Public Lecture: ‘Taking it like candy’: Medicinal Chocolate and the Society of Jesus
By the seventeenth-century, chocolate – most widely consumed in beverage form – was the drink de jour for many and its curative powers were being heralded by doctors and laymen alike in treatises and chronicles. My paper, “Taking it like candy,” examines the...
Public Lecture: Museums as Archives. Cultural Emergence, Disappearance, and Reemergence through Museum Collections
Recent academic and societal debates on the role of museums have emphasized the work of collections and exhibitions in creating and enforcing enduring notions of local, national, or more recently ‘global’ identities. In fact, since at least the 1960s, the political...
Public Lecture: Africa’s Shifting Landscapes. Rome’s Imagined Geographies of Empire
The ‘invention’ of Africa as an ethno-geographic space of otherness whose systems of knowledge are pitted against European structures of thought is commonly recognised as an early modern construction serving Europe’s colonialist enterprise. Yet Latin ‘Africa’ was...
Public Lecture: Why Postcolonial Classics Matter
Scholars in Classics and in neighbouring disciplines are increasingly aware of the importance of colonial and postcolonial histories to their work. European colonisers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries went out to their colonies with ‘the Bible in...-
Datum
10 mei 2023
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Tijd
17:00 - 18:30
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Sprekers
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