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January 2019: Presentations on Jesuit Studies at the AHA Conference

The 2019 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, taking place in Chicago, January 3-6, features panels, papers, and a poster on Jesuit Studies.   Information about those relevant presentations appears below. To learn more about the AHA meeting, please visit: https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting     Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Panel: Jesuit Imagination, Strategy, and […]

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October 2018: Symposium on Jesuit Missions of New France and Asia

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

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October 2018: Grendler Honored with Feore Lecture and Ganss Award

On October 2, 2018, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomed Paul Grendler, eminent historian and professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, to deliver the 2018 Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies. Grendler’s lecture was titled “A Historian’s Journey to Jesuit Education.” The event also celebrated Grendler’s scholarly contributions, with the Institute presenting him

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July 2018: New History of Diplomatic Material Culture

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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June 2018: International Symposium Meets in Seville

The International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, begins its two-day proceedings at Seville’s Universidad Loyola Andalucía on June 1. The event is entitled: “Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and Complexities of Modernity.”   As noted in the call for papers, Suárez is “recognized as a philosopher, theologian, and jurist who

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Cover Letter to the Revised Ratio studiorum, Jan Roothaan (1832)

The 20th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, held in 1820, the first following the Jesuits’ restoration, offered an opportunity for the religious order to respond to the system of state-sponsored, or at least state-sanctioned, schools that had emerged since its suppression in 1773. The restored Jesuits faced the challenge of adjusting to the

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May 2018: Jesuit-Related Papers at Scientiae conference

The annual Scientiae conference, held this year at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, takes place from May 16-18, 2018. Keynote addresses for this conference dedicated to “disciplines of knowing in the early modern world” will be delivered by Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) and Vladimir Urbanek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic).   More details

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May 2018: Call for Papers — Conference on Early Modern Linguistics in Europe

Paper and panel proposals are now being accepted for an international, interdisciplinary conference to be held in Lisbon, at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, from December 13-15, 2018.  Details are available at ahostoftongues.wordpress.com.   A host of tongues: Multilingualism, lingua franca and translation in the Early Modern period will consider

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