NipU welcomes renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis to campus

Nipissing University
News Release

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Nipissing University's Department of History welcomes Professor Natalie Zemon Davis to campus on Friday, September 24, for a special lecture in room F210 at 5 p.m.

Professor Davis' talk is titled Decentering History: Local Storytelling and Cultural Crossing in a Global World.

Speaking partly from her own experience, Professor Davis will explore ways that the practice of history has changed, examining historical comparison through local figures (a male and female writer from different parts of the world in 1400) and through cultural crossing (how techniques in healing and justice transferred from Africa to a slave colony).

Natalie Zemon Davis is among the most widely known and influential historians in the academy. Her work on the social and cultural history of early modern Europe has reached readers far outside the university setting, perhaps most famously with The Return of Martin Guerre (1983) and most recently with Trickster Travels: a Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds (2008). Earlier this year she received the Holberg International Memorial Prize in recognition of her lifetime achievement.

The lecture is free of charge and all are welcome.

For further information, please contact Dr. Derek Neal in the Department of
History at [email protected]

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