Collège Érasme, Décanat, Salle des thèses
The history of sexual abuse by priests in the Catholic Church in (Early-)Modern times is challenging in several respects. There is the difficulty of the sources, but also the questions to be asked to them. By engaging with gender studies and histories of masculinity - among other approaches - this international workshop proposes case studies that will allow us to tackle major questions pertaining to: the notion of abuse in Early Modern moral theology; the right/duty to denounce; individual and institutional silences; literary representations of abuse; and the reactions of ecclesiastical institutions. As any historical investigation is based on the relationship between past and present, the historians' interventions will be accompanied by contemporary perspectives from the sociology of religion and theology.
This workshop is organised by Silvia Mostaccio and the LaRHis Centre, the IACCHOS and RSCS Institutes, and the editorial board of the "Rivista di Storia del Cristianesimo."
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Programme de la journée
9h : Silvia Mostaccio (UCLouvain) : Introduction
9h20 : Fernanda Alfieri (Università di Bologna), Usus and abusus in Catholic doctrine of marriage - the istitution that legitimizes sexuality
10h : Mita Choudhury (Vassar College), Unpacking the Silences around Sexual Violence in the early modern French Church
10h40 : pause
11h : Jean-Pascal Gay (UCLouvain), Questions balbutiées, réponse expéditive : autour d’une consulte soumise par une victime aux théologiens de Sorbonne
11h40 : Vincenzo Lavenia (Università di Bologna), Verità e romanzo: sulla letteratura e l'abuso clericale dei minori. Secc. XVII-XXI
14h : Alessandro Serra (Università di Perugia), « Quest’anno era andata molto bene: il diavolo si sfuggò la sua rabbia ». La Société Salésienne face au scandale des « Faits de Varazze » (1907)
14h40 : Karlijn Demasure (St Paul University Ottawa), Contemporary discourses on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church (théologienne, elle vient d’éditer L’Église déchirée. Comprendre et traverser la crise des abus sexuels sur mineurs, eds Joulain, S., Demasure, K., Nadeau, J.-G., Bayard/Novalis, 2021)
15h20 : Céline Béraud (EHESS-Césor, Paris), Un regard de sociologue pour conclure (sociologue, elle vient de publier Le Catholicisme français à l'épreuve des scandales sexuels. Paris, Seuil, 2021)
16h : fin des travaux
La journée verra la participation active des doctorant.es RSCS et notamment de Camille Banse, Philippe Berrached et Samuel Dolbeau