The Portal to Jesuit Studies

The Jesuit Online Bibliography is a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century. This project provides the citations, abstracts, subject categories, and direct links for more than 16,000 books, book chapters, journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, conference papers, and other scholarly works related to the study of Jesuits and the Society of Jesus.

The editorial oversight of the Jesuit Online Bibliography is a collaborative effort between the three founding Jesuit institutions — the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, the Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven, and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College.

Voluntary contributors regularly submit records, and individual scholars, publishers, and librarians are encouraged to contribute as well. Users have the option to create a free account to save searches and to bookmark results. By becoming a contributor, a user can directly upload records for the project’s editors to review and publish.

Thanks to the project’s more than 30 additional institutional partners, this resource is available in Open Access. A full listing and more information about those partners appear below.

Founding Institutions

Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI)

ARSI is located on the grounds of the Jesuit General Curia in Rome. It oversees the archives of the central government for the Society of Jesus. ARSI also has a publishing division, Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu (IHSI). Founded in 1930, the IHSI has several book series and a biennial, peer-reviewed journal, the Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu.

Visit ARSI at http://www.sjweb.info/arsi/

Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

Founded at Boston College in 2014, the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies seeks to deepen understanding and appreciation of the history, spirituality, educational heritage, and pedagogical approach of the Society of Jesus through courses, workshops, publications, and scholarly symposia. It offers online courses, operates Jesuit Sources, hosts in-residence fellows, and partners with institutions on a number of digital projects whose contents are aggregated into the Portal to Jesuit Studies.

Visit the Institute at https://www.bc.edu/iajs/

Jesuitica

The Jesuitica Project is a collaborative initiative from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, Belgium) and the Jesuit Region of European Low Countries, the former provinces of the Netherlands and North Belgium (Flanders). Its main goal is to stimulate research into the history and spirituality of the Jesuits by making the rich collections of Jesuit books in the Maurits Sabbe Library accessible and by hosting www.jesuitica.be, a website that offers a virtual portal with digital tools for the research community.

Subscribe to the project’s weekly email list — with announcements of new records and other news — here:https://www.jesuitica.be/mailinglist/subscribe/.

Visit the Project at www.jesuitica.be

Institutional Partners

Archiv der Zentraleuropäischen Provinz der Jesuiten

In 2021, the archives of the Austrian, German, Swiss, and Lithuanian-Latvian Jesuit provinces will merge to form the archive of the Central European Province of the Society of Jesus. In addition, the individual archives are developing digital or digitized documents, which users can already search online.

Please learn more about the digitization projects of these archives at: http://provinzarchiv.jesuiten.org/

The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada / Archives des Jésuites au Canada

Jesuits have been active in Canada in education, intellectual ministry, parish ministry, Spiritual Exercises ministry and work for social justice from 1611 to 1809 and from 1842 until the present day. The Archive of the Jesuits in Canada constitutes the living memory of their apostolic activity and personal lives. Founded in 1848 at Collège Ste-Marie in Montreal, it holds a documents dating from the French Regime in North America, however, the bulk of the archival holdings were created in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Please learn more about the archive at: http://archivesjesuites.ca/en/

Archives Jésuites en France

Located in Paris and Louvain, the Jesuit archives of France collect, classify, preserve, communicate and enhance the archives of the French-speaking Western European Province (Province d’Europe Occidentale Francophone). The collection reflects Jesuit activities in France, Belgium and Luxembourg, from the 17th century to the present.

Please learn more about the archive at: https://www.jesuites.com/contact/bureaux-archives-jesuites/

Archives of the Philippine Province

The Archives of the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus is a private religious archives governed by the Catholic Church’s Canon Law and the internal laws and guidelines of the Society of Jesus. It is intended primarily for the internal use of the governance of the Philippine Jesuits. The Archives, located in Loyola House of Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City and under the care of the Province Archivist, are the historical archives (documents of 50 years or older) of the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus.

Please learn more about the archive at: https://www.phjesuits.org/portal/the-jesuits/jesuit-archives/

Archives of the Society of Jesus, Australia

The first Jesuits–Austrians Fr. Aloysius Kranewitter S.J. and Fr. Maximilian Klinkowstroem SJ–arrived in Adelaide in 1848. They arrived in Adelaide in 1848. More a century later, in 1950, the Australian Province was formally established. The Jesuit archive is responsible for the institutional memory of the Society of Jesus and its works in Australia.

Please learn more about the province at: https://jesuit.org.au/

Archivio Storico, Provincia Euro-Mediterranea della Compagnia di Gesù

Located near the Residenza del Gesù in Rome, the archive for the Euro-Mediterranea Province of the Society of Jesus preserves the historical documentation of Jesuits and their works throughout Italy and its former provinces, as well as those in modern-day Albania, Malta, and Romania. In close proximity to the archive is the library of the former Roman province, a collected dedicated to texts written by or about the Society of Jesus and their works.

Please learn more about the archive at: https://archiviostorico.gesuiti.it/

Archivo de la Provincia de Chile

The archive of the Chilean Province of the Society of Jesus protects and shares, with those interested in historical memory, the documentation that testifies to the long history of the Jesuits in the national territory. The archive keeps historical documents related to the various Jesuit works, such as in churches, colleges and institutions of the order. The oldest documents date from the 17th century and include photographs from the mid-19th century onwards.

Please learn more about the archive at: https://www.jesuitas.cl/la-compania-de-jesus/archivo-de-la-provincia/

Archivo de la Provincia del Perú

The Historical Archive of the Jesuit Province of Peru collects all documents, manuscripts, typed, printed, digital, in formats corresponding to the documentation of the administration of the Society of Jesus in the region as well as the personal and private documentation of deceased Jesuits between the 19th and 21st centuries. The objective of this documentary collection is to provide inputs for specialized research in the field of ecclesial, social, religious and cultural history in the Peruvian context.

Please learn more about the archive at: http://archivo.jesuitas.pe/

Archivo España Compañía de Jesús

Begun in the 2010s, the integration of the former Spanish provinces into a single province necessitated a new way to collect and house different archival collections. The curia in Madrid holds the so-called living archives (people, communities, institutions and active affairs) necessary for the government of the Society of Jesus. Located outside of Madrid, the Archivo España Compañía de Jesús en Alcalá de Henares is the primary historical archive of the Jesuits’ Spanish province. Two other historical archives are located in Barcelona and Loyola.

Please learn more about the archive at: https://jesuitas.es/es/archivo-historico

Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago

The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities is a collaborative multidisciplinary research center at Loyola University Chicago. It supports research across the humanities, as well as in the arts, communication, computer science, social sciences, and University Libraries. The Center also sponsors conferences, lectures, and workshops.

Please learn more about the center at: https://www.luc.edu/ctsdh/

Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University

Founded in 2008, the Centre for Catholic Studies represents a creative partnership between academy and church: a center within the pluralist, public academy for critically constructive Catholic studies of the highest academic standing. As the UK’s first permanent center devoted to pioneering world-class research and teaching in Catholic theology in the public academy, it collaborates with other organizations to produce future leaders, foster talent, and foment Catholic scholarship locally and globally by supporting scholarly research projects and publications, alongside holding research seminars and lectures.

Please learn more about the center at: https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/ccs/

Centre Sèvres

Centre Sèvres, opened in 1974 in Paris, is an academic institution specializing in philosophical and theological study and research while engaging with ethical, cultural and spiritual challenges of the contemporary world. It offers degrees (bachelor, master, doctorate) recognized by the French Republic, and the center’s courses, inspired by the Jesuit educational tradition, are often adapted pedagogically for adults, anxious to integrate reflection and personal development. It hosts conferences and symposia throughout to echo the themes discussed throughout the year as well as major current topics.

To learn more about this center at: https://centresevres.com/

Centro Cultural Brotéria

In 2019, the Portuguese Province of the Society of Jesus will open a new cultural center in Lisbon. The center builds on the reputation of Brotéria, a Portuguese journal founded in 1902 with series dedicated to the sciences and culture, and will possess a library of some 160,000 titles, largely focused on Jesuit history from the 17th and 18th centuries. The library will be open to the public along with the center’s art gallery, bookstore, restaurant, and conference space, in which the center will host courses, seminars, and workshops.

To learn more about this center, please visit: http://www.broteria.pt/

Conimbricenses.org

The Conimbricenses.org project aims to study the unique philosophical tradition of the University of Coimbra, one closely related to the Society of Jesus and one with a global impact for centuries. Launched online in 2018 by the University of Coimbra’s Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, this database gives access to a large collection of information, updated bibliographies, and direct links to the digital version of the most important documents related to Coimbra.

Please learn more about this digital project at: http://www.conimbricenses.org/

Cushwa Center, University of Notre Dame

The Charles and Margaret Hall Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at Notre Dame was founded in 1975. Its seminars, conferences, and research projects, many of which produce scholarly volumes or popular educational publications, engage a national body of historians and colleagues from theology, women’s studies, sociology, religious studies, American studies and English.

Please learn more about the center at: https://cushwa.nd.edu/

European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project

This European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project presents the largest census of books owned by European Jesuit institutions from the 1540s until the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773.  The project includes both texts currently held in libraries as well as information from pre-suppression inventories. It is an ongoing project directed by Kathleen Comerford of Georgia Southern University.

Please learn more about this digital project at: https://www.jesuit-libraries.com/

Irish Jesuit Archives

The Irish Jesuit Archives contains the records of the Jesuits in Ireland from 1575 onwards. The archive’s primary role is to preserve and protect the memory of Irish Jesuits, offering a panorama of Jesuit life, work and works in Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong, and Zambia. The collections exist in a wide variety of formats: paper records, photographs, microfilm, film, tape recordings, and digitally born records.

Please learn more about the archives at: http://www.jesuitarchives.ie/

Jesuit Archives & Research Center

In 2017, the Jesuit Archives: Central United States relocated to a new facility in St. Louis and took a new name to reflect its collections’ wider geographic coverage and its mission to be a destination for researchers from around the world. The Jesuit Archives & Research Center preserves records of fourteen past and current administrative provinces of the Society of Jesus in the United States, including those of Buffalo, California, Central and Southern, Chicago, Chicago-Detroit, Detroit, Midwest, Missouri, New England, New Orleans, New York, Northeast, Oregon, and Wisconsin. The archives also houses the records of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States.

Please learn more about the archive at: http://jesuitarchives.org/

Jesuit Centre for Catholic Studies, University of Manitoba

The Jesuit Centre for Catholic Studies is a teaching, research, and service facility funded and operated as a joint initiative between St. Paul’s College and the Jesuits in English Canada. It addresses issues related to the Catholic and Jesuit identity of St. Paul’s College and its connection to fields such as theology, philosophy, education, and the liberal arts. Working in collaboration with others as an ecumenical and interfaith project, the center facilitates and sponsors publications, workshops, and research directly related to the worldview of St. Ignatius of Loyola.

Please learn more about the center at: https://umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/jesuit_centre/index.html

Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa

An institute geared to preserving memory and promoting historical knowledge, the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa started in 2010 with the encouragement of the Superior General Adolfo Nicholás, S.J., to study the Jesuits’ largely unexamined evangelization of Africa. Further deliberations pointed to the need for such a study to be carried out within a broader social, political, cultural and religious context. The institute’s vision expanded to offer a cost-effective environment for ground-breaking research on the religious histories, cultures, and traditions of the people of Africa and Madagascar.

Please learn more about the institute at: https://www.jhia.ac.ke/

Jesuits in Britain Archives

Held in London, the Archives of the British Province of the Society of Jesus collects, preserves and makes available records concerning the Jesuits in Britain. The collection contains papers relating to the administration of the British Province by the Provincial Curia as well as those of deceased members of the Province. There are also records of Jesuit communities and of Province works as well as relating to the overseas missionary work of the Province and to the canonisation and beatification processes for the recusant martyrs of England and Wales. The Archives include also a specialist library. Further archival holdings can be found at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and Campion Hall, Oxford, and there are also small scale local collections throughout the Province.

Please learn more about the institute at: http://www.jesuit.org.uk/archives-jesuits-britain

John J. Burns Library, Boston College

Located in the original Bapst Library building on Boston College’s Chestnut Hill campus, the John J. Burns Library offers students, scholars, and the general public opportunities to engage with rare books, special collections, and archives. Among the many collected related to American Catholicism is the “Liturgy and Life” collection, documenting the liturgical movement in the American Catholic Church from 1925 to Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) reforms. The Specials Collections also has a particular strong Jesuitica collection, consisting of nearly 10,000 titles. Burns Library has digitized more than 1,000 of these titles.

Please learn more about the library at: https://libguides.bc.edu/burns

KADOC-KU Leuven

KADOC–Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society–is an interfaculty center of Leuven University, serving as one of the leading cultural archives and heritage libraries in Belgium. KADOC manages a rich and diverse collection of material and immaterial heritage that documents the relationship between religion, culture and society since 1750 in a Belgian and international context. It valorizes its collection, with a length of more than 33 kilometers, in international and interdisciplinary research as well as in public initiatives with partners in and beyond academia. It preserves and discloses the modern archives of the Jesuit provinces in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.

Please learn more about the center at: https://kadoc.kuleuven.be/

Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality

The Seminar on Jesuit Spirituality was founded in 1969 by George Ganss, S.J., for the education and edification of Jesuits. With a membership appointed by their provinces in the United States, the seminar continues to examine the spiritual doctrine and practice of the Society of Jesus through scholarly essays that largely appear in Studies in the Spirituality of the Jesuits, a quarterly publication available in Open Access at JesuitOnlineLibrary.com.

Please learn more about the seminar at: https://sites.bc.edu/jesuitportal-recovery/publications/studies/

Société des Bollandistes

The Bollandist Society is a Jesuit research institute dedicated to the critical study of Greek, Latin, Oriental, and vernacular hagiographic literature as well as to the history of the saints and their cults. Founded in the early 17th century, this society is one of the oldest scientific organizations in the world. Originally an exclusively Jesuit association of scholars, philologists, and historians, the Bollandists are also their own publishers. Although initially known for their Acta Sanctorum (1643-1940), today they publish a scholarly journal (Analecta Bollandiana), a series of monographs and research instruments (Subsidia Hagiographica), and the Tabularium Hagiographicum, a series dedicated to the correspondence and archives of famous hagiographers.

Please learn more about the society at: https://www.bollandistes.org/ ​

Société internationale d’études jésuites

The Société internationale d’études jésuites is an international scientific organization of researchers from many areas: social and cultural history of the modern world, history of science and knowledge, history of theology and philosophy, history of education, educational sciences, political sciences, economic sciences, history of geography, architecture, and visual arts. These scholars share a common goal: the production of critical knowledge on the subject of the Society of Jesus and all the aspects of this order in the course of a 450-year-old history throughout the world.

Please learn more about the society at: http://www.siejesuitas.org/

Special Collections, Loyola University Chicago

The Loyola University Chicago Archives & Special Collections collects, preserves, organizes, describes, and makes available records of enduring historical value, including those of the university, several Catholic organizations, and individual Jesuits. Special Collections is also the home of the university’s Rare Book Collection, which is particularly strong in the areas of Jesuitica, American, and British history, literature, drama, religion, and theology. Of particular note is the Edward A. Cudahy Jesuitica collection.

Please learn more about the special collections at: https://www.luc.edu/archives/

Special Collections, Saint Louis University

Special Collections at Saint Louis University is a center for original research and learning based on primary sources. Through its Rare Books unit or Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, its offers a laboratory for the study of texts and images—both manuscript and print—in their original historical contexts, whether it is a fifteenth-century manuscript copy of the poetry of Petrarch or a nineteenth-century printed edition of Mark Twain. Our Vatican Film Library houses over 37,000 microfilmed copies of medieval manuscripts from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana and is a unique resource for research.

Please learn more about the special collections at: http://lib.slu.edu/special-collections/index.php

Woodstock Theological Library

The Woodstock Theological Library is one of the oldest and most notable Catholic theological libraries in the United States. Founded in 1869 at Woodstock College (outside of Baltimore), it moved to New York City in 1969. With the 1974 closure of Woodstock College, the library moved to Georgetown University to become the research tool for the Woodstock Theological Center. The collection contains approximately 190,000 circulating volumes, 700 periodical titles as well as a reference collection. It is especially strong in the areas of biblical studies, spirituality, church history, the Jesuits, liturgy, and the social aspects of Christianity.

Please learn more about the library at: https://www.library.georgetown.edu/woodstock

Xavier Centre of Historical Research

The Xavier Centre is designed to serve as a base for scholarly research in the history and cultural heritage of India, with particular emphasis on contemporary cultural and social issues affecting the State of Goa. Through the specially constructed building (1983), the center seeks to promote a forum for exchange of ideas, information and expertise for visitors and seeks association with like-minded groups and individuals for promotion of these objectives.

Please learn more about the center at: https://www.facebook.com/xchr.goa/

The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies is pleased to announce the program for its 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies. This event will be the institute’s fifth annual gathering of scholars from around the globe. It will be hosted at Boston College. The event has previously taken place in Boston, Nairobi, and Seville.

This year’s theme is “Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus.” The call for papers can be found online.

The event features 14 individual panels and 5 plenary sessions. Simon Ditchfield of York University will provide the keynote address. In all, nearly 70 scholars will participate, representing institutions across five continents. A full program appears below.

To learn more, please contact the Institute (iajs@bc.edu).

(program as a pdf document)

International Symposium on Jesuit Studies

“Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the Society of Jesus”

Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies   | Boston College | June 11–13, 2019

Tuesday, June 11

8:00am – 8:45am Breakfast

Gasson Hall, 100

9:00am – 10:45am Welcome and Keynote

Gasson Hall, Room 100

Chair: Casey C. Beaumier, S.J., Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

Welcoming remarks

• William P. Leahy, S.J., Boston College

Keynote address

“Daniello Bartoli, S.J. (1608–1685), His Sources and the Writing of the First ‘Global’ History of the Jesuits”

• Simon Ditchfield, University of York

11:00am – 12:30pm Paper Session A

Gasson Hall, Room 205

Rediscovering History in “New” Jesuit Sources

Chair: Aislinn Muller, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“Invisible Histories, Silenced Histories of the Philippines: The Labor Evangélica: Ministerios Apostólicos de los Obreros de la Compañía de Jesús (ca. 1701), by Father Diego de Oña, S.J. (1655–1721)”

• Alexandre Coello de la Rosa, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

“When There is No Written Record: The Use of Archaeology to Recover the Jesuit Past”

• Brendan Weaver, Stanford University

“History-keeping under Persecution: Sources from the College of Jesus of Coimbra, Discovered in 2016”

• Margarida Miranda, Universidade de Coimbra; and António Trigueiros, S.J. Brotéria

Gasson Hall, Room 210

Real and Imagined Missions: Italian Litterae Indipetae of Old and New Society of Jesus

Chair: Emanuele Colombo, DePaul University

“‘You only torment and upset yourself’: Jesuits between Indifference and Restlessness (Sicily, 17th–18th centuries)”

• Elisa Frei, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“The litterae indipetae (1814–1853): A Source for the History of the ‘New’ Society of Jesus”

• Marco Rochini, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

“‘For the salvation of Russia’: Some Brief Remarks on Russipetae in the 20th Century”

• Sabina Pavone, Università degli studi di Macerata

12:45pm Lunch

Gasson Hall, Room 100

2:45pm – 4:15pm Paper Session B

Gasson Hall, Room 306

Constructing Identity through Jesuit Sources

Chair: André Brouillette, S.J., Boston College

“Between Identity and History: The Vocazioni illustri della Compagnia di Gesù of Giovanni Antonio Valtrino”

• Irene Gaddo, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli

“Lessons from Japan: Nicolas Trigault Writes to a Global Audience”

• Nicholas Lewis, St. Louis University

“Alessandro Valignano and the Construction of Europe’s First Image of Japan”

• Jan Leuchtenberger, University of Puget Sound

Gasson Hall, Room 205

Contextualizing Private Correspondence and Public Conferences

Chair: Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg

“Archived Jesuit Thinking: Correspondences in Gaston Fessard and Kenneth Burke”

• Steven Mailloux, Loyola Marymount University

“Bernard Lonergan’s Early Correspondences: His Motivations and Early Plans to Update Catholic Education”

• Cyril Orji, University of Dayton

“Jesuit Identity in the Journals and Correspondence of Patrick F. Healy, S.J.”

• Alexandria Griffin, Arizona State University

Sources of Jesuits’ Pedagogical Influence

Gasson Hall, Room 210

Chair: Claude Pavur, S.J., Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“Knowledge Transmission and Personal Expectancies through Pedro de Hortigosa’s Correspondence: Pedagogy and Missionary Experience in the Jesuit Province of New Spain”

• Hugo Zayas-Gonzalez, Central Michigan University

“The Philosophy Textbooks of Portuguese Jesuits’ Courses in 16th-Century”

• Paula Oliveira e Silva and João Rebalde, Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto

“The Philosophical Heritage of the Jesuits in Brazil”

• Lúcio Álvaro Marques, Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro

“Philosophy at the Geopolitical Service of Mission: Coimbra Jesuits’ ‘Wirkungsgeographie’ (1560–1730)”

• Mário Santiago de Carvalho, Universidade de Coimbra

4:30pm Reception

Gasson Hall, Room 100

JesuitOnlineBibliography.com

Chair: Seth Meehan, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

• Paul Begheyn, S.J., Netherlands Institute of Jesuit Studies
• Anna Kijas, Boston College Libraries
• Yannick Van Loon, Jesuitica project, KU Leuven

6:00pm Dinner

Gasson Hall, Room 100

Wednesday, June 12

8:00am – 8:45am Breakfast

Gasson Hall, Room 100

9:00am – 10:30am Paper Session C

Constructing History through Jesuit Sources

Gasson Hall, Room 203

Chair: Claude Pavur, S.J., Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“Pedro de Ribadeneira and the Use of Sources: Critical History and Hagiography in the Early Society”

• Robert Scully, S.J., Le Moyne College

“Early Modern Jesuit Historiography as a Great Inspiration for Central European Historians before 1773”

• Jakub Zouhar, Univerzita Hradec Králové

“Sacred Objects in Narratives of the English Mission, ca. 1580–1688”

• Aislinn Muller, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“The Forgotten Jesuits: The Historical Memory of the Society Between Minor Archives and New Research Trends”

• David Salomoni, Università Roma Tre

Race and Memory: Religion, Recordkeeping, and Murder

Gasson Hall, Room 205

Chair: Amy Phillips, Woodstock Theological Library

“A Spiritual Inheritance: African American Catholicism in Southern Maryland”

• Laura Masur, The Catholic University of America

“Slaves, Slaveholding, and Jesuit Recordkeeping in the Maryland Province Archives”

• Elsa Mendoza, Georgetown University

“‘Regulations for Our Black People’: Jesuit Recordkeeping on Slavery in Antebellum Missouri”

• Kelly Schmidt, Loyola University Chicago

“A Jesuit Murder in the French Caribbean”

• Andrew Dial, Louisiana State University

Constructing, Revising, and Archiving Jesuit Rhetoric

Gasson Hall, Room 210

Chair: Cinthia Gannett, Fairfield University

“Assembling a Usable Archive of 19th- and 20th-Century American Jesuit Rhetoric”

• John Brereton, University of Massachusetts Boston

“A Jesuit Looking Back at a Great Tradition: Giovambattista Noghera (1719–1784) and the Construction of a Story of Jesuit Sacred Rhetoric”

• Hanne Roer, Københavns Universitet

“François Pomey’s Candidatus Rhetoricae and its Revisions as Documents of the History of Jesuit Rhetorical Education”

• Manfred Kraus, Universität Tübingen

10:45am – 12:15pm Paper Session D

Gasson Hall, Room 205

Analyzing Diverse Sources of the Asian Missions

Chair: Elisa Frei, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“Sketching the Historical Soundscape of Sacred Music in China through Jesuit Sources”

• Lionel Li-Xing Hong, Fu Jen Catholic University

“Visions of Contemplation: Jesuit Arts in Japan”

• Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail, Indiana University

“Conimbricenses.org: Tracking the Impact of Jesuit History and Theology Instruction through Asia and Beyond”

• Mário Santiago de Carvalho, Universidade de Coimbra

Gasson Hall, Room 210

Transforming Everyday Jesuit Sources

Chair: Adrian Vaagenes, Woodstock Theological Library

“The Windows on Early Jesuit Ireland: Recent Editions of Sources for the Irish Mission”  

• Vera Moynes, National Archives of Ireland

“Jesuits Leaving the Classroom: Where and When. The Relevance of Using the Jesuit Catalogues in Understanding Change in the Jesuit Order”

• Cristóbal Madero, S.J.,  Universidad Alberto Hurtado

“1826: One Year of Jesuit Catalogues”

• Laura Madella, Università degli Studi di Parma

12:30pm Lunch

Gasson Hall, Room 100

2:00pm – 3:00pm Visit to John J. Burns Library

Burns Library, Catholic Authors’ Room

Viewing of selections from the library’s Jesuitica collection

3:00pm – 4:30pm Plenary Roundtable

Burns Library, Francis Thompson Room

Jesuit Libraries of the Past, Present, and Future

Chair: Cristiano Casalini, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“The Past and Future of the Woodstock College Library”

• Leon Hooper, S.J., and Adrian Vaagenes, Woodstock Theological Library

“The Formation of the Jesuitica Collection at Boston College”

• Christian Dupont, Boston College

“Archiving Jesuit Libraries: Past, Present, and Future”

• Kyle Roberts, Loyola University Chicago

4:45pm – 6:00pm Reception

Burns Library, Fine Print Room and Irish Room

Evening at leisure

Thursday, June 13

8:00am – 8:45am Breakfast

Gasson Hall, Room 100

9:00am – 10:30am Paper Session E

Gasson Hall, Room 205

Tracking the Cultural Impacts and Legacies of Jesuit Missions

Chair: Brian Mac Cuarta, S.J., Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu

“Engaging Late-Ming Literati through Western Moral Philosophy: The Literary Legacy of Alfonso Vagnone, S.J., in the Jiangzhou Community Compact”

• Giulia Falato, University of Oxford

“Constituted through Jesuit Archives: Discovering Education and the Multilingual Student in California during the 19th Century”

• Maureen Fitzsimmons, University of California, Irvine

“Jesuit Institutional Shift in the 1970s, its Impact on Jesuit Sources and Historiography, and the Future of Jesuit Archives in Francophone Africa and Europe”

• Barbara Baudry, Archives Jésuites, Province d’Europe Occidentale Francophone; and Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J., Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa

Gasson Hall, Room 210

Jesuit Sources in 20th-Century Public Debates: Race, Science, and Nationalism

Chair: Oliver P. Rafferty S.J., Boston College

“Catholicism, Nationalism, and Race in the Spanish Missional Historiography of Constantino Bayle, S.J. (1882–1953)”

• Rady Roldán-Figueroa, Boston University

“Jesuit Science in America (1922–1966): The Bulletin of the American Association of Jesuit Scientists”

• Francisco Malta Romeiras, Universidade de Lisboa

“The Fight for Civil Rights: John LaFarge, S.J., and the Interracial Review”

• Amy Phillips, Woodstock Theological Library

10:45am – 12:15pm Paper Session F

Gasson Hall, Room 205

Jesuit Habits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Period

Chair: Cristiano Casalini, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“Spiritual Accounts: Jesuit Record-Keeping and Early Modern Communication”

• Paul Nelles, Carleton University

“Jesuit Bureaucratic Practices and their Place in the Early Modern History of Knowledge”

• Markus Friedrich, Universität Hamburg

“The Voices of Memoria: Diaria, Historiae, and Annuaria as Records of Jesuit Experience”

• Paul Shore, University of Regina

Gasson Hall Room 210

Jesuits’ Textual Communities and Impacts

Chair: Yannick Van Loon, KU Leuven

“Reading the World through Jesuits in Puritan New England: A Study of Edward Taylor’s Commonplace Book of Le Comte”

• Simon Sun, Harvard University

“Publishing and Spiritual Policies through the Linguistic Work in the Jesuit Mission of South America (16th and 17th Centuries)”

• Juan Dejo, S.J., Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya

“An Intercultural Circuit of Books between China and Europe Established by the Jesuits in the 17th and 18th Centuries”

• Nicolas Standaert, S.J., KU Leuven

12:30pm Lunch

Gasson Hall, Room 100

2:00pm – 3:30pm Plenary Session

Fulton Hall, Auditorium 511

Archival Collections, Old and New

Chair: Casey Beaumier, S.J., Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“Exploring the Apostleship of Prayer Collection at ARSI: Between Archival Analysis and Research Perspectives”

• Sergio Palagiano, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu

“A Building for the Past, A Construct for the Future”

• David Miros, Jesuit Archives and Research Center

“Gregorian Archives Texts Editing (GATE): A Crowdsourced Web Platform for the Edition of Archival Documents”

• Lorenzo Mancini, Archivio Storico, Pontificia Università Gregoriana

“Activating the Archives of the Society in the Benelux: Between Heritage and Research”

• Kim Christiaens, KADOC-KU Leuven

3:30pm – 4:15pm Coffee and tea

Fulton Hall, Auditorium 511

4:15pm – 5:45pm Plenary Session

Fulton Hall, Auditorium 511

Archival Sources, Old and New

Chair: Casey Beaumier, S.J., Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies

“From Tintype to Twitter: Photography at the Irish Jesuit Archives”

• Damien Burke, Irish Archives of the Society of Jesus

“New Resources for Research at the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, 2013–2019”

• Brian Mac Cuarta, S.J., Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu

“The Census Project. Jesuit Documents Kept in Italian National Archives, Libraries and Other Cultural Institutions”

• Maria Macchi, Archivo Storico, Provincia Euro-Mediterranea della Compagnia di Gesù

6:00pm Reception

Gasson Hall, Room 100

7:15pm Dinner/Farewell

Gasson Hall, Room 100

2019 & 2020 International Symposia

• Casey C. Beaumier, S.J., Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
• Francisco Sassetti da Mota, S.J., Brotéria

Friday, June 14

Morning Checkout/Depart

Applications are now accepted for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Study of Slavery. The fellowship will take place at Georgetown University for the 2019-20 academic year. More details are available at the American Historical Association’s Career Center.

The posting notes that “candidates must be specialists in African-American religious history,” though it states a preference for “scholars of African-American Catholic communities.” All applicants are to have received their doctoral degrees, in a discipline within the Humanities, in the last two years.

During the fellowship at Georgetown, a successful applicant will “participate in ongoing research activities relating to Georgetown University’s Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation initiative.” Such work might “include archival research and further development of the digital capacity of the Georgetown Slavery Archive.” Continued work on the applicant’s own research is to be expected as well.

The deadline for applications is June 15, 2019. Additional details on the application process and benefit associated with the fellowship are available at the AHA’s Career Center.