#  Transnational Christianity and the Problem of Democracy: A Workshop 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **February 7, 2013** 

 08:30AM - 05:00PM EST 

 



 

Lower Level Conference Room

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies  
Harvard University  
27 Kirkland Street at Cabot Way  
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

*Breakfast, CES Lobby*: 8:15am-8:45am

*Opening remarks* (Peter Gordon): 8:45am

**Keynote speaker: Maria Mitchell (Franklin & Marshall): 9am**

**1. The Ideological Underpinnings of Postwar Christian Democracy (10am-11:15am)**

**Sarah Shortall (Harvard University),** "Catholic Ecclesiology and the Problem of Democracy"

**Aline-Florence Manent (Harvard University),** "CDU and The Theory of Dependency"

**Comment: Jan-Werner Müller (Princeton University)**

**Coffee break, CES Lobby: 11:15am-11:30am**

**2. The Practices of Postwar Christian Democracy (11:30pm-12:45pm)**

**Giuliana Chamedes (Columbia University),** "The Italian and German Postwar Constitutions: Reinventing Christian Europe?"

**James Chappel (University of Chicago),** "Democracy in the Name of the Father: Catholic Social Science and the Family, 1930-1950"

**Commentator: Phil Nord (Princeton University)**

**3. Christian Democracy and Human Rights  (1:45pm-3:30pm)**

**Marco Duranti (University of Sydney), "**Economic Democracy and Political Democracy in Transnational Catholic Politics after the Second World War: A Human Rights Perspective"

**Piotr Kosicki (University of Virginia),** "Catholic Rights-talk and Eastern European Autocracy: Polish Christian Democracy between Regionalism and Transnationalism, 1937-1955"

**Hannah Waits (UC Berkeley), "**Democracy and the Great Commission: American Global Missions and Postwar Foreign Relations"

**Commentator: Samuel Moyn (Columbia University)**

**Coffee break, CES Lobby: 3:30pm-3:45pm**

**4. Roundtable: How Can We Study Transnational Religious Politics? (3:45-4:45pm)**

**Maria Mitchell (Franklin & Marshall)**

**Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth College)**

**Peter Gordon (Harvard University)**



 

 



 

 

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