Symposium Panels - June 13

9.00 – 10.30

PANEL A: Jesuit Missions After the Restoration I

Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara

Panel Chair: Emanuele Colombo

Markus Friedrich - The missionary Homefront: Jesuit publications and mission-related propaganda in Germany (ca. 1880-1960)

Claudio Ferlan - Westward: Italian Jesuits Traveling beyond the Rocky Mountains (Nineteenth Century)

Festo Mkenda, S.J. - Planning for Jesuit Missions to Africa: A Comparison between Sixteenth-Century Ethiopia and Nineteenth-Century Zambezi (Ignatius of Loyola and Alfred Weld)

 

PANEL B: Funding the Mission: Jesuit Procurators around the Globe

Broteria, Casa de Escritores

Panel Chair: Elisa Frei

Benedetta Albani and Rafael Gaune - The journey of Miguel de Viñas and the recruitment of new missionaries for the province of Chile (1677-1698)

Diogo Reis Pereira – Jesuit procurators and the East Asian missions in the first half of 17th Century – Material Cultures in motion

Leonor Pratas - Entangled in the Global Networks of Macau: Jesuit Procurators and Their Business in the Seventeenth Century

 

PANEL C: Building Faith: Architecture and Evangelization Strategies in Jesuit Missions

Broteria, Aula de Esfera

Panel Chair: Taiga Guterres

Angelica Modabber - The Ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral in Macau

Elena Amerio - Visual mission. Jesuit art and artists in the Doctrina of Juli: the past and the present

Margarida Miranda - Missiones across the four Continents. Portuguese and Jesuits’ self-awareness by the eyes of António de Sousa and the Royal Tragicomedy of the Discovery and Conquest of the Orient (1619)

 

 

10.50 – 12.30

PANEL A: Jesuit Missions after the Restoration II

Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara

Panel Chair: Alessandro Corsi

Marco Rochini - Between Rhetoric and Practice: The Nineteenth-Century Jesuit Missions as Reflected in the Litterae Indipetae and Missionary Correspondence

Raffaella Perin - Jesuit Missionary Politics during the Fascist Era: The Correspondence on Matteo Ricci’s Writings between Pietro Tacchi Venturi and Pasquale D’Elia

Sergio Palagiano - The Missionary Sources of the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu between Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Eugenio Menegon - Continuities and Discontinuities: Using the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) for an Analysis of the Old and New China Jesuit Missions (1550-1950) and their Sources

 

PANEL B: Sources and Archives for Enquiring into the Missions

Broteria, Casa de Escritores

Panel Chair: Matthew Schweitzer

Christian Dupont - What can be learned from Jesuit biographies? A bibliographical perspective

Barbara Baudry - Overseas Missions in the archives of the French Province 17th –20th centuries: rich but underexploited materials

Daiana Menti - Jesuit missionaries in the twentieth century. Experiences and reflections from the journal «Le Missioni della Compagnia di Gesù» (1915-1969)

Antonio Taiga Guterres - Tracing the Use of 'Mission' in the Jesuit Educational Quarterly (1938–1970): Insights to the Jesuit Discussion of Education and Mission in the 20th Century

 

PANEL C: The Soundscape of Mission in the Early Modern Period

Broteria, Aula de Esfera

Panel Chair: Silvia Notarfonso

Daniele V. Filippi - A prosopography of Jesuit ‘musical missionaries’ in the early modern era

Henry T. Drummond - Jesuits as Producers of Musical Books in Early Modern Breda

Sophie Ling-Chia Wei - The Last but Impactful Footprint: Jean Joseph Marie Amiot’s Mémoire sur la musique des chinois, tant anciens que modernes

 

12.30

Lunch at Brotéria

 

14.30 – 16.00

PANEL A: Jesuit Missions after the Restoration III

Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara

Panel Chair: Claudio Ferlan

Maria Macchi - Recounting Jesuit Missions (Nineteenth and Twentieth Century): Documents at the Archive of the Euro-Mediterranean Province

Mauro Brunello - Promoting the Missions from the Centre: The Mission Secretariat (1923-1983) at the General Curia of the Society of Jesus

Emanuele Colombo - The Indies from the Indies: Twentieth-Century American Indipetae

 

PANEL B: Missions in Early Modern and Modern Northern Europe II

Broteria, Casa de Escritores

Panel Chair: Cristiano Casalini

Silvia Mostaccio - Caring for bodies or caring for souls? Jesuit military chaplains during the Wars of Religion in Flanders (late 16th - 17th century)

Jörg Nies, S.J. - Difficult to Grasp: The Swedish Mission of the Jesuits

Jeffrey Muller - The Stockholm Gambit: Mission or Conspiracy?

 

PANEL C: Depicting the Indiae: Visual Arts, Patrons, and Artists in Jesuit Missions

Broteria, Aula de Esfera

Panel Chair: Sergio Gadea, S.J.

Maria João Pereira Coutinho - Goa, Lisbon, and Rome: A "triangle" of business and culture

Eckart Kühne - The Churches of the Jesuit Guarani and Chiquitos Missions: Influences and Differences

Maria Cristina Osswald - The Jesuit French Mission to China: art beyond religion

 

16.30 -18.00 - The Effects of Globalization (Plenary)

Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa

Panel Chair: David Salomoni

Francisco Malta Romeiras - Missions of Knowledge: The Globalization of Science in the Portuguese Assistancy

Danielle Terrazas Williams - “They did not appear so notably sinful like before”: The Annual Letter as Genre and Its Role in Jesuit Evangelization of Free and Enslaved Black People in Colonial Mexico

Florence Hsia - 'Interpreters-General': the making of Jesuit expertise in Chinese astronomy

 

18.00

Reception and Hors d'oeuvres at Brotéria