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October 2017: Conference on Desideri Held in Pistoia

An two-day international symposium on famed Jesuit missionary to Tibet Ippolito Desideri (1648-1773) begins on October 13 in Pistoia, Desideri’s birthplace.   The interdisciplinary conference is entitled, “The humane, religious, and scientific value of the Pistoian missionary’s great enterprise, three hundred years later.” It takes place at the Biblioteca San Giorgio.   The program is […]

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February 2020: Program for 2020 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, “Engaging the World: The Jesuits and Their Presence in Global History”

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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

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July 2018: New History of Diplomatic Material Culture

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Cambridge University Press has published Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia, a new anthology edited by Zoltán Biedermann, University College London, Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, and Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick.   Global Gifts, according to the publisher, “explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges

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