Notes and Comments
The 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Catholic Historical Association
The First Vice-President of the American Catholic Historical Association, the Reverend Joseph J. Chinnici, O.F.M., will be chair of the Committee on Program for the eighty-eighth annual meeting, which will be held in Washington, D.C., on January 3-6, 2008. Proposals for papers or (preferably) complete sessions should be submitted to Father Chinnici by January 15, 2007, at the following address: Franciscan School of Theology, 1712 Euclid Avenue, Berkeley, California 94709; email address jchinnici@fst.edu. Only members of the Association are eligible to present papers, and no one who will have presented a paper at the eighty-seventh meeting will be permitted to present one at the eighty-eighth.
Conferences and Colloquia
On September 15-16, 2006 at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth the annual Conference on Consecrated Women was held with the theme: "Towards the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland." The papers presented ranged from the seventh century to the modern period, from Ireland and England to India and Africa and America, and across denominational divisions to include Lutherans and Quakers.
On September 26, 2006 at the University of Regensburg the Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum (whose membership is over 150 subscribers) held its annual meeting that commemorated the one-hundredth anniversary of its series Reformationsgeschichtliche Studien und Texte with a reception sponsored by Verlag Aschendorff, which has published the series since its beginning. The volume that appeared this year as Supplementband 5 was a collection of his studies honoring the sixty-fifth birthday of a former president of the Gesellschaft: Heribert Smolinsky: Im Zeichen von Kirchen-reform und Reformation. Gesammelte Studien zur Kirchengeschichte in Spätmittelalter und früher Neuzeit, edited by Karl-Heinz Braun, Barbara Henze, and Bernhard Schneider. The volume that appeared this year in its series Katholisches Leben und Kirchenreform im Zeitalter der Glaubensspaltung as Heft 66 is the second volume of Orden und Klöster im Zeitalter von Reformation und katholischer Reform 1500-1700, edited by Friedhelm Jürgensmeier and Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger. For more information on the society, contact its current president, Professor Dr. Peter Walter, at Corpus.Catholicorum@theol.uni-freiburg.de. [End Page 707]
On September 30, 2006 the Texas Catholic Historical Society held a workshop entitled "Teaching Texas Catholic History" at the Catholic Archives of Texas in Austin. Among the presentations given were "Spanish Missions in Texas" by Jesús de la Teja, "Ethnicities and Catholicism in Texas" by Patrick Foley, and "American Catholic Biography and Autobiography" by Thomas W. Jodziewicz. For further information, please contact Professor Jodziewicz of the University of Dallas at tjodz@udallas.edu.
On August 12 to 19, 2007 will be held the Triennial International Thomas More Conference at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. The theme of the conference is "Thomas More, Man of Letters." Proposals for papers should be sent to Dr. Clare M. Murphy at Villa Clara, 17 rue Lainé Laroche, 49000 Angers, France, email cmurphy_5@hotmail.com.
On September 6 to 10, 2007, the International Commission of Comparative Church History will hold a conference at Lublin, Poland (September 6-8) and Lviv, Ukraine (September 9-10) on the theme: "The Religious Space of East Central Europe, Open to the West and East." The deadline for submission of topics was September 15, 2006. Of particular interest to the organizers are papers dealing with socio-religious history treating the various Christian denominations and the Jewish and Muslim communities from spatial, historical, and comparative perspectives from the ninth century to the present. Proposals were to have been sent to Professor Jerzy Kl-oczowski of the Institute of East-Central Europe, Niecal-a 5, 20-080 Lublin, Poland, fax (48 81) 534 72 32, email instesw@platon.man.lublin.pl.
Archives
Pope Benedict XVI has authorized the opening of the Vatican archives, principally the Vatican Secret Archives and the Archives of the Second Section of the Secretariat of...
