November 8, 2003
2:15 PM – 4:00 PM, Program
Book-signing and reception to follow
USF Lone Mountain Campus
The Del Santo Reading Room, Second Floor
(2800 Turk between Masonic & Parker)
“Lift Your Hearts in Song—
Celebrating Chinese-Western Cultural History Today”
 

The USF Ricci Institute at the Center for the Pacific Rim and the Oregon Catholic Press Jointly Present a Book-Signing and Song-Singing Event honoring Rev. Robert Fabing, S.J.

Father Robert Fabing, S.J. is the founder and director of the Jesuit Institute for Family Life Association, a series of forty-four marriage counseling and family therapy centers in California and Oregon. He is also the director of the 36-Day Program in the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius at the Jesuit Retreat House in Los Altos, California. Fr. Fabing is a writer, composer, and a singer. Throughout the years, he has written books on Jesuit spirituality and composed liturgical music and songs.

Presented at this event are the recent Chinese translations of his writings and liturgical music and songs on CDs. His music has been presented in Japan, China, Taiwan, Africa, South America, West and East Europe. Book and CD orders may be placed at: http://www.oregoncatholicpress.org

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reservations recommended; call the
Ricci Institute, 415-422-6401.

For further inquiries, please contact:
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim
2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Tel 1-415-422-6401 · Fax 1-415-422-2291 · Email ricci@usfca.edu

Co-sponsored by the Friends of Ricci and Chinese Ministry of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Special thanks to Catholic Chinese Choir of Southern California. (top)

September 11, 2003
5:45 - 6:45 p.m., Reception follows
USF Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100

( Click to view the edited transcript)
Gutenberg Comes to Japan:
The Jesuit Enterprise and the First IT
Revolution of the Sixteenth Century

Wednesday, March 5, 2003
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM, program; reception to follow
USF Lone Mountain Campus, Room 100
(2800 Turk between Masonic & Parker)

"The Emperor Rejoiced With Great Joy: A Christian Artifact from 1342 Hidden in a Chinese Painting"

The USF Ricci Institute and Center for the Pacific Rim Present a Public Lecture in Remembrance of Rev. Edward J. Malatesta, S.J.

Presented by Lauren Arnold, independent art historian and research fellow at the USF Ricci Institute; author of Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures: The Franciscan Mission to China and Its Influence on the Art of the West, 1250-1350.

One of the most interesting vestiges of medieval missionary contact with Yuan China is the painting of The Heavenly Horse commemorating the presentation of a gift from Pope Benedict XII to the last Mongol emperor, Shundi. After being lost to the art world for 200 years, The Heavenly Horse was rediscovered in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing during the writing of Princely Gifts and Papal Treasures.

Since then, new research by the author has revealed a remarkable find: The Heavenly Horse has a companion painting in a major European museum. This companion scroll is not only mis-attributed, but it contains a hidden Christian artifact of considerable historic importance as well. Please join us for the first public presentation of this intriguing artifact, as Lauren Arnold re-introduces the two paintings together, explaining their significance vis-à-vis western Christian contact with China during the Yuan era.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Reservations recommended; call the
Ricci Institute, 415-422-6401.

For further inquiries, please contact:
Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History
University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim
2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
Tel 1-415-422-6401 · Fax 1-415-422-2291 · Email ricci@usfca.edu

Co-sponsored by the endowed EDS-Stewart Chair at the Ricci Institute, Friends of Ricci, USF Visual and Performing Arts Department of the College of Arts and Sciences.(top)