In Our Keeping begins at 7:00pm on Thursday, June 12th and concludes on Sunday, June 15th at 11:30am.

Keynote speakers include: Sr. Barbara Beaumont, OP – Dominican nun from Monastere de Marie-Meditrice at Herne in Belgium and currently working in Fanjeaux, France on the history of Dominican women of the world. Her talk is entitled: Taking on Board the Past is Part of the Dynamic of the Present.

Margaret Susan Thompson, History Professor at Syracuse University, NY, will speak on Insiders and Outsiders: Complementary Lenses into the History of Religious Orders.

Liesl Orenic, Director of the American Studies Program, Dominican University will speak on Preserving Today’s Story for Tomorrow –the Art of Oral History.

The cost of the conference is $300 and includes room and board and a Historical Taste of Chicago – the details for this experience are still in process but it will include a bus tour of downtown Chicago.

Our Goals

Since 1984, the goals of the In Our Keeping Conference remain constant:

• To convene Dominican women and men who are interested in research, history and record-keeping pertaining to the Dominican Story
  
• To provide an opportunity for participants to share experience, knowledge and uncertainties for mutual benefit.
• To strengthen our understanding of the relationship of research, history and record keeping to the apostolic mission of the order, present and future.
• To promote the development of a network of persons who will support one another in research and encourage generous mutual access to resources.
• To explore means for identifying persons and resources for research and writing of the United States Dominican History