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From October 18–20, the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco and Mary’s Shrine in Ontario co-sponsored an international symposium entitled “Life and Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia: Narratives of Faith and Martyrdom.”   The symposium began with remarks by Thomas Worcester, S.J., the president

On May 4, Columbia University hosts “From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue: A Symposium on the History of Art, Science, and Religion in Jesuit China.” Daniel Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, both Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows at Columbia, have organized the event.   Speakers at the symposium are: — Florence Hsia of University of Wisconsin,

The annual Sixteenth Century Society and Conference (SCSC) is held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from October 26 to October 29, 2017. The SCSC “promotes scholarship on the early modern era, broadly defined (ca. 1450 – ca. 1660).” The 2017 conference commemorates the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s “95 theses.” Included below are some of the panels and

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

A three-day symposium, “Sailing Routes, Sea Straits, and Global Oceans,” begins on October 9 at the Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (the Macau Scientific and Cultural Center) in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is organized by the Centro and the Macau Foundation, under the leadership of Luís Filipe Barreto, Roderich T. Ptak, and Wu Zhiliang. It has