Event

Twenty-Third Annual Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Lecture - Microhistory and Global History

 

Carlo Ginzburg, Professor Emeritus at UCLA and a noted Italian historian and proponent of the field of microhistory.Francesca Trivellato, Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Tuesday, March 31, 20205:00pm - 6:30pmClass of 1978 Orrery PavilionVan Pelt-Dietrich Library Center3420 Walnut StPhiladelphia, PAAs part of a fellowship year devoted to the everyday, the familial, and the lived-in, the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies has invited internationally renowned historian Carlo Ginzburg to reflect on his pioneering research in conversation with historian Francesca Trivellato of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. The discussion will touch on the relationship between micro-history and global history, the relevance of Ginzburg's work for the study of the Jews and marginalized others, the intersections between his life and his work, and the nature of the historian's craft, among other topics that have been illumined by Ginzburg's fecund and capacious intellect.Sponsors
Center for Italian Studies, the History Department, Italian Studies Program, Jewish Studies Program, and the Kislak Center for Special Collectionshttps://katz.sas.upenn.edu/events/microhistory-and-global-history