CALL FOR PAPERS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Scattered around the globe for nearly five centuries of evangelization, Jesuit missionaries adopted different strategies to communicate with local communities. They were pivotal cultural mediators, serving as cartographers, astronomers, ethnographers, and anthropologists. They were also artists who adapted to local styles, translators and grammarians of native languages, and correspondents who conveyed images of societies previously unknown to European audiences. They fostered commerce and accompanied scientific voyages. They published journals, treatises, biographies, travel logs, and maps, and they participated in worldwide networks circulating literature and art.<\/p>\n
This symposium is hosted in Portugal, from which thousands of Jesuits departed to engage with people and environments on a global scale. This scholarly event will investigate how such a global engagement developed over time, how it varied from place to place, and how it was similar in different settings. Proposals are welcomed from across thematic, chronological, and disciplinary boundaries that address methods or instruments the Jesuits used to engage the world and its natural or societal environs.<\/p>\n
Presentations might address such questions as these:<\/p>\n
\u2014 <\/span>What strategies did Jesuits employ when, as articulated by their Constitutions, \u201cdispersed throughout Christ\u2019s vineyard to labor\u201d?<\/p>\n\u2014 <\/span>How did the internal structure of the Society of Jesus (and the personalities of the Jesuits themselves) facilitate or hinder missionary labors?<\/p>\n\u2014 <\/span>How were those labors impacted by external forces\u2014either local or global, cultural or political? For example, how did the Jesuits\u2019 relations with different European powers spark, facilitate, limit, or curtail evangelization efforts within competing global empires?<\/p>\n\u2014 <\/span>How did Jesuit missionaries and their superiors determine where to labor (\u201cconsideration should also be given to where greater fruit is likely to be reaped\u201d) and whom to evangelize (\u201cthe spiritual aid which is given to important and public persons ought to be regarded as more important, since it is a more universal good\u201d)? What are revealing examples of successful determinations and unsuccessful ones?<\/p>\n\u2014 <\/span>What were the benefits, hindrances, and consequences of Jesuit accommodation to local customs and virtues? How can Jesuit accommodation be seen in art, theological treatises, scientific work, and pedagogical approaches?<\/p>\n\u2014 <\/span>How can we recapture the motives of these Jesuit missionaries\u2014and how those motivations changed from one location to another or over time? And what might these motivations reveal about the Society of Jesus and its many places in the world?<\/p>\n\u2014 <\/span>How can indigenous people be seen in the books, maps, correspondence, and other materiality produced by Jesuits? And in what ways do those sources obscure those communities? What new sources should be consulted to better understand the indigenous people\u2019s experiences with Jesuit evangelization?<\/p>\n\u2014 <\/span>Is there\u2014or has there been at any point\u2014evidence of a distinctively Portuguese trait to the roots of the Jesuits\u2019 worldwide mission?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Proposals and a narrative CV (together no more than 500 words) are due before the end of <\/span>Monday, October 28, 2019<\/b>. Selected papers may be peer-reviewed and published in open access following the event. Please indicate if you would like to publish a version of your presentation, if accepted for the symposium.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The 2020 Symposium will be the sixth annual scholarly conference organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies. The Institute is pleased to collaborate with Brot\u00e9ria, the new cultural center of the Jesuits in Lisbon, in organizing this event on the Jesuits\u2019 global engagements. Previous symposia have taken place in Boston (in collaboration with Boston College), Nairobi (with the Jesuit Historical Institute of Africa), and Seville (with Universidad Loyola Andaluc\u00eda). <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
More details are available at bc.edu\/iajs. Contact the Institute with questions (iajs@bc.edu).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON JESUIT STUDIES Engaging the World:\u00a0The Jesuits and Their Presence in Global History Lisbon, Portugal |\u00a0June 17\u201319, 2020 Co-organized by the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College and Brot\u00e9ria in Lisbon, in partnership with the Catholic University Portugal CALL FOR PAPERS Scattered around the globe for nearly five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127185,"featured_media":5224,"parent":888,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-standard.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5220","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5220"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5220\/revisions\/5313"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bc.edu\/jesuitportal-recovery\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}