Symposium Panels - June 11

8:00 a.m. | Breakfast
TML Atrium

9:10–10:50 a.m. | Plenary
TML Auditorium
Chair: Claudio Ferlan

Jesuit Graphic Novels and Comics

  • Il Vangelo: The Jesuits of San Fedele and the Graphic Gospel as a Contemporary Jesuit Journal
    -David Salomoni
  • Saints, Sinners, and Storyboards: Jesuit Missionaries in Modern European Comics as Late Echoes of Jesuit Periodicals
    -Elisa Frei
  • Celestino Testore’s Adventure Narratives in the Jesuit Missionary Magazine Missioni della Compagnia di GesĂą (1919–43)
    -Laura Madella
  • Vita (vera) Magistra Historiae: Teaching History Through a Jesuit Student Magazine in 20th-Century Italy
    -Silvia Notarfonso
  • Q&A

11:10 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Plenary

From Print to Portal: Jesuit Journals in the Age of Digitization
TML Auditorium
Chair: Cristiano Casalini

  • 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
    -Alessandro Corsi, Christopher Sonn
  • Q&A

12:30 p.m.| Lunch
TML Atrium

12:40 p.m., 1:10 p.m., & 1:40 | Tour
Burns Library Jesuit Rare Book and Manuscripts Display

Pre-resgistration is required and available in conference app.

2:30 p.m.–3:50 p.m. Concurrent Session 5

Panel A: Overview of Burns Library Jesuit Collections and Research
Burns Library
Note: This session will conclude at 3:30 p.m

Overview of Burns Library Jesuit Collections and Research
-Christian Dupont, Megan R. Constantinou

Panel B: Jesuit Journals and Public Debate in Latin America: Education, Conflict, and Dictatorship (1950s–80s)
TML Auditorium
Chair: Alessandro Corsi

  • PropMensaje and the Educational Controversies in Chile (c.1951–71).
    -Pablo Toro-Blanco
  • No Podemos Callar: Confession and Public Sphere During the Dictatorship in Chile, 1975–81
    -Marcos Fernándex Labbé
  • CHRISTUS: A Historical Archive for Hope
    -Cristina Paloma Robles Muro
  • Q&A

Panel C: Jesuit Journals and Confessional Encounters: Protestantism, Asceticism, and Sanctity (1871–1941)
TML 319
Chair: Emanuele Colombo

  • Jesuit Perceptions of Protestantism in Stimmen aus Maria Laach / Stimmen der Zeit: 1871 to 1941
    -Hilmar Pabel
  • Competitive Dynamic: On the Foundation of Zeitschrift fĂĽr Aszese und Mystik
    -Jörg Nies, S.J.
  • John Ogilvie and Jesuit Documents in Four Centuries
    -Daniel MacLeod
  • Q&A

4:05 p.m.–5:45 p.m.| Plenary
Chair: Emanuele Colombo
TML Auditorium

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 LedĂłchowski Generalate: An Analysis of “Nuntii de Missionibus” and “Jesuit Missions”
    -Raffaella Perin
  • Jesuits Missionary Periodicals in Zambia and Zimbabwe During the Decolonization Period
    -Silvia Eleonora Brera
  • Q&A

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

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