The Indipetae of the Society of Jesus: letters of an inner journey: an ongoing investigation into the Indipetae letters of the old and new company

• Grant number: 17/01340-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Visiting Researcher Grant - International
• Start date: August 17, 2017
• End date: August 26, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Fundamentals and Assessments in Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Marina Massimi
• Grantee: Marina Massimi
• Visiting researcher: Emanuele Colombo
• Visiting researcher institution: DePaul University , United States
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Ribeirão Preto

Abstract

The project of the scientific visit of Professor Emanuele Colombo to Brazil, includes several activities in the Campus of USP of Ribeirão Preto: 1) Mini-course on the subject of the correspondence and the letters Indipetae and its several dimensions, to be realized in the Campus of Ribeirão Preto of University of São Paulo, on August (22 and 23, 2017), open to undergraduate and graduate students and professors from USP and other universities present in the city of Ribeirão Preto; 2) working meetings with the researcher responsible, to continue the joint research projects on the subject of Indipetae letters, taking into account projects already carried out in recent years; 3) Working meetings with Prof. Dr. Carlos Zeron (USP), and Prof. Dr. Alcir Pécora (UNICAMP) to follow up, as an organizing committee, the organization of the international congress "Slavery of the Body and Slavery of the Soul", to be held at the Ambrosiana Academy in Milan, Italy, on November 22 and 23, 2017; 4) a working meeting on the genre of epistolary correspondence and the relationship between letters and missionary experience, with the mastermind Marcela Elias Santos (Case Fapesp n.2016 / 07103-8), whose research is based on sources from the epistolary genre (AU)