The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies and its collaborating partners invite you to join informal conversations with the world's preeminent scholars working on the history, spirituality, and educational heritage of the Society of Jesus. This semester's discussions center around featured scholars and their projects or published works. 

These discussions – hosted by the Institute over coffee and available via Zoom videoconference on the indicated Thursdays monthly – are unique opportunities to learn more about the newest and most interesting scholarship in Jesuit Studies. If you have any questions, please contact the Institute (iajs@bc.edu).

If you would like to attend a café via videoconference, please register, and you will receive information on how to access the online meeting space 24 hours before the discussion.

Thursday, February 26
Ines G. Županov, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Missionary Enchantment in South Asia, 16th–18th Centuries: Catholic Histories and Fictions (Routledge 2025)

Thursday, March 26
Anthony Clark, Whitworth University
Staging China: Jesuit Theater and the End of an Empire (19th–20th Centuries)  (Brill 2025)

Thursday, April 23 
Andrés I. Prieto, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado
The Theologian and the Empire: A Biography of José de Acosta (1540–1600) (Brill 2024)

Thursday, May 21
Cristiano Casalini, Alessandro Corsi, Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, & Dave Thomas, Digital Libraries, Boston College
Tracking Communities: The Jesuit Catalogs Database
 

Learn more about the café here.