About this Event
A talk by Dr. Emanuele Colombo
Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College
Free & Open to the Public | Free Parking with Registration in CEC Lot E (*)
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What does it mean to long for a distant world so intensely that you petition, in writing, to leave everything behind? What did it mean to desire places one had never seen and might never reach? How do people learn to narrate themselves? This lecture explores these questions starting from the 25,000 handwritten letters composed between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries by Jesuit novices and priests to their Superior General in Rome, seeking assignment to overseas missions. Among the most remarkable early modern period collections, the letters are now all digitally accessible to researches and the public for the first time through the Digital Indipetae Database project, led by Dr. Colombo at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies.
Sponsored by UNO History Department & the College of Arts and Sciences.
Funding was provided by Humanities Nebraska and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Milo Bail Student Center, 6203 South University Drive Road North, Omaha, United States
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