May 2012

Jacqueline Gresko, President of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association, is Program Chair for the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association, being held at the University of Waterloo May 28 and 29, 2012 as part of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. The sessions will include a panel on Catholic Studies and a joint one with the Canadian Society of Church History. For more information on the May 2012 sessions and on the Canadian Catholic Historical Association, go to the website: cchahistory.ca.

March 2012

Dr. Jessica Hemming will present a paper entitled “Where Did the Raven Go? Peredur, Perceval, and the Blood-on-Snow Scene” at the 34th annual California Celtic Studies Conference at UCLA, March 8-11, 2012.

January 2012

Fr. John McCarthy, SJ visits all Jesuits and their colleagues across Canada in preparation for the 70th Jesuit Procurators' Congregation to be held in Nairobi, Kenya this summer in June and July.

August 2011

Niall Christie has had the following articles accepted for publication:
"Noble Betrayers of their Faith, Families and Folk: Some Non-Muslim Women in Mediaeval Arabic Popular Literature," which will be published in Folklore http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfol/
and "The Great Mice at Cordoba: De-Mythologising and Re-Mythologising Religious Imagery in David Petersen's Mouse Guard," which will be published in the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture http://www.usask.ca/relst/jrpc/