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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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March 2019: New Publication of Ricci’s Letters from China

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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January 2019: Presentations on Jesuit Studies at the AHA Conference

The 2019 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, taking place in Chicago, January 3-6, features panels, papers, and a poster on Jesuit Studies.   Information about those relevant presentations appears below. To learn more about the AHA meeting, please visit: https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting     Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Panel: Jesuit Imagination, Strategy, and

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November 2018: New Discussion Series in Jesuit Studies

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is pleased to inaugurate Jesuit Studies Café, a new series of informal conversations with the world’s preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus.   These discussions – hosted at the Institute over coffee and also available via Zoom video-conference – are

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November 2018: New Illustrated History of Jesuits in Portugal

Francisco Malta Romeiras has just published Jesuítas em Portugal depois de Pombal, an illustrated history of the Jesuits in Portugal after their official return in 1858. With more than 250 original photographs of teachers, students, and alumni, this books offers a sketch of Jesuit education in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Portugal.   The book is available through

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October 2018: New History on Jesuit Missions and Accommodation in Brazil and India

Ananya Chakravarti has just published The Empire of Apostles: Religion, Accommodatio and The Imagination of Empire in Modern Brazil and India with Oxford University Press.   The book, according to the publisher, considers “how European accommodation to local peoples and their cultures, the experience of give-and-take in the non-European world and their numerous failures, could

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