The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700– 1840)

Please join us for a two-day conference on “The Catholic Enlightenment in Europe, the Americas and Australia (1700– 1840): Balancing Loyalties between State, Nationality, Citizenship, and the Global Church.”

The Enlightenment, it has now been established, was as much a religious phenomenon as it was a secular one. This conference brings together leading scholars from around the world to interrogate the ways in which Catholics, in particular, interpreted and extended Enlightenment ideas to rethink and reform society, politics, the economy, education, science, and the arts on a global scale.

The conference will take place:

• Friday, September 20 (8:30am-3:30pm): Pere Marquette Gallery, 2nd Floor DuBourg Hall, Saint Louis University; piano recital at 5:30pm, Cupples House
• Saturday, September 21 (9am-5:30pm): Umrath Lounge, Umrath Hall, Washington University in St. Louis

Registration is free and open to the public. Please register here. Registrants are welcome to attend all or a portion of the conference. 

See here for more information and a detailed program listing speakers and topics. 

Please contact crgc@slu.edu with any questions or accommodations requests.

This conference is co-sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis (with support from the Center for the Humanities), Saint Louis University’s Center for Research on Global Catholicism, and the University of Münster.