PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS (since 2010)
Zoom online presentation of: Ad Dudink, comp., Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the “Propaganda Fide” Historical Archives (1622-1830). With an Introductory Essay by Eugenio Menegon, edited by Emanuele Raini and Giuseppe Zhao Hongtao, Rome: Urbaniana University Press (Pontificia Università Urbaniana), 2022. ‘China Historical Christian Database’ Speaker Series, Boston University, March 28, 2023.
Discussant, panel “Engaging with the Other: Catholic Missions and Epistemic Encounters in Early Modern Asian Cities,” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Mass. USA, March 17, 2023.
Presentation of China Historical Christian Database CHCD, Harvard DH Conference “Tools of the Trade: The Way Forward” (International conference on the transition from print to digital tools, databases, and platforms in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and Buddhist studies), Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA, March 14-16, 2023.
Zoom Mini-Workshop “The China Historical Christian Database,” with Daryl Ireland and Zhang Yiyi, in “A Digital Humanities Approach to Asian Catholic Culture” Workshop, International Christian University 国際基督教大学, Tokyo, Japan, February 15, 2023.
“ ‘Canons and Artillerie’: The Ming-Qing War Seen through Schall’s Essentials of Gunnery (火攻挈要 Huogong qieyao , 1643/1847) and Martini’s Tartar War (Bellum Tartaricum, London 1654).” Zoom presentation, “Bringing Together China and the West: A Symposium to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong,” The Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 10, 2023.
“ ‘A Moribund Waiting for a Medicine from Rome.’ Documents in the Historical Archives of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples as a Reflection of Propaganda’s Missionary Organization in China from 1622 to 1830,” (Zoom presentation), International Symposium “The Doors that Propaganda Fide has Opened since 1622,” Centre for Catholic Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, & Macau Ricci Institute, August 24, 2022.
“Empire of Paper. Missionaries, Diplomats, and Early Sinologists as Social Carriers of Translingual Practices and Worldviews,” 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.
“The Story of a Vocabulary between Beijing and Rome, 1760s-1820s,” Oxford University Seminar “Early Modern Italian World, 1400-1800,” Exeter and St. Edmund Hall Colleges, University of Oxford, UK, June 7, 2022.
“Pedrini and the Other Missionaries,” Conference “Teodorico Pedrini (1671-1746), missione e musica nella Cina del Settecento,” Centro Studi Teodorico Pedrini & Città di Fermo, Fermo, Marche (Italy), June 4, 2022.
“Historia dos Principes Christãos”: The Converted Manchu Princes of the Sunu Clan and the Portuguese and Latin Record of their Lives during the Yongzheng Reign (1723-1735),” International conference “Res Sinicae. ‘Cousas da China’. 16th to 18th century,” Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, and Brotéria Cultural Center, Lisbon (Portugal), May 19-21, 2022.
“Carletti and Religion: Christianity and Asian Traditions in the Ragionamenti,” in Conference “Carletti’s World: An Early Modern Global Voyage,” (in person), Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa “I Tatti,” Florence (Italy), in collaboration with European University Institute (Italy), Stanford University, Syracuse University, USA) and Warwick University (UK), April 27-28, 2022.
“On Interpreting at the Qing Court,” International Conference “Chinese Culture in Translation: Sinologists as Translators,” Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), April 21-23, 2022.
“Carletti and Religion,” in preparatory Zoom workshop “Francesco Carletti’s My Voyage around the World (1594-1606),” (Zoom presentation), Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa “I Tatti,” Florence (Italy), in collaboration with European University Institute (Italy), Stanford University, Syracuse University, USA) and Warwick University (UK), May 14, 2021.
“Toleration in Chinese History,” in workshop “Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices and Documents.” (Zoom presentation). ResetDOC (Reset Dialogues on Civilizations) in collaboration with the Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion (CDTR) at the University of California, Berkeley, January 18-22, 2021.
“Invisible City: Europeans and their Networks in Late Imperial Beijing,” online presentation, Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon (Portugal) & Shanghai University, Shanghai (China), December 19, 2020.
“The Invisible City: A Global Microhistory of Europeans and their Social Networks in Eighteenth Century Beijing,” online presentation, China Centre, University of Oxford, October 29, 2020.
WEBINAR: Mission Records as Method: Towards a Microhistory of Global China. A Virtual Workshop with Dr. Eugenio Menegon, July 30, 2020, hosted by the Humanities Unbounded MicroWorlds Lab at Duke University. Click here for VIDEO.Click here for PowerPoint.
“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, Providence, November 13, 2019. [Brown University website here]; & Boston University Travel Literature Workshop “Through Women’s Eyes: Travel and Gender,” Boston, November 1, 2019. Program & Abstracts.
“Tra Locale e Globale.” Virtual presentation of volume Il mondo di Sigismondo: Un druentino nella Cina del XVIII secolo. Lettere dell’agostiniano scalzo Padre Sigismondo Meinardi da San Nicola, Centro Culturale San Sebastiano, Druento (Torino, Italy), April 11, 2019. Click here for VIDEO PRESENTATION.
“The China Christian Database: A Digital Tool for the Cartography and Prosopography of Christianity in China,” presentation with Daryl Ireland and Alex Mayfield at “Book Launch for Atlas on Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts (by Fenggang Yang, Brill, 2018) and Roundtable Discussion on Mapping Chinese Religions,” Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, November 9, 2018.
“Whose Empire Were They Serving? The Political and Diplomatic Role of European Missionaries at the Qing Court in the Eighteenth Century.” Workshop “Early Modern China in the Late Imperial World,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, October 15-16, 2015.
“Europeans, Western Commodities, and the Politics of Gift-Giving in Qing Beijing.” Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, March 22, 2013. Panel on “Luxury Commodities and Imperial Politics in the High Qing Era (1660-1795).”
“Qing Court Culture through European Eyes: Kangxi’s Imperial Hunts and the Jesuits as Courtiers.” Paper presented at the Modern China Seminar, Weatherhead East Asian Studies Institute, Columbia University, New York, March 10, 2011.
“Underground Christians in Late Imperial China: Qing State Control, Foreign Presence, and Native Agency, 1724-1840.” Paper presented at the 125th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 9, 2011. Panel “Christianity under Asian and African Dominance in the Early Modern Period.”
“Amicitia Palatina: Portuguese Jesuits, Manchu aristocrats, and the politics of gift-giving at the Kangxi court.” Paper presented at the BU-Heidelberg Workshop “Leisure and the State in Eurasia,” Boston University, November 5-6, 2010.
“Courtiers and Careers: Jesuits, papal envoys, and Qing imperial officials in eighteenth century Beijing.” Paper presented at the International Symposium “Intercultural Encounters Europe-China, Sixteenth- Eighteenth Centuries,” Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal October 11-13, 2010.
“I cibi dall’oriente ai tempi di Giorgione: le strategie e le alleanze della Serenissima” (Food from the East at the time of Giorgione: the strategies and alliances of the Republic of Venice). Paper presented at the International Conference “Cibo, cucina e tavola nel Rinascimento italiano, con un omaggio a Giorgione” (Food, cuisine, and conviviality in the Italian Renaissance: Homage to Giorgione), University of Padua, Departments of Visual Arts and Music, and Program in Gastronomy, Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso), Italy, March 12-13, 2010.
“Memento Mori: Prepararsi alla morte in Cina ed in Europa, 1500-1700” (Memento Mori: Preparing for Death in China and Europe, 1500-1700). Paper presented at the International Conference “Scienza, ragione e fede: il genio di padre Matteo Ricci S.J.” (Science, reason and faith: the genius of Matteo Ricci S.J.) Macerata (Italy), March 4-6, 2010.