Symposium Panels - June 14
JUNE 14
9.00 – 10.30
PANEL A: Missionary Ideas and Strategies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara
Panel Chair: Emanuele Colombo
Sophie Conte - “Parati ad omnes missiones”: the mission at the heart of Jesuit sacred rhetoric in the 17th century
Aaron Pidel, S.J. - Reenchanting Hierarchy: Peter Faber’s Missionary Strategy
Irene Gaddo - The Jesuit sense of mission through the Italian indipetae under Mercurian’s generalate (1573–80)
PANEL B: Education, Scholarship, and Intercultural Exchange in Latin America between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Broteria, Casa de Escritores
Panel Chair: Taiga Guterres
Barbara Ganson - Legacies of Jesuit Education in the Guaraní Missions of Paraguay: Guaraní Schoolwork from the 1790s
Kristin Huffine - “The Art of Discernment in Colonial Río de la Plata: Guaraní-Christian Subject Formation as Jesuit Mission Project, Paraguay 1609-1768”
Juan Dejo, S.J. - From Idolaters to Virtuous: the Jesuit Pastoral Strategy in the Evangelization of Peru in Light of the Spiritual Exercises’ Annotation 22
PANEL C: Jesuit Missions from Maryland to Idaho
Broteria, Aula de Esfera
Panel Chair: Claudio Ferlan
Catherine O’Donnell - Rethinking the Early Maryland Mission, 1634-1689
Eva Fontana Castelli - Jesuits at the Frontiers.The Rocky Mountains Mission in Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu
Ryan Booth - The Heart of It All: The Jesuit Mission School at Coeur d'Alene, 1878-1974
10.50 – 12.30
PANEL A: Discourses on Mission: Theological Dilemmas on the Ground
Igreja de Sao Pedro de Alcantara
Panel Chair: Sergio Gadea, S.J.
Andreas Motsch - The Jesuit mission in New France between "prisca theologia" and "interfaith dialogue": Carl Starkloff's discovery of Joseph-François Lafitau's missiology
Andrew Barrette - Calling upon the Angels of a Place: The Renewed Appreciation of Place in 20th Century Missiology
Jorge Enrique Salcedo Martinez, S.J. - The promulgation of the social thought of the Church by the Jesuits between 1891-1965 in Latin America
Carlos Alvarez, S.J. - Michel de Certeau and his travels to Latin America: the reconfiguration of the notion of mission
PANEL B: Maps and Politics: Jesuit Missionaries in Latin America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Broteria, Casa de Escritores
Panel Chair: David Salomoni
Andres Prieto - War, Politics, and Jesuit Missions: Luis de Valdivia (S.J.) and the Opening Up of Missionary Fields in Seventeenth-Century Chile
Roberto Chauca - How to Map a Jesuit Mission: A Cartographic View from Early Modern Western Amazonia
Shawn Austin - “Making Soldiers out of Warriors: Jesuits and the Guaraní Mission Militias, 1610 to 1641”
Antonio Julio Trigueros - Portuguese missionaries during the suppression of the Society of Jesus
PANEL C: Mission and Sciences in North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Broteria, Aula de Esfera
Panel Chair: Francisco Malta Romeiras
Helen Kilburn - Counter-Reformation Colonialism: The Knatchbull Catechism in Seventeenth-Century Maryland
John D. Cunningham, S.J. - Joseph-Pierre de Bonnecamps: The Complicated 18th Life of a Jesuit scientist in North America
Fannie Dionne - “Il a corrigé bien des fois mot par mot tous mes papyers”: Indigenous people as co-authors of Jesuit dictionaries in North American Indigenous languages
Manfred Kraus - Joseph de Jouvancy, Historian of the Society of Jesus, on the Jesuit Mission to French Canada
12.30
Lunch at Brotéria
14.30 – 16.00
PANEL A: Rhetoric Overseas: Models and Images for the Missions
Broteria, Casa de Escritores
Panel Chair: Alessandro Corsi
Aiko Okamoto-MacPhail - Missio inter missiones: Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, S. J. and His Japan
Joachim Steffen - Popularizing knowledge through bilingual dialogue. José F. Sánchez Labrador's "El Paraguay Cultivado"
Domingo Ledezma - “Quid est res?:” Narrating the Jesuit missions in the Northern Frontier of New Spain: The construction of a Jesuit missionary discourse in Perez de Ribas’ History of the Triumphs of Our Holy Faith (Madrid 1645)
PANEL B: Carrying Meaning through Borders: Jesuit Missionaries and Translations
Broteria, Aula de Esfera
Panel Chair: Andrew Barrette
Katie Ward - From Holy Rosary Mission to Mahpíya Lúta: The Evolution of Lakota Jesuit Mission
Kim Dang Bao - Questioning the Jesuit strategies of the creation of Chữ Quốc Ngữ- the Vietnamese romanized script (1620-1659)”
Lucía Diaz Marroquín - Audio-visual inculturation in China and beyond. Purpose and mixed fortunes.
16.30 -18.00 (Keynote)
Extraction Room at Misericordia
Chair and Final Remarks: Casey Beaumier, S.J.
Malick W. Ghachem - The Conversion of the Jesuits: Slavery, Totalitarianism, and the Catholic Church in Haiti
19.00
Reception and Closing Dinner at Alentejo