Workshop: Early Modern Irish Colleges: Migration, Religion and Politics, 13 November 2019

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 - 16:15

Venue: The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe (former St. Anthony’s college), Janseniusstraat 1,B-3000 Leuven

Date: 13 November 2019

Programme

9.30 am coffee and welcome

10am Thomas O’Connor (Maynooth): Migration, religion and politics and the early modern Irishcolleges

11am-12.30: college networks
Cristina Bravo Lozano (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): Spain and the Irish mission Alison Forrestal (Galway): France and Irish Catholic migrants
Lydia Janssen (KU Leuven): Louvain university colleges and Catholic missions

Lunch break

2pm-3 pm: colleges and migration
Liam Chambers (Limerick): migration, mission and the Irish colleges Jason Harris (Cork): Language instruction and the colleges

Coffee

3.15 pm-4.15pm: colleges and religion
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin (UCD): The Irish colleges and the early modern Irish episcopate: national and

international contexts
John McCafferty (UCD): Religion and the colleges; conclusions

Organizing Committee : Prof. Johan Verberckmoes and Prof. Eddy Put, Leuven Centre for Irish Studies (LCIS) and Dr. Lydia Janssen, postdoc FWO, Early Modern History Research Group at KU Leuven