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The Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, located at the University of Notre Dame, now welcomes applications for research grants and postdoctoral fellowships. Details on each opportunity appear below, and further information can be found at https://cushwa.nd.edu/   The Cushwa Center offers grants to assist scholars with the travel costs […]

The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco welcomes applications for its Luce Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships for the summer of 2020. The application deadline is January 8, 2020.   Post-doctoral applicants–including researchers and junior faculty members–are invited to submit proposals that would use the vast archival collections at the Ricci Institute

The Università degli Studi di Padova hosts a two-day conference with scholarly presentations considering vocations to the Society of Jesus in the early modern period.  The event is sponsored by the Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Giuridiche e Studi Internazionali.   The conference considers the theme of “vocation”–and in particular the “religious vocation” in its historical, religious,

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 sixth annual Jesuit Student Research Symposium, to be held on April 17, 2020. The deadline for submissions is March 6, 2020, though proposals are accepted on a rolling basis.

On October 1, 2019, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies welcomes Liam Matthew Brockey of Michigan State University to deliver the Feore Family Lecture on Jesuit Studies. Brockey’s lecture is entitled “Comprehending the World: Jesuits, Language, and Translation in the Early Modern Period.” The event is free and open to the public. Those wishing to attend

The Jesuit Historical Institute (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu – IHSI) in Rome has published two new titles on the early modern Jesuit missions in India and Japan. Both titles are available for purchase via: http://www.sjweb.info/arsi/en/publications/   Testing Ground for Jesuit Accommodation in Early Modern India: Francisco Ros SJ in Malabar (16th–17th Centuries) is authored by Antony Mecherry,

Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity presents eighteen essays on, according to Brill, “the origins and development of Jesuit philosophy during the first century of the Society of Jesus.” The publisher continues to note that the scholars contributing to this volume seek “to identify and examine the limits of the ‘distinctiveness’ of Jesuit philosophers during an

James Kelly, Sweeting Research Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University, and Hannah Thomas, Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent in York, have edited a new monograph, Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580-1789: ‘The World is our House?’   Part of the Jesuit Studies

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

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