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 Koz艂owiecki SJ Preserved in the Jesuit Roman Archives as Source for the Last Century鈥檚 African Missionary History

Szabolcs J. Sajg贸, 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 M臋ci艅ski 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 鈥濼res Heroes ad stemma Crucis admissi seu Nobilitas Martyrum Japonensium S.J.鈥 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 S谩ez-Hidalgo and Victor Houliston - Robert Persons and 鈥淚nglish affayres in Spayne鈥

12.30

Lunch at Brot茅ria

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)

Zs贸fia K谩d谩r - Inner mission: Mission landscape of the Provincia Austriae around 1650

Katar铆na Karabov谩 - "Gaudium inter luctus". Universities 鈥 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 Journ茅e du chr茅tien". Tommaso Stanislao Velasti鈥檚 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

No毛l 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听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

Agn臈 Zemkajut臈听- The First Jesuit Books in Lithuanian Language and their Influence for Catholic Church in Lithuania

Monika Miazek-M臋czy艅ska - If not to China, where to? Preferable areas of missionary activity of Polish jesuits according to their Litterae Indipetae (ARSI, Pol. 79)

Liudas Jovai拧a - 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

Jo茫o 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 Jos茅 Monteiro and the surviving documents in Chinese and other European languages

Lu铆s 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

D茅lio Mendon莽a, S.J. - Provincializing Jesuit Mission and Governance in India

Miguel Rodrigues Louren莽o - The place of the Inquisition in missionary context: Jesuit attitudes towards the cooperation with the Holy Office in Asia (16th-17th century)

Natalia Kr贸likowska-Jedli艅ska - Why did Thomas M艂odzianowski leave the Jesuit Persian mission in 1657?

Rinald D鈥橲ouza, 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 鈥淚ndie Romane鈥

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