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The Institute of Humanities at Seoul National University is collaborating with the university’s Institute of Greco-Roman Studies to host an international workshop entitled “Aristoteles Asianus: Aristotle’s works, the Coimbra texts, and Jesuits’ Chinese translations in the seventeenth century.” The three-day event takes place online from February 1-3.   More on the unique educational influence of the […]

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

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

The organizing committee of “Hopkins and His Environments,” a virtual conference to be held in June 2021, has released a call for papers on the environments in which Gerard Manley Hopkins worked: “natural, textual, aesthetic, political, theological, Jesuitical, and social.”   The deadline for proposals is January 25, 2021.   The full call for the

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

The Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomy Society awarded the 2021 Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize to Ileana Chinnici for her book Decoding the Stars: A Biography of Angelo Secchi, Jesuit and Scientist. Chinnici published her book — the first English-language, full-length biography of Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) — as part of the Jesuit Studies Book