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August 2018: Symposium on Japanese embassy to Europe, Call for papers

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 […]

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July 2018: New Title Available in the Leuven Chinese Studies

The Leuven Chinese Studies, published by the Ferdinand Verbiest Institute, has just released its 40th volume, Ferdinand Verbiest, Postulata Vice-Provinciae Sinensis in Urbe proponenda: A blueprint for a renewed SJ mission in China. The book is edited by Noël Golvers.    According to the publisher, the book highlights a series of requests that Verbiest, as the China Mission’s

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July 2018: New History of Diplomatic Material Culture

Cambridge University Press has published Global Gifts: The Material Culture of Diplomacy in Early Modern Eurasia, a new anthology edited by Zoltán Biedermann, University College London, Anne Gerritsen, University of Warwick, and Giorgio Riello, University of Warwick.   Global Gifts, according to the publisher, “explores the role that art and material goods played in diplomatic relations and political exchanges

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June 2018: New Issue Available of the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute

The second issue of the Journal of the Macau Ricci Institute is now available. (See an earlier news story about the launch of this bi-annual publication.)   The contents of this issue include: Leader: “Transforming Homo Economicus” – Stephan Rothlin Society: “Laudato Si’: Mobilising Christian Faith and Practice for Environmental Responsibility” – Dennis Patrick McCann

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June 2018: Call for Papers for the 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies–“Engaging Sources”

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON JESUIT STUDIES Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus Boston College | June 11–13, 2019   UPDATE — FULL PROGRAM IS NOW ANNOUNCED Please click here for the full program for the 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies   Details on the call for papers,

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Cover Letter to the Revised Ratio studiorum, Jan Roothaan (1832)

The 20th General Congregation of the Society of Jesus, held in 1820, the first following the Jesuits’ restoration, offered an opportunity for the religious order to respond to the system of state-sponsored, or at least state-sanctioned, schools that had emerged since its suppression in 1773. The restored Jesuits faced the challenge of adjusting to the

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May 2018: Applications Now Accepted for Online Course, Jesuit Pedagogy

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes applications for its first online course, Jesuit Pedagogy. Students in this three-credit course will study the distinctiveness both of the Jesuits’ approaches to teaching and their philosophy of education. The course is grounded in close reading of primary and secondary sources, from the origins of the Society of Jesus

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May 2018: Jesuit-Related Papers at Scientiae conference

The annual Scientiae conference, held this year at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, takes place from May 16-18, 2018. Keynote addresses for this conference dedicated to “disciplines of knowing in the early modern world” will be delivered by Surekha Davies (Western Connecticut State University) and Vladimir Urbanek (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic).   More details

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