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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes applications for its in-residence fellowship program for the 2022-2023 academic year. Applications are due January 15, 2022.   The Institute offers one- and two-semester fellowships to facilitate the completion and/or publication of academic work related to the Society of Jesus. Both types of fellowship come with a stipend, furnished […]

The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History has relocated from the University of San Francisco to Boston College. The institute’s new website is: https://www.bc.edu/ricci   The Ricci Institute has also issued a call for fellowships, including for its doctoral and Luce Postdoctoral programs.   The doctoral program is open to all doctoral candidates who have completed all course work and

On December 3, the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu hosts an event to consider the importance of the recent restoration of several documents from the founding of the Society of Jesus. The event starts at 2:00 p.m. in Rome, in the Aula of the Jesuit General Curia. Remote attendance will be available as well via https://link.jesuit.media/arsi-zoom (password: 088495).

On October 20, the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) hosts a seminar with Anthony E. Clarke, of Whitworth University. The title of Clarke’s presentation is “The Theater of Canonization: The Making of Jesuit Saints in Late Imperial China.” The hybrid event is free and open to the public.   Clarke will consider how the

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies has announced the hosts and themes for the Fall 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

In collaboration with the Boston College Libraries, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies has worked to provide free online access to the seven volumes of Jan Roothaan’s writings. The collection includes the letters and spiritual writings of the twenty-first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, as published in the 1930s.   The digitization of

The Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of York has organized a seminar with presentations on the theme “How to be a Jesuit Saint in 1622 ca: The Canonisation of Ignatius Loyola and Francis Xavier in Context.” The online event takes place on June 26, 2021. Advanced registration is required.   The

Leuven University Press inaugurates a new series entitled ‘Leuven Studies in Mission and Modernity’ with the publication of Missionary Education: Historical Approaches and Global Perspectives.   The LUP’s new series “aims to showcase groundbreaking works on the history of missionaries and missionary organisations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.” Titles will “steer mission history towards new thematic frontiers by

On May 20, the Bruno Kessler Foundation – Italian-German Historical Institute hosts “Fonti gesuitiche per la storia della psicologia e dei saperi psicologici,” a free webinar on the history of psychology and psychological knowledge through Jesuit sources. Speakers include Marina Massimi, Emanuele Colombo, and Claudio Ferlan.   The virtual event takes place May 20 from

Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu has published a new collection of essays based from presentations first made at a conference on the restoration of the Society of Jesus. The thirty-seven essays in La Compagnie de Jésus des Anciens Régimes au monde contemporain span from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The volume is edited by Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Patrick Goujon, and Martín