Transnational Religion: Textual Trails (Or how to domesticate the transnational) Seminar

Time:: 17:00 - 18:30
Date:: 16 May 2018
Venue:: Building 65 Room 1177 Avenue Campus SO17 1BF

For more information regarding this seminar, please email Dr Heidi Armbruster at H.Armbuster@soton.ac.uk .

Event details

Part of the annual seminar series for TNS.

This talk will look at the transnationality of religion and how the spread of religion is supported by the printed word. It will use the example of global Catholicism and devotional reading to question how orthodoxies emanating from the Vatican reach the lives of Catholics in the Anglophone world. It will look at the intersection of translation, book history and religion to examine how each can work together and provide momentum for transnational influence. By focusing on the materiality of the transmitted words, the talk will discuss how popular printing allowed for the transnational to enter the domestic sphere.

Speaker information

Anne O'Connor, NUI Galway. Anne O’Connor is the co-editor (in collaboration with Dr. Dáire Keogh (DCU) and Dr. Colin Barr (University of Aberdeen)) of The Correspondence of Paul Cullen (Irish Manuscripts Commission), a project that received a major grant from the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. As part of this ambitious project, she has gathered and translated the Italian correspondence of Cardinal Paul Cullen. She is currently the Principal Investigator in the project ‘Changing Words/Changing Worlds’ which is examining translation in nineteenth-century Ireland. The project has been funded by the Irish Research Council (2013-2015) under its Research Project Grants Scheme.