14.5.2014 Venue: P.A. Munch's building, Seminar Room 14
14.00-15.00 coffee and get together
15.00-15.30 Antje Flüchter (Oslo/Norway): Introduction: Comparing Catechism – Translating Religion?
1. Session: Chair: Antje Flüchter (Oslo/Norway)
15.30-16.30: Ana Hosne (Heidelberg/Germany): Finding, naming and translating the Christian God in the Jesuit missions (China, Japan, Peru, 16th-17 Centuries)
16.30.-17.30: Anand Amaladass (Chennai/India): The Mystery of the Holy Trinity in Roberto de Nobili's "Catechism" (1577-1656)
15.5.2014 Venue: Georg Sverdrup's building, Group Room 4
2. Session: Chair: Renate Dürr (Tübingen/Germany)
9.00-10.00 Karen Anderson (Toronto/Canada): The Christianization of women in 17th century New France and some 21st century entanglements
10.00-10.30 coffee break
10.30-11.30 Giulia Nardini (Heidelberg/Germany): The concept of wedding dharma in Nobili’s Gnana Upadesam
11.30-12.30 Leonardo Cohen (Jerusalem/Israel): Marian catechism as apologetic literature: The Jesuits and the devotion to the Virgin Mary in Ethiopia
3. Session: Gita Dharampal-Frick (Heidelberg/Germany)
14.00-15.00 John Steckley (Toronto/Canada): Making up Words: Father Jean de Brebeuf's Wendat Catechism
15.00-16.00 Alex Walsham (Cambridge/UK) Posies against Pestilential Vapours: Catholic Translations of Peter Canisius's Catechism in Protestant Britain
16.00-16.30 coffee break
Chair: Christina Brauner (Münster/Germany)
16.30-17.30 Maria Crăciun (Cluj/Romania): Interpreting Luther's Small Catechism: definitions of sin within the Saxon community of early modern Transylvania
17.30-18.30 Flemming Nielsen (Nuuk/University of Greenland) The earliest Greenlandic catechisms
16.5.2014 Venue: Georg Sverdrup's building, Group Room 4
4. Session: Chair: John Ødemark (Oslo/Norway)
10.00-11.00: Paolo Aranha (Munich/Germany): Sneaky catechisms: Was the Ezour Vedam a præparatio evangelica?
11.00-12.00: Kiri Paramore (Leiden/Netherlands) Inculturation in East Asia History: the Problem of Politicization
12.30-13.00 concluding discussion