Lecture: The Secularization of Political Identity in German Catholics from 1890 to 1918 presented by Marie-Emmanuelle Reytier from Centre Interuniversitaire d’Etudes Qubécoises Université Laval. Sponsored by the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Department of History.
Doctor Reytier received her Ph.D. from the University of Lyon (L’Université Jean Moulin – Lyon III), where she defended her dissertation, “Les catholiques allemands et la république de Weimar: Les Katholikentage 1919-1932” in 2005. Doctor Reytier has been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Mainz as well as the University of Laval, and has published a number of articles on the place of Catholicism in modern Germany. Dr. Reytier will also give a presentation to Professor Thomas Kselman’s upper-division history research seminar on “Religion, Politics, and Society in Modern Europe”.