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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 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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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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June 2019: Program for 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies, “Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus”

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is pleased to announce the program for its 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies. This event will be the institute’s fifth annual gathering of scholars from around the globe. It will be hosted at Boston College. The event has previously taken place in Boston, Nairobi, and Seville.   This

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May 2019: Conference on Pietro Pirri in Rome

On May 10 in Rome, the Archivio Storico Provincia Euro-Mediterranea della Compagnia di Gesù hosts a scholarly conference on the late Jesuit historian Pietro Pirri (1881–1969). Other sponsoring institutions include the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu and the Centro Studi Giuseppe Gioachino Belli.   The event, featuring six presentations by seven experts, is entitled “‘Una vita unicamente dedicata

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May 2019: New Online Courses: Justice, Pedagogy, and Spirituality

Applications are now accepted for three online courses offered by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies in 2019-2020. See here for an informational flyer.   Course Information Social Justice in Jesuit Contexts takes place in Fall 2019. Led by Cristiano Casalini, the course examines the changing role of social justice throughout the history of the Society

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April 2019: Roundtable on Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions

On April 29, Burns Library and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies host a roundtable discussion at Boston College examining the “functions of sacred objects in three very different Jesuit missions from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries – England, China, and Northeastern America.”   “Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions” features presentations by

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April 2019: New Symposium Volume on Suárez

Selected proceedings from the 2018 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies have been published in a new, bilingual volume in Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series. Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity consists of 19 essays over five categories: Metaphysics; Religion, Law, Society; Political Theories; Psychology; and Legacy. The full table of contents appear below.   The

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