News in Jesuit Studies
The following are notices of significant events related to the field of Jesuit Studies.
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More than 20,000 pages of correspondence related to past superiors of the Maryland Mission and past provincials of the Maryland Province have been digitized and made available through DigitalGeorgetown. The content is part of the Archives of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, which is on deposit at Georgetown University.
The digitized materials are part of Subseries 1.1 — “Correspondence, Chronological, 1805-1883” of the Maryland Province Archives. Among the correspondence digitized is content related to
– to Robert Molyneux, Charles Neale, John Anthony Grassi, Anthony Kohlmann, and Francis Dzierozynski (all superiors of the Maryland Mission),
– to Peter Kenney (superior and visitor of the mission),
– and to William McSherry, Thomas F. Mulledy, Francis Dzierozynski, James Ryder, Peter Verhaegen, Ignatius Brocard, Charles H. Stonestreet, Burchard Villiger, Angelus M. Paresce, and Joseph E. Keller (all provincials of the Maryland Province).
The finding aid is available at: https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/15/archival_objects/1444448
The Jesuit Online Bibliography — a free, collaborative, multilingual, and fully searchable database of bibliographic records for scholarship in Jesuit Studies produced in the 21st century — has published more than 6,000 new records as it celebrates its second anniversary. The database now provides the citations, abstracts, subject categories, and direct links for more than 21,000 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 project was launched at the 2019 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies in Boston, with nearly 100 scholars present as well as representatives of the database’s three founding 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 remains available in Open Access.
The Jesuitica Project at KU Leuven celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2024, and its staff welcomes proposals for a publication to commemorate the occasion.
The publication will highlight research conducted during the last two decades among the Jesuitica collections at the Maurits Sabbe Library. Proposals for articles (the final draft of which should be between 1,500 and 2,000 words) can also include suggested illustrations to accompany the text.
The deadline for the proposals is February 1, 2022, and final versions of accepted articles are due October 1, 2022.
A full call for proposals appears below. The Jesuitica Project is a founding institutional partner of the Jesuit Online Bibliography. Learn more about the project and the Jesuitica collections at the Maurits Sabbe Library as well as sign up for its weekly newsletter at: https://jesuitica.be/newsletter-sign-up/
Call for Proposals
The Jesuitica Project is inviting proposals for a neatly illustrated publication on the occasion of its 20th anniversary in January 2024.
The publication will focus on the plethora of academic research that has been carried out over the past 20 years with a specific link to the Jesuitica collections at the Maurits Sabbe Library. Preferably, contributions meet usual scholarly expectations, but are suitable reading material for a broader public as well. The ideal article counts between 1,500 and 2,000 words (incl. a short bibliography and a limited amount of footnotes). We also invite you to make suggestions for two large full page illustrations (or one full page illustration and two half page images or an equivalent).
Please send in your proposal (max 400 words) for an article before February 1st 2022 to jesuitica @ kuleuven.be. The full text of the articles must be submitted by October 1st 2022 at the latest.
Proposals and articles should be written in English. Please forward this message to anyone you think may be interested.
If you have any questions about the book and contributions, please do not hesitate to contact us (jesuitica @ kuleuven.be).