Menegon Speaks at European Conferences
This past fall, Prof. Eugenio Menegon presented papers on his current research at three conferences:
1) “From Europe to Beijing: Long-distance Travel in the Eighteenth-century China Mission” at the International Symposium “China/Macau: Travels, Pilgrimages, Tourism” organized by the Centro Cientifico e Cultural de Macau (CCCM) in Lisbon (Portugal), October 13-15, 2014;
2) “Christians as ‘Evil’ in Late Imperial China: Qing State Control, Foreign Presence, and Native Agency during the Yongzheng Reign” at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and BU Center for the Study of Asia workshop on “Evil in Chinese Religion,” Harvard University, November 17, 2014;
3) “China, Italy, and Milan: Global Connections in the Early Modern Era,” at the International Conference “Milan, the Ambrosiana Library and Knowledge of New Worlds, 1600-1800,” organized on the occasion of the upcoming EXPO 2015 at the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (Italy), November 26-28, 2014.
Menegon is an associate professor in the History Department (CAS), and director of the Center for the Study of Asia within the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
Menegon has been Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Junior and Senior Fellow at the BU Humanities Foundation, and An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. He has held appointments as visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies, the Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco, the University “L’Orientale” in Naples, the University of Padua, and the Cini Foundation, Venice.