Jesuitbiblioteket i Poznań: En berättelse om överlevnad och motståndskraft.

Tvådagarsseminarium på engelska. 

The Jesuit Library in Poznań: A story of survival and resilience

10.00 Panel I: Jesuits, Pedagogy and Performance: Education, drama and the circulation of school theatre from England to Central Eastern Europe

Moderator, Rafał Wójcik, Adam Mickiewicz University

“Arthur Laurence Faunt and Edmund Campion: English Exiles, Jesuit Pedagogy and the Counter-Reformation Mission”, Clarinda Calma, Independent Scholar

“Jesuit Influence and Authorial Self-Conflict in Simeon of Polotsk’s Final Play Prodigal Son: Comparing the first print and Uppsala Manuscript”, Alessia Mankouskaya, UCL

 “From Stage to Codex: The Playbooks of Poznań Jesuits and College Theatre of Early Modern Europe”, Jolanta Rzegocka, Jesuit University Ignatianum

11.45 Panel II: Books, Devotion and Transmission: Spiritual texts, devotional practices and the movement of religious culture across collections and communities.

Moderator: Elin Andersson, National Library of Sweden (Stockholm).

“Female Literacy and Devotion: Exploring Adam Makowski's Biography of Barbara Lang, a Saintly Townswoman of Kraków”, Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee, Catholic University of Lublin

“The Story of One Book. Missale Varmiense (1587) in Uppsala University Library”, Justyna Kiliańćzyk-Zięba, Jagiellonian University

“The Absent Imitatio: Devotio Moderna Paradoxes in the Poznań Jesuit College Library and the Uppsala Connection”, Robert Maryks, Adam Mickiewicz University

14.15 Panel III: Censorship, Canons and Memory: Books, authority and the contested construction of memory and tradition across Reformation Europe

Moderator: Taeda Tomić, Uppsala University Library

“Censorship and the Shaping of a Canon in Antonio Possevino’s Bibliotheca Selecta”, Andreas Mazzetti, Newmaninstitutet

“’The Book of my Memory’: Narrative and Erasure in the English Reformation & From the Book of Images to Printed Booklets: Re-formations of English Memory”, Gerard Kilroy, Jesuit University Ignatianum & Maria Rogińska, Pedagogical University of Kraków

“Read with caution: The Controversial Erasmus in Vilnius University Library’,

Emilija Jovaišaitė-Martišauskienė, University College London

16.15 Panel IV: Libraries and Provenance: Tracing ownership, catalogues and the shaping of Jesuit and private libraries in early modern Europe

Kathleen Comerford, Moderator

“Between Jesuit libraries and Library Jesuitness. An attempt at a statistical analysis of the College libraries in Navahrudak, Minsk, and Slutsk”, Andrea Mariani, Adam Mickiewicz University Library

“’Libris’ and Provenance Research. Case study: ‘Medici’ in the Catalogus Universalis”, Jakub Łukaszewski, Adam Mickiewicz University

“The Libraries of Klas Rålamb”, Peter Sjökvist, Uppsala University Library

17.45 Closing Remarks, Gerard Kilroy