Lecture on Patronesses of Early Modern Missions in China
On Tuesday, April 13, Dr. Eugenio Menegon, one of the CGCM faculty affiliates, will deliver a lecture in the East Asian Studies Speaker Series at Johns Hopkins University. His talk is titled “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Patronesses of the Catholic Mission in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations,” and it is sponsored […]
Eugenio Menegon to Deliver Lecture in “Keys to Understanding Early Modern Christianities” Series
On April 20 at 10am (Central European Time), CGCM faculty associate Dr. Eugenio Menegon will deliver one of the Frankfurt Lectures on “Keys to Understanding Early Modern Christianities.” His topic, local religion in late imperial China, is one of several interesting themes explored by the lecturers, such as polycentricity in global Catholicism, tolerance in the […]
Upcoming Lecture on “The China Bible House in the Second Sino-Japanese War”
The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences is hosting a seminar with Dr. George Mak entitled “Spreading the Word of God in Wartime China: The China Bible House in the Second Sino-Japanese War.” The event will take place on April 13, 2021, 12:00nn – 1:00 pm (HK Time). Registration is required by […]
New Film on Jesuit Mission in New France and East Asia
The Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco has recently released a documentary film on Jesuit mission work, comparing and contrasting work done in New France with their work in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. The film is freely available to watch at jesuits.org.
CGCM Associate Director to Speak at China Christianity Studies Group
The 2021 annual meeting of the China Christianity Studies Group will be held virtually on Friday, March 26 – 7:30-9:15PM Eastern Time (US), in parallel with the Association for Asian Studies’ 2021 virtual conference. Dr. Daryl Ireland, CGCM Associate Director, and Dr. Eugenio Menegon, CGCM faculty associate, are among the speakers at this meeting. The meeting is free […]
China Historical Christian Database Receives Generous Challenge Grant
China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) The Center for Global Christianity and Mission has launched a project that is using the power of computing to record where every Christian church, school, hospital, publishing house, and the like, were located in China between 1550 and 1950. The database also documents who worked inside those buildings, both foreign […]
Seminar: “Jesuits, Women and the Domestic Christianity in Early Modern China”
The University of Oxford China Centre is hosting a seminar on Thursday, February 18, at 5pm. Dr. Nadine Amsler, a Fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, will give a presentation entitled “Jesuits, Women and the Domestic Christianity in Early Modern China.” This talk will discuss the connections between Jesuits, women and domestic worship in seventeenth-century China. […]
Symposium on Sino-Christian Architecture
On April 19-21, 2021, the history department at Whitworth University (Washington, USA) will host a symposium on Sino-Christian Architecture. The events are open to the public, and the Zoom link can be found in the event flier. The schedule will be as follows: Monday, 19 April (USA, Pacific Time) Introduction: 8:00-8:05 am – Dr. Amanda […]
Michel Chambon (’19) Appointed Research Fellow at National University of Singapore
Dr. Michel Chambon, who earned his PhD in anthropology from BU in 2019, has recently been appointed a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. As part of his work on “Religion and Globalisation,” his research will focus on Chinese Christians and Asian Catholics. Chambon is the author of […]
Call for Papers: Conference on Chinese Theologies
The second of three conferences on Chinese Theologies will be held at Yale Divinity School (New Haven, Connecticut) on June 2-4 2021. Scholars are invited to submit abstracts for papers discussing any aspect of theological thought/ individual theologians from a range of non-mainstream churches (i.e. independent Chinese churches or house churches of all denominations, pre- […]