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Ananya Chakravarti has just published The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and The Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India with Oxford University Press.   The book, according to the publisher, considers “how European accommodation to local peoples and their cultures, the experience of give-and-take in the non-European world and their numerous failures, could […]

The Leuven Chinese Studies, published by the Ferdinand Verbiest Institute, has just released its 40th volume, Ferdinand Verbiest, Postulata Vice-Provinciae Sinensis in Urbe proponenda: A blueprint for a renewed SJ mission in China. The book is edited by Noël Golvers.    According to the publisher, the book highlights a series of requests that Verbiest, as the China Mission’s

Xavier Centre of Historical Research in Goa hosted a two-day symposium on “Tracking Jesuit Ministries in India – History and Progress (Post-Restoration Period).”   Held on July 12-13, 2018, the event featured 10 scholarly papers examining Jesuit ministries after 1814. Scholars represented the fields of education, ecology, theology, aesthetics, Christian-Muslim dialogue, subaltern development, spirituality, and

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

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