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The Gregorian Archives is hosting a series of online seminars led by researchers who consult the facility’s archival manuscripts.   The first seminar occurs on June 7, 2021. It will be led by Karie Schultz, with a presentation titled “Education and Confessional Identity: The Collegio Romano in the Seventeenth Century.” Archivist and Prof. Martín M. Morales […]

A facsimile of the Spiritual Exercises — what some call the “manoscritto spagnolo” dating back to 1544 — is now available online and in open access at https://archive.org/details/ejerciciosespiri00igna/page/n7/mode/2up . The volume was first published in 1908.   Permission to digitize the title was granted by Brian Mac Cuarta, S.J., direttore accademico of the Archivum Romanum Societatis

The POLY research group — Polycentricity and Plurality of Premodern Christianities (circa 700–1800 CE) — is hosting an online lecture series between April 2021 and June 2021.   The purpose of the the Frankfurt Lectures on Pathways through Early Modern Christianities is to facilitate the discussion of “the fascinating nature of early modern religious life,” with

Because of the global pandemic, the date for the XVIII Jornadas Internacionales sobre las Misiones Jesuíticas has been changed to November 8-11, 2022.   The conference will take place in Montevideo. Its theme is: “LAS MISIONES JESUÍTICAS PENSADAS DESDE EL SIGLO XXI: sentidos de la asimilación, traducciones regionales y formas locales del proyecto ecuménico jesuítico.”  

A free webinar takes place on April 16, 2021, on the theme “Translating and Connecting Worlds: Missionary Sources, Religious Diversity and Cultural Pluralism. Experiences from the Past.”   The event is organized by ISEM CNR – National Research Council in the framework of the European Project “ReIReS” (Research Infrastructure on Religious Studies).   “Translating and Connecting

Loyola University Chicago commemorates its sesquicentennial with online lectures “with other great minds to reflect and address urgent issues of our time.”  The Loyola 150 Scholar Series is open to the public. A full schedule is available at https://www.luc.edu/150/scholars/.   Of particular note is the March 22 The John F. Callahan Lecture: “‘urbs procul est, urbs

This Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco has released a documentary film, “Faith and Martyrdom: Stories from New France and East Asia,” available for free public streaming at Jesuits.org.   The film compares the stories of faith and martyrdom of Jesuits and their converts in New France (stretching from Canada

Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu and the École Française de Rome have collaborated to publish La Compagnie de Jésus des Anciens Régimes au monde contemporain (XVIII-XX Siècles), a multilingual, multidisciplinary collection of thirty-seven essays on the modern history of the Society of Jesus. The project’s editors are Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Patrick Goujon, and Martín María Morales.   The volume emerges

The Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University is collaborating with the university’s Institute of Greco-Roman Studies to host an international workshop entitled “Aristoteles Asianus: Aristotle’s works, the Coimbra texts, and Jesuits’ Chinese translations in the seventeenth century.” The three-day event takes place online from February 1-3.   More on the unique educational influence of the