Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
78
Topics:
Description :
Saving souls or furthering French ambition? Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French Jesuit missionaries spreading Catholicism amongst the indigenous peoples of North America's Eastern Woodlands were also vectors of social transformation according to French elite urban norms. This talk by Bronwen McShea, Ph.D., analyzes the medical and poverty relief efforts by missionaries and how they were bound up in post-Revolutionary, secularized French imperialism: an increasing identification of colonialism with a philanthropic, “civilizing mission” of uplifting poor, less developed societies around the globe. Bronwen McShea is a Visiting Assistant Professor in History at UNO, where she teaches early modern European and world history. She received her Ph.D. in Early Modern European History from Yale University and her Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. She has published in the Sixteenth Century Journal, The Journal of Jesuit Studies, First Things, and elsewhere.