The Sangalli Institute Summer Seminar 9th - 13th June 2025

Summer Seminar

The Archives of the Religious Orders of the Counter-Reformation:

Education, Apostolate, Missions

Period: 9th - 13th June 2025

The Sangalli Institute for the religious history and cultures of Florence is pleased to announce its third workshop on the central archives of the religious orders, which will be held in Rome from 9th to 13th June 2025, with a specific focus on the post-tridentine Orders, and their involvement in education and missions.
This workshop will focus on the archives of some important religious orders and on their materials, providing especially, but not only, to young scho- lars in Humanities a new perspective on global Catholicism from Modern Ages to the Contemporary Era. The workshop will offer a multi-disci- plinary approach to the role played by the religious orders and their impact from an historical, educational, ethno-anthropological and art historical point of view, and on a global scale. The participants will be introduced to the study of the religious orders and their archives and will learn how to know, read and understand the different kinds of documents preserved therein.
This workshop will be particularly useful for any students enrolled in graduate and Ph.D. programs in history and history of pedagogy and schools, but also for archivists, museum curators, art historians, anthropologists and established scholars who are currently working on global Catholicism.
The seminar will consist of morning lectures on the history of some crucial catholic religious orders, archival research, and palaeography. Participants will be encouraged to introduce their current or future research in order to have useful feedbacks from the archivists and professors involved in the seminar.
The afternoon sessions will be devoted to visit a selected group of archives of the same religious orders. Morning lectures and guided visits will be
held in English.
During the seminar the following archives will be visited:
1) Archives of the Generalate of the Ursulines of the Roman Union
2) Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (Jesuits)
3) General Archives of the Pious Schools (Piarists)
4) General Historical Archives of the Barnabites
5) General Historical Archives of the Teatines
The lectures and the laboratories will be held, among the others, by Paolo Aranha (Pontificia Università Urbaniana, Roma); Federica Favino (Sapienza Università di Roma); P. Filippo Lovison (Pontificia Università Lateranense, Roma); Querciolo Mazzonis (Università di Teramo); Andrea Vanni (Università Roma Tre).

A basic knowledge of Italian is recommended, but no previous archival and palaeographic experience is required. Students will be encouraged to develop and improve their current researches by meeting with the archivists and the professors in order to plan future research-trips to Rome, and more broadly to Italy.
Perspective applicants should send to the following e-mail address: segreteria@istitutosangalli.it
1) a one-page CV
2) a brief statement letter (no more than one A4 page) in which they explain how this seminar will improve their research.
The above email address should also be used for any queries pertaining to administrative details, course tuition and general information. Information
about possible accommodation in Rome will also be provided.
Cost of the seminar (including the morning lectures and visits to the archives): 1.000,00 € (one thousand euros).
Up to a maximum of 5 registrations amounting at € 600,00 (six hundred euros) each will be reserved to master students, not yet graduated nor enrolled in a Ph.D. program. The selection will be made on the basis of their motivations to the participation to the workshop and the relevance
of their research. A special rate of € 800,00 (eight hundred euros) will be reserved to the Ph.D. students who have participated to the past winter course on Papal Archives, and € 500,00 (five hundred euros) for master’s degree students who have already partecipated to the same course.
The registrations will be closed as soon as the number of 15 participants will be reached. We invite therefore, if interested, to send the applications as soon as possible, in order to book ahead flights and accommodations in Rome during that week, especially considering this jubilee year.
Deadline for application: 15th April 2025
Scientific coordination: Matteo Binasco (University for foreigners of Siena), Massimo Carlo Giannini (University of Teramo/Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Maurizio Sangalli (University for foreigners of Siena)