From Urban History to Digital Humanities: Fall Conferences for Professor Menegon
This Fall 2018 Professor Eugenio Menegon has so far presented at four academic conferences on different topics.
He first tackled the urban history of Beijing in the Qing period in relation to European establishments in the city, with a paper entitled “Invisible City: European Missionaries and Catholic Community in Qing Beijing,” presented at the Conference “Global Empires, Global Courts? Explorations in Politics and Religion,” held at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) on 13-14 September 2018, an event co-sponsored by the Department of History & Civilization – EUI, the Global History and Culture Centre at the University of Warwick, and the Oxford University Centre for Global History.
At the conference “Italy and East Asia: Exchanges and Parallels,” held at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook (NY), on October 11-13, 2018 he presented on “The Tragic Jesuit Embassy of the Kangxi Emperor to Pope Clement XI in 1709-10.”
He then traveled to the Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland, Ontario (Canada), the site of one of the earliest Jesuit missions to the Hurons, offering an exploration of politics and martyrdom in China entitled “Bishop Bai’s Cave: The Fujian Martyrs and the Politics of Martyrdom between China, the Philippines, and Europe, 18th century to the present.” This was part of the international symposium “Life & Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia: Narratives of Faith & Martyrdom,” co-sponsored by The Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History (University of San Francisco) & the Martyrs’ Shrine in collaboration with Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (Ontario Huronia Historical Parks), on October 18-21, 2018.
Finally, on November 9, 2018, together with Daryl Ireland (Associate Director of the BU Center for Global Christianity & Mission – CGCM), and Alex Mayfield (BU STH doctoral student and project manager), he introduced “The China Christian Database: A Digital Tool for the Cartography and Prosopography of Christianity in China.” The slide show was conceived as an overview of the BU DH project Professor Menegon is supervising with CGCM, and received positive feedback from scholars of Chinese religions during the book launch for the Atlas on Religion in China: Social and Geographical Contexts(Brill, 2018) and the roundtable discussion on “Mapping Chinese Religions” at the Center on Religion and Chinese Society, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
