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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 […]

The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities at Loyola University Chicago has released a new website dedicated to Gerard Manley Hopkins, the famed 19th-century Jesuit poet.   Sponsored by the International Hopkins Association, the Official Gerard Manley Hopkins Website seeks to “serve the needs of students, scholars, and Hopkins enthusiasts, especially those who for

Dominic Sachsenmaier, Chair Professor of Modern China with an Emphasis on Global Historical Perspectives at the Department of East Asian Studies and History at the University of Göttingen, visits the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies to speak about his latest publication. The discussion takes place on October 5 at the Institute’s Library at Boston College.

On September 24, Fordham University hosted “Dulles at 100,” a symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Avery Dulles. The event marked the centenary of the birth of the American Jesuit, theologian, and cardinal. Dulles spent the last two decades of his life at Fordham. He died in 2008. A program for the symposium appears

The newest edition of Cambridge University Press’s Camden Series of annotated primary source documents features “the continental travels of the Irish landowner Henry Piers and his conversion to the Catholic faith in Rome, during the heightened political and confession tensions of the 1590s.” The volume is edited and introduced by Brian Mac Cuarta, SJ, the director

Nadine Amsler, of the Goethe University Frankfurt, has published Jesuits and Matriarchs: Domestic Worship in Early Modern China with University of Washington Press.   The title is a rare investigation of “the domestic and devotional practices of women” in early modern China, according to the publishing, presenting “a rich body of evidence that demonstrates how Chinese households functioned

Ines G. Županov and Pierre-Antoine Fabre have edited a new collection of essays that examines the “debates concerning the nature of “rites” raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,” according to Brill Publishers. The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World consists of fourteen articles, tracing a controversy

The University of Montpellier 3 has issued a call for papers on its first international symposium on “Cross-cultural encounter as a mediatic enterprise.” The November 2018 in Paris event focuses on Japan’s first embassy to Europe (1582-1590) and subsequent publication of De missione legatorum iaponensium ad Romanam curiam.   After his arrival in Japan in

Jesuit Sources announces a discounted bundle of 6 books on the early Jesuits. The collection includes the writings of Ignatius, Xavier, Farve and others.   Supplies are limited. The 6 books are offered for only $50, plus shipping–a savings for nearly 70%.   Titles, all in paperback, include:   A Brief and Exact Account: The