News in Jesuit Studies
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John O’Malley’s Art, Controversy, and the Jesuits: The Imago Primi Saeculi, available through St. Joseph’s University Press. The Imago primi saeculi Societatis Iesu, a 952 folio-sized volume of poetry, prose with 127 exquisite copperplate engravings, celebrated the Society’s centenary in 1640. The publisher calls O’Malley’s text, “the most comprehensive study of the important book ever to appear.” Michael Putnam (Brown University), Marc Fumaroli (l’Académie Française; as translated by Paul Young of Georgetown), Jeffrey Muller (Brown University), Marc Van Vaeck, Toon Van Houdt, and Lien Roggen (all of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), and Alexander Sens and James Walsh (both of Georgetown University) contributed the volume.
- Update: The Journal of Jesuit Studies has reviewed Art, Controversy, and the Jesuits (Volume 3, Issue 3.)
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies beings the inaugural Certificate in Jesuit Studies program. Participants from Japan, Ireland, and throughout the United States begin the program with experiential learning in Spain and Rome as they visit some of the most important sites associated with the history and spirituality of the Society of Jesus. The nine-credit academic program continues into July with graduate-level coursework at Boston College and seminars led by Tim Kesicki, SJ, president of the Jesuit Conference of the United States and Canada; David Quigley, provost of Boston College, William Muller, SJ, executive director of the newly created Jesuit Schools Network of North America, Jack Raslowsky, president of Xavier High School in New York City, and William P. Leahy, SJ, president of Boston College, among others.
The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies hosts the inaugural International Symposium on Jesuit Studies at Boston College. The event’s program (available here) features an inauguration by William P. Leahy, S.J., president of Boston College, and three keynote address: John O’Malley on “Aspects of the Distinctiveness of the Society of Jesus;” Paul Grendler on “The Culture of the Jesuit Teacher 1548–1773;” and Yasmin Haskell on “Suppressed Emotions: The Heroic Tristia of Portuguese ex-Jesuit, Emmanuel de Azevedo.”
- Update: The Journal of Jesuit Studies has published versions of the three keynote address (Volume 3, Issue 1).