Karina Bénazech Wendling, Sorbonne University, Paris, The use of the Irish language by Protestant missions in 19th c. Ireland: a multifaceted paradox. 

Karina Bénazech Wendling is a historian, specialised in Irish history and in the history of religion. She holds a PhD from the École Pratique des Hautes Études – PSL. Her previous project focused on the development of Irish education and Irish Bible societies in 19^th-century Ireland, and on the religious competition that ensued. She currently holds an Assistant Lecturer position at Sorbonne Université and prepares a postdoctoral diploma at the EPHE with a project entitled “Emancipation et Education in the transatlantic world: circulations of ideas and power struggles in the late 18^th and early 19^th centuries.” Several articles are available online, and she has recently contributed to an edited volume in French.

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