News of the extended network of faculty, alumni, students, visiting researchers, and mission partners is regularly updated, and some of the big ideas or major events in Global Christianity are covered in the CGCM News.
Dr. Gina A. Zurlo Delivers Keynote at 2025 Christian Scholars’ Conference
The Center of Global Christianity and Mission is excited to celebrate Dr. Gina A. Zurlo, Visiting Lecturer on World Christianity at Harvard University, who served as the keynote speaker at the 2025 Thomas H. Olbricht Christian Scholars' Conference, held June 4–6 at Abilene Christian University.
Congratulations, Dr. Zurlo!
Photo: Gina Zurlo (left; BU STH Alum '19), Shawn Daggett (right; BU STH Alum '07)
Photo courtesy of Shawn Daggett
Seminar with Dr. Kate Tilson: “Assembling Missionary Knowledge – Evangelical Periodicals in Britain and the South Pacific, 1793–1820”
We’re pleased to invite you to the final seminar of a strong term of discussions. This coming Tuesday, 27 May 2025, we welcome Dr. Kate Tilson (University of Cambridge) to present:
Assembling Missionary Knowledge: The Making and Reading of Evangelical Periodicals in Britain and the South Pacific, 1793–1820
See flyer for more details.
Location: Faculty of Divinity, Room 7
Date: Tuesday, 27, May 2025
Time: 4:00 – 5:30pm BST
Please register your interest to attend online or in person by emailing centre@cccw.cam.ac.uk. This helps us plan for both room capacity and online hosting.
Join via Zoom
Meeting ID: 931 3650 8607
Passcode: 568920
CCCW Seminar with Prof. Uta Balbier: “Safari for Souls – Billy Graham, US Evangelicalism, and the Cold War in Africa (1960)”
You’re invited to a fascinating seminar: ‘Safari for Souls’ – Billy Graham, US Evangelicalism, and the Cold War in Africa (1960) with Prof. Uta Balbier (University of Oxford).
When: Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 3:30-5 pm BST.
For a Zoom link, please email centre@cccw.cam.ac.uk
Joint Seminar with University of Cambridge and CCCW
The Cambridge Center for Christianity Worldwide invites you to the in-person and online seminar: “World Christianity in Indo-Myanmar: Culture, Conflict and Christ” with Prof. Atola Longkumer.
Date: Tuesday, 11 March 2025, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST.
Place: Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity Cambridge
Book Symposium Invitation
The Saint Louis University Center for Research on Global Catholicism invites you to an insightful book symposium:
Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, The Vatican, and The Making of Postcolonial French Africa
Featuring Jean Luc Enyegue, SJ, Ph.D.
Don’t miss this engaging discussion! See the flyer for more details.
The Introduction and Adaptation of Western Food Culture in the Nineteenth Century China and Japan
The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History at Boston College presents a Research in-Progress Report:
The Introduction and Adaptation of Western Food Culture in the Nineteenth Century China and Japan
Prof. ZHU Feng 朱鳳, Ph.D. Professor, Kyoto Notre Dame University, Japan
Friday, March 14, 2025. 10:30 – 11:30, a.m. EST
Conference Room, BC Ricci Institute, 2125 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston.
When Contexts Change – Growing Into God’s Mission
The BU Center for Global Christianity and Mission, in collaboration with the Episcopal and Anglican House of Studies, invites you to attend "When Contexts Change - Growing into God’s Mission: From Rwanda to Massachusetts" with Rev. Canon Jean Baptiste Ntagengwa, ThD. Join us for an engaging discussion on how mission and ministry evolve across different cultural and geographical contexts.
Oh Ji-seok
Oh Ji-seok is the Institute of Korean Christianity and Culture's Vice Director and Associate Professor at Soongsil University. He served as the President of the Society of Korean Christian Social Ethics and the Education Director of the Society Of Korean-Chinese Philosophy. He is currently the Vice President of the Korea Society Of Hermeneutics. Dr. Oh conducts academic research on various social changes in Korean and East Asian societies during the transition to modernity and publishes the results based on ethics. His publications include Swallen: Missionary Who Loved Soongsil (Press of Soongsil, 2022) and Study on Taboo Words in the Transition to Modernity (Bogosa, 2024). He is focusing on spreading Korean Christian culture through numerous academic activities.
Jang Kyung-nam
Jang Kyung-nam is the director of the Institute of Korean Christianity and Culture and Professor of Korean Literature at Soongsil University. He served as the executive director of the Institute of Korean Literary History and vice president of the Studies of Korean Literature. He is currently the vice president of the Society Of The Korean Classical Novel. He has studied modern and contemporary literary works in Korea, and recently, he has been studying missionaries’ works related to Korean studies. He published Memories of War and Novel Reproduction (Bogosa, 2018), Korean translation by missionary Baird, and Aesop Fables (Bogosa, 2023). In addition, he is actively contributing to publicizing and expanding the value of Korean literature through active research activities.
CCCW Seminar Coming up Tuesday 11th February, 2025
Our Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide colleagues are hosting Prof. Heather J. Sharkey from the University of Pennsylvania for an insightful lecture on “When World Christianity Meets Global Microhistory: Two Lives between Egypt, India, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States.” You can join online or in-person at the Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge!