Holy Cross Presidential Colloquia to Examine Jesuits in the New World

WORCESTER, Mass. – 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 at the College of the Holy Cross. 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.