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October 2018: Sachsenmaier Presents on the “Man who Never Traveled”

Dominic Sachsenmaier, Chair Professor of Modern China with an Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives at the Department of East Asian Studies and History at the University of Göttingen, visits the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies to speak about his latest publication. The discussion takes place on October 5 at the Institute’s Library at Boston College. […]

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September 2018: New Account on English Layman’s Encounters with Jesuits in the 1590s

The newest edition of Cambridge University Press’s Camden Series of annotated primary source documents features “the continental travels of the Irish landowner Henry Piers and his conversion to the Catholic faith in Rome, during the heightened political and confession tensions of the 1590s.” The volume is edited and introduced by Brian Mac Cuarta, SJ, the director

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August 2018: New Title on Global Rites Controversies

Ines G. Županov and Pierre-Antoine Fabre have edited a new collection of essays that examines the “debates concerning the nature of “rites” raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,” according to Brill Publishers. The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World consists of fourteen articles, tracing a controversy

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July 2018: Symposium on Jesuit Ministries in India

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

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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: Call for Papers for the 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies–“Engaging Sources”

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON JESUIT STUDIES Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus Boston College | June 11–13, 2019   UPDATE — FULL PROGRAM IS NOW ANNOUNCED Please click here for the full program for the 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies   Details on the call for papers,

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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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