L’Istituto Confucio at the Università di Macerata hosts an important, three-day conference on new scholarship and perspectives on Matteo Ricci (1552–1610).
“New Perspectives in the Studies on Matteo Ricci” features presentations by 21 scholars from October 21-23, 2015. The event also includes a tour of Ricci’s historical landmarks in Macerata, the birthplace of the noted Jesuit missionary.
A full program appears below and is available online.
October 21
Aula Magna / Piaggia dell’Università, 2
9.00 Welcome addresses
10.00 FILIPPO MIGNINI
Introduction
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 RONNIE PO-CHIA HSIA / Penn State University, State College, USA
Becoming Li Madou: Ruggieri, Ricci,Longobardo and the Making of the Jesuit China Mission
11.30 LI TIANGANG / Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Zhu Xi’s First “Travel” to Europe, Understanding for Neo-Confucianism, and Its Influences of Longobardo’s “Traité sur Quelques Points de la Religion desChinois”
12.15 Discussion
15.00 LIU YANMEI / Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
An Italian-Chinese bilingual Reference Book on Matteo Ricci and his Chinese interlocutors in late Ming Dynasty (1579-1610)
15.45 FREDÉRIC WANG / INALCO, Paris, France
Matteo Ricci and the jinshi of 1589
16.30 Coffee Break
16.45 ADRIAN DUDINK / Université de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
A new proposal for the identification of “Ligiucin”
17.30 HU WENTING / Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
A Brief Study of Chinese Books on Western Learning in Ricci’s “De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas Suscepta ab Societate Iesu”
18.15 Discussion
October 22
Aula Verde / Polo Pantaleoni / Via Pescheria vecchia
9.00 ZHANG XIPING / Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
A research on the bibliographical sources of the separate sheets in the “Portuguese-Chinese Dictionary”
9.45 RAOUL ZAMPONI / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
The sounds of guan hua (the official language) in the Dictionary of Ricci, Ruggieri and Anonymous Chinese (1582-1583),and its representation through Latin alphabet characters
10.30 DIEGO POLI / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
The Italian Language of Matteo Ricci
11.15 Tour of Ricci’s historical landmarks in Macerata, Planetary Clock of Macerata’s City Tower
15.00 GIANNI CRIVELLER / Pime, Holy Spirit Study Center, Hong Kong, China
Matteo Ricci’s contribution to the intellectual history of melancholy
15.45 VITO AVARELLO / University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
The self and the inter-subjectivity in Ricci’s writing: construction of a mystical fable for a new Christian eudemonism
16.30 Coffee Break
16.45 WANG SUNA / Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China
Introduction of the European Classics and Ethics in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty
17.30 HUANG PING / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
Themes and Issues in the “Posthumous Polemics” ascribed to Matteo Ricci
18.15 Discussion
October 23
Aula Verde / Polo Pantaleoni
/ Via Pescheria vecchia
9.00 DOROTHY FIGUEIRA / University of Georgia, Athens, USA
The Jesuits in Asia, Ricci’s accommodation Policy and Comparing Cultures
9.45 LI SHENWEN / Laval University, Québec City, Canada
Adaptation and success: Matteo Ricci’s strategy in China 10.30 Coffee break
10.45 MARCELLO LA MATINA / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
Translatability, Ontology, Rites: the reasons of the actuality of Matteo Ricci
11.30 ANGELO CATTANEO / Universidade Nova, Lisbon, Portugal
Spaces and Places of Religious Knowledge.Mediality of Religious Knowledge in the Mission of Japan and China
12.15 Discussion
15.00 MICHELA CATTO / EHESS, Paris, France
Images of “Jesuitical” China in the Enlightenment: Irreligion, Anticlericalism Anti-Jesuitism
15.45 MICHEL DUPUIS / Université de Louvain, Louvain, Belgium
Some meta-ethical reflections about Christian Wolff’s “Oratio de sinarum philosophia practica” (1721) and his “Adnotationes” (1726)
16.30 Coffee break
16.40 SELUSI AMBROGIO / University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy
The changing influence of Jesuits’ China on European histories of philosophy (1600-1744)
17.25 THIERRY MEYNARD / Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China
Ricci and three early Jesuit translations of the “Lunyu”
18.10 Discussion
19.00 Final Discussion
Conclusions and perspectives on Ricci’s studies