Symposium Panels - June 11
Breakfast
[Theology & Ministry Library (TML) Atrium]
Welcome and introductory remarks
[TML Auditorium]
– Casey C. Beaumier, S.J.
Vice President and University Secretary, Boston College
Director, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies
Keynote
Uniformity and Change in Italian Jesuit Schools in the 17th and 18th Centuries
– Paul Grendler
Panel A: Educating the Traveler: Spiritual and Logistical Advice for a Safe Journey
[TML Auditorium]
Chair: Emanuele Colombo
Educating Armchair Travelers: Daniello Bartoli and His Geography as a Moral Guide (1664)
– Elisa Frei
Well-Prepared Travelers: Jesuit Travel Documents as Devices of Education, Mobility, and Control
– Yuval Givon
A Missionary’s Personal Eurasian Networks: Giovanni Donato Mezzafalce’s Guidelines for Connecting Europe and China in 1700
– Frederik Vermote
Panel B: Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Portugal in 16th and 17th Centuries
[TML 112]
Chair: Francisco Mota, S.J.
The College of Santo Antão: A Trojan Horse for the Jesuit Missions?
– Francisco Malta Romeiras
Antonio Vieira and Portuguese Preachers Between Fear and Love, Manuals and Sermons
– Maria Duran
Teaching Aristotle’s Ethics in Coimbra and Évora: An Analysis of 16th-century Jesuit Manuscript Lessons
– Emanuel Nogueira
Lunch
[TML Atrium]
Panel A: Bridging Cultures and Languages: Jesuit Pedagogy from Early-Modern to 20th-century China
[TML Auditorium]
Chair: Alessandro Corsi
From Pedagogy to Sinology: Two Rationes Studiorum in Early Modern China
– Jaeshin Lee
Li Di (1840–1911): A Chinese Jesuit in Late Qing and His Translations for Pedagogy
– Xiaojing Zeng
Sinicum Idioma. Jesuit Educators, the Making of Language Tools and the Role of the Portuguese
– Cristina Costa Gomes
– Isabel Pina
Panel B: Jesuit Colleges in South America Before the Suppression
[TML 112]
Chair: Claudio Ferlan
Defining Jesuit Colegios in New Spain from Their Founding Certificates
– Pablo Abascal Sherwell Raull
Language Diversity in the Jesuit Missions on the Margins of the Spanish Empire. The case of the Orinoco Region
– Pilar Ramirez Restrepo
Panel A: Bridging Worlds: Forging Connections Between Western and Chinese Learning in Late Imperial China
[TML Auditorium]
Chair: Alessandro Corsi
Voices from the Animal Realm: Rhetorical Redeployment of Animal Analogies in Late-Ming Jesuit Moral Publications
– Giulia Falato
Worldmaking in Alfonso Vagnoni’s Pixue: Towards an Intercultural Theory of Metaphor in Late Imperial China
– Linda Chu
Inside-out Visual Presentation of Manchu Anatomy
– Sophie Ling-chia Wei
Panel B: Jesuit Colleges in Peru Before the Suppression
[TML 112]
Chair: Claudio Ferlan
To Find Greater Ease in Meditation: Bernardo Bitti, a “Visual Educator” for Spiritual Practice in the Viceroyalty of Peru
– Elena Amerio
The Jesuit Colegio of Potosí (Viceroyalty of Peru) in Colonial Context
– S. Elizabeth Penry
Schools as Foundation for the Sustainability of the Jesuit Peruvian Mission (16th–18th Centuries)
– Juan Dejo, S.J.
Reception and Dinner
[TML Outdoor Patio]