April 23rd
5:00 Book Launch, Lower Level Dining Area of McKenna Hall
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
Remarks by John Van Engen and James Turner
April 24th
12:00 Registration and Light Lunch
12:30 Framing Disciplines and Constructing Knowledge
Chair: Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame
Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas, “Ordinary Culture: Learning and Language in the Nineteenth Century”
Steve Alter, Gordon College, “Intellectual History, Cultural Studies, and Authorial Agency”
2:20 God and Creeds: Belief and Practice
Chair: Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University, “Catholicism and American Indians”
Angel Cortes, Holy Cross College, “Orestes A. Brownson: A Re-examination of a Religious Peripatetic”
Benjamin Wetzel, University of Notre Dame, “‘The Cause of God and Liberty’: The African Methodist Episcopal Church & the Civil War”
4:30 Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
“Christianity and Philology: The Story of a Complicated Marriage”
Reception immediately following the keynote address
April 25th
9:30 Light Refreshments
10-11:45 AM Germans and Gender: Influences on Education
Chair: Steve Alter, Gordon College
Andrea L. Turpin, Baylor University, “Educating Men and Women for Service: Theologies of Sexual Difference in the Collegiate YMCA and YWCA”
Shea Ramquist, University of Notre Dame, “The Origins of Graduate School at the University of Michigan”
David Komline, University of Notre Dame, “The Prussian Road to Common Schools? German Influences in Ohio”
11:45 Lunch
1-2:45 Sacred and Secular Knowledge: Religion and the Academy
Chair: Robert E. Sullivan, University of Notre Dame
Andrew Hansen, MacLaurin CSF, “Historicism and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Protestant Theology: Henry Boynton Smith and Philip Schaff”
Michael Lee, Eastern University, “Using Islam to Defeat Deism in Early America”
Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame, “Charles A. Briggs and the Third Coming of Biblical Criticism to America”
3:15-5 Reckoning with the ‘B’s: Bad Behavior and a Better World
Chair: Jon T. Coleman, University of Notre Dame
Margaret Abruzzo, University of Alabama / Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, “‘To Err is Human’?: Historicizing Sin”
Joshua Kercsmar, Valparaiso University, “What Can Animal Domestication Tell Us about the History of Atlantic Slavery?”
Mina Carson, Oregon State University, “Peace, Politics, and Parenting: The Paulings and Mid-Century Unitarian Humanism”
5:30 Reception and Dinner at Morris Inn (By Invitation)
6:15 Closing Banquet
5:00 Book Launch, Lower Level Dining Area of McKenna Hall
Philology: The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities
Remarks by John Van Engen and James Turner
April 24th
12:00 Registration and Light Lunch
12:30 Framing Disciplines and Constructing Knowledge
Chair: Patrick Griffin, University of Notre Dame
Beth Barton Schweiger, University of Arkansas, “Ordinary Culture: Learning and Language in the Nineteenth Century”
Steve Alter, Gordon College, “Intellectual History, Cultural Studies, and Authorial Agency”
2:20 God and Creeds: Belief and Practice
Chair: Kathleen Sprows Cummings, University of Notre Dame
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Michigan State University, “Catholicism and American Indians”
Angel Cortes, Holy Cross College, “Orestes A. Brownson: A Re-examination of a Religious Peripatetic”
Benjamin Wetzel, University of Notre Dame, “‘The Cause of God and Liberty’: The African Methodist Episcopal Church & the Civil War”
4:30 Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
“Christianity and Philology: The Story of a Complicated Marriage”
Reception immediately following the keynote address
April 25th
9:30 Light Refreshments
10-11:45 AM Germans and Gender: Influences on Education
Chair: Steve Alter, Gordon College
Andrea L. Turpin, Baylor University, “Educating Men and Women for Service: Theologies of Sexual Difference in the Collegiate YMCA and YWCA”
Shea Ramquist, University of Notre Dame, “The Origins of Graduate School at the University of Michigan”
David Komline, University of Notre Dame, “The Prussian Road to Common Schools? German Influences in Ohio”
11:45 Lunch
1-2:45 Sacred and Secular Knowledge: Religion and the Academy
Chair: Robert E. Sullivan, University of Notre Dame
Andrew Hansen, MacLaurin CSF, “Historicism and Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Protestant Theology: Henry Boynton Smith and Philip Schaff”
Michael Lee, Eastern University, “Using Islam to Defeat Deism in Early America”
Mark A. Noll, University of Notre Dame, “Charles A. Briggs and the Third Coming of Biblical Criticism to America”
3:15-5 Reckoning with the ‘B’s: Bad Behavior and a Better World
Chair: Jon T. Coleman, University of Notre Dame
Margaret Abruzzo, University of Alabama / Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, “‘To Err is Human’?: Historicizing Sin”
Joshua Kercsmar, Valparaiso University, “What Can Animal Domestication Tell Us about the History of Atlantic Slavery?”
Mina Carson, Oregon State University, “Peace, Politics, and Parenting: The Paulings and Mid-Century Unitarian Humanism”
5:30 Reception and Dinner at Morris Inn (By Invitation)
6:15 Closing Banquet