Jesuit Liberal Education and the Engaging of Cultures

The President's Office and Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture present the Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures, a year-long series of presentations and discussions. Each event will focus on a historic moment and its connection to broader Jesuit educational traditions. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aim to further explore the principles of today's Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

Educational systems, now, as in previous times, seek their places in changing societies even as they strive to articulate lasting values. Each presentation will focus on specific challenges confronting the Jesuits and on their adaptation and/or resistance, especially as articulated in educational reforms. These historic encounters and successive reshaping of Jesuit educational systems may shed light on our current efforts to address issues fundamental to contemporary learning.

All talks are open to the public and will take place at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library.

Thursday, September 30 Ignatius of Loyola: The Man and His Time Presenter: Rev. John O'Malley, S.J., Distinguished Professor of Church History, Weston Jesuit School of Theology Respondents: Francisco Gago-Jover (Modern Languages: Spanish) and Susan Amatangelo (Modern Languages: Italian) Moderator: Mary Lee Ledbetter (Biology)

Thursday, October 21 Jesuits in Asia Presenter: Rev. Nicolas Standaert, S.J., Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leuven, Belgium Respondents: Leila Philip (English) and Rev. Stephen Chow, S.J., Harvard University Moderator: Thomas Gottschang (Economics)

Wednesday, December 1 European Origins of Jesuit Education Presenters: Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., (History) and Rev. William Stempsey, S.J., (Philosophy) Respondents: Donald Brand (Political Science) and Nancy Andrews (Classics) Moderator: James Kee (English)

Thursday, February 17 Jesuits in the New World - North and South America Presenters: Gauvin Bailey, Associate Professor of Art History, Clark University; and Rev. Jacques Monet, S.J., Director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies Respondents: Maria Rodrigues (Political Science) and Ambroise Kom (Modern Languages: French) Moderator: Vickie Langhor (Political Science)

Wednesday, March 16 Jesuit Education in the United States: Holy Cross through the 1940s Presenter: Kathleen Mahoney, President, Humanitas Foundation Respondents: Rev. Anthony Kuzniewski, S.J., (History) and Joanne Pierce (Religious Studies) Moderator: Theresa McBride (History)

Thursday, April 14 Moral Reflection in Jesuit Education and Scholarship Presenter: Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., President Respondents: Suzanne Kirschner (Psychology) and Sahar Bazzaz (History) Moderator: Thomas Lawler, (English, emeritus)

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Holy Cross Presidential Colloquia to Examine Jesuits in the New World

Gauvin Bailey, professor of art history at Clark University, and Jacques Monet, S.J., director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies, will give a lecture titled "Jesuits in the New World - North and South America" on Feb. 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. Maria Rodrigues, of the political science department, and Ambroise Kim, Eleanor Howard O’Leary Chair in Francophone Studies, will serve as respondents. Vickie Langohr, of the political science department, will be the moderator. For additional information on the talk, which is free and open to the public, please contact Pat Hinchliffe at 508-793-3869.

Professor Bailey specializes in Jesuit art patronage and in the interaction of cultures that took place after Columbus’ and Vasco da Gama’s "discovery" of America and Asia (1492; 1498). Dr. Bailey’s book, Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America (1999) won the Bainton Prize in Art History in 2000. His 2003 book, Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610, was the result of a 2000-01 Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, Italy. His most recent book, The Art of Colonial Latin America (Art and Ideas) was released Feb. 1.

Monet, S.J. is a prominent historian who specializes in Canadian and Canadian church history. A former president of Regis College at the University of Toronto, he has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. He has been director of the Canadian Institute of Jesuit Studies since 1988.

This presentation is part four of the "Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures," a year-long series of presentations and discussions sponsored by the President’s Office and Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. Each event will focus on a particular moment in Jesuit history and its connection to Jesuit educational aims today. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aim to further explore the principles of today’s Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

# Second Presentation in Presidential Colloquia to Explore "Jesuits in Asia" Rev. Nicolas Standaert, S.J., of Belgium, to Give Keynote Address Rev. Nicolas Standaert, S.J., Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Leuven in Belgium, will give a lecture, titled "Jesuits in Asia," on Thursday, October 21 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library. Leila Philip, Holy Cross English professor, and Rev. Stephen Chow, S.J., of Harvard University, will serve as respondents. Thomas Gottschang, Holy Cross economics professor, will be the moderator. For additional information on the talk, which is free and open to the public, please contact Pat Hinchliffe at 508-793-3869.

Fr. Standaert is a well-known scholar on 17th-century cultural and intellectual exchange between China and the Western World. He is the author of several books that explore Christianity in China, including the Bibliography of the Jesuit Mission in China (1991), as well as more than 60 articles in national and international journals. Most recently, he edited the Handbook of Christianity in China: Volume One 635 – 1800, in 2001.

Fr. Standaert's presentation is part two of the "Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures," a year-long series of presentations and discussions. Each event will focus on a particular moment in Jesuit history and its connection to Jesuit educational aims today. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aim to further explore the principles of today's Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

# Presidential Colloquia to Examine European Origins of Jesuit Education Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., of the history department, and Rev. William Stempsey, S.J., of the philosophy department, will give a lecture, titled "European Origins of Jesuit Education," on Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross.  Donald Brand, of the political science department, and Nancy Andrews, of the classics department, will serve as respondents.  James Kee, of the English department will be the moderator. For additional information on the talk, which is free and open to the public, please contact Pat Hinchliffe at 508-793-3869.

Fr. Worcester is a specialist in the religious and cultural history of early modern France and Italy.  He is the author of several journal articles and a book, Seventeenth-Century Cultural Discourse: France and the Preaching of Bishop Camus (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997). His current research on Jesuit history includes an article, "A Defensive Discourse:  Jesuits on Disease in Seventeenth-Century New France," forthcoming in French Colonial History (2005).  A member of the faculty since 1994, he recently accepted a contract from Cambridge University Press to edit The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits, a collection of essays scheduled for publication in 2007.  Fr. Worcester is one of four curators of Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500-1800, an exhibition opening in April 2005 at the Worcester Art Museum.  He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge.

Fr. Stempsey has published on the philosophy of medicine, medical education, health and disease, the relation of contemporary philosophy of science to bioethics, the ethics of end-of-life decisions, and the ethics of organ transplantation.  He is the author of Disease and Diagnosis: Value-Dependent Realism (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999) and editor of Elisha Bartlett’s Philosophy of Medicine (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, forthcoming).  Fr. Stempsey has organized faculty discussions on Jesuit education and a colloquium on the Ratio Studiorum (the Jesuit philosophy of education) in conjunction with the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related College.  In fall 2004, he edited the first issue of a new journal, Fundamental Questions: A Journal of the Liberal Arts, titled "Jesuit Education and the Ratio Studiorum." In addition to three master’s degrees and a doctor of medicine degree, Fr. Stempsey holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Georgetown University.

This presentation is part three of the "Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures," a year-long series of presentations and discussions sponsored by the President’s Office and Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture. Each event will focus on a particular moment in Jesuit history and its connection to Jesuit educational aims today. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aim to further explore the principles of today's Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions. # Presidential Colloquia Begin with Talk by Rev. John O'Malley, S.J.

Rev. John O'Malley, S.J., Distinguished Professor of Church History at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, will give a lecture on Thursday, Sept. 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the Rehm Library at the College of the Holy Cross. His talk, "Ignatius of Loyola: The Man and His Time," which is free and open to the public, will address the education of St. Ignatius and the influences that shaped his thinking on education as ministry.

Fr. O'Malley's talk is part of the "Presidential Colloquia: Jesuit Liberal Arts Education and the Engaging of Cultures," a year-long series of presentations and discussions. Each event will focus on a particular moment in Jesuit history and its connection to Jesuit educational aims today. In addition to facilitating an exchange of views, the colloquia also aim to further explore the principles of today's Holy Cross education within its Catholic and Jesuit traditions.

Holy Cross faculty members Francisco Gago-Jover, associate professor of Spanish, and Susan Amatangelo, associate professor of Italian, will serve as respondents. Mary Lee Ledbetter, professor of biology, will serve as the moderator.

Fr. O'Malley, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has published several works on topics including Jesuit history, Renaissance humanism, and the Second Vatican Council. His book The First Jesuits (1993), which has been translated into several languages, was awarded many prizes including the American Philosophical Society's Jacques Barzun Prize for Cultural History and the American Society of Church History's Philip Schaff Prize for Religious History.

Past president of the American Catholic Historical Association and of the Renaissance Society of America, he has taught at Boston College, the University of Michigan, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University and Oxford University. In 1999, Fr. O'Malley received an honorary Doctor of Ministry degree from Holy Cross at Commencement. In 2000, he was the featured speaker when Rev. Michael C. McFarland, S.J., was inaugurated as Holy Cross President.

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