Catholic Modernity in the Americas: Land, Culture, Politics

(part of a series)

Location: Notre Dame Conference Center | McKenna Hall

Women and children in front of a mission church, black and white photo.

The Cushwa Center 50th anniversary conference will convene April 10–12, 2025, at the University of Notre Dame to explore Catholic modernity as a global reality shaped by the Church’s former peripheries—not least South and North America.

Read the call for papers

Information on registration, lodging, and travel will be available in fall 2024. Please email any questions to cushwa@nd.edu.


Image: Indigenous women and children in front of the mission church of Santa Teresita de Kavanayén in Venezuela’s Gran Sabana, c. 1955. Pictorial Parade via Getty Images.