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Naoko Wake’s “Madness in History: Real and Imagined” will be broadcasted by C-SPAN “Lectures in History” program https://www.cspan.org/series/?lecturesInHistory at 8pm EST on January 21, 2017.

  Dr. Liam Brockey served as a historical consultant for the upcoming film Silence, directed by Martin Scorsese. Please find publicity below: http://statenews.com/article/2017/01/liam-brockey-consults-on-martin-scorsese-film https://www.publico.pt/2017/01/20/culturaipsilon/noticia/ao-ritmo-da-duvida-como-nas-mares-1758577 http://www.dn.pt/artes/interior/o-catolicismo-foi-crucial-para-manter-uma-presenca-portuguesa-na-asia-5565921.html http://www.tsf.pt/cultura/interior/o-historiador-que-ajudou-scorsese-a-perceber-a-historia-dos-jesuitas-portugueses-5613412.html

Dr. Wake discusses the significance of this historic move by President Obama on BBC’s Newsday programme here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03t0m7h (3:42)

Jennifer Eaglin (PhD, History MSU, 2015) has accepted a position as an assistant professor of Environmental History and Sustainability at Ohio State University. Congratulations, Jenn!

Liam Brockey will give the 2016 lecture in the Matteo Ricci Speakers Series at Saint Louis University on April 15. The title of his talk will be “Back and Forth across the Ming Empire: A Jesuit Journey in the 1620s”. For more information, see http://matteoricci.slu.edu… Continue Reading Liam Brockey lecture at Saint Louis University