American Catholic Historical Association

The ACHA information desk will be located at the West Registration Counter on the Lobby Level of the Omni Shoreham Hotel.

Thursday, January 8

8:00–10:00 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Cabinet Room.  
Executive Council meeting

Friday, January 9

9:30–11:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Director’s Room.
Session 1. The Archaeology of Early Christian Sites

9:30–11:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Council Room.
Session 2. Writing Catholic Women’s History

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Director’s Room.
Session 3. Franciscan Mysticism in the Middle Ages

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Council Room.
Session 4. Discerning Providence in History: Muddy Streams and Broad Riverbeds

2:30–4:30 p.m. Hilton, Jackson Room.
Session 5, joint with the American Society of Church History. Back to the “Christian Middle Ages”: The Historiography of Medieval Religion, 1984–2004

4:45–5:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Council Room.
Business meeting

5:30–6:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Congressional A.
Social hour

Saturday, January 10

9:30–11:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Director’s Room.
Session 6. Latin Scandinavia

9:30–11:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Council Room.
Session 7: Soundbite Scholarship: How Can Church Historians Help Journalists Tell the Church Scandal Story?

12:15–1:45 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Congressional A.
Presidential luncheon

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Director’s Room.
Session 8. Universal Goals and Local Concerns: The Papacy in the Early Modern Period, 1525–1630

2:30–4:30 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Council Room.  
Session 9. American Catholic Seminaries Confront the Twentieth Century: Contributions and Crises in the Education of the Diocesan Clergy

Sunday, January 11

7:00–8:00 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Congressional A
Mass for the Living and Deceased Members of the Association

Principal Celebrant and Homilist:
Reverend Robert Bireley S.J., Loyola University Chicago

8:30–10:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Suite 252.
Session 10. Church Authority and History: The Case of St. Juan Diego

8:30–10:30 a.m. Omni Shoreham, Suite 262.
Session 11. Religious Women and the Church in the Nineteenth Century

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Suite 252.
Session 12. Modernist Biographies

11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Omni Shoreham, Suite 262.
Session 13. The Party’s (Almost) Over: Catholics, the “Urban Crisis of the 1960s,” and the Fragmentation of the New Deal Coalition Outside the South