
Margherita Trento
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
- Centre d'études sud asiatiques et himalayennes (CESAH)
- Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP)
Présentation
I am associate professor (maîtresse de conférences) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), sffiliated to the Centre d'études sud-asiatiques et himalayennes - CESAH (formerly Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud - CEIAS) in Paris. Since September 2024, I am head of the Indology department at the Institut Français de Pondichéry (IFP).
I received my PhD in South Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in March 2020, with a dissertation on the social, cultural and literary history of Tamil Catholicism in the 17th and 18th centuries. I am currentlpy working on the social, political and intellectual history of a Tamil Śaiva siddhānta institution, the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam, in the 16th-18th centuries.
Publications
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Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth CenturyBRILL, 2022, 978-90-04-51162-0. ⟨10.1163/9789004511620⟩
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Missione, traduzione e livelli di culturaI gesuiti oltre le frontiere. Una nuova storia della Compagnia di Gesù. Vol. 1, Il Leone Verde, 2024, 886580503X
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Translating the dharma of Shiva in sixteenth-century Chidambaram: Maṟaiñāṉa Campantar’s CivatarumōttaramUniorPress. Śivadharmāmṛta: Essays on the Śivadharma and its Network, 2, 2021, Studies on the History of Śaivism, 978-88-6719-228-1
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Śivadharma or Bonifacio? Behind the Scenes of the Madurai Mission Controversy (1608–1619)The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World, Brill, pp.91-121, 2018, ⟨10.1163/9789004366299_006⟩
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From Jesuit Missionary to Tamil Pulavar: Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi SJ (1680-1747), the “Great Heroic Sage”L’Inde et l’Italie : Rencontres intellectuelles, politiques et artistiques, Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, pp.53-89, 2018, 9782713231544. ⟨10.4000/books.editionsehess.23276⟩
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The theater of accommodation: Strategies for legitimizing the Christian message in Madurai (c. 1610)The Acquaviva Project: Claudio Acquaviva's Generalate (1581—1615) and the Emergence of Modern Catholicism, Institute of Jesuit Sources, 2017, 099728238X
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BnF INDIEN 478: Cāmināta Piḷḷai’s Nacaraikkalampakam2020
Article de blog scientifique
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Donations to Śiva and his ascetics: the Tiruvāvaṭutuṟai ātīṉam copper-plates (15-19th century)Gift Protection in South and Southeast Asia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Sep 2024, Aubervillers, France
Communication dans un congrès
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Challenges and methodologies involved in editing the Śataratnasaṅgraha with the CatamaṇimālaiEditing Śaiva Texts and Commentaries: Issues of Methodology and Interpretation, Institut Français de Pondichéry, Dec 2024, Pondichéry, India
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Fishing for pearls across the network of Tamil dictionaries &co. in the BnF: Navigating the divides between native and non-native, practical and poetical lexicographyText Surrounding Texts final workshop, Jun 2022, Hambourg, Germany
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Le Notre Père au pays tamoul (XVIe−XVIIIe siècles)Le Notre Père, outil linguistique et objet de savoirs, May 2022, Université Paris Cité, France
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Commercio di anime e di perle tra Roma e il golfo del Mannar (XVI secolo)Horizons orientaux des savoirs romains sur la nature du monde, Nov 2021, Rome, Ecole Française de Rome, France
Communication dans un congrès
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A History of Sandeśa on Stage (and Its Aftermath): Sanskrit Padams from Eighteenth-century ThanjavurMapping the World through Courier Poetry, Mar 2021, Jerusalem (The Hebrew University), Israel
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Writing Christianity in Eighteenth-century TamiḻakamInvited lecture, Institute for the Dialogue of Culture and Religion (IDCR), Loyola College, Jul 2020, Chennai (India), India
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Missionaries in Malabar (18th century) : Imperial Connections and DissimulationConnecting Empires. Missionaries as Agents of Empires in the Early Modern Period, Oct 2020, Lorient, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
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Tamil folklore and Catholic devotion in the Tamil sermons of Giacomo Tommaso de’ Rossi SJ (1701-1774)American Historical Association Conference, Jan 2019, Chicago, United States
Communication dans un congrès
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La poetica dell’accommodatio. Grammatica e poesia Tamil nelle opere del missionario gesuita Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747)Invited lecture, May 2018, Rome Sapienza Universita di Roma, Italy
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Catholic geography and Tamil landscape in Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi’s (1680-1747) TēmpāvaṇiAnnual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Oct 2018, Madison (Wisconsin), United States
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Christian Epic and Tamil Genres in the eighteenth century.European Conference of South Asian Studies (ECSAS), European Association of South Asian Studies (EASAS); École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Jul 2018, Paris, France
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Tamil Poetry and Courtly Aspirations in the Life of Costanzo Gioseffo Beschi1 (1680-1747)Going Native or Remaining Foreign? Catholic Missionaries as Local Agents in Asia (17th to 18th Centuries), École française de Rome; Istituto svizzero di Roma; Deutsches Historisches Institut, May 2017, Rome, Italy
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TST Online Catalogue (<a href="https://tst.cnrs.fr">tst.cnrs.fr</a>)2022
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Édouard Ariel2022
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Édouard Ariel2022
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