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| Alicante, Seminar on Jesuit missions, 8-10 September 2010 |
August 31, 2010 |
La Companyia de Jesús en la monarquia hispànica: missions i missioners
Alicante (Calpe)
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| Brasil, Mato Grosso do Sul (30/8-3/9, 2010) |
August 27, 2010 |
XIII Jornadas Internacionales sobre as Missões jesuíticas
August 30 - September 3, 2010
Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil
for program, follow link
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Guarani |
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| Lisbon, International Symposium, 11-13 October |
August 24, 2010 |
International Symposium
Europe-China: Intercultural Encounters (16th-18th Centuries)
Lisbon, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM)
11-13 October 2010
programme |
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| Macau, Ricci Exhibit |
August 17, 2010 |
MATTEO RICCI : the Master from the West
An exhibitition commemorating the 400th centenary of the passing of Matteo Ricci
August 8 - October 31, 2010
Museo de arte de MACAU |
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| Ricci celebrations in France, 2010 |
August 13, 2010 |
Listing of 2010 celebrations of Matteo Ricci in France (pdf file)
Posted by the Institut Ricci, Centre d'Etudes chinoises (Paris) |
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| Assisi, 14-17 October 2010 |
August 10, 2010 |
Commemoration of the cosmological visionary Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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| Lost manuscript of Johann Ernst Hanxleden S.J. found |
June 25, 2010 |
K.U.Leuven researcher discovers lost Sanskrit manuscript at Italian monastery
In the last week of May 2010, the manuscript Grammatica Grandonica by the German Jesuit Johann Ernest Hanxleden was retraced in the area around Rome. Elaborating on former enquiries by the Luxemburg scholar Jean-Claude Muller, the Belgian scholar Toon Van Hal , Center for the History of Linguistics, K.U.Leuven and former Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation, University of Potsdam, succeeded in tracking the lost manuscript to the Convento di San Silvestro, a Carmelite monastery in Montecomprati (Italy, Lazio).
The manuscript was lost for several decades. Grammatica Grandonica is one of the earliest missionary grammars of the Sanskrit language and it was a considerable influence on the emergence of the first Sanskrit grammar ever printed in Europe (1790). The rediscovery is relevant to intellectual history in general, and to the history of linguistics in particular.
A popular missionary in Kerala
Johann Ernst Hanxleden was born in 1681 near Osnabrück (Germany). From 1701 until his death in 1732, he worked as a Jesuit missionary in Kerala (south-west India). Hanxleden gained a high-level command of the local Malayalam language as well as of the liturgical Sanskrit language, which the Brahmans did not usually reveal to strangers. Hanxleden, however, managed to convince two Brahmans to teach him the language. This enabled him to write a Sanskrit grammar (Grammatica Grandonica), though unfortunately it was lost in the course of history.
The importance of Sanskrit for intellectual history
It was a highly deplorable loss, given that Sanskrit occupies an important position in the history of linguistics. Its study in Europe (which only began at the end of the eighteenth century) played a pivotal role in the process of institutionalising the new discipline of linguistics at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The very first Sanskrit grammar printed in Europe was written by a later Kerala missionary, the Carmelite Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo (1748-1806), who has been accused of simply copying the grammar of Hanxleden, which was 60 years older. This accusation, however, has not been substantiated as of yet.
Hunting for a lost grammar
The evidence gathered has been presented at a workshop (4 June 2010) organised by Prof. Christophe Vielle, holder of the chair for Indology at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve. The discovery will enable an international team of scholars to investigate Paulinus’s alleged dependency on Hanxleden. In addition, it will cast new light on the indigenous South-Indian tradition of Sanskrit grammaticography, in which both Paulinus and Hanxleden were rooted.
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| Macau, 5-7 October, 2010 International Symposium |
June 25, 2010 |
An International Symposium in Commemoration of the
Fourth Centenary of the Death of Matteo Ricci, S.J.
Macau, 5th - 7th October, 2010
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| Antwerp, Congress, November 20 |
June 14, 2010 |
Hedendaags leiderschap in de jezuïtische traditie
(Contemporary leadership in the Jesuit tradition)
Aula Rector Dhanis, UA, Kleine Kauwenberg 14-22, 2000 Antwerpen
Saturday November 20, 14:00-18:00
contact: Marijke Celis
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| Boston Conference, June 2012: Call for papers |
May 07, 2010 |
Call for Papers: “The Tragic Couple”: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits
“The Tragic Couple”: Encounters between Jews and Jesuits
An International Conference
Boston College, June 2012
The Society of Jesus has been a leader in the Church’s efforts at dialogue with Jews, including the role the Jesuit Cardinal Augustin Bea played in hammering out the groundbreaking declaration Nostra Aetate during Vatican II. Yet, the history of the relationship of this “tragic couple” has been often filled with bias and animosity, even though the Jesuit founder, Ignatius of Loyola, declared that he would consider it God’s special grace to be of the same Jewish lineage of Christ and even though Jesuits of Jewish ancestry had played a crucial role in the foundation and development of the Jesuit Order. Driven by a desire for deepening the understanding and friendship between the Jewish people and the Society of Jesus, the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College is organizing an international conference on the history, nature, dynamics and current status of the relation between Jews and Jesuits. It aims to bring together scholars of different backgrounds to converse on this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective: biblical exegesis, history, literature, philosophy, theology, and spirituality.
PS. Please forward this email to those who you think may be interested in participating. |
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| Leuven 2009 Jesuitica conference and beyond... |
May 07, 2010 |
Follow link to Info section to read latest updates on 2009 Conference |
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| Pozzo anniversary celebration |
March 18, 2010 |
Exhibitions in Rome, Trento, Mondovi are closed, but more information can be found at site.
See also 'Info' section for updated bibliography on Pozzo.
Catalogue of exhibit: see 'Research' section
Website indicates events in Trento and Mondovi as well.
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| Pedro Arrupe Documentary Available Online |
March 16, 2010 |
A five-part documentary on Pedro Arrupe, SJ, the former superior general of the Society of Jesus, is now available online on the Jesuit Channel, which is sponsored by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.
The film, Pedro Arrupe: His Life and Legacy, was produced in 2008 by Georgetown University and features rare footage of Fr. Arrupe and interviews with his closest advisers. [America]
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| soon, DVD Docufilm on Matteo Ricci |
January 07, 2010 |
DVD Docufilm on Matteo Ricci
Gjon Kolndrekaj, Matteo Ricci un gesuita nel regno del drago ("Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit in the realm of the dragon"), CDA Productions, 2009, is a docufilm which shows many original documents related to Matteo Ricci.
The DVD will shortly be available in 7 languages: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese (2010)
The related booklet is produced by Radiotelevisione Italiana:
Gjon Kolndrekaj, Matteo Ricci un gesuita nel regno del drago, Roma: Rai, 2010 ISBN 978-88-397-1494-7 (booklet + DVD)
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| Call for papers - sept 2010 |
November 18, 2009 |
Call for Papers
LEGACIES OF THE BOOK: EARLY MISSIONARY PRINTING IN ASIA AND THE AMERICAS
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2010
The Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim invites proposals for 20-minute papers (in English) for an international symposium to be held on the 400th anniversary of the death of the Jesuit missionary, Matteo Ricci (1552-1610). The principal focus will be on the history of missionary printing outside of Europe. The aim is to outline a comparative cultural typology of books printed in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in the context of Christian missions as a means of transmission of faith, knowledge, and culture. It will also analyze the process of adaptation of the press to and the beginnings of production of movable type in non-European languages in Asia and the Americas. The symposium will take place from September 24 to 26, 2010 in San Francisco. Travel funding and accommodation for scholars whose papers are selected is available. See the website for more information.
Xiaoxin Wu
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
U.S.A.
Phone: 415-422-6401, Fax: 415-422-2291
Email: wu@usfca.edu
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| Reference works for sale |
March 21, 2008 |
Have a look at the Info section of this site, to learn more about the last copies for sale of PIBA (Prosopographia Iesuitica Belgica Antiqua (4 vol.) and other items of interest to jesuitica researchers ... first come, first served ...
For the PIBA, there is a clickable PDF file, which takes you on a tour of the contents of this most valuable resource work on the Jesuits in the Low Countries (before suppression). |
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