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Gæsteforelæsning på engelsk / Guest lecture in English

Crossing cultural borders then and now
In the fish market at Tranquebar and in the archive


Dr Will Sweetman
Senior lecturer, Department of Religion,
University of Otago, New Zealand

The gulf which separates contemporary scholars from their subjects in Tranquebar under Danish rule is as great as that between the different cultures represented in Tranquebar in that period. Moreover those cultures were multiple; just as missionaries sought to exploit differences among Hindus, so missionary reports of Indian society were exploited by different groups in Europe. These differences and the challenges they present for cross-cultural understanding will be illustrated by an examination of a collection of Tamil texts assembled by the Protestant missionary, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, in Tranquebar in the first decade of the eighteenth century.

Venue:
The Cinema Lecture Hall (Biografen), The National Museum, Ny Vestergade 10, Copenhagen.
Time:
Tuesday, 21 June, 14:30-15:30.

Organizers:

Prof. A. R. Venkatachalapathy and Prof. Esther Fihl,
The Tranquebar Initiative of the National Museum
&
Alternative Spaces, University of Copenhagen
&
Asian Dynamic Initiative
Time:
Tuesday, 21 June, 14:30-15:30

Venue:
The National Museum
Bartholomäus ZiegenbalgTemple procession