Past Forums

MRI Public Forum: The Man Who Made China a Literate Nation

Wednesday, 11 Sep 2024 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: The Coining of the Trinitarian Doctrine and Its Chinese Translation

Friday, 14 Jun 2024 at 18:30

MRI Public Forum: Corporate Philanthropy Seminar

Tuesday, 14 May 2024 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: Learning Mercy: Spiritual Transformation in Jonah and Hosea

Tuesday, 19 Mar 2024 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: From “overcoming self” to “overcoming nature” The teaching on human nature in Diego de Pantoja and Giulio Aleni

Monday, 5 Feb 2024 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: From Matteo Ricci to the Chinese Rites Controversy: A Historical and Theological Analysis

Wednesday, 3 Jan 2024 at 15:00

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: Fr. Yves Raguin, S.J. and Interreligious Dialogue

Monday, 11 Dec 2023 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: RELIGION AND SCIENCE AS PARTNERS. The life and research of Fr. Johann Nepomuk Hinteröcker SJ

Tuesday, 17 Oct 2023 at 19:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: A Friend and a Diplomat. Francesco Sambiasi in China (1610-1649)

Friday, 15 Sep 2023 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: Responsible Management Education in the Post-Pandemic Era

Tuesday, 25 Jul 2023 at 15:00

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: Matteo Ricci’s Teaching on the Goodness of Human Nature: Its Thomistic and Neo-Confucian Sources

Wednesday, 28 Jun 2023 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: Global Encounters between China and Europe: A Comparative Study between Macao and Marseille, 1680-1840

Friday, 2 Jun 2023 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: HOW TO BECOME GOOD LEADERS? The Challenge of the First Deignan Award

Tuesday, 14 Mar 2023 at 18:30 - 20:00

Macau Ricci Institute Online Public Forum: The Perception of ‘New Stewardship’ in Macau: A Three-phase Analysis

Tuesday, 14 Feb 2023 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Online Public Forum: Fr. Gregory Koay SJ: Spiritual transformation in the poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins and its resonance in the Chinese poet Su Shi

Tuesday, 17 Jan 2023 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: Johann Adam Schall von Bell – In the Service of Three Emperors

Wednesday, 14 Dec 2022 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Public Forum: Dr Hu Shih China’s Great Liberal of the 20th Century

Wednesday, 16 Nov 2022 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Online Forum: B4P Program in Business Education and its Spiritual Presuppositions

Wednesday, 28 Sep 2022 at 18:30

Macau Ricci Institute Online Public Forum: Sustainability through Integral and Spiritual Leadership

Wednesday, 8 Jun 2022 at 18:30

MRI Public Forum: Corporate Social Responsibility in Macau & the Deignan Award for Responsible Entrepreneurship

Wednesday, 27 Apr 2022 at 18:30

MRI Online Forum: Jesuit Higher Education: Becoming Men and Women for Others. Ideal and Reality

Wednesday, 30 Mar 2022 at 18:30

MRI Online Forum: Holiness and Spiritual Transformation in the Confucian Tradition

Wednesday, 23 Feb 2022 at 18:30

MRI Online Forum: Redefining Spiritual Transformation

Monday, 24 Jan 2022 at 18:30

MRI Online Forum: Rendering Spiritual Friendship in Troubled Times: Giuseppe Castiglione and the Qianlong Emperor

Wednesday, 1 Dec 2021 at 18:30

MRI Online Forum - Being Spiritual in Life Vicissitudes: The Present Time and the Perpetual Spiritual Journey in the light of Gregory of Nyssa's Mysticism

Wednesday, 24 Nov 2021 at 18:30

MRI Online Forum: The interrelationship of the "China Dream" and integral Ecology

Wednesday, 10 Nov 2021 at 18:30

[Postponed] MRI Forum - CSR Reporting in the Greater Bay Area: Institutional Environments, Measures and Future Application in Macao

Wednesday, 29 Sep 2021 at 18:30

MRI Forum 106: CONTEMPLATION AND LEADERSHIP: In the Footsteps of Fr. Yves Raguin, S.J.

Wednesday, 5 May 2021 at 18:30

Forum on Social Friendship as a Path to Peace

Saturday, 17 Apr 2021 at 15:00

MRI Forum 105: “Jesuit Art in Macau: between Goa and Japan (16th – 17th centuries)”

Wednesday, 14 Apr 2021 at 18:30

MRI Forum 104: “From Confucius to Zhu Xi: the adoption of Neo-Confucianism by the Jesuit François Noël in his Philosophia Sinica (1711)”

Wednesday, 17 Mar 2021 at 18:30

MRI Forum 103: The Gift of the Celestial Horse. Mission and Diplomacy in China

Wednesday, 3 Feb 2021 at 18:30

MRI Forum 102: “François Ravary SJ and the Musical Culture of Mid-19th Century Shanghai”

Wednesday, 11 Nov 2020 at 18:30

MRI Forum 101: "Highlights Of Macao's Environmental Policies"

Monday, 28 Sep 2020 at 18:30

MRI Forum 100: “The Dao of Heaven: Inculturation of the Early Christianity in China”

Wednesday, 15 Jul 2020 at 18:30

MRI Forum 99: “Jesuits and Global Goods: Commercial Routes from Macao to Europe, Asia and Latin-America (17th and 18th centuries)”

Wednesday, 13 Nov 2019

MRI Forum 98: Joseph Ma Xiangbo The John Henry Newman of China? An attempt to rehabilitate an underdog “Father” of Chinese Catholicism

Tuesday, 9 Apr 2019

MRI Forum 97: The Migration Crisis and Policy in Europe

Tuesday, 8 Jan 2019

MRI Forum 96: "Silence",Endo Shusaku and Japanese Christian History

Wednesday, 10 Oct 2018

MRI Forum 95: MRI Forum - Diplomacy and artistic exchanges on the Silk Road and the Spice Road: some exemplary figures

Wednesday, 11 Jul 2018

MRI Forum 94: MRI Forum - Sinicizing Church Architecture in the 1920s and 1930s

Wednesday, 6 Jun 2018

MRI Forum 93: Book presentation - Global History and New Polycentric Approaches: Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System

Friday, 27 Apr 2018

MRI Forum 92: The Intercultural Weaving of Historical Texts - Chinese scholars and European missionaries writing about ancient

Tuesday, 10 Apr 2018

MRI Forum 91: Responsible Leadership and Guillaume-Henri Dufour

Tuesday, 6 Mar 2018

MRI Forum 90: The Ethical Foundation of the European Union

Wednesday, 10 Jan 2018

Book Launching Ceremony: Macao's College and Church of St. Joseph: Splendour of the Baroque in China

Monday, 4 Dec 2017

MRI Forum 89: The trans-formative journey of Giuseppe Castiglione S.J. into China and its visual culture

Tuesday, 2 May 2017

MRI Forum 88: The Imaginative Melancholy of Matteo Ricci

Wednesday, 18 Jan 2017

MRI Forum 87: Spirituality and Poetry

Friday, 2 Dec 2016

MRI Forum 86: Art, Culture, and Resonance in the Jesuit Mission in Aisa

Tuesday, 29 Nov 2016

MRI Forum 85: Ethical Leadership: A delicate balancing act

Monday, 11 Jul 2016

MRI Forum 84: Successful Incultuaration of Buddhism in China

Monday, 20 Jun 2016

MRI Forum 83: Heritage in the making: Culture, local agency, and the city

Tuesday, 29 Mar 2016

MRI Forum 82: The Society, Economy and Politics of Macao's Casino Capitalism: Crisis or Opportunity?

Wednesday, 3 Jun 2015

MRI Forum 81: A Borderless Village: Binding / Bounding Spiritual Ties among Phlong Migrants in Greater Bangkok

Thursday, 11 Dec 2014

MRI Forum 80: 最后在华耶稣会士：贺清泰（1735-1813）

Tuesday, 16 Sep 2014

MRI Forum 79: New Great Power Relations of a Rising China

Wednesday, 25 Jun 2014

MRI Forum 78: "I Add Nothing & I Take Away Nothing" - an UNESCO Asia-Pacific Office award-winning Project on Cultural Heritage & Conservation at YimTinTsai, Hong Kong

Sunday, 25 May 2014

MRI Forum 77: A SPECIAL MRI FORUM ON BOOKS PRESENTATION jointly organized and hosted with the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong & Macau and with Macao Museum

Wednesday, 12 Feb 2014

MRI Forum 76: "The Cosmographer: A Renaissance Cartographic Itinerary"

Friday, 22 Nov 2013

MRI Forum 75: "Accommodating Civilizations: Reforming the Jesuit Missions in Asia, 1580-1620"

Wednesday, 30 Oct 2013

MRI Forum 74: "The Jesuit Garden and Emperor Qianlong’s View of the Labyrinth"

Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013

MRI Forum 73: "Altruism and Christian-Confucian Dialogue"

Wednesday, 29 May 2013

MRI Forum 72: "Milestones of China-Italy Cultural Exchange: The Overview of Historical Sino-European Architecture in China"

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

MRI Forum 71: "Hosting Gods versus Hosted by God: Comparing the Formation of Subjectivities in Chinese Religion and Christianity"

Wednesday, 17 Apr 2013

MRI Forum 70: "The Elusive Goal of Nation Building: Asian/Confucian Values and Citizenship Education in Singapore"

Wednesday, 20 Feb 2013

MRI Forum 69: "Buddhism under Attack and its Revival in the Ming Dynasty: The Nanhua and the Guangxiao Monasteries in Guangdong"

Thursday, 29 Nov 2012

MRI Forum 68: "Commercial Networks and Slavery in 16th-Century Macao"

Wednesday, 19 Sep 2012

MRI Forum 67: "Some Thoughts on Writing the History of Chinese Thought"

Wednesday, 27 Jun 2012

MRI Forum 66: "The Turin Shroud: the actual image of Christ?"

Wednesday, 18 Apr 2012

MRI Forum 65: "Ecology, Livelihood, Culture and Sustainable Peace The Experiences of PeaceWomen from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan"

Tuesday, 28 Feb 2012

MRI Forum 64: "The 1602 Map by Matteo Ricci"

Monday, 31 Oct 2011

MRI Forum 63: An evening celebrating the launch of our book "Playing Bach in France and in China: An Encounter of Musicians in Macau"

Thursday, 8 Sep 2011

MRI Forum 62: "Macaulogy: a Polymorphic Approach to an Historical and Dynamic Phenomenon"

Monday, 16 May 2011

MRI Forum 61: "Riding the Eagle to Break Free from the Lion: Houqua’s Positioning of the China Trade in view of the Shifting Geopolitical Landscape of the Early 19th Century"

Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011

MRI Forum 60: “We are victims, aren't we?” Self-victimizing nationalism as an obstacle to Sino-Japanese reconciliation

Wednesday, 16 Feb 2011

MRI Forum 59: Book Launch of Portrait of a Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552 – 1610) with the participation of Louis Ha and Anders Hansson

Tuesday, 7 Sep 2010

MRI Forum 58: "Rock Carvings in Hong Kong, Macau and the Region – Description, Dating, Interpretation, Conservation"

Thursday, 17 Jun 2010

MRI Forum 57: "Bible and New Chinese Literature in the 20th Century"

Thursday, 22 Apr 2010

MRI Forum 56: "Xiaojiao Village: The Historical Transformation of a Rural Community in Northern China"

Wednesday, 24 Feb 2010

MRI Forum 55: "Images of Macao in Hong Kong Cinema"

Wednesday, 9 Dec 2009

MRI Forum 54: "European Supranationalism - The Battle of Spirit of Jean Monnet and Vision of General de Gaulle"

Wednesday, 4 Nov 2009

MRI Forum 53: "Global Modernity and Linguistic Universality: Invention of the Modern Chinese Language"

Monday, 12 Oct 2009

MRI Forum 52: "Contemporary Chinese Buddhism: Doctrines and Practices"

Tuesday, 29 Sep 2009

MRI Forum 51: "China Trade !"

Thursday, 11 Jun 2009

MRI Forum 50: "The Jesuits Le Cheron d´Incarville (1706-1757) and João de Loureiro (1717-1791) and the Plants of China"

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

MRI Forum 49: "Matteo Ricci's Ascent to Beijing (1583-1610)"

Monday, 11 May 2009

MRI Forum 48: "The Chinese Century (c.1740 to c. 1840): Its Historical and Contemporary Significance"

Wednesday, 25 Mar 2009

MRI Forum 47: "Cultures of Survival, 1958-1962"

Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009

MRI Forum 46: "The Three Historical Encounters between East and West as Reflected in St. Paul College, Macao"

Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009

MRI Forum 45: "The Kangxi Emperor and the Struggle between the French and Portuguese Jesuits, 1688-1708"

Tuesday, 16 Dec 2008

MRI Forum 44: "Reading pleasures: on translating poetry"

Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008

MRI Forum 43: "The Background of Matteo Ricci. The Shaping of his Intellectual and Scientific Endowment"

Monday, 6 Oct 2008

MRI Forum 42: "Beyond Zhang Yimou's Generation: Nostalgia, Humanism and Survival of the Silent Majority in Chinese Cinema since 1997"

Wednesday, 17 Sep 2008

MRI Forum 41: "Clearing the Heart, Seizing Time and Opportunity: European Allegorical Prints in Late Ming China and Literati's Reception"

Wednesday, 11 Jun 2008

MRI Forum 40: "神州交流–Chinese Cross Currents as a Cross-Cultural Meeting Point Between Chinese and Foreign Intellectuals: Past Approaches and Today’s Challenges"

Wednesday, 21 May 2008

MRI Forum 39: "China Rules: Chinese Dress from 1644 to the Present"

Tuesday, 6 May 2008

MRI Forum 38: "China’s first-ever team appearance at an Olympics — the footballers’ adventure of 1936"

Wednesday, 23 Apr 2008

MRI Forum 37: "Buddhist Communities in China: Launching of Christian Cochini's Book"

Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008

MRI Forum 36: "The Perception of Maritime Space in Song, Yuan and Ming Sources"

Monday, 10 Mar 2008

MRI Forum 35: "Macao Poetry Today"

Wednesday, 20 Feb 2008

MRI Forum 34: "The International Environment and China's Twin Models of Development"

Wednesday, 23 Jan 2008

MRI Forum 33: "Poland is closer than you think"

Tuesday, 11 Dec 2007

MRI Forum 32: "Multi-ethnic culture in early Society of Jesus"

Thursday, 22 Nov 2007

MRI Forum 31: "The Defences of Macau"

Tuesday, 16 Oct 2007

MRI Forum 30: "Chinese Medicine and Epidemic Diseases ― some lectures from the past"

Wednesday, 19 Sep 2007

MRI Forum 29: "Reading the Classics at the Age of Globalization"

Tuesday, 26 Jun 2007

MRI Forum 28: "China – India relationship: pragmatic or strategic partners?"

Thursday, 17 May 2007

MRI Forum 27: "André Gide and mise en abyme in The Counterfeiters – Launching of the book written by Artur Wardega, published in March 2007 by CCTP in Beijing"

Tuesday, 8 May 2007

MRI Forum 26: "Evolution of the Diocese of Hong Kong from 1949 to 1997"

Tuesday, 20 Mar 2007

MRI Forum 25: "Heritage and Urban Development in Macao"

Wednesday, 7 Feb 2007

MRI Forum 24: "Œdipus in Asia and the resistance to Psychoanalysis"

Wednesday, 22 Nov 2006

MRI Forum 23: "China and Capitalism: A Reflection"

Thursday, 13 Jul 2006

MRI Forum 22: "Zheng He's Fleet—The Pinnacle of Ancient Chinese Shipbuilding"

Tuesday, 30 May 2006

MRI Forum 21: "Macao: Living in China, Living with the Border"

Tuesday, 25 Apr 2006

MRI Forum 20: "Giuseppe Castiglione, S.J.—An Italian Master Painter in the Courts of Three Emperors"

Wednesday, 29 Mar 2006

MRI Forum 19: "The Qigong Movement and China's Religious Question"

Wednesday, 15 Feb 2006

MRI Forum 18: "Exploration of the Impact of the Gaming Industry on Family Life in Macau"

Tuesday, 13 Dec 2005

MRI Forum 17: "Across China's Mirror"

Tuesday, 15 Nov 2005

MRI Forum 16: "Changes in Legal Education in China"

Wednesday, 20 Jul 2005

MRI Forum 15: "Macau: An Economy in Transition"

Wednesday, 8 Jun 2005

MRI Forum 14: "The Forbidden City — Revealed from Inside"

Wednesday, 25 May 2005

MRI Forum 13: "Chinese Urban Culture and the Ruins of Macau"

Wednesday, 11 May 2005

MRI Forum 12: "Macau's contribution to China's modernisation along history"

Wednesday, 30 Mar 2005

MRI Forum 11: "Understanding the Taiwan Independence Issue and Its Policy Implications"

Tuesday, 22 Feb 2005

MRI Forum 10: "Pipe Organ Building and the Jesuits in China"

Tuesday, 25 Jan 2005

MRI Forum 9: "Gutenberg comes to East Asia: The Jesuit Mission Press in China & Japan (1590-1620)"

Thursday, 16 Dec 2004

MRI Forum 8: "Crouching Tiger - Hidden Dragon, Infernal Affairs, and Hero — A comparative study on the spatial perspectives of three recent award-winning films from Greater China"

Tuesday, 9 Nov 2004

MRI Forum 7: "Political Participation in Hong Kong: Some Recent Trends and Prospects"

Monday, 25 Oct 2004

MRI Forum 6: "In Search of a Chinese Shadow: The Chinese Pro-democracy Movement"

Wednesday, 15 Sep 2004

MRI Forum 5: "Continuity and Change in Intercultural Relations among Chinese in the Americas: Understanding the Present through Selected Experiences of the 19th Century"

Tuesday, 8 Jun 2004

MRI Forum 4: "A Review of the History of Hong Kong Chinese Literature and an Overview of Post-97 Hong Kong Chinese Poetic Circles"

Wednesday, 5 May 2004

MRI Forum 3: "Local History in Hong Kong: An Attempt at some Global Understanding"

Tuesday, 24 Feb 2004

MRI Forum 2: "Chinese Religious Traditions in Contemporary China"

Tuesday, 20 Jan 2004

MRI Forum 1: "Reintegration with Mainland China: The Contrasting Experiences of Hong Kong and Macau"

Thursday, 20 Nov 2003

MRI Forum: Launching of the First Facsimile & Critical Edition of the Portuguese-Chinese Manuscript Dictionary

Friday, 12 Oct 2001

MRI Forum: Exhibition of Macau: East-West Cultural Relics

Monday, 1 Jan 2001