The Samurai & the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan

Regis College 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Toronto Jesuit History Research Group presents: The Samurai & the Cross: The Jesuit Enterprise in Early Modern Japan, w/M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J. Friday, October 21, 2022, at 1-3 PM, ET -- Regis College (Classroom C) or Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYucuquqDsjGd3fhGZQLOu7zxDcqxvLWj5p Registration is required for both online and in-person participants.   After the arrival of Francis […]

Toward Père Castel’s ‘Art of Making Rain and Fair Weather’

Regis College 100 Wellesley St W, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Join us to discuss a chapter from Prof. Richard’s book manuscript on the life and natural philosophy of the French polymath Louis-Bertrand Castel, S.J. (1688-1757). Richard’s book traces the emergence, development, and dissemination of Castel's insights into the role of human art and industry in producing meteorological, climatic, and geological phenomena. By asking how an […]