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February 2021: Loyola 150 Scholar Series at Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago commemorates its sesquicentennial with online lectures “with other great minds to reflect and address urgent issues of our time.”  The Loyola 150 Scholar Series is open to the public. A full schedule is available at https://www.luc.edu/150/scholars/.   Of particular note is the March 22 The John F. Callahan Lecture: “‘urbs procul est, urbs […]

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February 2021: New Multilingual, Multidisciplinary Essays on the Restored Society

Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu and the École Française de Rome have collaborated to publish La Compagnie de Jésus des Anciens Régimes au monde contemporain (XVIII-XX Siècles), a multilingual, multidisciplinary collection of thirty-seven essays on the modern history of the Society of Jesus. The project’s editors are Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Patrick Goujon, and Martín María Morales.   The volume emerges

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January 2021: Call for Applications — Summer Fellowships at the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History

The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco welcomes applications for its two fellowship programs in the summer of 2021. The application deadline for both programs is February 28.   The institute’s three-month Doctoral Research Fellowships are open to scholars “who have completed all course work and have defined their specific

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January 2021: Spring Season of Jesuit Studies Cafés Announced

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies has announced the hosts and themes for the Spring 2021 Jesuit Studies Cafés. The series of informal, remote discussions with the world’s preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus presents unique opportunities to learn more about the newest and most interesting scholarship in

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December 2020: New Study of Giulio Aleni’s “The Four Character Classic” (四字經文)

Anthony E. Clarke has published A Chinese Jesuit Catechism: Giulio Aleni’s Four Character Classic 四字經, serving as the first scholarly study of the famous Jesuit Chinese children’s primer.   A professor of Chinese history at Whitworth University, Clarke provides what the publisher Palgrave notes are “masterful translations of both Wang Yinglin’s (1551–1602) hallowed Confucian Three Character Classic

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November 2020: Online Conversation — Refugees and Migrants: Paradoxes in the Age of COVID-19

On November 17, from 12-1pm, Boston College hosts an online discussion with Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., the Under Secretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Holy See’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. The event, which is free and open to the public, is entitled: “Refugees and Migrants: Paradoxes in the Age of

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Ignatius on Self-Care (1550)

While still a scholastic, Miguel Ochoa gained renown as a healer. Polanco himself at one time experienced Ochoa’s help. Because of the crowds who flocked to him, St. Ignatius had him ordained early so that he could hear their confessions. Because Miguel’s own health was fragile, Ignatius stationed him at the salubrious resort town of

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October 2020: Online Conference — Empires connectés. Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux

On October 15 and 16, the Université de Bretagne-Sud hosts a virtual conference examining missionaries of 16th to the 19th centuries. Hélène Vu Thanh, of the Université de Bretagne-Sud, is the conference organizer.   “Empires connectés. Les missionnaires comme agents impériaux (XVIe-XIXe siècles)” [Connecting Empires. Missionaries as Agents of Empire, 16th-19th c.] features fourteen presentations over the two-day

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September 2020: Ditchfield Lectures on Bartoli and the Uses of Global History

On September 18, the Royal Historical Society hosts a virtual lecture by Simon Ditchfield, professor of history and director of the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) at the University of York. Ditchfield’s remarks are entitled “Baroque around the clock: Daniello Bartoli SJ (1608-1685) and the uses of global history.”   According to

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