INSTITUTE NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Institute Invites Applications for Archival Research Fellow
[23 September 2009] The Ricci Institute
for Chinese-Western Cultural History at the University of San Francisco Center
for the Pacific Rim is pleased to invite applications for the "Ricci
Institute Archival Fellowship." For complete details see the full PDF
announcement.
The Ricci Institute Welcomes Archival Research Fellow
[18 September 2008] Dr. Isabelle Duceux, a French national and currently working in Mexico, is the recipient of the Ricci Institute's “2008-2009 Visiting Fellowship” for archival research. Dr. Duceux received her doctoral degree in Chinese Philosophy from the Colégio de Mexico, Mexico.
While in residence at the Ricci Institute in the spring of 2009, Dr. Duceux will continue her translation and analysis of the Jesuit treatise on the issue of soul, and assist the Ricci Institute to start creating a standard catalogue of the Father Francis Rouleau Archival Collection.
Dr. Melissa Dale Accepts a New Position at UC Berkeley
 [10 September 2008] Dr. Melissa Dale, Associate Director for Research at the Ricci Institute, has accepted a new position at the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Dale came to the Ricci Institute in 2005.
Since then, Dr. Dale has been instrumental in launching Ricci Institute Research , a biennial e-newsletter and implementing new research projects and publications at the Ricci Institute, most notably, among others, “ Gender, Culture, and Power: Chinese and Western Women Interact in Late Imperial and Early Modern China” (2006), “ Jesuits & Medicine in China at the Qing Imperial Court” (2007), and “Music & Culture: Chinese-Western Musical Exchange from the 16 th – 20 th Centuries” (2008). She will be greatly missed by the staff of the Ricci Institute and many scholars in our field.
New Grants Support the Digitization of the Archival
Collection
[28 August 2008] The Ricci Institute recently received a grant
of $50,000 from the Odell Foundation in San Francisco. This grant will
be matched dollar-per-dollar by the Chinese Province
of the Society of Jesus. The combined $100,000 will assist the Ricci Institute to
complete in the next two years the digitization of the Canton Diocese Archives
Collection, a unique collection of 12,000 folios of archival documents
dating from 1878 to 1950.
Written in French, Latin, Chinese, Italian, English
and Portuguese, those documents not only capture the religious life of
the Catholic Church during this period of 80 years, but also
provide documentation of activities in the Canton area relating to diplomacy,
government relations, and the social and cultural life of the times. |
