: US, Italy, and the Vatican since 1870
Daniele Fiorentino        

Readings:
Massimo Franco, “President Washington, Pius VI Requests….” in Parallel Empires: The Vatican and the United States–Two Centuries of Alliance and Conflict, trans. Roland Flamini (Doubleday, 2008), 20-32.     

Franco, “Papal Blunders,” in Parallel Empires, 33-44.

Franco, “Ghosts of the Ku Klux Klan,” in Parallel Empires, 45-55.

Wednesday, June 11                           

► 9:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
The Life of Elizabeth Ann Seton in Transatlantic Perspective
Catherine O’Donnell

Readings:
Catherine O’Donnell, “The Life of Elizabeth Ann Seton in Transatlantic Perspective.”

American Afterlives in Transatlantic Perspective
Kathleen Sprows Cummings     

Readings:
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, “American Saints: Gender and the Re-Imaging of U.S. Catholicism in the Early Twentieth Century,” Religion and American Culture: a Journal of Interpretation 22, Issue 2 (2012): 203-31.

Lunch provided

► 3:00 p.m.
The General Archives of the Society of the Sacred Heart
Via San Francesco di Sales, 18
00165 Rome

Thursday, June 12                               

► 9:30–11:30 a.m.
Exporting the American Gospel: The Twentieth Century Emergence of a Global Agenda for American Catholicism
R. Scott Appleby

Readings:
Angelyn Dries, OSF, “U.S. Catholic Mission History: Themes and Threads, 1850-1980” in The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History (Orbis, 1998), 247-272.
Andrew Preston, “Ronald the Lionheart” in Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy (Anchor, 2012), 574-600.

Lunch provided

► 2:30 p.m.
Civiltà Cattolica
(transportation provided)
Via di Porta Pinciana, 1

► 4:00 p.m.
Archive of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith  
(transportation provided)
Palazzo del S. Uffizio
Piazza S. Uffizio 11
00120 Vatican City

Friday, June 13                                

► 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
The Vatican and the Migrant in the United States in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Matteo Sanfilippo

Readings:
Matteo Sanfilippo, “Roman Sources for the History of American Catholicism.” American Catholic Studies Newsletter 37, no.1 (spring 2010): 1, 8–11.

► 2:00 p.m.
Vatican Secret Archives
Cortile del Belvedere
00120 Vatican City

Saturday, June 14                               

► 9:30 a.m.
Redemptorist Archives
(walk from Via Ostilia 15)
C.P. 2458, 00100 Rome
Via Merulana, 31
00185 Rome

Sunday, June 15                            

Free Day

Monday, June 16                   

► 9:30–11:30 a.m.
Italian Sisters for Italian Migrants
Maria Susanna Garroni and Elisabetta Vezzosi

Readings:
Mary Elisabeth Brown, “Italian, American, Catholic,” Center for Migration Studies special issue, Churches, Communities and Children: Italian Immigrants in the Archdiocese of New York, 1880–1945, vol. 12: 139–162.

► 4:00 p.m.   
Archive of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians/
Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco
(transportation provided)
81 via dell’Ateneo Salesiano

Tuesday, June 17                               

► 9:30–11:30 a.m.
Intellectual History and Religious History: Perspectives on a Transnational Question
Florian Michel

Readings:
Florian Michel, “Jacques and Raïssa Maritain: Reputation for Holiness and Spiritual Fruitfulness,” trans. Rev. Gerald Twadell, Cahiers Jacques Maritain 66 (June 2013): 33-53.

► 2:00–4:00 p.m.
Vatican II and Global Catholic History
Massimo Faggioli

Readings:
Ian Linden, Global Catholicism. Diversity and Change since Vatican II (Oxford, 2009), 45-90.

Wednesday, June 18                               

► 9:30–11:30 a.m.
Gender, Church and State: What a Transnational Perspective Can Teach Us    
Leslie Woodcock Tentler

Readings:
Kimberly J. Morgan, “The Religious Origins of the Gendered Welfare State,” in Working Mothers and the Welfare State: Religion and the Politics of Work-Family Policies in Western Europe and the United States (Stanford, 2002), 32–67.

Myra Marx Ferree, “Representing Religion’s Claims,” in Shaping Abortion Discourse: Democracy and the  Public Sphere in Germany and the United States, ed. Myra Marx Ferree et al (Cambridge, 2002), 157–178.

► 1:45–3:45 p.m.
American Catholic Participation in a Global Church, Its Implications for Historians
Joseph P. Chinnici
    
Readings:
Benno Cardinal Gut, Letter. October 28, 1968.  

Joseph P. Chinnici, OFM, “The Cold War, the Council and American Catholicism in a Global World.” U.S. Catholic Historian 30, no. 2 (spring 2012): 1–24.

Joseph Gremilion, CTSA, Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention, vol 36, June 10-13, 1981 (Cincinnati, 1982).

► 5:00 p.m.
Jesuit Archives (ARSI: Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu)
(transportation provided)
Borgo S. Spirito 4
00193 Rome

Thursday, June 19                               

Closing Session–TBA