The Rev. Henry W. Casper, SJ, Lecture

The annual Casper was inaugurated by the History Department in 1993 to honor Rev. Henry W. Casper, S. J., a long-time member of the history departments at Creighton University in Omaha and at Marquette University (he retired as Professor Emeritus from Marquette in 1974). He was an expert in nineteenth century European History and in American church history; his most important work was a three-volume history of the Catholic Church in Nebraska. The Casper Lecture, as well as several programs for graduate students in history, is funded by an endowment from Dr. and Mrs. Wayne L. Ryan of Omaha. Dr. Ryan was a student of Father Casper’s at Creighton.

 

Casper Lecturers have come from some of the most prestigious universities in the United States.  They are:

2003

John Merriman, Yale University

"Collaboration and Resistance in Vichy France."

 

2004

Paul Cobb, University of Notre Dame

“There Goes the Neighborhood: The World of a Muslim Family in an Age of Crusades”

 

2005

Susan Desan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“The Politics of Love: Marriage, Divorce, and Gender Relations during the French Revolution”

 

2006

Jonathan Spence, Yale University

"Thinking it Through: Chinese and Catholics in the Seventeenth Century"

2007

Marianne Elliott, University of Liverpool

"Irish Protestantism and the Specter of Popery"

2008

Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona

"Where Elites Meet: Harem Visits, Sea-Bathing,

and Sociabilities in Tunisia, c. 1830-1881"

April 7, 7:30