A conversation with Carlo Ginzburg

Konstfack invites to a conversation between Carlo Ginzburg (via video link) and Andrej Slavik, moderated by Magnus Bartås.

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The event will take place in Mandelgren lecture hall via video link with Carlo Ginzburg. 
Please RSVP as seats are limited, so email mathew.gregory@konstfack.se.

Carlo Ginzburg has been one of the world's most celebrated historians for over half a century. At the forefront of scholarship ever since he spearheaded so-called microhistory in the 1970s, he has nevertheless followed a highly idiosyncratic path. Ginzburg is the author of numerous monographs on the history of early-modern Europe as well as innumerable essays on a dizzying range of subjects. A recurring theme in his work is witchcraft and other heresies, most famously in The Cheese and the Worms (1976), a work of meticulous scholarship which, astonishingly, has been translated into more than two dozen languages.

Closely intertwined with his empirical research is a sustained reflection on questions of historical method, for instance in his essay on "Clues" (1979), widely regarded as a foundational text in microhistory. Formally retired since more than a decade, Ginzburg has continued writing, lecturing and giving interviews up until today. His recent publications deal with such varying topics as the case of a Livonian werewolf, the writings of Machiavelli and Pascal, the ambiguities of secularism and, revisiting one of his earliest interests, art historian Aby Warburg's notion of Pathosformeln.

In connection with the event Konstfack Collection in collaboration with Stockholm City Museum and The Italian Cultural Institute presents a longer conversation with Carlo Ginzburg (by Magnus Bärtås, Andrej Slávik and Michelle Teran) that took place in Ginzburg’s home in Bologna, 26-27 October 2014.