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October 2019: Brockey Delivers Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies

On October 1, 2019, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes Liam Matthew Brockey of Michigan State University to deliver the Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies. Brockey’s lecture is entitled “Comprehending the World: Jesuits, Language, and Translation in the Early Modern Period.” The event is free and open to the public. Those wishing to attend […]

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September 2019: New Season of Online Discussions — Jesuit Studies Cafés

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is pleased to announce the Fall 2019 schedule of Jesuit Studies Cafés. The season began with a presentation led by Liam Brockey, who also received the 2019 George E. Ganss, S.J., Award in Jesuit Studies.   The Jesuit Studies Cafés are informal discussions hosted by the Institute for Advanced

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September 2019: New Translations of the Annual Letters from the Irish Mission, 1604–1674

Vera Moynes has edited and published Irish Jesuit Annual Letters, 1604–1674, a collection of 25 annual letters from the Jesuit mission in Ireland during the 17th century. A professional archivist, Moynes has translated these letters, originally written in Latin and Portuguese, into English for the first time. According to The Irish Manuscripts Commission, which published this

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September 2019: Conference on “Western Learning” in Chinese Culture

Sapienza Università di Roma hosts a two-day conference (September 2-3) on “Visions of ‘Humanity’ and ‘Letters’: Chinese Culture and the Two — Tides of Western Learning, from the Late Ming to Early Modern Times.”   Benjamin Elman of Princeton University will deliver the keynote address entitled “Traduttore, traditore: The Jesuits and the Translation/Construction of Early Modern

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August 2019: New Publications on Early Modern Jesuit Missions in India and Japan

The Jesuit Historical Institute (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu – IHSI) in Rome has published two new titles on the early modern Jesuit missions in India and Japan. Both titles are available for purchase via: http://www.sjweb.info/arsi/en/publications/   Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India: Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th–17th Centuries) is authored by Antony Mecherry,

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August 2019: New Essays on Early Modern Jesuit Philosophy

Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity presents eighteen essays on, according to Brill, “the origins and development of Jesuit philosophy during the first century of the Society of Jesus.” The publisher continues to note that the scholars contributing to this volume seek “to identify and examine the limits of the ‘distinctiveness’ of Jesuit philosophers during an

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July 2019: New History of Jesuit Missions in North America

A new history of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Jesuit missions in North America is now available in Bronwen McShea’s Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France. The book is part of the “France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization Series” at University of Nebraska Press.   According to the publisher, McShea offers “candid portraits” of some

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July 2019: The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits Now Available in Print

Edited by Ines G. Županov, The Oxford Handbook of the Jesuits is now available in print. The 40 chapters were previously only available online. Bibliographical citations for the book and the chapters are included within the Jesuit Online Bibliography.   By focusing on the Jesuits, “one of the first institutions with a truly ‘global’ reach, in practice

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June 2019: Call for Papers for the 2020 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies–“Engaging the World”

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON JESUIT STUDIES Engaging the World: The Jesuits and Their Presence in Global History   Lisbon, Portugal | June 17–19, 2020 Co-organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College and Brotéria in Lisbon, in partnership with the Catholic University Portugal   CALL FOR PAPERS   Scattered around the globe for nearly five

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June 2019: Jesuit Online Bibliography Now Available

The Jesuit Online Bibliography is a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. This project provides the citations, abstracts, subject categories, and direct links for more than 16,000 books, book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, conference papers, and other scholarly works

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