The principal output of International Scholars of the History of Women Religious Association (ISHWRA) is a monthly research seminar and a biennial workshop. All seminars are hosted virtually to allow for global participation, but some take place in a hybrid form through an in-person and online format. These particular events are hosted by the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University (UK). The rationale behind the seminar series is that it allows for the tracking of major international research themes, which include the history of female religious in relation to matters of education, faith and spirituality, gender, politics, race, and social care. The seminar series invites contributions from scholars from a broad array of disciplinary backgrounds.

Programme

October 26, 1pm (London time)

• Liliana Pérez Miguel (Universidad de Sevilla) “Making the Law. The Role of Religious Women in the Construction of Law in the Viceroyalty of Peru”

Virtual

November 25, 3pm (London time)

• Isabel Harvey (Université catholique de Louvain / Université du Québec À Montréal) “Non-Cloistered Religious Women and Rome at the Aftermath of the Council of Trent. Journey in Archives”.

Co organised with Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles (Belgium). Hybrid

December 7, 2pm (London time)

• Kristien Suenens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) – “Mothers of a Local Church: Gender, Race and Church Politics and the Emergence of African Sister Congregations in Burundi, Congo and Rwanda (1900-1950)”

Virtual

January 18, 2pm (London time)

• Elizabethada Wright (University of Minnesota Duluth) – “Rejection, Perseverance, Resistance, and Faith: Four Brief Narratives of Catholic Women’s Religious Orders in the United States”

Virtual

February 15, 2pm (London time)

• Shannen Dee Williams (University of Dayton) – “Bearing Witness to a Silenced Past: Black Catholic Nuns in the African American Freedom Struggle”

Virtual

March 8, 2pm (London time)

• Peggy Dalmas (University of South Alabama) – “The Leadership of Catholic Women Religious in American Secular Institutions of Higher Education”

Virtual

April 26, 11am (Montevideo time)

• Susana Monreal (Universidad Católica del Uruguay) – “A Long Journey: the Dominican Sisters of Albi in a Transnational and Transcultural Perspective”

Virtual

May 31, 9am (Lima time)

• Ybeth Arias (Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos) – “Feminine Agents of Saint Rose of Lima’s Devotion in Mexico and Lima, 1600-1800”

Virtual

June 14, 3pm (London time)

• Pablo Acosta-García (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – “Genealogies: Tracing the Genealogy of the Visionary Sermon in Women's Religious Houses”

Virtual

Information

Registration opens on eventbrite three weeks before each seminar