{"id":521,"date":"2015-08-28T14:05:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T18:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/emenegon\/?page_id=521"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:51:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:51:47","slug":"public-lectures-2005-present","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/emenegon\/public-lectures-2005-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"

2005-present<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s Theology Got to Do with It? An Eighteenth-Century Chinese Emperor Debating Religions and Christianity<\/a>,\u201d Berkeley Lectures in Public Theology, Berkeley Public Theology Program, Berkeley,<\/strong> University of California at Berkeley, March 13, 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pearl River Delta in China: A Unique Natural and Human Ecosystem in History,\u201d <\/a>\u2018Research on Tap\u2019 presentation, Panel \u201cCoastal Cities, People, and Waterways,\u201d Boston University, February 4, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Sino-Western History and Microhistory<\/a>,” Institute\u00a0for Qing History \u6e05\u53f2\u6240, Renmin University \u4eba\u6c11\u5927\u5b66, Beijing (P.R. China) May 31, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cSino-Western Relations and\u00a0the Chinese Rites Controversy\u00a0in the Eighteenth Century,” in IAJS Colloquium<\/a>\u00a0“Calamity from Within?\u00a0<\/i>Jesuits, Papal Legates, and Chinese Imperial Envoys in the Eighteenth Century,”\u00a0<\/span>John J. Burns Library, Boston College, April 12, 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>“China and the West, 1580-1919,” Teachers’ Workshop “China: Enduring Legacies & Radical Transformations,”\u00a0Primary Source<\/a>, Hebrew College, Newton, MA, November 2, 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMatteo Ricci\u2019s The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven <\/em>[Tianzhu shiyi<\/em> \u5929\u4e3b\u5be6\u7fa9]: A New Edition\u201d in Panel \u201cFour Centuries of the Jesuits in China<\/a>,\u201d Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies & Asian Studies\u00a0Program,<\/strong> Boston College, November 29, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Habit that Hides the Monk: Missionary Fashion Strategies in Early Modern China<\/a>,\u201d <\/span>\u201cMatteo Ricci Speakers Series: the Jesuits, Christianity, China, and the Intercultural Experience,\u201d\u00a0St. Louis University (St. Louis, Missouri), <\/span><\/b>Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Departments of History and Theological Studies, October 3, 2016.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

“Reading Chinese Sources: Archival and Local Records”; “Western Sources: Manuscripts, Paleographic Challenges and Published Collections”; “Micro-history and Material Culture: Methodological\u00a0Approaches to Sino-Western Relations,” lectures delivered as co-organizer of the Fourth International Summer Program on Chinese Religions ‘\u4e2d\u56fd\u5b97\u6559’<\/span><\/a>\u7cfb\u5217\u6691\u671f\u7814\u4fee\u73ed\u7b2c\u56db\u671f<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 The International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (ICSCC), Fudan University \u590d\u65e6\u5927\u5b66\u4e2d\u534e\u6587\u660e\u56fd\u9645\u7814\u7a76\u4e2d\u5fc3, Shanghai (China), August 14-22, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal Courts of Early Modern India and China: Jesuit Accounts of Imperial Life.\u201d A conversation with Eugenio Menegon (BU) and Jorge Flores (EUI, Florence), Boston College, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies. April 13, 2016. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Man and His Image: Art & Propaganda at the Court of the Qianlong Emperor of China (reign 1735-1799), \u201d\u00a0Lecture for the Friends of IAS-Princeton,\u00a0<\/span>Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, October 23, 2015<\/strong>; & Asian Studies Program, Boston College, March 22, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA Micro-Historical Approach to Global China: The Daily Life of Europeans in Beijing in the Long 18th Century,\u201d series Global China: New Approaches<\/em>, jointly organized by the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge, and funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, St. Catharine\u2019s College, University of Cambridge, UK, June 11, 2015. <\/strong>[Watch a video of this lecture]<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMatteo Ricci and Late Ming China,\u201d guest lecturer, Core Curriculum Program, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, February 5, 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRobbe d\u2019Europa. <\/em>Ovvero, come mandare un pacco dall\u2019Italia a Pechino\u00a0nel Settecento. Connessioni marittime globali, e reti religiose e commerciali.\u201d Dipartimento Asia Africa e Mediterraneo, Universit\u00e0 \u201cL\u2019Orientale,\u201d Napoli, November 25, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMicrohistory: An Italian Historiographical Tradition and Chinese-Western History,\u201d lecture at workshop \u201cEurope and East Asia: cultural and linguistic contacts,\u201d\u00a0 Universit\u00e0 Sapienza di Roma \u2013 Dipartimento Istituto di Studi Orientali (ISO), Dottorato di Ricerca in Civilt\u00e0 dell\u2019Asia e dell\u2019Africa – Curriculum Asia Orientale, terzo ciclo di lezioni specialistiche, July 17, 2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAncestors, Virgins, and Friars: Local Religion in China, 1600-2000,\u201d 2013-14 Gaylord Endowed Lecture in Asian Pacific Area Studies, Program in Asian Studies and History Department, Colorado College, September 9, 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLa Cina e il mondo: paradigmi interpretativi nella storia dei rapporti culturali tra Cina ed Europa (1500-1800) [China and the world: interpretive paradigms in the history of Sino-Western cultural relations, (1500-1800)],\u201d\u00a0Seminar on World History, Department of Historical, Cultural, and Religious Studies,<\/strong> University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza,\u201d Rome (Italy), March 16, 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCortigiani tra due mondi: gli Europei alla Corte di Pechino nel Settecento [Courtiers between two worlds: the Europeans at the Court of Beijing in the 18th<\/sup> Century],\u201d Department of Asian and North African Studies, University of Venice \u201cCa\u2019 Foscari,\u201d Venice (Italy), February 2, 2012<\/strong>; Workshop \u201cPortuguese Empire in Asia,\u201d Department of History and Civilization, European University Institute, Florence (Italy), March 9, 2012<\/strong>; IV Ciclo de Conferencias \u201cRelaciones Espa\u00f1a-Asia Oriental,\u201d Department of Art History, University of Seville (Spain), March 13, 2012; Department of Oriental Studies, University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza,\u201d May 2, 2012; Department of Modern Languages and Historical Studies, Universit\u00e0 della Tuscia, Viterbo (Italy), May 10, 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAncestors, Virgins and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China,\u201d Department of History, University of Macau, Macau, October 28, 2011<\/strong>; <\/strong>Doctoral Seminar, Institute of Qing History, Renmin University, Beijing, (P.R. China), November 1, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cUbi Dux, Ibi Curia<\/em>. Kangxi\u2019s Imperial Hunts and the Jesuits as Courtiers.\u201d The Templeton \u201cScience and Religion in East Asia\u201d Project – 12th<\/sup> Bi-Weekly Seminar, Science and Culture Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea, October 13, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cZuxian, zhenn\u00fc, xiushi: Ming-Qing shiqi zuo wei difang zongjiao de jidujiao \u7956\u5148\u3001\u8d1e\u5973\u3001\u4fee\u58eb\uff1a\u660e\u6e05\u65f6\u671f\u4f5c\u4e3a\u5730\u65b9\u5b97\u6559\u7684\u57fa\u7763\u6559\u201d (Ancestors, Virgins and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Ming-Qing China), Institute of History <\/strong>\u5386\u53f2\u7814\u7a76\u6240<\/strong>, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences <\/strong>\u4e2d\u56fd\u793e\u4f1a\u79d1\u5b66\u9662<\/strong>, Beijing, October 11, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cShooting for the Stars: Jesuit Scientists and Artists in Imperial Beijing (1600-1800),<\/a>\u201d <\/em>Beijing International Society\u00a0(event held at the Embassy of Turkey), Beijing, September 15, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is Asia? Historical perspectives.\u201d <\/strong>Pardee House Seminar with Profs. <\/span>David Eckel<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(BU Religion), <\/span>Prof. Robert Hefner<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>(BU Anthropology) and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> Prof. Adil Najam <\/strong>(<\/span>Director, Pardee Center), The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, Boston University, February\u00a014, 2011<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Man and His Image: Qianlong\u2019s Imperial Propaganda and Artistic Pursuits.\u201d BU Alumni Event for Exhibition \u201cThe Emperor\u2019s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City,\u201d Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (Mass.), November 19, 2010 \u00a0& \u00a0Milwakee Art Museum, June 30, 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLate Ming Sino-Christian Books and Their Editorial History between Europe and China,\u201d Boston University Editorial Institute, January 26, 2010<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesuit Emblematica in Late Ming China and the Role of Andrzej Rudomina,\u201d International Workshop \u201cVenturing in Magnum Cathay: 17th<\/sup>-century Polish Jesuits in China,\u201d Ignatianum, Krak\u00f3w (Poland), September 28, 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cChina\u2019s May Fourth\u00a0Movement in History,\u201d Summer Institute for K-12 Teachers of World History, Primary Source, Watertown, July 6, 2009.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cControversies over Chinese Rituals: A Seventeenth Century Perspective from China to Rome,\u201d Seminar \u201cL\u2019Oriente a Roma nel Seicento,\u201d Sinology Program, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University \u201cLa Sapienza,\u201d Rome (Italy), May 25, 2009<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe European Cabinet of Wonders of the Ming Emperors,\u201d in conjunction with exhibition \u201cPower and Glory: Court Arts of China\u2019s Ming Dynasty,\u201d Boston University Bay Area Alumni Club, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, August 14, 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cJesuit-Dominican Controversies over Chinese Rituals: European and Chinese Textual Strategies\u201d. Post-Graduate Seminar in the History of Chinese Science, coordinated by Prof. Benjamin Elman (Princeton University). Fudan University (Shanghai, P.R. China), Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, July 10, 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cClearing the Heart, Seizing Time and Opportunity: European Allegorical Prints and Literati\u2019s Reception in Late Ming China,\u201d Macau Ricci Institute (Macau, P.R. China), MRI Forum, June 11, 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cA Moving Target: European Students, Confucian Schoolmasters, and Jesuit Emblematica in 17th-century China.\u201d National Tsinghua University (Xinzhu, <\/strong>Taiwan R.O.C.)<\/strong>. Institute of History, June 4, 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Historian\u2019s Craft: New Methodological Approaches to the Study of Chinese-Western Relations.\u201d National Taiwan University (Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C.) Department of History, June 6, 2008.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cGlobal Religion or Local Religion? The Case of Chinese Catholicism in Historical Perspective,\u201d Undergraduate Student Conference \u201cCosmopolitan Asia: Diversity and Disparity,\u201d Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR),<\/strong> Cambridge, Mass., April 3-6 2008.<\/strong> Panel \u201cTransformation of Religion in China:\u00a0 Cosmopolitan and Native Dimensions from Past to Present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Introduction to Laurence Bergreen\u2019s book Marco Polo<\/em> (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007), Cambridge, First Parish Church, <\/strong>organized by Cambridge Forum and National Public Radio,<\/strong> October 24. 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cJesuit Emblematica in China: European Allegorical Images in the Late Ming Period,\u201d Boston College, Asian Studies Seminar Series, History Department, September 17, 2007.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAncestors, Virgins and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China,\u201d Author\u2019s Workshop, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, <\/strong>\u00a0February 24, 2007. <\/strong>Invited commentators: Prof. Henrietta Harrison (Harvard University), Prof. Michael Szonyi (Harvard University), Prof. John Thornton (Boston University), Prof. Robert Weller (Boston University), Prof. Rudolf Wagner (University of Heidelberg).<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cScience and Religion in the Early Modern Jesuit Mission to China,\u201d\u00a0 East-West Lecture, East-West Institute of International Studies, Gordon College, Wenham (Mass.), October 25, 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThe \u2018Conversion of Missionaries\u2019: Their Role in the Making of Modern China and in Changing US Attitudes toward China,\u201d Primary Source, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (Mass.), July 7, 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cReligion in China: Historical Perspectives\u201d in the series \u201cA Potpourri of History,\u201d\u00a0Evergreen Program, Boston University, June 20, 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSin and Confession in Late Imperial Chinese Catholicism,\u201d Boston University East Asia Lunch Series, September 30, 2005.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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