Jesuits as Educators of Rhetoric
Online via Zoom | February 28, 2025 | 9:00 AM (ET)
We are pleased to announce the second online webinar organized in collaboration between the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (IAJS) and the International Society for Study the Jesuit Rhetoric (ISSJR) entitled Jesuits as Educators of Rhetoric. By exploring the different meanings and ways that the apostolate of education has taken on within the Society of Jesus, the webinar will explore explores Jesuit rhetorical education through key figures, declamation, controversy, and pedagogy from the 16th–18th centuries, highlighting adaptations of the Ratio Studiorum in France and Poland.
Program
9:00 AM – Introduction
9:05–10:05 AM | Panel I
- Jesuits as Educators of Rhetoric: The Polish and French Provinces in the Seventeenth Century. A Comparative — Bartosz Awianowicz
- Joseph de Jouvancy as a Teacher: the Example of Ethopoeia in the Candidatus Rhetoricae (1710) — Sophie Conte
10:05 AM – Break
10:15–11:15 AM | Panel II
- The Role of Declamation in Jesuit Rhetorical Education — Manfred Kraus
- (Re)educating the Public to Controversy? Gabriel Daniel, S.J. vs. Blaise Pascal Anne — Anne Regent-Susini
11:15 AM – Break
11:20 AM | Roundtable
Bartosz Awianowicz, Sophie Conte, Manfred Kraus, Aiko OkamotoMcPhail, & Anne Regent- Susini
📌 For connection details, please consult the flyer or contact the IAJS team.