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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes applications for its 2019-20 in-residence fellowships. The one- and two-semester appointments seek to facilitate the completion and/or publication of academic work related to the Society of Jesus. Applications are now welcomed from scholars in the fields of history, spirituality, and pedagogy, among others. The submission deadline is January […]

On December 4, Burns Library at Boston College hosts a lecture by Emanuele Colombo, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies.   Colombo’s talk is entitled “On Friendship: Egied van Broeckhoven, S.J. (1933-1967), Worker-Priest Among the Poor.” Van Broeckhoven was a Flemish Jesuit who spent much of his ministry in the factories

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is pleased to inaugurate Jesuit Studies Café, a new series of informal conversations with the world’s preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus.   These discussions – hosted at the Institute over coffee and also available via Zoom video-conference – are

Together with the history department and the Office of Mission and Culture at St. Louis University, the Jesuit Archives and Research Center welcomes submissions for the fifth annual Jesuit Student Research Symposium, to be held on April 26, 2019. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2019.   Proposals are welcomed on the theme of

The third issue of the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute is now available. (See an earlier news story about the launch of this bi-annual publication and another story about the availability of its second issue.)   The contents of this issue include: Leader: “Education for the Common Good” – Stephan Rothlin Society: “The Ideal of Junzi Leadership and

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies now welcomes applications to A History of the Jesuits, a new online course. An application is available online. With questions, please contact the Institute (iajs@bc.edu). The course beings on January 14, and the first round of applications closes on January 11. Contact the Institute with questions or to request an

Francisco Malta Romeiras has just published Jesuítas em Portugal depois de Pombal, an illustrated history of the Jesuits in Portugal after their official return in 1858. With more than 250 original photographs of teachers, students, and alumni, this books offers a sketch of Jesuit education in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Portugal.   The book is available through

On October 23, Boston College hosts a symposium examining the roots and legacy of Alberto Hurtado, the 20th-century Chilean Jesuit canonized in 2005. The event is entitled “Catholic Social Thought in the Era of Pope Francis: Roots in the Work of Saint Alberto Hurtado.”   The event seeks to make both Hurtado’s life and his Catholic

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

The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago has released a new website dedicated to Gerard Manley Hopkins, the famed 19th-century Jesuit poet.   Sponsored by the International Hopkins Association, the Official Gerard Manley Hopkins Website seeks to “serve the needs of students, scholars, and Hopkins enthusiasts, especially those who for