Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Programme TEEME are pleased to invite you to a lecture of Professor Carlo Ginzburg Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Professor Ginzburg taught at the universities of Bologna and UC Los Angeles. His principal books, The Cheese and the Worms (1976), The Night Battles (1966) and Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches Sabbath (1989), have been translated into a number of languages. They combine wide historical, anthropological and literary erudition with the knowledge of theory and history of law. Other books, such as The Judge and the Historian (1991), explore the relations between historical and legal practice, literary and factual aspects of history writing (History, Rhetoric, and Proof, 1999 2000) or fiction, truth and falsification in historiography and literature (Threads and Traces: True False Fictive, 2012). The affinities between historiography and art history are traced in The Enigma of Piero (1985 2000) on the Italian Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca. Questions of English literary history and literary genres are discussed in No Island is an Island. Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (2000). LOOKING AT EUROPE FROM THE ORIENT (1704-1706): REFLECTIONS ON A WORK IN PROGRESS The lecture will focus on an early document of a comparative approach to religions (M. de la Créquinière’s Conformité des coutumes des Indiens Orientaux, avec celles des Juifs et des autres Peuples de l’Antiquité, Brussels, 1704), as an example of the Enlightenment ambivalence towards European civilization. What is the relationship between wide-ranging historical statements and a punctual demonstration? Which are the implications of a negative case study? A tentative answer to these questions will follow. Thursday, 31 October 2013, 18:00, Room No. 131, Great Auditorium, Charles University, Arts Building, Prague 1, nám. J. Palacha 2 The lecture will be preceded by the presentation of the Czech translation of History, Rhetoric and Proof published by the Karolinum Press.
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