Giuliana Chamedes: A Twentieth Century Crusade- The Vatican's Battle to Remake Christian Europe

Drawing on new archival research conducted in eight countries, this lunchtime talk will explore how the Vatican transformed the European international order and combatted secularism after World War I, via the novel use of international law, public diplomacy, and new media. Through careful attention to the entanglements of religion and politics, Giuliana Chamedes traces the extraordinary story of how the Vatican moved from the margins to the center of European affairs