Eugenio Menegon, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, delivers a talk at Boston College entitled “The Man and His Image: Art & Propaganda at the Court of the Qianlong Emperor of China and the Jesuits’ Role.” The talk, co-sponsored by the Department for Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures and the […]
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On March 1, Daniel Greenberg, lecturer in Asian Art and East Asian Studies at Smith College, visits the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies to present on “Landscapes of Power: Mongol Ritual, Jesuit Painting, and the Construction of Eighteenth-Century Chinese Empire.” Greenberg’s remarks at Boston College consider the meaning behind paintings completed by the Jesuit missionary
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Jesuit Educational Quarterly (JEQ) is pleased to announce a call for manuscript submissions on the topic of “Educational Leadership and the Jesuit Tradition.” With education as a central mission of the Society of Jesus, educational leadership has figured centrally in implementing that mission, in understanding that mission, and in engaging the modern world through that
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosted its seventh annual International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in June 2023 at Brotéria in Lisbon. The theme for the event was “Circa Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries.” The essays below are revisions of presentations, as invited by the Institute. Each essay was subjected to a single-blind
Simon Ditchfield, Professor of History at the University of York, United Kingdom, is the recipient of the 2025 George E. Ganss, S.J., Award. Ditchfield joined us and shared his presentation: “When the Saints Go Marching In”Jesuit Hagiography in Counter-Reformation Context
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Jesuit Domiciles Map Navigate the interactive map Database Search the corrispondences Introduction In 1892, Alfred Hamy, S.J. (1838–1904), published Documents pour servir à l’histoire des domiciles de la Compagnie de Jésus dans le monde entier de 1540 à 1773 (Paris: Alphonse Picard, 1892). According to Hamy, this volume aimed to “spare those who study the
This page displays relevant official documents from the Society of Jesus related to arts and the artists, official magisterial documents or Church documents, as well as intellectual work from renowned individual Jesuits that offer a better understanding of what the relation between the Society and the arts is. It is intended to be a collection
This page displays relevant official documents from the Society of Jesus related to arts and the artists, official magisterial documents or Church documents, as well as intellectual work from renowned individual Jesuits that offer a better understanding of what the relation between the Society and the arts is. It is intended to be a collection
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This page displays relevant official documents from the Society of Jesus related to arts and the artists, official magisterial documents or Church documents, as well as intellectual work from renowned individual Jesuits that offer a better understanding of what the relation between the Society and the arts is. It is intended to be a collection
World of Jesuit Archives (WJA) is a collaborative project with Jesuit archives around the world and aims to raise awareness and appreciation of the documentary heritage of the Society of Jesus, the institutions responsible for the conservation of archival material, and the people involved in the management of the collections in which the Society’s history
