Oxford Centre for European History and Isaiah Berlin Annual Lecture: On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Carlo Ginzburg will present the Oxford Centre for European History and Isaiah Berlin Annual Lecture:
On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connoisseurship, Once Again
Chaired by: Filippo de Vivo
Carlo Ginzburg received a PhD from the University of Pisa in 1961 and has held teaching positions in several universities across Italy and America, including the Scuola Normale in Pisa and the University of California, Los Angeles. His areas of specialism range from the Italian Renaissance to early modern European history to modern intellectual history, and he is a pioneer of microhistory.
Professor Ginzburg has published a significant number of papers and books on topics from witchcraft and agrarian cults in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (1966), to Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes (1984). The Cheese and the Worms (1975) has been translated in more than 25 languages, and his latest books are Nevertheless: Machiavelli, Pascal (London, 2022) and Secularism and Its Ambiguities: Four Case Studies (Budapest, 2023).
