The 89th conference and annual general meeting of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association will be held virtually May 26th and 27th 2022.
Keynote Speaker
Thursday, May 26 at 11:30am to 12:30pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Kathleen Sprows Cummings, “Say not America’s saints are all foreign”: Catholics and Canonization in North America, 1884-1930″
Kathleen Sprows Cummings is Professor, Department of American Studies and History, Director, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism. She is the Rev. John A. O’Brien Collegiate Professor, University of Notre Dame and author of A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
Registration
Conference Schedule
***All times are in Eastern Daylight Saving Time***
Thursday May 26th | ||
Time (EDST) | Title | Panelists |
Welcome | ||
11:20am | Rankin Sherling CCHA President and Rob Dennis, CCHA Secretary General | |
Keynote | “Say not America’s saints are all foreign”: Catholics and Canonization in North America, 1884-1930” | |
11:30-12:30pm | Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame | |
Panel 1 | Religion and Authority | |
1 pm to 2pm | “Decolonizing Mandatory Clerical Celibacy, One Thomas Christian at a Time” | Clara Joseph, University of Calgary |
“The Project of Hegemony” The Canadian Church Engages with the Liberal State, 1840s-1930s” | Rob Dennis, University of PEI | |
“The Furtherance of Indigenous Arts and Crafts in Progressive Era Catholic Schools, 1936-1952” | Katie Gemmel, University of Victoria | |
Panel 2 | Catholic Archives | |
2:30 pm to 4pm | “Opportunities for Research in Religious Archives” | Linda Wicks, Sisters of St. Joseph Toronto |
“A New Era for Catholic Diocesan Archives? –Kamloops and After” | Carol Hollywood, Diocese of Calgary | |
“The Diocese of London Church Index” | Deb Majer, Diocese of London | |
Friday May 27th | ||
Annual General Meeting | ||
11:30am-1pm | CCHA Membership | |
Book talk | ||
1:30pm – 2:30pm | Not Quite Us: Anti-Catholic Thought in English Canada sine 1900 | Kevin Anderson, University of Calgary |
Panel 3 | Genealogical Methods | |
3pm -4:30pm | “On the Importance of genealogy for History” | Paul Armstrong, MIRCS |
“Degrees of Consanguinity: The Nova Scotian Scottish Catholic Priest as Genealogist” | Peter Ludlow, Acadia University | |
“Using genealogy to find the Irish Catholic famine generation” | Laura J. Smith, University of Toronto |