[Reader-list] [Announcements] Natalie Davis Millennium Lecture at DU on 12 Jan.

[shahid amin]

 The VI Millennium Public Lecture on  
"Cultural Crossings in a Divided World: Some Examples from the Past"  

will be delivered by 
Professor Natalie Zemon Davis
Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University & 
Northrop Frye Visiting Professor of Literary Theory at University of Toronto,  

on Wednesday 12 January 2005 at 11.00 a.m. 

in the Hall, Old Viceregal Lodge  (adjacent to the Vice Chancellor's Office), 
University of Delhi. 

This will be followed by a panel discussion in Room 22, Arts Faculty Building, 
at 2.30 p.m. on the same day. All are welcome.

Synopsis: "Cultural Crossings in a Divided World: Some Examples from the
 Past"

The lecture  will open with a critique of excessive dependence on polarities
 in exploring cultural exchange, and then give four examples  of "people
 between worlds": one, a Muslim from 16th century North Africa who, kidnapped
 by Christian pirates, spent 9 years in Italy, some of them as a Christian
 convert, before returning to North Africa and Islam; and three of them
 inhabitants of the Dutch colony of Surinam in the 18th century:  a slave
 woman, a Dutch-Scottish soldier in Surinam for military reasons, a Jewish
 physician and writer from an old Surinam family--all three of them crossing
 between worlds of slave and free.  The lecture will dwell upon  the various
 cultural and psychological strategies they use to move between cultural
 worlds, and assess the meaning and legacy of their lives.

Professor Natalie Zemon Davis is  Henry Charles Lea Professor of History
 Emeritus at Princeton University & Northrop Frye Visiting Professor of
 Literary Theory at University of Toronto. In positions at Brown University,
 the University of California at Berkeley, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
 Sciences Sociales, the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, Balliol
 College, Oxford as well at Princeton and the University of Toronto,
 Professor Davis has  pioneered research on the frontiers of history and
 anthropology, history and film, history and literature, the study of women
 and gender, and the study of Jews in early modern Europe. One of the most
 innovative interdisciplinary historians of our time, Professor Davis'  
 publications include Society and Culture in Early Modern France (1975); The
 Return of Martin Guerre, the basis for the feature film; Fiction in the
 Archives: Pardon Tales and their Tellers in Sixteenth Century France :The
 Harry Camp Lectures for 1985-86 (1987); Women on the Margins: Three
 Seventeenth Centuries Lives ( 1995); The Gift in Sixteenth Century France
 (1999), Slaves on Screen : Film and Historical Vision (2002)


Professor Shahid Amin,
Millennium Public Lecture Committee


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