The Fall 2017 Conference, “Uncomfortable Conversations: Religion and Politics in New England” was held on November 4, 2017, at Manchester Community College in Manchester, Connecticut. The day ran approximately 900 until 3.
Please find the program below. A pdf is also available for download: F2017 Program pdf
900: Breakfast and Registration, Rotunda
945: Welcome
Jennifer Cote, President, ASCH
ASCH Awards
1000: Keynote. Tom Carty, Springfield College.
1100-1230: Concurrent Sessions
All concurrent sessions are on the second floor. Stairs and elevator are available.
Politics, Justice, and Connecticut’s Catholic Church
Room AST – C201
Ronald Schatz `I Know My Way Around a Little Bit’: Bishop Joseph Donnelly and American
Labor, 1941-1977
Carl Antonucci + Kenneth DiMaggio The 1948 Letters to Italy Campaign – International
Politics, Local Politics and the Catholic Church in Connecticut
Mark Jones Between Roman Catholic Condemnation of Sterilizations and U. S. Supreme
Court’s Approval: “Frederic C. Walcott and the Connecticut Eugenics Survey, 1936-1938
(It is recommended that session attendees examine the following before the conference:
“Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement” by the Dola DNA Center at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Long Island.
http://eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/list3.pl )
Challenges to Religious Orthodoxy in Colonial and 19th-Century Connecticut
Room AST – C202
Beth Caruso Uncovering the Identity of Alice ‘Alse’ Young and the Politics Behind the First
Colonial Witch Hanging
June-Ann Greeley To Speak Difficult Truth to Power in 19th c. New England: The ‘Settled
Conviction’ of Quaker Elizabeth Buffum Chace
Marie Basile McDaniel Puritan Predators
1230-130: Lunch—Rotunda
130-3: Concurrent Sessions
Protecting the Vulnerable in 18th, 19th, and 20th-Century Connecticut
Room AST – C201
Britney Murphy The Fall of Mount Trashmore and the Rise of Community Activism:
Environmental Justice and the Politics of Inclusion, Bridgeport, Connecticut (1991-Present)
Mary Lycan Orphans, Bastards, the Deranged, the Sick, the Old, and a “Squaw”: Values and
Budgets in Thompson’s Poor Records, 1786 – 1810
Winifred R. Maloney “More love for the souls of these dear children:” The Connecticut
Soldiers’ Orphans Home Through Reconstruction
Church and State in Early Connecticut
Room AST – C202
Michael Besso Thomas Hooker and Connecticut’s Early Political Development
Robert Imholt Standing Disorder: The Evolution of Church-State Relations in Connecticut,
1635-1818
Steve McGrath King or Congress? The Dilemma of Fairfield County’s Loyalist Clergy
MCC closes at 345, so we are not able to have our usual closing cookie reception this year.