The symposium begins at 9am in the Senate Room, Lanyon Building, Queen’s University Belfast and is open to the public.
The following presentations will be given:
Klaus Große Kracht, Münster, “Catholic Action and the struggle against Bolshevism in the late Weimar Republic”
Daniela Saresella, Milan, “The Catholic-Communist Movement in Italy (1937-1945)"
Stefan Berger, Bochum, “Interwar Social Democracy and religion, comparative perspectives.”
Stéphanie Roulin, Fribourg, "Pro-Deo: Christian anticommunism in France and Switzerland”
Julio de la Cueva Merino, Castilla-La Mancha, "Violence and culture: religion and revolution in interwar Mexico, Russia and Spain"
Paul Hanebrink, Rutgers, "European Protestants and the Communist threat: The other interwar Kulturkampf?"
James Chappel, Duke, " Jacques Maritain, Ernst Karl Winter, and the perils of Catholic socialism in the 1930s."
Claudia Baldoli, Newcastle, “The protest of the peasant ‘White Leagues’ against the First World War in Italy”
Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock, Wesleyan, “The Religious Front: Secularism and Atheism under Lenin and Stalin, 1917-1943”
Igor Polianski, Ulm, “Religion as a disease. Medicine and anti-religious movement in the early Soviet Union”
Alma Heckman, Los Angeles, “Anti-fascism, zionism and the interwar Moroccan left”
Todd Weir, Belfast, "Secularism and confession in Nazi religious polemics 1919-1934”
Massimo De Giuseppe, Milan, “’Socialistas y catolicos y’: the Cardenista government and the Church in postrevolutionary Mexico”
Fearghal McGarry, Belfast, “Catholicism and political culture in interwar Ireland”