The Jesuit Library of Poznań: A Story of Survival and Resilience Colloquium Programme, day 2

Date
16 October 2025, 10:00–18:00
Location
Carolina Rediviva, Tidskriftsläsesalen
Type
Course
Web page
https://libcal.ub.uu.se/event/4449386
Organiser
University Library

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

“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

“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',

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

“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

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