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PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS (since 2010)<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess. Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations,\u201d Confucius Institute, Leipzig (Germany), June 25, 2024; <\/strong>and\u00a0Conference \u201cThe Translation of Gender Roles in Early Modern Christian Missionary Context,\u201d Research Group \u201cEarly Modern Translation Cultures (1450\u20131800),\u201d<\/strong> Bielefeld University, June 21-22, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Invited Lectures (four) on recent research, Department of Humanistic Studies (Chinese Program) and Confucius Institute, University of Macerata, Italy, June 5-13, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAn Introduction to the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (Central General Archives in Rome),\u201d in Third Summer School \u201cThe Archives of the Religious Orders: New Perspectives for a Global Catholicism,\u201d Istituto Sangalli per la Storia e le Culture Religiose (Firenze), Convent of San Carlo ai Catinari, Rome, June 3, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cChinese Assistants in the Old China Mission: The Roles of the Xianggong (\u76f8\u516c Catechist-Secretaries) in Primary Sources and Recent Scholarship,\u201d Workshop BU-Ca\u2019 Foscari \u201cChristian Missions in China: the Role of Chinese Assistants and Converts,\u201d \u00a0Department of Asian, African and Mediterranean Studies, Ca\u2019 Foscari University, Venice (Italy), May 30, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhose Empire Were the Missionaries Serving? The Last Portuguese Embassy at the Qing Court (1753),\u201d Conference \u201cGods, Guns, and Gardens:\u00a0 China and The West, from the Manchu Conquest to the Opium Wars,\u201d Huntington Library, San Marino, California, April 12-13, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCenter and Periphery: Propaganda Fide\u2019s Accounting Practices in the Eighteenth-Century China Mission,\u201d Conference \u201cAccounting Practices and Religious Orders in Missionary Territories,\u201d Istituto Svizzero & Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Universit\u00e0 Roma Tre,<\/strong> Rome,<\/strong> January<\/strong> 24-25, 2024; <\/strong>and Workshop BU-CCCM \u201cManaging the Missions in East Asia,\u201d Centro Cient\u00edfico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon (Portugal), 23 May 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cConnecting the Dots. The Pearl River Delta and the Court Missionaries in Ming-Qing Beijing,\u201d Conference \u201cLingnan Region and Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges before and during the Early Republic \u5cad\u5357\u4e0e\u6c11\u521d\u524d\u7684\u4e2d\u897f\u6587\u5316\u4ea4\u6d41,\u201d Study Center on Canton and Foreign Cultural Relations and Philosophy Department, Sun Yat-sen (Zhongshan) University <\/strong>\u4e2d\u5c71\u5927\u5b66<\/strong>, <\/strong>Guangzhou (Canton), China, November 18-19, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMissionary Canon Law: The Propaganda Fide Congregation and the Challenge of Daily Life Moral Cases in China, 17th<\/sup>-20th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries,\u201d Online Series\u00a0Rites Controversy: An Entangled History of Normativity Between the East and the West<\/em> co-hosted by Max Planck Partner Groups in Beijing and Trento and Historical Regimes of Normativity<\/em>\u00a0at MPI, Institute for Legal History, Law School<\/strong>, <\/strong>China University of Political Science and Law<\/strong>\u4e2d\u56fd\u653f\u6cd5\u5927\u5b66Beijing<\/strong> & <\/strong>Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory<\/strong>, <\/strong>Frankfurt am Main<\/strong>, September 27, 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cCenter and Periphery: Propaganda Fide\u2019s Accounting Practices in the Eighteenth-Century China Mission,\u201d Workshop BU-CCCM \u201cManaging the Missions in East Asia,\u201d Centro Cient\u00edfico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon (Portugal), 23 May 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal Microhistory in European-Asian Relations,\u201d Summer School, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, Boston College, August 22, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe attitude of the Qing government to Christianity,\u201d in conference \u201cThe Lone Guardian: Politics, Culture and Society in China under the Yongzheng Emperor (1723-1735),\u201d University \u201cL\u2019Orientale,\u201d Naples (Italy),<\/strong>\u00a0July 7, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEmpire of Paper. The Astonishing Story of an 18th-Century Manuscript Vocabulary of the Chinese Language,\u201d Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan), June 21, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEuropean Networks at the Qing Court, 1601-1838\u201d and \u201cThe Propaganda Fide \u50b3\u4fe1\u90e8 Mission in Beijing, 1711-1811,\u201d Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan), June 20 and 26, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cContinuities and Discontinuities: Using the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) for an Analysis of the Old and New China Jesuit Missions (1550-1950) and their Sources,\u201d in symposium\u00a0\u201cCirca Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries\u201d<\/a>. Brot\u00e9ria and Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (BC), Lisbon, June 13, 2023. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Propaganda Fide Eighteenth-Century China Mission in the Manuscript Account Books of San Lorenzo in Luc\u00ecna (Rome)\u201d in workshop \u201cAll Kinds of Goods: Missionaries and Materialities\u201d Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon (Portugal), June 7, 2023. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Role of\u00a0Women\u00a0in the Chinese Missions of the Society of Jesus in the Early Modern Period,\u201d Faculty of Theology, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany), June 1, 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa microstoria globale della prima et\u00e0 moderna: il caso della Cina,\u201d AGeS – <\/strong>Centro di Ricerche Antropologiche, Geografiche e Storiche dal Medioevo all\u2019Et\u00e0 Contemporanea<\/strong>, Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Venezia (Italy), June 6, 2023<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation of the newly published\u00a0Catalogue of Chinese Documents of the Propaganda Fide Historical Archives (1622-1830)<\/a>, \u00a0Italian National Research Council (CNR), Istituto di Studi Romani, Rome (Italy), May 25, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCarlo Orazi da Castorano e il suo soggiorno pechinese, \u00a01724-1733,\u201d at conference \u201cCarlo Orazi da Castorano Kang Hezi\u00a0\u5eb7\u548c\u5b50 (1673-2023) a 350 anni dalla nascita,\u201d Castorano (Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy),<\/strong> May 20<\/strong>, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGli Europei\u00a0 (Xiyangren \u897f\u6d0b\u4eba) alla corte imperiale cinese, 1601-1838,\u201d in conference \u201cLe Vie della Seta tra vicino ed estremo Oriente – Convegno Internazionale del progetto SERICA – Silk Roads: New Ways to Understand the relationships between\u00a0East and West,\u201d\u00a0 University of Turin (Italy), May 17, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEuropei alla corte Qing, 1644-1838,\u201d in panel \u201cStoria mancese e storia dei Qing: nuove prospettive di ricerca. Due conferenze in ricordo di Giovanni Stary,\u201d Office of the Rector,<\/strong> Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Venezia (Italy), May 11, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLa citt\u00e0 invisibile: Europei a Pechino nel XVIII secolo,\u201d Dipartimento di Studi Asia e Africa Mediterranea, Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari Venezia, (Italy), May 10, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMissionary Canon Law: The Propaganda Fide Congregation and the Challenge of Daily Life Moral Cases in China, 17th<\/sup>-20th<\/sup>\u00a0centuries,\u201d Online Series\u00a0Rites Controversy: An Entangled History of Normativity Between the East and the West<\/em> co-hosted by Max Planck Partner Groups in Beijing and Trento and Historical Regimes of Normativity<\/em>\u00a0at MPI, Institute for Legal History, Law School<\/strong>, <\/strong>China University of Political Science and Law<\/strong>\u4e2d\u56fd\u653f\u6cd5\u5927\u5b66Beijing<\/strong> & <\/strong>Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory<\/strong>, <\/strong>Frankfurt am Main<\/strong>, September 27, 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal Microhistory in European-Asian Relations,\u201d Summer School, Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, Boston College, August 22, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe attitude of the Qing government to Christianity,\u201d in conference \u201cThe Lone Guardian: Politics, Culture and Society in China under the Yongzheng Emperor (1723-1735),\u201d University \u201cL\u2019Orientale,\u201d Naples (Italy),<\/strong>\u00a0July 7, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEmpire of Paper. The Astonishing Story of an 18th-Century Manuscript Vocabulary of the Chinese Language,\u201d Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan), June 21, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEuropean Networks at the Qing Court, 1601-1838\u201d and \u201cThe Propaganda Fide \u50b3\u4fe1\u90e8 Mission in Beijing, 1711-1811,\u201d Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei (Taiwan), June 20 and 26, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cContinuities and Discontinuities: Using the China Historical Christian Database (CHCD) for an Analysis of the Old and New China Jesuit Missions (1550-1950) and their Sources,\u201d in symposium\u00a0\u201cCirca Missiones: Jesuit Understandings of Mission through the Centuries\u201d<\/a>. Brot\u00e9ria and Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (BC), Lisbon, June 13, 2023. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Propaganda Fide Eighteenth-Century China Mission in the Manuscript Account Books of San Lorenzo in Luc\u00ecna (Rome)\u201d in workshop \u201cAll Kinds of Goods: Missionaries and Materialities\u201d Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon (Portugal), June 7, 2023. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Role of\u00a0Women\u00a0in the Chinese Missions of the Society of Jesus in the Early Modern Period,\u201d Faculty of Theology, Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany), June 1, 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa microstoria globale della prima et\u00e0 moderna: il caso della Cina,\u201d AGeS – <\/strong>Centro di Ricerche Antropologiche, Geografiche e Storiche dal Medioevo all\u2019Et\u00e0 Contemporanea<\/strong>, Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Venezia (Italy), June 6, 2023<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation of the newly published\u00a0Catalogue of Chinese Documents of the Propaganda Fide Historical Archives (1622-1830)<\/a>, \u00a0Italian National Research Council (CNR), Istituto di Studi Romani, Rome (Italy), May 25, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCarlo Orazi da Castorano e il suo soggiorno pechinese, \u00a01724-1733,\u201d at conference \u201cCarlo Orazi da Castorano Kang Hezi\u00a0\u5eb7\u548c\u5b50 (1673-2023) a 350 anni dalla nascita,\u201d Castorano (Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy),<\/strong> May 20<\/strong>, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGli Europei\u00a0 (Xiyangren \u897f\u6d0b\u4eba) alla corte imperiale cinese, 1601-1838,\u201d in conference \u201cLe Vie della Seta tra vicino ed estremo Oriente – Convegno Internazionale del progetto SERICA – Silk Roads: New Ways to Understand the relationships between\u00a0East and West,\u201d\u00a0 University of Turin (Italy), May 17, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEuropei alla corte Qing, 1644-1838,\u201d in panel \u201cStoria mancese e storia dei Qing: nuove prospettive di ricerca. Due conferenze in ricordo di Giovanni Stary,\u201d Office of the Rector,<\/strong> Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari, Venezia (Italy), May 11, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLa citt\u00e0 invisibile: Europei a Pechino nel XVIII secolo,\u201d Dipartimento di Studi Asia e Africa Mediterranea, Universit\u00e0 Ca\u2019 Foscari Venezia, (Italy), May 10, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom online presentation of: Ad Dudink, comp., Catalogue of Chinese Documents in the \u201cPropaganda Fide\u201d Historical Archives (1622-1830). With an Introductory Essay by Eugenio Menegon<\/em>, edited by Emanuele Raini and Giuseppe Zhao Hongtao, Rome: Urbaniana University Press (Pontificia Universit\u00e0 Urbaniana), 2022. ‘China Historical Christian Database’ Speaker Series, Boston University,\u00a0 March 28, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discussant, panel \u201cEngaging with the Other: Catholic Missions and Epistemic Encounters in Early Modern Asian Cities,\u201d\u00a0 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Boston, Mass. USA, March 17, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Presentation of China Historical Christian Database CHCD<\/em>, Harvard DH Conference \u201cTools of the Trade: The Way Forward<\/a>\u201d (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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zoom Mini-Workshop \u201cThe China Historical Christian Database<\/a>,\u201d with Daryl Ireland and Zhang Yiyi, in \u201cA Digital Humanities Approach to Asian Catholic Culture\u201d Workshop, International Christian University \u56fd\u969b\u57fa\u7763\u6559\u5927\u5b66, Tokyo, Japan, February 15, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018Canons and Artillerie\u2019:\u00a0 The Ming-Qing War Seen through Schall\u2019s Essentials of Gunnery <\/em>(\u706b\u653b\u6308\u8981\u00a0Huogong qieyao<\/em>\u00a0, 1643\/1847) and Martini\u2019s\u00a0Tartar War\u00a0(Bellum Tartaricum<\/em>, London 1654).\u201d Zoom presentation, \u201cBringing Together China and the West:\u00a0 A Symposium to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of The Chinese University of Hong Kong,\u201d The Chinese University of Hong Kong, February 10, 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018A Moribund Waiting for a Medicine from Rome.\u2019 Documents in the Historical Archives of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples as a Reflection of Propaganda\u2019s Missionary Organization in China from 1622 to 1830,\u201d (Zoom presentation), International Symposium \u201cThe Doors that Propaganda Fide has Opened since 1622,\u201d Centre for Catholic Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, & Macau Ricci Institute, August 24, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEmpire of Paper. Missionaries, Diplomats, and Early Sinologists as Social Carriers of Translingual Practices and Worldviews,\u201d Lecture series \u201cConceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups,\u201d Program \u201cWorldmaking form a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China,\u201d University of G\u00f6ttingen, Germany, July 7, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Story of a Vocabulary between Beijing and Rome, 1760s-1820s,\u201d Oxford University Seminar \u201cEarly Modern Italian World, 1400-1800,\u201d\u00a0Exeter and St. Edmund Hall Colleges, University of Oxford, UK, June 7, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cPedrini and the Other Missionaries,\u201d Conference \u201cTeodorico Pedrini (1671-1746), missione e musica nella Cina del Settecento,\u201d Centro Studi Teodorico Pedrini & Citt\u00e0 di Fermo, Fermo, Marche (Italy), June 4, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>Historia dos Principes Christ\u00e3os\u201d: The Converted Manchu Princes of the Sunu Clan and the Portuguese and Latin Record of their Lives during the Yongzheng Reign (1723-1735),\u201d International conference \u201cRes Sinicae. \u2018Cousas da China\u2019. 16th to 18th century,\u201d Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Pal\u00e1cio Nacional da Ajuda, and Brot\u00e9ria Cultural Center<\/strong>, Lisbon (Portugal), <\/strong>May 19-21, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCarletti\u00a0<\/span>and Religion: Christianity and Asian Traditions in the\u00a0<\/span>Ragionamenti<\/em>,\u201d in Conference \u201cCarletti\u2019s World: An Early Modern Global Voyage,\u201d (in person), Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa \u201cI Tatti,\u201d Florence (Italy),<\/strong> in collaboration with European University Institute (Italy), Stanford University, Syracuse University, USA) and Warwick University (UK), April 27-28, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOn Interpreting at the Qing Court,\u201d International Conference \u201cChinese Culture in Translation: Sinologists as Translators,\u201d Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), April 21-23, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCarletti\u00a0<\/span>and Religion,\u201d in preparatory Zoom workshop \u201cFrancesco Carletti\u2019s My Voyage around the World<\/em> (1594-1606),\u201d (Zoom presentation), Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies, Villa \u201cI Tatti,\u201d Florence (Italy),<\/strong> in collaboration with European University Institute (Italy), Stanford University, Syracuse University, USA) and Warwick University (UK), May 14, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cToleration in Chinese History,\u201d in workshop \u201cToleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices and Documents.\u201d (Zoom presentation).\u00a0ResetDOC<\/a>\u00a0(Reset Dialogues on Civilizations) in collaboration with the Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion<\/a>\u00a0(CDTR) at the University of California, Berkeley, January 18-22, 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cInvisible City: Europeans and their Networks in Late Imperial Beijing,\u201d online presentation, Centro Cient\u00edfico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon (Portugal) & Shanghai University, Shanghai (China), December 19, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe Invisible City: A Global Microhistory of Europeans and their Social Networks in Eighteenth Century Beijing,\u201d online presentation, China Centre, University of\u00a0<\/span>Oxford, October 29, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEBINAR: Mission Records as Method: Towards a Microhistory of Global China. A Virtual Workshop with Dr. Eugenio Menegon, July 30, 2020<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0hosted by the Humanities Unbounded MicroWorlds Lab<\/a> at Duke University. Click here for\u00a0VIDEO<\/a>.Click here for\u00a0<\/span>PowerPoint<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Matriarch, the Duchess, the Queen, and the Countess: Aristocratic Patronesses of the Chinese Catholic Mission and their Role in Early Modern Chinese-European Relations,\u201d AnnMary Brown Memorial Hall, Brown University, Providence,<\/strong>\u00a0November 13, 2019<\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0[Brown University website\u00a0<\/span>here<\/a>];\u00a0 \u00a0& Boston University Travel Literature Workshop “Through Women’s Eyes: Travel and Gender,” Boston,\u00a0November 1, 2019<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span>Program<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>&\u00a0<\/span>Abstracts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Early Modern Chinese-European Relations: Translating \u2018Christian\u2019 Culture in a Multi-Religious Context”, in Workshop “Entangled Knowledges: Education and Culture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam,”\u00a0International Workshop, Sangalli Institute,\u00a0Florence (Italy), October 2-4, 2019.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWesterners in Canton and Macao, 1700-1823,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0presentation at Study Center on Canton and Foreign Cultural Relations, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou (P.R. China), June 21, 2019<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBeijing as a Missionary Translation Center in the Eighteenth Century,\u201d paper presented at conference\u00a0<\/span>\u201cCrossing Borders: Sinology in Translation Studies,\u201d\u00a0Department of Translation & Research Centre for Translation,\u00a0<\/span>The Chinese University of Hong Kong,\u00a0Hong Kong,\u00a0June 13-15, 2019.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHealing and Converting: The Power of\u00a0Sacred Objects in the China Jesuit Mission,\u201d in Roundtable Discussion Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions,<\/em>\u00a0Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and Burns Library, Boston College, Boston, April 26, 2019<\/strong>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Tra Locale e Globale.” Virtual presentation of volume\u00a0Il mondo di Sigismondo:\u00a0Un druentino nella Cina del XVIII secolo.\u00a0Lettere dell\u2019agostiniano scalzo\u00a0<\/em>Padre Sigismondo Meinardi da San Nicola<\/em>, Centro Culturale San Sebastiano, Druento (Torino, Italy), April 11, 2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Click here<\/a> for VIDEO PRESENTATION.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJouissez du temps pr\u00e9sent<\/em>: Religion and the State in Late Imperial China, 1500-1800,\u201d in Conference \u201cQuestions de religion \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque moderne,\u201d Coll\u00e8ge de France (Paris), Chaire d\u2019histoire globale de la premi\u00e8re modernit\u00e9 (Prof. Sanjay Subrahmanyam), Paris (France),<\/strong>\u00a0April 9, 2019.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCommunicating on board and on shore: European testimonies on varieties of lingua franca in maritime China, 1550-1850,\u201d International Conference\u00a0<\/span>\u201cMaritime knowledge for Asian seas. An interdisciplinary dialogue between maritime historians and archaeologists,\u201d organized by the <\/span>SeaFaring<\/span> Research Programme, and hosted by the\u00a0<\/span>\u00c9cole fran\u00e7aise d\u2019Extr\u00eame Orient, the\u00a0Institut d\u2019\u00e9tudes avanc\u00e9es de Paris\u00a0and the\u00a0\u00c9cole des hautes \u00e9tudes en sciences sociales, Paris (France), November 21-23, 2018<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span><\/a>The China Christian Database:\u00a0A Digital Tool for the Cartography and Prosopography of Christianity in China,<\/a>\u201d<\/span><\/a> presentation with Daryl Ireland and Alex Mayfield at “Book Launch for\u00a0<\/span>Atlas on Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts\u00a0<\/em>(by Fenggang Yang, Brill, 2018)\u00a0and Roundtable Discussion on Mapping Chinese Religions,”\u00a0Center on Religion and Chinese Society,\u00a0<\/span>Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, November 9, 2018.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cBishop Bai\u2019s Cave: The Fujian Martyrs and the Politics of Martyrdom between China, the Philippines, and Europe, 18th century to the present,\u201d in International Symposium \u201cLife & Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia: Narratives of Faith & Martyrdom,\u201d co-sponsored by The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, University of San Francisco & Martyrs\u2019 Shrine, Midland, Ontario in collaboration with Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (Ontario Huronia Historical Parks), Midland, Ontario (Canada), October 18-21, 2018<\/strong>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tragic Jesuit Embassy of the Kangxi Emperor to Pope Clement XI,\u201d in conference, \u201cItaly and East Asia: Exchanges and Parallels,\u201d Stony Brook University, Stony Brook (NY), October 11-13, 2018.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Invisible City: European Missionaries and Catholic Community in Qing Beijing,” in Conference\u00a0<\/i>“Global Empires, Global Courts? \u00a0Explorations in Politics and Religion,” co-sponsored by Department of History & Civilization – EUI,\u00a0 Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, and Oxford Centre for Global History. European University Institute,\u00a0Florence (Italy),\u00a0<\/strong>13-14 September 2018<\/strong>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cForeign Agents at the Qing Court and Franco-British Maritime Rivalry: The French Mission to China in 1787\u201d\u00a0in Workshop\u00a0\u00a0\u201cMaritime Asia: Securitization of the China Seas,\u201d\u00a0organized by\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, in collaboration with the\u00a0Centre for Rising Powers at the University of Cambridge\u00a0(UK), Berkeley (CA),<\/strong>\u00a0May 14, 2018<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cRevisiting the Four Churches: Urban and Suburban Life and Networks of European Missionaries and Christian Converts in Qing Beijing\u201d in “From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue. A symposium on the history of art, science, and religion in Jesuit China,” Columbia University, New York, May 4, 2018<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Tragic Jesuit Embassy\u00a0of the Kangxi Emperor to Pope Clement XI\u201d, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies Colloquium, “Calamity from Within?\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century,”\u00a0<\/span>presented in collaboration with\u00a0The Boston College Libraries,\u00a0Boston College, Boston,<\/b>\u00a0April 12, 2018.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

“Sailing to China: The Maritime Journey of Catholic Missionaries,” Symposium “China \/ Macau: Rotas, Estreitos Mar\u00edtimos e Oceanos Globais – China \/ Macau: Sailing Routes, Sea Straits, Global Oceans,”\u00a0Centro Cient\u00edfico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, October 9-11, 2017.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary\u00a0Fashion Strategies at the Imperial Court in Early Modern China,\u201d International Workshop \u201cGoing Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries),\u201d\u00a0jointly organized by\u00a0Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom, \u00c9cole Fran\u00e7aise de Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Abteilung f\u00fcr Neuere Geschichte des Historischen <\/span>Instituts der Universit\u00e4t Bern; Rome, May 30 \u2013June 1, 2017<\/strong>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCourt Missionaries as Imperial Informants in Early Modern China and Europe\u201d, in panel Information, Texts, and Intermediaries in the Making of Global Knowledge about Late Imperial China<\/em>, Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada, \u00a0March 18, 2017<\/strong>.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

“Amicitia Palatina: The Europeans’ Networking at the Qing Court in the Long 18th Century.”\u00a0Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ,\u00a0December 7, 2015.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhose Empire Were They Serving? The Political and Diplomatic Role of European Missionaries at the Qing Court in the Eighteenth Century.\u201d Workshop \u201cEarly Modern China in the Late Imperial World,\u201d Johns Hopkins University,<\/a>\u00a0Baltimore, October 15-16, 2015<\/a>.<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

“Nissuno fu inteso come Dio volesse<\/em>: Interpreting, Translating, and the Multilingual Environment of the China Mission in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” International Symposium “China\/Macau: Translation and Interpretation – Past and Present,” Lisbon, Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM),\u00a0Lisbon, \u00a0October 12-14, 2015.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cInterlopers at the Fringes of Empire: The East Asia Procurators of the Propaganda Fide Papal Congregation in Canton and Macao, and their Maritime Network (1700-1850),\u201d C<\/span>onference\u00a0\u201cBinding Maritime China:\u00a0Control, Evasion, and Interloping\u201d (16th-20th century), \u00a0co-sponsored by\u00a0Boston University, Brandeis University, and Northeastern University,\u00a0Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, Boston, May 29-30, 2015<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cChina, Italy, and Milan: Global Connections in the Early Modern Era,\u201d International Conference Milan, the Ambrosiana Library and Knowledge of New Worlds, 1600-1800<\/i>, Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Dies Academicus 2014, Milan (Italy), November 26-28, 2014.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cChristians as\u00a0\u2018Evil\u2019 in Late Imperial China: Qing State Control, Foreign Presence, and Native Agency during\u00a0the\u00a0Yongzheng Reign\u201d Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and BU Center for the Study of Asia workshop on \u201cEvil in Chinese Religion\u201d, Harvard University, November 17, 2014.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Europe to Beijing: long-distance travel in the eighteenth-century China mission,”\u00a0International Symposium\u00a0China\/Macau: Travels, Pilgrimages, Tourism<\/em>, Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM),\u00a0Lisbon, \u00a0October 13-15, 2014.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSotto questa coperta, facciamo il fatto nostro<\/i>: Court Missionaries and the Politics of Luxury Consumption during the Qianlong Reign,\u201d Leuven University and Boston University workshop \u201cThe Materiality of Chinese-Western Relations in the Ming-Qing periods: Methodological Approaches, Empirical Cases,\u201d Leuven<\/b> (Belgium), May 26-27, 2014<\/b>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWho was using whom? Europeans, Leisurely Pursuits, and the Politics of Gift-Giving in Qing Beijing.\u201d\u00a0 Paper presented at the conference \u201cLeisure and Social Change across Asia,\u201d\u00a0Cluster of Excellence Europe and Asia in Global Context, University of Heidelberg (Germany), January 10-11, 2014.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>\u201cRobbe d\u2019Europa: global connections and the mailing of letters, money, and merchandise in eighteenth-century China.\u201d Paper presented at the conference \u201cChina\/Macau e globaliza\u00e7\u00f5es: passado e presente,\u201d\u00a0Centro Cient\u00edfico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon (Portugal), October 14-16, 2013<\/b>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cEuropeans, Western Commodities, and the Politics of Gift-Giving in Qing Beijing.\u201d Paper presented at the\u00a0Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego,\u00a0<\/i>March 22, 2013.<\/b>\u00a0Panel on \u201cLuxury Commodities and Imperial Politics in the High Qing Era (1660-1795).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDaily Life and Courtly Networks: Europeans in Eighteenth-Century Beijing.\u201d Paper presented at\u00a0The New England China Seminar, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies,\u00a0Harvard University, October 24, 2012<\/b>.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cCulture di corte a confronto: legati pontifici e burocrazia Qing nella Pechino del Settecento [Court cultures in comparison: papal legates and Qing bureaucracy in 18th<\/sup>-century Beijing].\u201d Paper presented at the Conference \u201cLa politica internazionale del papato nella prima et\u00e0 moderna. Spazi e uomini [The international policy of the papacy in the early modern era: spaces and individuals],\u201d\u00a0University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza,\u201d Rome (Italy), June 11-13, 2012.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cQing Court Culture through European Eyes:\u00a0<\/i>Kangxi\u2019s Imperial Hunts and the Jesuits as Courtiers.\u201d Paper presented at the\u00a0Modern China Seminar, Weatherhead East Asian Studies Institute, Columbia University, New York, March 10, 2011<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderground Christians in Late Imperial China: Qing State Control, Foreign Presence, and Native Agency, 1724-1840.\u201d Paper presented at the\u00a0125th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 9, 2011.\u00a0<\/b>Panel \u201cChristianity under Asian and African Dominance in the Early Modern Period.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmicitia Palatina<\/i>: Portuguese Jesuits, Manchu aristocrats, and the politics of gift-giving at the Kangxi court.\u201d Paper presented at the\u00a0BU-Heidelberg<\/b>\u00a0Workshop\u00a0\u201cLeisure and the State in Eurasia,\u201d Boston University, November 5-6, 2010.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cCourtiers and Careers: Jesuits, papal envoys, and Qing imperial officials in eighteenth century Beijing.\u201d\u00a0<\/i>Paper presented at the\u00a0International Symposium\u00a0<\/i>\u201cIntercultural Encounters Europe-China, Sixteenth- Eighteenth Centuries,\u201d Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau, Lisbon, Portugal October 11-13, 2010.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cI cibi dall\u2019oriente ai tempi di Giorgione: le strategie e le alleanze della Serenissima\u201d\u00a0<\/b>(Food from the East at the time of Giorgione: the strategies and alliances of the Republic of Venice). Paper presented at the\u00a0International Conference \u201cCibo, cucina e tavola nel Rinascimento italiano, con un omaggio a Giorgione\u201d (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<\/b>,\u00a02010.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cMemento Mori:\u00a0<\/i>Prepararsi alla morte in Cina ed in Europa, 1500-1700\u201d (Memento Mori<\/i>: Preparing for Death in China and Europe, 1500-1700). Paper presented at the\u00a0International Conference \u201cScienza, ragione e fede: il genio di padre Matteo Ricci S.J.\u201d\u00a0(Science, reason and faith: the genius of Matteo Ricci S.J.) Macerata (Italy), March 4-6, 2010.<\/b><\/p>\n

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