Eugenio Menegon

Fall 2023 BU History Dept. Newsletter – Presence of the Past – on E. Menegon

Summer 2023 Activities: Presentations in Venice, Turin, Castorano, Rome, Frankfurt, Lisbon, Taipei, Naples, Boston

Spring 2023 BU History Dept. Newsletter – Presence of the Past – on E. Menegon

‘THE BRINK’, BU Research newsletter, February 2023: What’s behind Boom of Christianity in China?

“Empire of Paper. Missionaries, Diplomats, and Early Sinologists as Social Carriers of Translingual Practices and Worldviews,” part of the lecture series “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups,” Program “Worldmaking form a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China,” University of Göttingen, Germany, July 7, 2022.

Oxford University Seminar “Early Modern Italian World, 1400-1800”: The Story of a Vocabulary between Beijing and Rome, Exeter and St. Edmund Hall Colleges, 7 June 2022.

Presentation at conference on missionary musician at the Qing Court, Lazarist Teodorico Pedrini, Fermo, Marche, Italy, 4 June 2022.

Lecture at the University of Florence: Relations between China and Europe, 1550-1850, 26 May 2022.

World Religions in Global History at the University of Padua: Lecture on Global Microhistory and China, 16 May 2022.

Prof. Menegon presents at his Alma Mater, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, 16 May 2022.

Ireland & Menegon, “The Future of Chinese-Western Relations is in Its Past”: Presentation at University “L’Orientale” of Naples, Italy, 11 May 2022.

Prof. Menegon on “Carletti and Religion” at international conference “Carletti’s World and Early Modern Global Voyage”  Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy, 27-28 April, 2022.

On interpreting at the Qing Court, Menegon’s presentation at the international conference “Chinese Culture in Translation: Sinologists as Translators,” ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, 21-23 April, 2022.

Menegon chairs  session at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting in Dublin (Ireland) on “The image of Confucius in the writings of Catholic missionaries between the 17th and 18th Centuries,” 31 March 2022.

The BU China Historical Christian Database project (CHCD; Prof. Menegon is co-investigator) awarded $100,000 Digital Advancement Grant from NEH, August 17, 2021.

Prof. Menegon delivers Frankfurt Lecture on Local religion in China in “Keys to Understanding Early Modern Christianities” Series, April 20, 2021.

Prof. Menegon’s Lecture at Johns Hopkins University on Patronesses of the Jesuit mission in China (1630s-1760s), April 13, 2021.

Prof. Menegon wins 2022 Berenson Fellowship at Villa I Tatti in Florence, Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, March 2020.

The China Historical Christian Database Featured in BU Today, November 4, 2020.

Two History/IR Undergraduates  Receive UROP Humanities Scholars Awards for Summer 2020 under Prof. Menegon’s Supervision (CHCD).

Prof. Menegon Presents New Research and Publication in Virtual Workshop at Duke University, July 30, 2020.

‘Leisure’ and Court Culture: Prof. Menegon Publishes Edited Volume and Four New Essays, December 2019.

Prof. Menegon Meets Leaders of Chinese Catholic Bishop Conference at Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, December 6, 2019.

Public presentation at Brown University: “The Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations,” AnnMary Brown Memorial Hall, Brown University, November 13, 2019. [Brown University website here].

Boston University Travel Literature Workshop “Through Women’s Eyes: Travel and Gender,” Boston University, BU School of Theology Community Center (B23-24), 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Friday November 1, 2019, noon-6 pm. Program & Abstracts.

Prof. Menegon presenting at workshop “Entangled Knowledges: Education and Culture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” Florence (Italy), October 2-4, 2019.

Spring Lectures and Summer Plans from Prof. Menegon, June-July 2019.

Recent Publications on China and the West by Prof. Eugenio Menegon, June 2019.

An Alternative Thanksgiving: Maritime Asia Conference in Paris for Professor Menegon, November 21-24, 2018.

From Urban History to Digital Humanities: Fall Conferences for Professor Menegon, September-November 2018.

Prof. Menegon Interviewed on China Today in Magazine of the Institute of Humanities, University UNISINOS, São Leopoldo (Rio Grande do Sul), Brazil, September 2018.

Prof. Menegon Is Co-investigator in Digital Humanities Project at BU’s Hariri Institute, Summer 2018.

Prof. Menegon Leads Seminar at Institute for Qing History, Renmin University, Beijing, May 31, 2018. – 波士顿大学亚洲研究中心汉学家梅欧金来所演讲.

Prof. Menegon Is Summer Visiting Scholar in Three Chinese Universities, May 22-June 23, 2018.

Prof. Menegon Presents at Berkeley-Cambridge ‘Maritime Asia’ Workshop, May 14, 2018.

Prof. Menegon Presents at Columbia University’s “From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue” Symposium, May 4, 2018.

Prof. Menegon Presents at Colloquium, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, April 12, 2018.

NYT Interviews Prof. Menegon on History of Catholicism in China and Recent Sino-Vatican Negotiations, February 15, 2018.

Mindong Diocese goes beyond Beijing and the Vatican, February 7, 2018.

Prof. Menegon Co-edits Journal Issue on Maritime China and Publishes Article on Sino-Western Relations, January 2018.

Maritime Asia Seminar Visits “Trading in Canton” Exhibit at Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, October 24, 2017.

Global Oceans: Prof. Menegon Attends Conference and Researches Manuscript in Lisbon – October 9-11, 2017.

Tracing Family History: Eugenio Menegon in Druento (Piedmont, Italy) – August 3, 2017.

Daily Free Press Covers History Event on Chinese-British Relations – April 7, 2017.

China and the World: Recent Talks and Publications by Professor Menegon – April 4, 2017.

Professor Menegon Organizes Panel on Jesuits in China at Boston College – November 29, 2016.

‘Making of Modern China’ Seminar Visits Chinese House in Salem – October 13, 2016.

Intercultural Clothing: Prof. Menegon Delivers ‘Ricci Lecture’ at Saint Louis University – October 3, 2016.

Professor Menegon Co-organizes Summer Program in Shanghai, China, August 14-22, 2016.