Colloque international du CERCOR (Centre Européen de recherce sur le congrégations et les ordres religieux/Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne).

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Victorian convent and monastic buildings embodied diverse theological, social, cultural and gender discourses within nineteenth-century Britain, yet these structures have received limited academic attention. On Saturday 6 October 2012 in London, The Victorian Society will host a wide-ranging symposium to explore these multi-functional sites – spaces not only of devotion, contemplation and leisure but also of artistic production, education, industry and social care – from an ecumenical perspective. Too often, scholarship in nineteenth-century religious architecture has been divided across denominational lines. ‘Revisiting the Cloister’ seeks to engage with the productive cross fertilization of aesthetic and theological ideas arising from an interlaced rather than sectarian social milieu.

For more information, please contact: Ayla Lepine (The Courtauld Institute of Art) & Kate Jordan (The Bartlett School of Architecture)

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The Danish Society of Nursing History and the Danish Museum of Nursing History are pleased to invite scholars from all over the world to an international conference on the History of Nursing August 9 - 11, 2012. The conference is run jointly by the Danish Society of Nursing History and the Danish Museum of Nursing History. The conference will take place over three days from 9 - 11 August 2012 and will comprise plenary sessions and concurrent sessions.

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The 2012 annual H-WRBI (History of women religious in Britain and Ireland) conference about ‘education, vocation and care’ will take place in Dublin. For more information and a provisional program, visit the website.

This two-day symposium will explore material cultures of religious belief and faith in modern Britain. As Birgit Meyer, David Morgan, Crispin Paine and S. Brent Plate have recently pointed out, studying material objects provides us with an alternative evidence base in the study of modern religious belief (Birgit Meyer et al; 2011). Yet few attempts have yet been made to do so. While many scholars now concede that Britain’s religious landscape is more varied and rich than the narrative of secularisation allows, a tendency remains in the historiography of religion to privilege written sources over material manifestations of religion. This means that all sorts of belief practices have been overlooked. Analysing the material past, we propose, will provide scholars with new and exciting ways of understanding the apparently fraught relationship between modernity and religion.

As Jane Bennett points out, objects are culture constructions and lead active lives in our social and cultural landscape. Religious historians have too often been guilty of adopting an implicitly Protestant binary (set up in opposition to Catholicism) in which words are privileged over objects. Yet everyday cultures of Protestant belief in Britain relied on all kinds of material cultures which sustained religion in an age of uncertainty.

Despite Britain’s ‘official’ Protestant past, we are nonetheless keen to encourage papers which explore religious denominations or groups beyond the official canon and which made up Britain’s multi-faith landscape in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Papers are welcome which consider either formal or informal aspects of religious materiality. We would especially like to encourage papers that consider ‘Britain’s worlds’, including investigations of religious objects in the Empire or commonwealth or geographical locations inhabited by British people.

We hope to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue by bringing together scholars in history, religion, art/design history, architecture and sociology.

Possible themes or topics include:
• Religious objects
• Religious ephemera
• The materiality of religious and sacred texts
• Sacred Dress and Clothing
• Religious Architecture and the built environment
• Construction of sacred space
• Social identity/identities including class, gender and life stage
• Ideas surrounding materiality and religion
• Advertising and Consumption
• Making of religious objects
• Religious Interiors and the domestic display of material objects
• Religious aestheticism
• Iconography

For more information, please contact: Lucinda Matthews-Jones or Tim Jones.

Conference of the Arbeitskreis Ordensgeschichte 19./20. Jahrhundert with the post-war situation of German Religious Institutes after 1945 as central theme.

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Quatre siècles de "cornettes" (XVIIe-XXe siècles)

Colloque international, université Paris-Sorbonne organisé par Jacques-Olivier Boudon, professeur à l’université Paris-Sorbonne et Matthieu Brejon de Lavergnée, maître de conférences à l’université catholique de l’Ouest

L’histoire sans les femmes n’est plus possible : l’affaire est entendue. Mais les religieuses disparaissent encore trop souvent dans les silences de l’histoire. Ce colloque entend poursuivre l’effort historiographique qui tend au croisement de l’histoire religieuse, des femmes et du genre.
Plus de vingt spécialistes français et étrangers traiteront de l’histoire des Filles de la Charité, les fameuses sœurs à « cornettes » qui appartiennent encore à l’imaginaire occidental. Après quatre siècles, les sœurs de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul demeurent à l’échelle du monde la plus importante des congrégations catholiques féminines (20 000 sœurs). Leur histoire n’avait pourtant jamais été écrite. L’ouverture des archives de la maison mère de la Compagnie à Paris, croisées avec des fonds publics et privés, est l’occasion de ce colloque qui abordera les multiples champs du care comme les conditions politiques et culturelles du « service des pauvres ».

Programme

How to study knowledge exchanges in a historical, transnational perspective

The deaconess movement, professional nursing, Christian missions and early forms of ideas of humanitarianism were all central in the transnational history of knowledge production. This call for papers invites contributions that investigate international knowledge exchanges related to these fields and how ideas, knowledge and processes have travelled across geographical, cultural and political borders in the last two hundred years. How did the various interpretations of, for example professional nursing, translate around the globe? We want to explore in what ways knowledge is produced, communicated, received, translated and adapted by all parties involved in its movement. A central question is how to grasp the relationship between national and international developments. The aim is to understand the manifold and multidirectional movements of influence and ideas transmitted, not only through individual actors` experiences, but also through transnational circulation of ideas and sources of influence.

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L’Institut de recherches historiques du septentrion de l’Université Charles de Gaulle – Lille 3 et l’École nationale des chartes, en partenariat avec le Centre de recherche en histoire atlantique et littorale de l’Université du Littoral et le Centre d’histoire des sociétés, des sciences et des conflits de l’Université de Picardie – Jules Verne, organisent à Lille les 8, 9 et 10 novembre 2011 un colloque sur le thème de Guerre et clergés à l’époque contemporaine.

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The 54th Annual Conference of the Catholic Record Society will take place at Liverpool Hope University and includes lectures about convent necrologies and a Spanish missionary in England.

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Montauban, 20e Université d’été d’histoire religieuse

Créé en 1992, le « Carrefour d’histoire religieuse » organise annuellement son université d’été. Qu’est-ce qu’un carrefour, sinon l’endroit où des chemins se croisent ? C’est pour favoriser les rencontres que cette université d’été est itinérante, choisissant chaque année un nouveau lieu, un nouveau thème. Le Carrefour est ouvert à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à la question religieuse (étudiants, enseignants, grand public). Il vise, à travers la présentation de travaux de synthèse ou de recherches nouvelles en histoire religieuse, à cultiver l’ouverture sur un héritage multi-séculaire appréhendé le plus largement possible, dans une démarche scientifique et  respectueuse du fait religieux.

Cette année, l’Université d’été se tiendra à Montauban du 9 au 12 juillet 2011 autour du thème de la transmission religieuse, y compris des contributions autour les prédications des dominicains et les exercices spirituels des jésuites.

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Religion and Economy in a Global World

The International Society of the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) organises this years’ conference about Religion and Economy in a Global World. Topics include lectures and workshops about religious institutes.

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Project and HWRBI – Consecrated Women: Identities, organisations and exile - Literary and historical inspirations from the 'Who were the Nuns?' project

Day 1 and the morning of day 2 will focus on invited papers related to the ‘Who were the Nuns? Project’. The remainder of the conference will be organised by the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI). 

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The Annual conference of the Catholic Archives Society includes topics about diocesan archives and archives of religious institutes and schools in the United Kingdom and Australia.

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Colloque international consacré aux rapports complexes entre la mystique et les Églises chrétiennes au XXe siècle. Les mystiques ont souvent constitué des figures aux marges des Églises, mais cette marginalité a pu se comprendre, à l'intérieur comme à l'extérieur des institutions, de différentes manières.

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Dublin 

The Institute for Feminism and Religion organises a series of lectures about ‘Inspiring Foremothers’. The medieval mystics, according to historians, constituted, ‘the greatest intrusion of women in church history.” Long before the women’s liberation movements, inspired by social commitments, spiritual philosophies and theologies, our foremothers founded organizations, hospitals, schools, social services and movements that radically changed the lives of many. According to Mary T. Malone, “Circumstances are now right for another such intrusion.” This series aims to draw on the courage and commitment of our foremothers, to inspire the present, and forge the future. Each evening will comprise a full presentation, followed by discussion groups and a period of reflection/ meditation. Eight women of spirit our groups of women will be discussed.

1. Eva Gore Booth, Feb. 28th
2. Hildegaard of Bingen, March 7th
3. Margaret Anna Cusack, March 14th
4. Medieval Mystics, March 21st
5. Madeleine Sophie Barat, March 28th
6. Anna Wheeler, April 4th
7. Edel Quinn, April 11th
8. Catherine McAuley, April 18th

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Wissenschaftliche Fachtagung - Vallendar

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This landmark international conference is being jointly organised by the European Nursing History Group and the American Association for the History of Nursing. The conference takes place from 14–16 September 2010. The venue is the beautiful Royal Holloway University, just 10 minutes from Heathrow Airport.
 
A call for abstracts and details of registration are available at
the conference website.

Confronting Challenges: Women Religious Respond to Change

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Periodisierungen von Provinz- und Kongregationsgeschichten im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert

Einladung

Colloque organisé par les Archives de l’Evêché de Liège
Liège, 28 mai 2010
Liège, Séminaire épiscopal, Salle Saint-Lambert

Entrée : 20 €
Contact administratif et inscriptions:
Mr Christian Dury
Archives de l’Evêché de Liège
Rue de l’Evêché, 25
B-4000 Liège (Belgique)
Tél. : 0032 4 230 31 67.- Fax : 0032 4 223 70 87
E-mail : archives.eveche@evechedeliege.be

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De werkgroep Norbertijner Geschiedenis in de Nederlanden focust op 8 mei tijdens zijn twintigste contactdag op de pastorieën die, vooral in de 17de en 18de eeuw, door de norbertijnenabdijen in de Nederlanden werden gebouwd voor hun pastoors. Vele hebben de tand des tijds doorstaan, worden in toenemende mate gewaardeerd en als monument gerespecteerd. De contactdag omvat vier lezingen: Brenda Cijffers geeft een overzicht van de norbertijner pastorieën in het oude hertogdom Brabant; Mark Buijs zet de bouwhistorie van de pastorie van Roosendaal uiteen; Jacqueline de Graauw en Tom Coenegrachts zoeken naar een hypothetische herbestemming van de pastorie van Wezemaal en Stefan van Lani schetst het netwerk van de pastorieën van de abdij van Park.

De contactdag vindt plaats in Roosendaal. Alle info over de contactdag: Herman Janssens, Abdijstraat 1, 3271 Averbode; h.janssens@abdijaverbode.be.

In het Museum Tongerlohuys in Roosendaal loopt van 29 april tot 29 augustus een tentoonstelling over de norbertijner pastorieën.

Studientagung anlässlich des 100. Todestags Don Ruas

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Hoe zag de opleiding eruit op de katholieke gymnasia van paters en zusters? Welke intellectuele, sociale en culturele bagage kregen leerlingen van deze scholen mee? En in hoeverre droeg de scholing door religieuzen ertoe bij dat hun leerlingen zich gingen losmaken uit het katholieke milieu waarin ze waren opgegroeid? Dat zijn de kernvragen van het symposium Dragers van belofte. Deze vragen worden niet alleen door onderzoekers beantwoord, maar ook door enkele ervaringsdeskundigen. Zij vertellen hoe de katholiek geladen bagage van hun middelbare schooltijd hun latere leven heeft beïnvloed. Bent u oud-leerling of geïnteresseerd in dit onderwerp, dan bent u van harte uitgenodigd om aan het symposium deel te nemen.

Het symposium Dragers van belofte dat op 27 maart 2010 wordt georganiseerd in het Stedelijk Gymnasium in Nijmegen, maakt deel uit van het onderzoeksprogramma Katholieke Intellectuele Voorhoedes, dat wordt uitgevoerd aan de Faculteit der Letteren van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU). Het project kwam tot stand in samenwerking met museum De Stratemakerstoren, het Regionaal Archief Nijmegen, het Katholiek Documentatie Centrum en het Erfgoedcentrum Nederlands Kloosterleven. Naast een symposium, omvat het project ook een website, een publicatie en een tentoonstelling.

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Informatiefolder

Tagungsbericht

Graag nodigt de ‘Onderzoekseenheid Geschiedenis van de Middeleeuwen’ van de K.U.Leuven u uit op de lezing: Fondations monastiques, culte des saints et compétitions aristocratiques. A propos des origines du comté de Flandre (IXe-Xe siècles) door Prof. Charles Mériaux, Enseignant chercheur UFR des Sciences Historiques, Artistiques et Politiques Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3.

Deze lezing gaat door in MSI 02.08 (Museumzaal), op woensdag 14 oktober van 15 u tot 17 u. Alle geïnteresseerden zijn van harte welkom!

In samenwerking met Conventus: problemen van het religieus gemeenschapsleven in de hoge Middeleeuwen.

Religion and Modernity

The societal and cultural significance of religion during the age modernity has traditionally been portrayed in dichotomic and often ambiguous ways. Proponents of the secularisation thesis argue that the rapid economic, social, cultural and political transformations that embodied modernity, linearly weakened the hold of religion on society. This has led many scholars to underestimate or even ignore the significance of religion as an explanatory factor in 19th and 20th century history.

The 2009 Summer School on Religion, Culture and Society in Europe (1750-) offers its students a closer and refreshing look at the complicated historical relationship between religion and modernity. Participants will get a solid introduction to the very different domains in which religion has influenced, (re)shaped and even embodied the modernisation process, but also to the continuous adaptation and transformation processes of the religious domain itself, thus finding a clear contemporary reflection in Europe's cultural identities.
This summer school ensures active involvement of the students by means of a balanced programme of seminars, lectures and field trips. Established researchers in the field develop specific topics and cases, students have the possibility to present their own work and discuss their ideas in a relaxed and open atmosphere and within a multidisciplinary framework.

A joint initiative of
K.U.Leuven
University of Fribourg
Lund University
Ecole Pratique des hautes Eudes, EPHE Sorbonne Paris
Utrecht University

KADOC, the Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society of the K.U.Leuven ensures the office of the summer school.
Forms and all other information are available on
http://kadoc.kuleuven.be/summer_school

Other questions ?
summerschool@kadoc.kuleuven.be

This conference will explore the types of relationships that developed between monasteries and secular authorities prior to the year 1000. It is designed to express the diversity of these relationships and the involvement of monasteries in political, economic and cultural concerns across a geographical range that includes the British Isles, Ireland, Europe and Byzantium. By considering monasteries as institutions, but also their members as individual actors, the conference will help to define the various settings in which they operated within the political landscape, as well as in reference to one another where relationships could involve.

Venue: University of St. Andrews, School of History Mediaeval History 71 South Street St. Andrews KY16 9QW

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Email: ch28@st-andrews.ac.uk, mcm34@st-andrews.ac.uk

This conference will examine women's religious lives in this period from a range of perspectives: considering religious writings by 'exceptional' women, but also the devotional routines and social networks which characterized the piety of less visible women. It aims to reassess women's contributions to programmes for renewal and reform, and their responses to the Enlightenment. We seek a better understanding of a world of lay religious commitment in an age of church parties competing for power. Papers on the following are encouraged: individual case studies; clerical families; coteries; intellectual history; Dissent and recusancy; print culture; education; monasticism; continental influences.

Conference organisers: Dr Sarah Apetrei (Oxford), Dr Hannah Smith (Oxford) Venue: St. Hilda's College, Oxford.

Contact: Dr Sarah Apetrei - sarah.apetrei@keble.ox.ac.uk

Studiedag Historisch Onderzoeksnetwerk Religieuze Instituten in België
Journée d’étude du Réseau de Recherches Historiques des Instituts Religieux en Belgique

Iedere religieuze orde of congregatie wordt gekenmerkt door een identiteit, die betekenis geeft aan het instituut en het situeert in de kerkelijke en wereldlijke omgeving. De identiteit van elke orde is echter relatief; ze zorgt zowel voor een differentiatie ten opzichte van de concurrentie als voor talrijke imitaties en het doorgeven van modellen van het ene instituut aan het andere. Zowel op individueel als op collectief vlak, behoort het begrip identiteit tot de kern van de debatten die door deelnemers als toeschouwers van het kloosterleven worden gevoerd.
Vertrekkend van enkele definities van het begrip ‘identiteit’ (bewustzijn van de eigenheid van het individuele of collectieve ik en van de mogelijkheid van zijn voortbestaan als referentiepunt; geheel van waarden gedeeld door een menselijke collectiviteit, die haar toelaat zich van andere groepen te onderscheiden; eigenschap waarvan de aard gelijk of onveranderd blijft in de tijd; geheel van kenmerken en eigenschappen die toelaten een persoon te herkennen en zijn individualiteit te bepalen ten opzichte van de norm), zal de geschiedenis van enkele religieuze instituten worden uitgelicht.

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Inschrijving: patricia.quaghebeur@kadoc.kuleuven.be

Tout institut religieux revendique une identité distincte, qui donne sens à son institution et le situe dans la société ecclésiale et civile. L'identité de chaque ordre est toutefois relative, jouant à la fois d'une différenciation avec ses concurrents et d'emprunts nombreux, faisant circuler des modèles d'un ordre à l'autre. Lors de son engagement, le religieux abandonne (non sans mal) une part de son identité pour adopter celle de sa communauté, de son ordre, de son Église. Quelle soit envisagée au plan individuel ou collectif, la notion d’identité se retrouve au cœur des débats qui mobilisent acteurs et spectateurs de la vie conventuelle.
Partant de quelques définitions du terme « identité » (conscience de la spécificité d’un moi individuel ou collectif et de la possibilité de sa persistance en tant que référence ; corpus de valeurs partagées par l’ensemble d’une collectivité humaine, lui permettant de se distinguer d’autres groupes ; caractère de ce qui demeure identique ou égal à soi-même dans le temps ; ensemble des traits ou caractéristiques qui permettent de reconnaître une personne etd'établir son individualité au regard d’une loi), on voudrait interroger l’histoire des instituts religieux (sur le long terme) en privilégiant quelques thèmes, en particulier :

1. Identités individuelles et identités collectives
2. Emergence et affirmation d’une identité collective
3. Types d’identités
4. Stratégies de construction identitaire 
5. Réceptions et effets

Programme

Inscription: patricia.quaghebeur@kadoc.kuleuven.be

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The 2009 Conference of the Religious Archives Group explores the theme of personal papers in religious archives. The venue of the conference is to be the newly-developed and refurbished John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester. The conference will be held in the historic reading room and there will be an opportunity during the lunch hour to visit the exhibitions area.
Speakers include Tamara Thornhill giving an archivist's view on the papers of Cardinals Manning and Hume, Joan Winterkorn on the issues which arise in the buying and selling of personal papers, Professor Clyde Binfield on biography and personal papers, David Hart on eighteenth-century Methodist preachers and Bill Williams on the importance of personal records in Jewish history. 

Further details will shortly be available on the RAG website. A reminder will be circulated in the New Year.

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Rosemary Seton,
RAG Secretary
29, Gresley Road,
London N19 3LA

Tel 020 7263 6013
Email: Rosemary@seton.demon.co.uk

Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar

Tagungsprogramm

Anmeldung bis 10. Januar 2009 an
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schmiedl, Postfach 1406,
56174 Vallendar
Fax: 0261-6402300
E-Mail: jschmiedl@pthv.de

Religious institutes, Catholicism, and gender in Catholic secondary education
in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth century

International workshop European Forum on the History of Religious Institutes
in the 19th and 20th Centuries (RELINS-Europe)

Venue
Study Centre Soeterbeeck, Elleboogstraat 2
5371 LL Ravenstein, Netherlands

Date
Thursday, 5 February 2009, 17:30 hrs. – Saturday, 7 February 2009, 13:00 hrs.

Languages
Lectures will be given in English and French

RELINS-Europe is a network of European historians dedicated to the history of religious institutes in Europe in the 19th and 20th century. Since 2000 the RELINS network organizes conferences and publications on this subject. Its secretariat is run by the KADOC institute at the Catholic University of Louvain. In 2009, the annual RELINS workshop is organized by the Research Group History of Dutch Catholicism, Radboud University Nijmegen (http://www.ru.nl/geschiedenis/monteiro/) and the Echo Foundation (www.stichting-echo.nl).

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The RELINS workshop is intended for historians involved in research into the history of religious life in Europe. Historians who wish to attend the workshop are invited to send an email to Dr. J. van Vugt (j.v.vugt@soeterbeeck.ru.nl) with their name and address, and with a notice if they intend to join the entire workshop or parts of it.

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Stichting Echo

Hoewel religieuzen in de voorbije eeuwen geen monopolie meer hadden op wetenschappelijke kennis, zoals in de Middeleeuwen, hebben zij toch veel wetenschappelijk werk verricht op zulke uiteenlopende gebieden als theologie, filosofie, missiologie, antropologie, sociologie, geschiedschrijving, literatuurwetenschappen en diverse exacte wetenschappen.

Religieuze wetenschappers bevonden zich echter vaak in een enigszins benarde positie. Enerzijds streefden zij in hun vak naar objectieve en empirische kennis, anderzijds waren zij door hun religieuze status sterk gebonden aan het instituut van de kerk, dat zich wat ongemakkelijk verhield tot de objectieve wetenschap zodra deze leek te raken aan geloofsovertuigingen. Hoewel veel religieuze wetenschappers geen principiële tegenstelling zagen tussen wetenschap en geloof – was wetenschap niet ‘het geloof dat inzicht zoekt’? – werden ze in de praktijk wel degelijk geconfronteerd met wrijvingen tussen beide.
Tijdens het colloquium komen zowel de conflicterende als de verrijkende rol van religieuzen in de wetenschap aan de orde.

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Het Historisch Onderzoeksnetwerk Religieuze Instituten in België organiseert op 20 november 2008 een seminarie aan de Université de Liège met als spreeksters

1. prof. M.-E. Henneau (ULg): Un ordre contemplatif féminin aux grandes heures de la Réforme catholique: les annonciades célestes (introduction)
2. Julie Piront (FNRS/UCL): Etude architecturale des couvents d'annonciades célestes aux Pays-Bas méridionaux et en principauté de Liège

Uur: 16.00 u tot 18.00 u

Locatie:
Université de Liège, 9 place du 20 août, http://www2.ulg.ac.be/acces/plans/CVplangen.html
bâtiment A1 (entrée Philosophie)  http://www.facphl.ulg.ac.be/display.jsp?id=c_6928&cid=c_5458
Salle 3/22 (3e étage), accès par ascenseur jusqu’au 2e étage, puis parcours fléché.

Deelname aan het seminarie is gratis. Gelieve uw deelname wel vooraf te bevestigen bij Patricia.Quaghebeur@kadoc.kuleuven.be of tel: 016 32 35 03.

Le Réseau de Recherches Historiques des Instituts Religieux en Belgique organise le 20 novembre 2008 un séminaire à l'Université de Liège avec deux interventions

1. prof. M.-E. Henneau (ULg): Un ordre contemplatif féminin aux grandes heures de la Réforme catholique: les annonciades célestes (introduction)
2. Julie Piront (FNRS/UCL): Etude architecturale des couvents d'annonciades célestes aux Pays-Bas méridionaux et en principauté de Liège

Heures: de 16.00 h à 18.00 h

Local:
Université de Liège, 9 place du 20 août, http://www2.ulg.ac.be/acces/plans/CVplangen.html
bâtiment A1 (entrée Philosophie)  http://www.facphl.ulg.ac.be/display.jsp?id=c_6928&cid=c_5458
Salle 3/22 (3e étage), accès par ascenseur jusqu’au 2e étage, puis parcours fléché.

La participation au séminaire est gratuite. Nous vous prions de confirmer votre participation au séminaire auprès de Patricia.Quaghebeur@kadoc.kuleuven.be / tel. 016 32 35 03

Beheer en ontsluiting van foto's en fotografische collecties van religieuze instituten.

Sinds de negentiende en vroege twintigste eeuw maken foto's en fotografische collecties deel uit van het cultuurhistorisch patrimonium van vele kloosters en abdijen. Ondanks de grote emotionele en cultuurhistorische waarde die wordt gehecht aan fotografische archieven van kloostergemeenschappen is de bewaring en de ontsluiting ervan vaak niet vanzelfsprekend. De specificiteit en de diversiteit van het materiaal en de omvang van de fotocollecties stellen meerdere kloosterarchivarissen voor de nodige problemen. Bovendien zorgen recente technologische ontwikkelingen inzake archiefdigitalisering voor nieuwe uitdagingen en vraagtekens. Om tegemoet te komen aan de vele adviesvragen organiseert het FoKAV op zaterdag 15 november 2008 een workshop omtrent het beheer en het behoud van foto's. Bedoeling is kloosterlingen of andere geïnteresseerden vanuit een erg praktische invalshoek vertrouwd te maken met de zorg om hun eigen fotocollecties. In de workshop wordt onder meer aandacht besteed aan conserveringsmethoden, beschrijvingswijzen, verpakkingsmateriaal en bewaaromstandigheden. Bijdragen over reeds geordende fotocollecties van religieuze congregaties en over de eigenheid van fotografisch materiaal worden eveneens voorzien.

Plaats : Abdij van Park Heverlee

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Reeds voor de oprichting van een universiteit in 1425 bezaten verscheidene ordes te Leuven een studiehuis voor de vorming van hun leden, zoals de dominicanen, de franciscanen en de augustijnen. Van bij de oprichting van de universiteit werden zij bij de nieuwe stichting betrokken.

Op dit colloquium wordt de stand van het onderzoek opgemaakt over de ordes en congregaties die in Leuven studiehuizen hadden, in het bijzonder over hun relatie met de universiteit.  verder wordt nagegaan of de ordes ook een eigen opleiding hadden, welke rol het concilie van Trente in de organisatie van de opleiding speelde, enz.

Praktische informatie

The seventh annual H-WRBI Conference ‘Women Religious and the Political World’, took place on the 22nd and 23rd of August in the surrounds of the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

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Une nouvelle vision du dialogue interreligieux fondé sur l’expérience contemplative
Dialogue et partage avec le père Laurence Freeman et Lama Denys Rinpoché

Université Rimay - Nalanda
Institut Karma Ling
Domaine d’Avalon
73110 Arvillard - France
Tél : 04 79 25 78 00
www.universite.rimay.net

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Annual Conference of the Historians of Women Religious in Britain and Ireland

National University of Ireland, Galway

The two-day programme consists of a variety of medieval, early modern and modern papers on the theme of ‘Women Religious and the Political World’.  The conference will explore how women religious conceived the political world and what kinds of political activity (in the broadest sense) women religious engaged in.

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Dr. Marie-Louise Coolahan
Department of English
National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: marielouise.coolahan@nuigalway.ie

Religion in Europe has taken an unexpected turn. Although European societies -- both in the East and in the West -- were once looked upon as highly secularised and unchurched, expressions of Christianity, Islam and "new" religions are asserting themselves in the public domain. The reappearance of religion has far-reaching social and political implications in all European countries. These need to be properly understood. It is high time to question the idea of a disenchanted Europe, and to take a closer look at the complicated historical relationship between religion and modernity.

The 2008 Summer School on Religion, Culture and Society in Europe (1750-) will focus explicitly on this issue. It will offer its students a solid introduction to the very different domains in which religion has influenced, (re)shaped and even embodied the modernisation process, but also the continuous adaptation and transformation processes of the religious domain itself, thus finding a clear contemporary reflection in Europe's cultural identities.

Forms and all other information are available on the website of the summer school.

Studienamiddag naar aanleiding van de voorstelling van de inventaris van het archief van de Sint-Cornelius- en Sint-Cyprianusabdij te Ninove 1092-1796 (1812)

Le mardi 27 mai 2008 se tiendra une après-midi d’étude organisée à l’occasion de la publication d’un inventaire d’archives de l’abbaye norbertine de Ninove. Cette activité se déroulera dans l’église décanale Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Hemelvaart de Ninove, l’un des vestiges subsistants de l’ancienne abbaye établie jadis sur le site.

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Western Europe, 11th-13th Centuries

Hosted by Ghent University (Belgium), the chief aim of this international conference is to bring together scholars whose work represents current trends in the study of oral and non-written communication in monastic contexts during the High Medieval period.

In the past few decades, contemporary scholarship has increasingly focused on problems regarding communicative behaviour in monastic communities. The most successful angle from which scholars have approached this subject is one that marries a number of interdisciplinary theories regarding the social nature of communication with a strong interest in its material context. Until now, this approach has been used almost exclusively to reach a better understanding of the function of written sources. Papers presented at this conference by distinguished international scholars as well as younger scholars of great promise will show that it is also applicable to the field of non-written communication. Although literate behaviour was an indispensable part of monastic life, members of such communities exchanged considerable amounts of information for which no written media were deemed necessary or which did not make a complete transition into written form. Among the speakers are Gerd Althoff, Geoffrey Koziol, Elisabeth Van Houts, Peter Dinzelbacher and Marco Mostert.

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The conference fee will be 40 Euros.
For registration, please contact professor Steven Vanderputten.
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Development, management and social-political debate

During the French Revolution all contemplative monasteries and abbeys were suppressed and their possessions seized. These measures spread over Europe with the revolutionary wars. The concordat of 15 July 1801 normalized the working of the church and dioceses, but the measures against the monasteries were confirmed. Thereafter the lack of a juridical framework which would enable orders and congregations to consolidate their activities in modern states, their (real or supposed) wealth and the opaque financial structures of religious life fuelled the socio-political debate in nineteenth century Europe. Moreover, Liberals and Catholics had divergent opinions on the position of religious institutes in the civil society. Orders and congregations were the focus of ‘culture wars’ during such tense episodes as the monastic issue of Belgium, the German Kulturkampf and the French anti-congregational laws.

To stimulate research and discussion on the development and management of the patrimony and the social-political debate surrounding catholic religious institutes, two complementary workshops will be organised in 2008:
1. Religious institutes in the European civil society, 1780-1914 (Brussels, 23-24 May 2008)
2. Patrimony, business and management of religious institutes in Europe, 1789-1914/18 (Leuven, 7-8 November 2008).

The workshops are organised in the framework of a research project of the Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO) and involves scholars of the University of Leuven and the Free University of Brussels. The organising committee consists of: Dr. Roel de Groof (History department, VUB), Prof. dr. Jan De Maeyer (MoSa and KADOC, K.U.Leuven), dr. Peter Heyrman (KADOC, K.U.Leuven), Prof. em. dr. Emiel Lamberts (MoSa, K.U.Leuven), Rik Röttger (History department, VUB), Prof. dr. Fred Stevens (Division for Roman Law and Legal History, K.U.Leuven), Prof. dr. Jeffrey Tyssens (History department, VUB), dr. Maarten Van Dijck (KADOC, K.U.Leuven), Prof. em. dr. Els Witte (History department, VUB).

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Wissenschaftliche Fachtagung
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar

Anmeldung zur 8. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Ordensgeschichte19./20. Jahrhundert
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schmiedl, Postfach 1406, 56174 Vallendar
Fax: 0261-6402300
E-Mail: jschmiedl@pthv.de

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2008, 4-6 January  ‘Dieu changea de sexe’?
2008, 4-6 September ‘Households of faith’: Domesticity and religion

Research on Christendom increasingly emphasises that Christian churches and denominations should no longer be viewed as victims of secularisation and as the ‘losers’ of modernity and progress. In contrast, notwithstanding their sometimes radical rejection of some modern (-ist) values and practices, they profoundly adapted to the modern society and contributed to its modernisation. The recognition of the ‘feminisation’ of Christianity has played a key role in this respect, and the ‘feminisation thesis’ all but replaced the secularisation paradigm that dominated the history and sociology of religion in the nineteenth and twentieth century until fairly recently and continues to do so for the post-1960s.
Two workshops will be held, one in Ghent and one in Leuven (Belgium).

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Co-organised by OSA (Research Group Urbanity and Architecture, K.U.Leuven) and KADOC (Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society, K.U.Leuven).
Hosted by ASRO (Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning, K.U.Leuven)

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Stichting Echo organizes for the third time a meeting for historians and scholars interested in the history of orders and congregations in the Netherlands (19th and 20th Centuries). The meeting takes place at Klooster Sint Aegten, heritage centre of the convent life in the Netherlands.

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Op 16 november 2007 wordt in het aangepast kader van het klooster van de Broeders van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Lourdes in Oostakker door FOKAV (Forum Kerkelijke Archieven Vlaanderen) een studiedag georganiseerd. Centraal staan de mogelijkheden en moeilijkheden die gepaard gaan met het beheer van missiecollecties en erfgoed aangaande de activiteiten van Belgische missionarissen-religieuzen actief over heel de wereld, van het onvermijdelijke Congo, over China en Brazilië tot de Noordpool. Er wordt enerzijds aandacht besteed aan de inhoud, het beheer en de valorisatiemogelijkheden van congregationele en individuele archiefcollecties. Anderzijds ligt de nadruk op ontsluitingsprojecten aangaande missionaire kunst- en gebruiksvoorwerpen en mondelinge getuigenissen. Ten slotte wordt ook de problematiek van internationalisering en van erfgoedbeheer in de overzeese huizen niet uit de weg gegaan.

Lokatie: Broeders van Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Lourdes - Oostakker (Gent)

Inschrijving en info
Tel. 016 40 60 73 (CRKC) of tel. 016 40 45 54 (FoKAV)
email: info@crkc.be
web: www.fokav.be

Op vrijdagmiddag 19 oktober, Amsterdam: Vrouwen en religie in het verleden
Discussiemiddag en presentatie van het boek Verborgen vrouwen. Kluizenaressen in de middeleeuwse stad van dr. Anneke Mulder-Bakker.

Op woensdagavond 7 november, Amsterdam: Vrouwen en religie in het heden
Debat met de titel Vrouwen en religie: patriarchaat of bevrijding?

Beide debatten worden georganiseerd in het kader van het project ‘Verborgen vrouwen over vrouwen en religie (in het verleden en anno nu)’, een samenwerking van museum Ons' Lieve Heer op Solder in Amsterdam, Universiteit Leiden, de Maartenskerk in Zaltbommel, de Vereniging voor Vrouwengeschiedenis en het IIAV. Het project omvat onder andere een tentoonstelling, een boekpresentatie, concerten en twee debatten.

Inschrijving: pr@iiav.nl of telefonisch (020 665 1318).

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Die diesjährige Tagung findet vom 16.-18. November 2007 in bewährter Zusammenarbeit mit der Katholischen Akademie Schwerte statt. Die offizielle Einladung einschließlich Programm und Anmeldeunterlagen wird nach der Sommerpause verschickt werden.

Im Mittelpunkt soll wie gewohnt die Vorstellung und Diskussion laufender Arbeiten zur Katholizismusforschung stehen. Einige Meldungen dafür liegen bereits vor. Besonders diejenigen, die an Qualifikationsarbeiten (Master-, Diplom-, Magisterarbeit, Dissertation und Habilitation) sitzen, sind herzlich eingeladen, ihre Projekte vorzustellen und bis zum 1. Juli 2007 ihre Themen und Wünsche weiterzugeben.

Die Generaldebatte wird sich in diesem Jahr mit dem Thema "Feminisierung der Religion im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert - Zu Stärken und Schwächen eines Erklärungsmodells" beschäftigen. Hierfür konnten wir Bernhard Schneider (Trier) und Relinde Meiwes (Berlin) als Referenten gewinnen. Wir möchten damit über methodische Konzeptionen eingehender diskutieren und aktuelle Forschungsperspektiven aufzuzeigen. Im nächsten Jahr wird in Gent und Leuven (Belgien) ein Workshop zum Thema "Christian Feminisation and Masculinisation in Europe: Comparative Perspectives" angeboten, was die Aktualität des Themas unterstreicht sowie weitere Vernetzungen ermöglicht.

Kontakt:
Nicole Priesching
Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Kirchengeschichte
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Johannisstraße 8-10
48143 Münster
nicole.priesching@uni-muenster.de

Andreas Henkelmann
Lehrstuhl für Kirchengeschichte des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit
Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
ahenkelmann@web.de

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Au printemps 2007, quelques historiens ont fondé un nouveau réseau belge de recherche afin de donner une impulsion à la recherche sur l’histoire des instituts religieux des Pays-Bas du Sud et ultérieurement de la Belgique depuis le Moyen âge à nos jours. Le réseau veut contribuer à favoriser les échanges et la concertation au niveau des problématiques et des méthodes, et ainsi stimuler la recherche scientifique sur l’histoire des instituts religieux dans une perspective internationale.
 
Les langues véhiculaires du réseau sur les instituts religieux sont le néerlandais et le français.

Le 19 octobre 2007, le réseau organise une première journée d'étude avec un aperçu de l’historiographie des instituts religieux des Pays-Bas du Sud et de la Belgique, et une présentation des perspectives de recherche à venir.

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Info et inscription: Patricia Quaghebeur

Sacred places have long exercised a special fascination. Not only do they attract people to them, but they also bring about changes in human behaviour. Whether ‘holy places’, places of devotion or pilgrimage, the sites of cults or the enclosed spaces of abbeys and convents, the fact is that such places bring people to stillness and silence.
One of the questions to be explored is why some sites have for centuries proven to be so popular while others have not. Perhaps this is precisely the ‘secret’ of the site, that it is an imaginary or reconstructed meeting-point between heaven and earth. Another topic to be examined in the congress will be the way in which extraordinary natural sites have been designated as sacred and given new meaning, primarily by means of architecture.

However, the congress also wishes to explore the ‘eternal’ character of this sacred status. Is cultural tourism in these places compatible with a commitment to ongoing religious observance? Is it possible to preserve the authenticity of the non-material dimension of sacred places for the future? How can we do this in the face of and in concert with the pressures of increasing urbanisation and the rapidly changing cultural landscape in the countryside? In what way do religious monuments give identity and meaning to the contemporary city and the shrinking countryside? In other words, do sacred places lose their specificity once they have been given a new function? In restoring such sites and buildings, or in allocating them a new function, what points deserve particular attention?

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Venue: NUI Maynooth. 

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Dr. Robin J. Kavanagh,
Department of History
Room 50, Logic House,
National University of Ireland,
Maynooth,Co. Kildare.
Tel. 353 1 708 6966
email: robin.kavanagh@nuim.ie

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The advent of the mendicant orders in the British Isles in the first half of the thirteenth century was one of the most significant developments in late medieval religious life.

The 2007 Harlaxton Symposium will be devoted to the friars and their influence in different spheres. There will be papers devoted to particular orders, as well as more general surveys focusing on the relationship between the friars and regular and secular clergy. Local studies will feature, among other areas, London, Kent, East Anglia and York. The contribution of individual friars to theology, preaching, science and literature will be examined. There will also be papers on the archaeology, architecture, iconography, stained glass and manuscripts of the mendicant orders. Negative views of the friars, both before and during the Reformation, will also be considered.

As part of the Symposium there will be a visit to King’s Lynn to view the significant remains of the Greyfriars and other examples of religious and secular architecture

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Against the backdrop of the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the canonisation of Angela Merici (1475-1540), and the 150th anniversary of the arrival of Ursulines in Australia, it is proposed to hold a conference on the theme of the spiritualities of female religious orders.

This conference will address two important questions:
1. What were the distinctive characteristics of the spiritualities of such medieval and early modern women’s religious orders as the Benedictines, Poor Clares, Loretos and Ursulines?
2. How did nineteenth-century women religious adapt and re-shape these and other spiritual traditions to the context of colonial Australia?

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Venue: Melbourne, May 11-12, 2007.
Co-convenors: Dr Claire Renkin and Dr Katherine Massam

More information: claire@betterlink.com.au

The Danish Society of Nursing History is celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2007 by arranging the First Danish History of Nursing Conference in cooperation with the Danisch Museum of Nursing History.

The conference will be held at The Danish Museum of Nursing History in Kolding on September 28-29, 2007.

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South Bend Indiana

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Ce colloque interroge les innovations pédagogiques introduites à l’École catholique durant la première moitié du XXe siècle. Les communications portent plus particulièrement sur l’éducation religieuse et morale de la jeunesse catholique, tant dans l’espace proprement scolaire (programmes d’études, normes, manuels, institutions d’enseignement), que dans ses multiples prolongements (activités parascolaires, mouvements de jeunesse, associations religieuses, etc.).

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Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar

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Anmeldung zur 7. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Ordensgeschichte19./20. Jahrhundert
bis 10. Januar 2007 an
Prof. Dr. Joachim Schmiedl, Postfach 1406, 56174 Vallendar
Fax: 0261-6402300
E-Mail: jschmiedl@pthv.de

Pour célébrer le centenaire du couvent dominicain de Bruxelles, une exposition intitulée
"Prêcheurs à temps et à contretemps" a été présentée dans l'église de l'avenue de la Renaissance.
Dix-sept figures de la tradition dominicaine ont ainsi été mises en images.

Pour clôturer cet anniversaire, la communauté bruxelloise organise une journée de conférences sur des aspects variés de l'histoire dominicaine. Celle-ci a lieu dans la salle du couvent, Avenue de la Renaissance 40, 1000 Bruxelles le samedi 13 janvier 2007.

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Prieur, Alain Arnould.
Dominic's International Priory
Avenue de la Renaissance 40
B-1000 Bruxelles
Tél: 00 32(0)2 743 09 68
Fax: 00 32 (0)2 743 09 99
 
Inscriptions: m.vanaerde@dominicains.be ou 02 743 09 60. 

Zusters en diaconessen in de ziekenhuisverpleging in Nederland en Vlaanderen

Bij beleidsmakers en managers van ziekenhuizen staat efficiëntie hoog genoteerd. Zakelijkheid dreigt de overhand te krijgen ten koste van aandacht voor de persoon van de zieke mens. Uit bezorgdheid hierover bezocht een delegatie van Nederlandse vrouwelijke religieuzen in oktober 2005 de staatssecretaris voor Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport in Den Haag. De religieuzen vinden dat hun erfenis op dit terrein niet goed wordt beheerd. In het verleden stond in de ziekenhuizen waar de verpleging in handen was van vrouwelijke religieuzen en diaconessen de menslievende zorg bovenaan. Caritas was de kern van hun bezieling. In de huidige tijd wordt opnieuw de zin in de zorg aan de orde gesteld. Daardoor komt er ook weer belangstelling voor de manier waarop religieuze vrouwen hun zorgende taak begrepen.

Met het vertrek van zusters en diaconessen uit de ziekenhuizen lijkt ook de herinnering aan hun inzet en bezieling te zijn vervaagd. In de geschiedschrijving over het ziekenhuiswezen wordt vooral aandacht gegeven aan de geschiedenis van afzonderlijke ziekenhuizen, van bestuurlijke perikelen en van de medische ontwikkelingen. Tijdens dit Echo-colloquium zal daarentegen juist het werk en de bezieling van de verplegende zusters en diaconessen in de 19de en 20ste eeuw centraal staan.

Venue
Studentenkerk Radboud Universiteit, Erasmuslaan 15, Nijmegen.
Vrijdag 8 december 2006, 14.00 uur - 18.00 uur

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Tel: 026 - 321 31 02 of info@stichting-echo.nl

Conference organised by the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, the Archivio per la Storia del Movimento Sociale Cattolico in Italia, the Sede di Brescia and the CSR - Coordinamento Storici Religiosi

Brescia, Friday 6 ottobre 2006

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Organised by the Centre Maurice-Leenhardt de recherche en missiologie

Venue: 5 October 2006 – 7 December 2006 – 3 May 2007

Faculté de théologie protestante
rue Louis-Perrier, 13
34000 Montpellier

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Venue: University of Copenhagen

How has gender been used and misused in religious revivals?
How do ideas about religion, gender, and equality influence power relations locally and around the globe? What are the implications of understanding gender and religion as constructed and as sites for conceptual and practical conflicts about meaning?
How and where have gender and sexuality constituted sites for negotiations and conflicts within or between religious communities and commitments?

The conference aims at bridging gender and religious studies and at reflection of both current and historical perspectives. It seeks to enhance interdisciplinary exchange and to create a space for exchange across research specialisations.

Call for papers: (200 words) + CV. 

Deadline: June 15, 2006. Accept of papers will be forwarded by July 1st. 2006.
Email: religion@sociology.ku.dk
Registration: September 1, 2006

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Venue: Renehan Hall - NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland

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Religion has traditionally accompanied the expansion, and the overthrow, of empires but it is sometimes argued that religion was of little consequence to the British Empire . Yet, absent-mindedly perhaps, British religious cultures were seeded around the globe in the course of empire so that they endure as some of its most abiding artefacts, particularly in its settler societies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. Attempts to establish Anglicanism as the faith of the empire and missionary efforts to propagate Christianity among native peoples are only part of this complex religious story. From the Catholic metropole in Dublin, Irish Catholicism expanded prodigiously. English and Welsh nonconformity, Scottish and Irish Presbyterianism, Orthodox Judaism, and even esoteric faiths such as Theosophy and Spiritualism all have significant, and little researched, imperial histories. There are many parallels between patterns of religious development in Britain and in some of the settler colonies: for instance the strength of Evangelicalism in the nineteenth century and of the social gospel in the early twentieth; the decline of Protestant church-going from around 1890, contrasted with continuing high levels of Catholic practice; the religious boom of the 1950s and the bust in the 1960s; and, most recently, the resurgence in Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism.

This conference calls for papers which consider the many ways in which religion served, thwarted, transformed, mitigated and reinforced the bonds of empire in the colonised world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We hope to attract speakers who will consider local colonial and metropolitan religious communities and bring together researchers addressing similar issues in different parts of the imagined British Empire . Themes to be considered include: Comparative and/or case studies of colonial religious cultures, Religious discourses of support and challenge to the imperial ideal, Roman and other religious empires from Dublin to Durban, Women as agents of imperial religious networks, Metropolitan and colonial religious communities.

The programme for the two day conference 'Empires of Religion' features papers considering the role of religious institutes
Cunich Peter (University of Hong Kong). A Contested History of Empire: the English Benedictines and the Australian Mission, 1832-1883.
MacGinley, Rosa. Irish Women Religious in 19th century Australia and their Convent High Schools.

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Organised by Stichting Echo

Venue:
Klooster Sint Aegten, erfgoedcentrum Nederlands kloosterleven
Kloosterlaan 24
5435 XD St Agatha
Tel: 0485 31 10 07

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Organised by

the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford, U.K., the State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A., the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, USA, the Huntington Library, California, USA., the American Studies Foundation in Japan, and the Institute for Women’s Studies at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan.

The conference co-organizers are Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History and Co-Director, Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, State University of New York at Binghamton; Harmsworth Professor of American History, University of Oxford, 2005-2006; Rui Kohiyama, Professor of Area Studies, Tokyo Woman's Christian University; Barbara Reeves-Ellington, Assistant Professor, Siena College, Loudonville, New York; and Connie Shemo, Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Plattsburgh.

Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford
April 27-29, 2006

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The workshop “Missiology, Science and Modernity” aims to examine and discuss the historical roots and development of Missiology or mission studies, a new academic discipline that emerged in theological faculties and missionary societies in Europe and the United States in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

The theoretical and systematic study of the mission phenomenon started out as a Protestant undertaking. The founder and pioneer was the German Protestant Gustav Warneck (1834-1910), who in 1874 started the first missiological journal Allgemeine Missionszeitschrift. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the new discipline was also taken up by Catholics under the guidance of German church historian Joseph Schmidlin (1876-1944). After the First World War, missiology increasingly grew into an international discipline.

The workshop will trace this history from a comparative and international perspective, and will also examine a few case studies as a way of examining more closely the interaction between mission studies and missionary practice.

Organised by
Advisory Committee of the FWO project Missiology, Science and Apostolic Policy 1890-1939 and
KADOC, the interfaculty Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society of the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium)

Academia Belgica
Academia Belgica - Via Omero 8 - I-00197 ROMA
1-4 March 2006

Proceedings forthcoming in 2008

In Vallendar diskutieren 30 Teilnehmer und Teilnehmerinnen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz Themen zur Ordensgeschichte. Die Mitglieder des Arbeitskreises sind durch wissenschaftliche Qualifikationsarbeiten (Dissertation, Habilitationsschrift), Forschungsprojekte, Lehrtätigkeit an Hochschulen oder Tätigkeit als Archivar oder Archivarin mit der Thematik befasst. Als fertige Werke wurden der siebte und letzte Band der Kongregationsgeschichte der Schwestern unserer lieben Frau und die Provinzgeschichte der Pallottiner vorgestellt.

Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar
Pallottistrasse 3
56179 Vallendar
Tel.: 0261-6402-0

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Contact:
Prof.Dr. Joachim Schmiedl
Postfach 1406
56174 Vallendar
Tel. 0261-6402261 - Fax: 0261-6402300 – E-mail: jschmiedl@pthv.de

Organised by
Ordine Ministri degli Infermi (Camilliani)
Archivio di Stato di Roma
Corso Rinascimento, 40
ROMA

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19. Tagung Schwerter Arbeitskreis Katholizismusforschung

Organised by Schwerter Arbeitskreis Katholizismusforschung Katholische Akademie Schwerte, 11-13 November 2005

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Contact: Dr. Gisela Fleckenstein

Seminar: Placing Catholic Sisters in the History of Victorian Education
19 October 2005
West Downs - Rooms 3-5
University of Winchester
West Hill SO22 4NR Winchester

With the support of
Chichester Centre for Ecclesiastical Studies
Centre for the History of Women's Education
Winchester Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Winchester

More information and registration: Dr. Susan Morgan
Tel. +44 (0) 1962 841515

Theme I: Material Culture in the Convent
Theme II: Authorial Voice
Theme III: Using Oral History: Theory and Practice
Theme IV: Consecrated Women as Missionaries

The conference was held in the Divinity Faculty, Cambridge University and the Margaret Beaufort Institute and was supported by the Economic History Society and the Royal Historical Society

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The third RELINS-Europe workshop examined the cultural production by religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of communication in different European countries. The workshop focused on social and cultural history, by comparing both discourses and cultural and social practices as well as examining international networks and cultural transfer.

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Organised by
The European Forum on the History of Religious Institutes (RELINS-Europe);
The University of Fribourg - Department of Contemporary History, Study of Religions and Social Anthropology - Affiliated to the «Programme interdisciplinaire d’études catholiques», Fribourg

9–10 September 2005
University of Fribourg, Miséricorde, Avenue de l’Europe 20, room 3016 - CH-1700 Fribourg

Bei der 18. Tagung des Schwerter Arbeitskreises werden - wie immer - aktuelle Beiträge zur Katholizismusforschung vorgestellt und diskutiert. Das Thema der Generaldebatte lautet: Körperlichkeit und Körpererfahrungen im katholisch-konfessionellen Diskurs.

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Schwerter Arbeitskreis Katholizismusforschung
Katholische Akademie Schwerte, 12-14 November 2004

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The conference marked the conclusion of the project “The Vatican and Religious Institutions 1802-1914”. The aim of the project was twofold. First, it wished to highlight to the Belgian researchers the wealth of the Generalate archives in Rome and facilitate access to them by means of an archival guide. Second, the project aimed to promote comparative research on religious orders and congregations.

The conference wanted to give a boost to research on religious orders and congregations in Europe. Nineteenth-century Church history is characterised by a striking revival of religious orders (male orders, monastic orders) and congregations (active female congregations, congregations of brothers and of priests, missionary institutions). The growing number of religious institutions sometimes led to friction with the diocesan structures and the secular clergy. On the other hand, they also afforded the Church enormous possibilities for taking on socially-oriented tasks in modern society (education, health care) and to take advantage of the religious needs that the revival aroused (pilgrimage sites, devotions). The orders and congregations helped the Church to take up a more powerful position in modern, post-revolutionary Western European society.

The conference wanted to examine in an interdisciplinary way how the Holy See (the papal curia and the nuncios) and the diocesan structures (bishops, vicars) engaged in these developments. Particular attention was given to the possible differences between those institutions which had been accorded papal approval and those with diocesan approval. In addition, the conference also examined the establishment of the generalates and their role. The aim was to study the interaction between the various participants and to research the extent to which the Holy See and the authorities in Rome influenced the statutes and rules, the structures, the spirituality and the choices made regarding the apostolate of the orders and congregations. Related to this was the question whether in the course of the nineteenth century there were variations in the extent of Rome’s intervention.

Organised by
The Max Wildiers Fund under the auspices of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen).
The host institutes were the Belgian Historical Institute in Rome (BHIR) and KADOC, the interfaculty Documentation and Research Centre for Religion, Culture and Society of the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium).

27-29 May 2004
Academia Belgica - Via Omero 8 - I-00197 ROMA

Proceedings forthcoming in 2008

Der "Arbeitskreis Ordensgeschichte 19./20. Jahrhundert" ist ein Diskussions- und Austauschforum füraktuelle Arbeiten zur Geschichte von Orden und Kongregationen in der katholischen Kirche. An der vierten Fachtagung nahmen 35 Personen teil, die sich in ihren Forschungsarbeiten mit Themenzur Ordensgeschichte der beiden letzten Jahrhunderte beschäftigen.

Organised by:
Arbeitskreis Ordensgeschichte 19./20. Jahrhundert
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar, 6-8 February 2004

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Organised bySchwerter Arbeitskreis Katholizismusforschung

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Der Arbeitskreis ist ein Diskussionsforum für aktuelle Arbeiten zur Geschichte von Orden und Kongregationen und widmete sich bei dieser Tagung überwiegend Themen des 19. Jahrhunderts.

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Arbeitskreis Ordensgeschichte 19./20. Jahrhundert

Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar
7-9 February 2003

Published by H-Soz-u-Kult (February, 2003)

Organised by Schwerter Arbeitskreis Katholizismusforschung

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The Relins-Europe forum and the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Vallendar der Gesellschaft des Katholischen Apostolates - Theologische Fakultät - Staatlich anerkannte wissenschaftliche Hochschule in freier Trägerschaft; supported by the Gerda-Henkel Stiftung

Proceedings published in De Maeyer, Leplae & Schmiedl, eds. Religious Institutes in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Historiography, Research and Legal Position. KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 2. Leuven, 2004.

Auf der Tagung wurden laufende Projekte zur Ordensgeschichte vorgestellt, Fragen des methodischen Zugriffs diskutiert und der Umgang mit unterschiedlichen Quellengattungen erörtert.

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Arbeitskreis Ordensgeschichte 19./20. Jahrhundert

Philosophisch-Theologischen Hochschule Vallendar, 1-3 February 2002

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The RELINS-Europe research forum

22-24 June 2001
Academia Belgica - Via Omero 8 - I-00197 ROMA

Proceedings published in De Maeyer, Leplae & Schmiedl, eds. Religious Institutes in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Historiography, Research and Legal Position. KADOC Studies on Religion, Culture and Society 2. Leuven, 2004.