Zsolt Györegy – Translating Religion and Politics in Colonial South America

In this episode of the podcast, Zsolt Györegy, a PhD Fellow at IKOS, takes us to 17th-century South America and explains how cultural historians search for traces of native voices in missionaries’ chronicles using techniques of cultural translation. To learn more about Zsolt’s work, you can read his Open Access article Translating Guarani Artefacts in Antonio Ruiz de Montoya's Conquista Espiritual (2025). Text alternative to the episode