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Bellarmine Hall Galleries at the Fairfield University Art Museum will host the exhibit “The Holy Name: Art of the Gesù: Bernini and his Age.” The loan exhibition runs from February 1 until May 19. According to the museum, the exhibit assembled “together for the first time an important group of dazzling and historically important works

On February 1 and 2, the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp and the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp co-host a two-day conference on “Jews and Jesuits: Contacts Across the Ages.” The event celebrates the tenth year of Antwerp’s Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations. According to the program, the conference examines “the interactions and

Pierre-Antoine Fabre and Flavio Rurale have edited a new collection of essays on Claudio Acquaviva, the long-serving Superior General of the Society of Jesus. The Acquaviva Project: Claudio Acquaviva’s Generalate (1581—1615) and the Emergence of Modern Catholicism examines both the expansion of Jesuit works and “the consolidation of the Jesuit institute.”   This volume addresses a significant

The 132nd annual meeting of the American Historical Association (January 4–7 in Washington, D.C.) is centered on the themes of “Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism in Global Perspective.”   The conference features the following academic panels and presentations, among others, related to the field of Jesuit Studies:     Thursday, January 4, 1:30PM Panel: “The Digital

Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI) has published an important new book on the Jesuit Irish mission. The Jesuit Irish Mission: A Calendar of Correspondence, 1566–1752, edited by Vera Moynes, is the first inventory of the correspondence between the Jesuit missionaries and the Jesuit leadership at the Curia.   According to IHSI, the single-volume book serves as

Oxford University Press has published Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism: A History of Probabilism by Stefania Tutino. The book examines the development and implications of probablism, a moral theology first articulated in the sixteenth century that, according to Oxford, “maintained that in situations of uncertainty, the agent can legitimately follow any course of action supported by

The Macau Ricci Institute has launched a new, bi-annual publication — the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute.   Dedicated as a “Journal of Moral Leadership, Social Innovation and Comparative Spirituality,” the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute is edited by Stephan Rothlin and co-edited by Dennis P. McCann and Mike J. Thompson. Thierry Meynard is the associate

The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco welcomes applications for two types of fellowships for the summer of 2018.   The fellowships facilitate and promote research of the history of Chinese-Western cultural exchange and/or the history of Christianity in China. “Topics of enquiry may include,” according to the institute’s website, “Chinese-Western cultural