We invite you to join informal conversations with scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus. Learn more about the Institute’s Jesuit Studies Café sessions here. Register for the Cafes offered each month in order to receive access to the Zoom link. Spring 2026 Conversations At Jesuit Studies Cafes in […]
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2023 at Brotéria in Lisbon. The theme for the event was “Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries.” The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a single-blind
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies has announced the hosts and themes for the Spring 2021 Jesuit Studies Cafés. The series of informal, remote discussions with the world’s preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus presents unique opportunities to learn more about the newest and most interesting scholarship in
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The Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau and the Centre for Sino-European Studies at Shanghai University are collaborating to host a virtual workshop entitled “China-Europe Relations in Late Imperial Times.” The event takes place on December 19, 2020 — Beijing time, 20:30-22:00; Lisbon time, 12:30-14:00; and Boston time, 7:30-9:00. The workshop features presentations
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Because of the continuing threat of the coronavirus and various health and safety restrictions, the 2020 International Symposium was originally delayed to June 2021 before being cancelled in its entirety. Below is the original program for the event as scheduled for June 2020. The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, together with its co-organizer Brotéria, is very
Ananya Chakravarti has just published The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and The Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India with Oxford University Press. The book, according to the publisher, considers “how European accommodation to local peoples and their cultures, the experience of give-and-take in the non-European world and their numerous failures, could
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On February 1 and 2, the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp and the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp co-host a two-day conference on “Jews and Jesuits: Contacts Across the Ages.” The event celebrates the tenth year of Antwerp’s Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations. According to the program, the conference examines “the interactions and
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Edited by Thomas Worcester, S.J., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Jesuits is now available in print. The encyclopedia, according to the publisher, “opens up the complexities of Jesuit history and explores the current life and work of this Catholic religious order and its global vocation.” The single-volume work totals 930 pages. In all, 110 authors contributed
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Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries), a conference in Rome (30 May-1 June), seeks to “compare missionaries’ roles as local agents in different social environments across the Asian continent.” Panels are centered on communicative settings for missionary work (urban, court, settings, and rural), and presentations include: “Jesuit
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The first volume based the International Symposia on Jesuit Studies has been published as part of Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series. Exploring Jesuit Distinctiveness: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ways of Proceeding within the Society of Jesus offers an introductory essay and 12 chapters. According to the publisher, “The volume theme is the distinctiveness of Jesuits and
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