Symposium Panels - June 9

8:00 a.m. | Breakfast 
Theology & Ministry Library (TML) Atrium

8:45–9:15 a.m | Welcome & Introductory Remarks
TML Auditorium

  • Fr. Casey Beaumier, S.J., Haub Vice President for University Mission & Ministry
  • Cristiano Casalini, Academic director of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Professor and Endowed Chair in Jesuit Pedagogy and Educational History

9:15–11:00 a.m. | Plenary
TML Auditorium
Chair: Emanuele Colombo

La Civiltà Cattolica and the Shaping of Modern Catholic Culture

  • Missions and Missiology in La Civiltà Cattolica (1925–58)
    -Raffaella Perin
  • The Founding of La Civiltà Cattolica: The Jesuits and 19th-Century Politics
    -William McCormick, S.J.
  • Family and Education Through the Pages of La Civiltà Cattolica (1945–62)
    -Lucia Vigutto
  • Q&A

11:10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Concurrent Session 1

Panel A:  Jesuit Narratives of Education, Mission, and Sanctity through Litterae Annuae and Instrutiones
Chair: Alessandro Corsi
TML Auditorium

  • Representation of School Life in the Litterae Annuae: The Jesuit Colleges in Portugal
    -Joana Veiga
  • Narrating Malta on the Mediterranean Frontier: The Litterae Annuae of the Sicilian Province as Instruments of Jesuit Institutional Self-Representation (17th–18th Centuries)
    - Nicholas Doublet, Rev.
  • Jesuit Hagiography in the Age of the Enlightenment: Paolo Vanni and the “New” Menologies of the Society of Jesus
    - Francesco Failla
  • Q&A

Panel B: Jesuit Print Culture and Knowledge Networks in China
Chair: Elisa Frei
TML 319

  • Ink and Empire: Jesuit Journals and Knowledge Networks in Ming–Qing China
    -Linda Chu
  • Jesuit Translation and Periodical Press in Modern China: A Case Study of Yiwenlu and Shengxinbao
    - Xiaojing Zeng
  • Making Christ’s Baturu (Warrior): Manchu Prince Sunu’s Ten Catholic Sons and Their Tragedy in the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses
    -Siying Li
  • Q&A

12:30 | Lunch

TML Atrium

2:00–3:20 p.m. | Concurrent Session 2

Panel A: Print, Science, and the Making of Public Engagement in Brotéria
Chair: Alessandro Corsi
TML Auditorium

  • Jesuit Political Engagement in Print: The Case of Brotéria
    - Manuel Cardoso, S.J.
  • Brotéria Ecosystem: From a Journal to a Community
    -Maria Leonor Carrilho
  • Darwin and Evolution in the Jesuit Journal Brotéria, 1909–59
    -Francisco Malta Romeiras
  • Q&A

Panel B: Jesuit Discernment in Modernity: Ethics, Theology, and Intellectual Circulation
Chair: Andrew Barrette
TML 319

  • “Christian Discernment of the Nuclear Issue:” Ethical and Spiritual Dimensions of Confidentiality in the Livermore Dialogues on Nuclear Ethics, 1984-92
    -Pierre Vu Thompson, S.J.
  • Conception of Anonymous Christians by Rahner and Its Origins in Jesuits Spirituality
    -Ludmila Kryshtop
  • The Mobility of Jesuit Thinking: Journals as Agents and Agencies
    -Steven Mailloux
  • Q&A

3:30–5:30 p.m. | Plenary
Chair: Cristiano Casalini
TML Auditorium

Jesuit Journals as Sites of Cultural and Intellectual Mediation

The Pope, the "Black Pope," and the Jesuit Press
-Timothy O'Brien, S.J.

Jesuit Journals and Intersecting Histories: Treatments of Past and Present in Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu
-Camilla Russell, Brent Gordon, S.J.

From a Silent Guest to a Relevant One. Cinema in the Italian Jesuits’ Journals and the Case of "Letture"
-Steven Stergar

Influencing the Influential: Irish Jesuit Periodicals
-Declan O'Keefe

Q&A

6:00 p.m. | Dinner

TML Outdoor Patio

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