08:30-10:15 III – Cold War Diplomacy
Daniel McDonald (Oxford), The Papal Volunteers for Latin America. The United States in the Inter-American Catholic Cold War, 1960−1972
Nina Valbousquet (Manchester), “Unwanted” Refugees in Latin America. Jews and Communists in Vatican Postwar Migration Policies
Bonar Hernández Sandoval (Ames, Iowa), Guatemala and the Vatican during the Cold War
Joaquín M Chávez (Chicago, Illinois), The House on Fire. The Catholic Church’s Mediation in El Salvador’s Civil War, 1984−1989

10:15 Coffee Break

10:45-12:30 IV – Liberation Theology and the Left
Sandra Londono-Ardila (Miami, Florida), The Latin American Secretariat of Catholic Students. Committed Activists in the Works of a Changing Church and Society, 1962−1973
Stephen Andes (Eugene, Oregon), Filming Theologies of Liberation in the Americas. Aldo Francia’s Ya no basta con rezar and St Claire Bourne’s Let the Church Say Amen!
Rosie Doyle (Warwick), Sergio Méndez Arceo, Bishop of Cuernavaca, Mexico and the “struggle against imperialism colonialism, neo-colonialism and other forms of exploitation”

14:15-16:00 V – Rethinking the Right
Luis Herrán Avila (Las Cruces, New Mexico), The Path to Salvation. The Paramilitarization of Catholic Right-Wing Youth in Cold War Latin America
Martina Weisz (Jerusalem), Saving the Western Christian Civilization in a Latin American Context. The Argentinean Province of Jujuy as a Case Study
Gema Kloppe-Santamaría (Cork, Republic of Ireland), The Politics of Religious Violence in Cold War Mexico and Colombia (1945−1958)
Isabella Villarinho Pereyra (Rio de Janeiro), A Religious Cold War. Family Rosary Crusade and the US against Communism in Brazil