Symposium Panels - June 12
JUNE 12
9.00-9.15 Welcome and Inaugural Remarks
Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa
Casey Beaumier, S.J. and Francisco Mota Sassetti, S.J.
9.15-10.30 - Jesuits and Missions: A Global Phenomenon
Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa
Panel Chair: Cristiano Casalini
Paul Nelles - On the road with the Early Jesuits
Camilla Russell - The Two Sides of Accommodation: Local Populations and Jesuits in Texts from the Early-Modern Missions
10.50-12.20
PANEL A: Jesuits, Nations, and Missions in Africa
Panel Chair: Sergio Gadea, S.J.
Broteria, Casa de Escritores
Robert Danieluk, S.J. - Letters of Cardinal Adam Kozłowiecki SJ Preserved in the Jesuit Roman Archives as Source for the Last Century’s African Missionary History
Szabolcs J. Sajgó, S.J. - Lower Zambezi Mission 1885-1897
Jean Luc Enyegue, S.J. - Religious and Patriots: The Jesuits and Nation-Building in Cameroon, 1930-1978
PANEL B: Martyrdom and Sanctity in Japan
Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara
Panel Chair: Elisa Frei
Carlota Miranda Urbano - 'Giving life for his wife'. Mission and martyrdom in Japan, a nuptial alliance.
Julia Kossowska - "The Closed Country": Wojciech Męciński and the 17th Century Jesuit Martyrdom in Japan
Bartosz Awianowicz - Reception of the Sixteenth-Century Jesuit Mission in Japan in Early Eighteenth-Century Poland. Oratio XVI „Tres Heroes ad stemma Crucis admissi seu Nobilitas Martyrum Japonensium S.J.” by Andrzej Temberski, SJ
PANEL C: Jesuit Missions in the United Kingdom in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Broteria, Aula de Esfera
Panel Chair: Andrew Barrette
Robert Scully, S.J. - The English Jesuit Mission: At the Edge of Europe, at the Crossroads of Worldwide Mission
Daniel MacLeod - Calendars and Catholics in Reformation Scotland: New Perspectives on the Scottish Mission
Ana Sáez-Hidalgo and Victor Houliston - Robert Persons and “Inglish affayres in Spayne”
12.30
Lunch at Brotéria
14.20-16.00
PANEL A: Facing the Infidels: Jesuit Missions and the Ottoman Empire
Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara
Panel Chair: Alessandro Corsi
Silvia Notarfonso - "Una porta para Turquia": The Society of Jesus and the Republic of Ragusa (1559-1612)
Zsófia Kádár - Inner mission: Mission landscape of the Provincia Austriae around 1650
Katarína Karabová - "Gaudium inter luctus". Universities ‒ a space for spreading the evangelistic ideas of the Jesuits in the 18th century on the territory of Slovakia
Mara Psalti - The Modern Greek adventure of "La Journée du chrétien". Tommaso Stanislao Velasti’s first translation
PANEL B: Reframing Missionary Experiences
Broteria, Casa de Escritores
Panel Chair: Emanuele Colombo
Elisa Frei - Matteo Ricci and the Gestures of Courtesy at the Ming Empire (16th-17th centuries)
Laura Madella - Teaching Japanese Dwelling: Alessandro Valignano's Cerimoniale for Jesuit missionaries in Japan (ca. 1583)
Thomas Santa Maria - The Death of Ignatius Mediocritas: Gender and Mortification in Jesuit Missions
Noël Golvers - From iatrochemist to Jesuit missionary in China: the particular path of an atypical(?) Jesuit, Johann Schreck Terrentius
PANEL C: Missions in Early Modern and Modern Northern Europe I
Broteria, Aula de Esfera
Panel Chair: Sergio Gadea, S.J.
Judith Lipperheide - Among Protestants: The Jesuit Mission in Northern Germany in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Agnė Zemkajutė - The First Jesuit Books in Lithuanian Language and their Influence for Catholic Church in Lithuania
Monika Miazek-Męczyńska - If not to China, where to? Preferable areas of missionary activity of Polish jesuits according to their Litterae Indipetae (ARSI, Pol. 79)
Liudas Jovaiša - Mission of the Extinct Society: Interrupted? Continued? Transformed? Former Jesuits in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania after 1773
16.20-18.00
PANEL A: Strategies and Sources for Jesuit Missions in China
Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara
Panel Chair: Francisco Malta Romeiras
João Teles e Cunha and Cristina Costa Gomes - The China Mission at Work (17th-18th century): Outcomes of the Res Sinicae project
Nicholas Lewis - The Dead Ends of Friendship in the Early China Mission
Di Wu - Comparisons between the manuscript from José Monteiro and the surviving documents in Chinese and other European languages
Luís Tirapicos - The Jesuits and the heretic astronomer in the China mission
PANEL B: On the Edge of the Eastern World: Jesuits in Persia and India
Broteria, Casa de Escritores
Panel Chair: Matthew Schweitzer
Délio Mendonça, S.J. - Provincializing Jesuit Mission and Governance in India
Miguel Rodrigues Lourenço - The place of the Inquisition in missionary context: Jesuit attitudes towards the cooperation with the Holy Office in Asia (16th-17th century)
Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska - Why did Thomas Młodzianowski leave the Jesuit Persian mission in 1657?
Rinald D’Souza, S.J. - The Self-fashioning of Adivasi Jesuit Identity and Mission through the Missionary Periodical Press, 1920-2000
PANEL C: The Kingdom of the Written Word: Books in Action in Jesuit Missions
Broteria, Aula de Esfera
Panel Chair: Christian Dupont
Jacopo Bertol - Studying superstitions through the words of Jesuits in “Indie Romane”
Lorenzo Mancini - Mission in the library: circulation and use of books "circa missiones" in European Jesuit libraries
Ana Carolina de Carvalho Viotti - Knowledge on the body and nature as a mission in an 18th-century Jesuit recipe book
Nicolas Standaert, S.J. - The Chinese Mission Through Books
19.00
Reception and Dinner at La Paparrucha