The Beijing Center has recently published a collection of letters written by Matteo Ricci (1552-1610). Only 54 letters survive from the vast correspondence Ricci kept while living as a Jesuit missionary in China. During his time in China, Ricci, according to the center, “created the first European-style world map in Chinese, introduced Euclidean geometry to […]
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On February 22, le Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Avignon (LMA) et la Fédération de Recherche AGORANTIC d’Avignon Université hosts a day-long symposium on Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-1680). The symposium features presentations by mathematicians and historians, all considering the mathematics behind sundials. The event takes place in a building in which Kircher, noted German Jesuit scholar and polymath,
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The Jesuit Studies Cafés for Spring 2019 have been announced, featuring scholars from Africa, Europe, and North America. Topics range from Jesuits in Qina China to Robert Persons, SJ, and from a new online bibliography to questioning if the Jesuits were the last medieval order. The Jesuit Studies Cafés are informal discussions hosted by
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Claudio Ferlan’s one-volume history of the Jesuits–first published in Italian as I gesuiti–has been translated into Portuguese. Os Jesuítas is a 208-page summary of the Society of Jesus, from Ignatius of Loyola and the founding of the religious order to the election of Pope Francis. More information about the original publication is available on the
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes applications for its 2019-20 in-residence fellowships. The one- and two-semester appointments seek to facilitate the completion and/or publication of academic work related to the Society of Jesus. Applications are now welcomed from scholars in the fields of history, spirituality, and pedagogy, among others. The submission deadline is January
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On December 4, Burns Library at Boston College hosts a lecture by Emanuele Colombo, a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies. Colombo’s talk is entitled “On Friendship: Egied van Broeckhoven, S.J. (1933-1967), Worker-Priest Among the Poor.” Van Broeckhoven was a Flemish Jesuit who spent much of his ministry in the factories
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Together with the history department and the Office of Mission and Culture at St. Louis University, the Jesuit Archives and Research Center welcomes submissions for the fifth annual Jesuit Student Research Symposium, to be held on April 26, 2019. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2019. Proposals are welcomed on the theme of
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On October 23, Boston College hosts a symposium examining the roots and legacy of Alberto Hurtado, the 20th-century Chilean Jesuit canonized in 2005. The event is entitled “Catholic Social Thought in the Era of Pope Francis: Roots in the Work of Saint Alberto Hurtado.” The event seeks to make both Hurtado’s life and his Catholic
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From October 18–20, the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco and Mary’s Shrine in Ontario co-sponsored an international symposium entitled “Life and Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia: Narratives of Faith and Martyrdom.” The symposium began with remarks by Thomas Worcester, S.J., the president
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The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is very pleased to welcome its three in-residence fellows for the 2018-19 academic year. Aislinn Muller, from the University of Cambridge, is the yearlong Institute Fellow. Muller wrote her doctoral dissertation on the papal excommunication and deposition of Queen Elizabeth I in 1570. While at the Institute, Muller will
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