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On Thursday 29 October 2020, 12:30 pm GMT, the China Centre at Oxford hosts an online presentation “The Invisible City: A Global Microhistory of Europeans and their Social Networks in Eighteenth Century Beijing.” The guest speaker is Eugenio Menegon, an associate professor at Boston University and an affiliated scholar at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit […]

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies opens its fifth season of virtual Jesuit Studies Cafés on September 17 with a presentation on a new translation of Jouvancy’s The Way to Learn and the Way to Teach. The text was recently published by Jesuit Sources. Later presentations examine the scientific activities of the Jesuits in the Portuguese Assistancy, the

David Salomoni, a postdoctoral researcher at the Project RUTTER—Making the Earth Global, has published “Jesuits on Board: A Reasoned Bibliography on the Early Modern Jesuit Trans-Oceanic Sailing Experiences.” The essay appears as the third installment of the RUTTER: Technical Notes, an open-access serial publication covering topics as diverse as the research activities of the RUTTER

The first “Ricci Scholars’ Study,” organized by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco, takes place on June 18, 2020, from 9:00–10:15 p.m. (PDT). This online presentation will be led by M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., the institute’s director, speaking on “The Samurai & the Cross: Japanese & Chinese Sources on

Bruno Kessler Foundation Italian-German Historical Institute welcomes expressions of interest from candidates wishing to apply for a Marie Skłodowska Curie Individual Scholarship. The scholarship would support projects related to the history of the Society of Jesus. Expressions of interest are due 30 June.   Expressions are encouraged from scholars with projects on Jesuit history and who would

The International Society for Jesuit Studies (SIEJ) welcomes applications for the International Prize for the promotion of postdoctoral studies. The application deadline is May 30, 2020.   According to the call for application, the SIEJ offers the International Prize for the promotion of postdoctoral studies through the Endowment Fund of the EHESS and in cooperation

The Jesuitica Project — a collaborative initiative from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and the Jesuit Region of European Low Countries, the former provinces of the Netherlands and North Belgium (Flanders) — has launched a new version of its website: https://www.jesuitica.be/   The mission of the Jesuitica Project is to stimulate research into the

Additional past volumes of the Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu (AHSI) are now available in open access.   For more than 85 years, AHSI, a biannual, peer-reviewed journal, has published research articles on the history of the Society of Jesus along with book reviews, research notes, accounts of “living history,” and an annual bibliography. The most recent

Linda A. Newson has edited a new collection of essays entitled Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America, published by the University of London Press and the Institute of Latin American Studies. Thirteen scholars contribute to essays examining “the diversity of Jesuit contributions to Latin American culture,” from the diverse activities by the