Symposium Panels - June 9

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

9:00–9:20 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

9:30–10:45 a.m. | Plenary
Chair: Emanuele Colombo
TML Auditorium

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

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Concurrent Session 1

Panel A:  The Editor’s Eye: Themes and Authors in Jesuit Journals (20th Century)
Chair: Claude Pavur, S.J.
TML Auditorium

  • The Origin and Winding History of Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits
    -Barton Geger
  • Disparate Interpretations of the Ratio Studiorum in Jesuit Educational Quarterly, 1938–70
    -Matthew McGrory
  • Countess: Barbara Neave (1849–1931), the Jesuits, and Their Journals
    -Cristiano Casalini
  • 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

2:00–3:30 p.m. | Concurrent Session 2

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

  • Jesuit Political Engagement in Print: The Case of dzé
    - Manuel Cardoso, S.J.
  • dzé Ecosystem: From a Journal to a Community
    -Maria Leonor Carrilho
  • Darwin and Evolution in the Jesuit Journal dzé, 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”: Jesuit Spirituality of Consultation 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

3:45–5:30 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'Keeffe
  • Q&A

6:00 p.m. | Dinner
TML Outdoor Patio

Talk with the Editor, Camilla Russel Presents:
"The Second World War through Jesuit Archives: The Case of Europe (1939–1945)"
Edited by: Damien Burke, Rebecca Somerset, and Christian Taoutel (2026)

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