Symposium Panels - June 11

Keynote - Paul Grendler, Uniformity and Change in Italian Jesuit Schools in the 17th and 18th Centuries

PANEL A: Educating the Traveler: Spiritual and Logistic Advice for a Safe Journey

Elisa Frei, Educating Armchair Travelers: Daniello Bartoli and His Geography as a Moral Guide (1664)

Yuval Givon, Well-Prepared Travelers: Jesuit Travel Documents as Devices of Education, Mobility, and Control

Frederik Vermote, A Missionary's Personal Eurasian Networks: Giovanni Donato Mezzafalce's Guidelines for Connecting Europe and China in 1700

PANEL B: Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Portugal in 16th and 17th centuries

Francisco Malta Romeiras, The College of Santo Antão: A Trojan Horse for the Jesuit Missions?

Maria Duran, Antonio Vieira and Portuguese Preachers Between Fear and Love, Manuals and Sermons

Emmanuel Nogueira, Teaching Aristotle’s Ethics in Coimbra and Évora: an analysis of 16th century Jesuit Manuscript Lessons

PANEL A: Bridging Cultures and Languages: Jesuit Pedagogy from Early-Modern to 20th- century China

Jaeshin Lee, From Pedagogy to Sinology: Two Rationes Studiorum in Early Modern China

Xiaojing Zeng, Li Di (1840–1911): A Chinese Jesuit in Late Qing and His Translations for Pedagogy

Cristina Costa Gomes – Isabel Pina, Sinicum Idioma. Jesuit Educators, the Making of Language Tools and the Role of the Portuguese

PANEL B: Jesuit Colleges in South America before the Suppression

Pablo Abascal Sherwell Raull, Defining Jesuit Colegios in New Spain from Their Founding Certificates

Pilar Ramirez Restrepo, Language Diversity in the Jesuit Missions on the Margins of the Spanish Empire. The case of the Orinoco Region

Jesus Folgado Garcia, Father Francisco del Castillo, S.J., and a "Funeral Eulogy": Pedagogue in Lima and Evangelizer of the Poor

PANEL A: Bridging Worlds: Forging Connections Between Western and Chinese Learning in Late Imperial China

Giulia Falato, Voices from the Animal Realm: Rhetorical Redeployment of Animal Analogies in Late-Ming Jesuit Moral Publications

Linda Chu, Worldmaking in Alfonso Vagnoni’s Pixue: Towards an Intercultural Theory of Metaphor in Late Imperial China

Sophie Ling-chia Wei Inside-out Visual Presentation of Manchu Anatomy

PANEL B: Jesuit Colleges in Peru Before the Suppression

Elena Amerio, To Find Greater Ease in Meditation: Bernardo Bitti, a "Visual Educator" For Spiritual Practice in the Viceroyalty of Peru

S. Elizabeth Penry, The Jesuit Colegio of Potosí (Viceroyalty of Peru) in Colonial Context

Juan Dejo, S.J., Schools as Foundation for the Sustainability of the Jesuit Peruvian Mission (16th to 18th Centuries)

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