Symposium Panels - June 10

8:00 a.m. | Breakfast 
TML Atrium

9:10–10:50 a.m. | Plenary
TML Auditorium
Chair: Emanuele Colombo

Publishing the Missions: Jesuit Periodicals and the Making of Missionary Knowledge (19th–20th Centuries)

  • Newspapers and Printed Pamphlets Govern Almost the Entire Domain of Contemporary Events and Ideas»: The Archival Sources on the Jesuit Missionary Periodicals in ARSI
    -Sergio Palagiano
  • Edification and Information: The Jesuit Province of Turin’s “Lettere” as a Clerical Medium of Missionary Knowledge (1883–1913)
    -Claudio Ferlan
  • Reviving the Missionary Spirit Under the Ledóchowski Generalate: An Analysis of “Nuntii de Missionibus” and “Jesuit Missions
    -Raffaella Perin
  • Jesuits Missionary Periodicals in Zambia and Zimbabwe During the Decolonization Period
    -Slivia Eleonora Brera
  • Q&A

11:10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Concurrent Session 3

Panel A: Discernment in Motion: Jesuit Journals and Pope Francis
TML Auditorium
Chair: Robert Gerlich, S.J. 

  • Toward Ecclesial “Harmony”: Pope Francis, Synodality, and America Magazine
    -Phillip Ganir, S.J.
  • Revisiting Sentire cum Ecclesia: Pope Francis and the Spirit of Synodality
    -Kyoung-woong (Peter) Park, S.J.
  • A Jesuit Magazine Assesses the First Jesuit Pope: "America Magazine" and Pope Francis
    -Robert Scully, S.J.
  • Q&A

Panel B: Scientific Taxonomy and Educational Record-keeping: A Global View on Jesuit Practices 
TML 319
Chair: Silvia Notarfonso

  • Preservation through Translation: Jesuit Record-Keeping and African Medical Knowledge in Early Modern Ethiopia
    -Shannon Mulligan, Armel Setubi, S.J.
  • Jesuits and their Journals Botany, Taxonomy, and Decorative Art in the Mémoires de Trévoux with Charlevoix
    -Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail
  • Beyond Jesuit Archives and Print Culture: Student Absence and University Records in the History of Jesuit Education in New Spain
    -Pablo Abascal, Sherwell Raull
  • Q&A

12:30 p.m. | Lunch
TML Atrium

Optional Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Culture Tour
(Pre-resgistration is required)

2:00–3:20 p.m. | Concurrent Session 4

Panel A: American Jesuits and Periodicals
TML Auditorium
Chair: Cristiano Casalini

  • Jesuit Journalism: Insights from Jesuit Missions (1929–67)
    -Emanuele Colombo
  • Voices of Mission and Culture: Early 20th Century Evangelization of the Lakota Sioux as Portrayed in Jesuit Missions Magazine
    -Grace Gibbons
  • The Al Baghdadi: Chronicling Jesuit American-Iraqi Relations (1932–66)
    -Jessica K. Orrell, A. Taiga Guterres
  • Q&A

Panel B: Jesuit Journals, Social Justice, and Business Education in the 20th Century
TML 319
Chair: Andrew Barrette

  • The Role of the Journal of Jesuit Business Education in Promoting the Distinctiveness of Business Education in the Jesuit Tradition
    -Nicholas Santos, S.J.
  • Between the Secular and Theological Hegel: Études, Gaston Fessard, and the Development of Hegelian Philosophy in Twentieth-Century France
    -Jacob Saliba
  • Q&A

3:50–4:30 p.m. | Plenary
Chair: Cristiano Casalini
TML Auditorium

From Print to Portal: Jesuit Journals in the Age of Digitization

  • Ten Years of Boston College Jesuitica on the Internet Archive
    -Andrew Weidner
  • The Jesuit Online Bibliography 2000–25. Focus on the Journals: An Appraisal and an Appeal
    -Bernard Deprez
  • Promoting and Implementing Jesuit Periodicals in the AI Age

    -Alessandr
    o Corsi, Christopher
    Sonn
  • Q&A

5:30 | Dinner Cruise
St. Ignatius Church 

 

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