Women, Religion, and the Atlantic World (1600-1800)

A conference at the Clark Library, April 1-2, 2005
Arranged by Daniella Kostroun, Stonehill College and Lisa Vollendorf, Wayne State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara

Conference papers will be accessible from this page as they are received, and will remain on line for two weeks after the conference. They will be mailed to registrants by request.

Friday, April 1
2:00 P.M.	Welcome Peter H. Reill, UCLA Daniella Kostroun, Stonehill College Lisa Vollendorf, Wayne State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara Session 1 Heidi Tinsman, University of California, Irvine Chair Phyllis Mack, Rutgers University Learning to Love: Writing and Emotion in Methodist Discourse Stacey Schlau, West Chester University María de Zárate and the Mexican Inquisition: Peculiarities, Posturings, and Problems Sylvia R. Frey, Tulane University Messengers of the Word: Women and the Spiritual Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
5:00 P.M.	Reception

Saturday, April 2
9:30 A.M	Coffee
10:00 A.M.	Session 2 Theresa Smith, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies Chair Jon Sensbach, University of Florida Priestly Women: Creating a Black Pietist Atlantic Ulrike Strasser, University of California, Irvine The Global Currency of Female Sanctity: German Jesuits and Indigenous Holy Women Martha Few, University of Arizona Atlantic World Monsters and Cultural Conceptions of Deformity in Monstrous Birth Accounts in Early Colonial Guatemala
12:30 P.M.	Lunch
2:00 P.M.	Session 3 Pamela Smith, Pomona College Chair Amy M. Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore County The Religious Lives of Singlewomen in the Anglo-Atlantic World Barbara B. Diefendorf, Boston University Rethinking the Catholic Reformation: The Role of Women Lisa Vollendorf, Wayne State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara Christian, Muslim, Jew: Women and Identity in Early Modern Spain

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