Holy Cross Sponsoring American Catholic Historical Association’s Spring Meeting

The College of the Holy Cross will sponsor the spring meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association (ACHA) on April 7 and 8. The Association supports all manner of historical inquiry having to do with Catholic practice and tradition and has held annual meetings for the past 86 years. The Association publishes the journal The Catholic Historical Review with a mixture of scholarly articles and book reviews pertinent to Catholic history.

The program contains 12 sessions over the two days of the meeting, dealing with the themes of Catholic imagery, Renaissance music in talk and performance, female monasticism in Russia, Catholic childhood, popular piety, European Catholics in the early 20th century, American Catholic outreach in the 19th century, American Catholic renewal in the 20th century, and a number of papers dealing with the experience of Catholic suppression under English rule from 1538 through the early 19th century. The latter theme is reflected in the exhibition in the Cantor Art Gallery, Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection 1538-1850 which will be the subject of a special tour at 4 p.m. on April 7. Participating from Holy Cross include the departments of history, modern languages and literature, English, music, sociology and anthropology, and visual arts represented by Professors James Bidwell, Noel Cary, James Flynn, Daniel Frost, Pamela Getnick, David Hummon, James Kee, Anthony Kuzniewski, S. J., Amanda Luyster, David O’Brien, Joanne Pierce, James Powers, Virginia Raguin, Jessica Waldoff, Helen Whall, and Thomas Worcester, S.J.

The conference will close with a 4:30 Mass in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel, (Mass of Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion), Most Rev. Robert J. McManus, S.T.D., Bishop of Worcester, Presider and Rev. James Hayes, S.J., Rector, Jesuit Community at Holy Cross, and Associate College Chaplain, Preacher

A full schedule is available at the website of Catholic Collecting, Catholic Reflection 1538-1850 at http://college.holycross.edu/projects/catholiccollecting/conference.htm.

Students and members of the Worcester community are invited free of charge. A registration badge is essential, however, available at the registration desk located outside Rehm Library (Smith Hall). You may register in advance by e-mail by contacting Faye Couette at fcaouett@holycross.edu

The American Catholic Historical Association can be reached at Mullen Library, The Catholic University of America Washington, D.C. 20064, telephone: 202-319-5079, e-mail: cua-chracha@cua.edu.