Book Presentation

From Menocchio to Manuzzi: Conversation on Microhistory and the Global

Yerevan Dialogue International

10 sept. 2024 6:30 PM

Venue: Khanjyan Hall, Cafesjian Center for the Arts

Yerevan - Armenia

In 2024, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon and the Richard Hovannisian Chair of Modern Armenian History will publish the first Western Armenian translations of two landmark studies of microhistory/microstoria, an influential Italian school of historical writing established in the late 1970s by renowned historians, Carlo Ginzburg, Giovanni Levi, and Edoardo Grendi, among others. As an important milestone in Italian microhistory and its more "globalized" version, Ginzburg's Il formaggio e i vermi: II cosmo di un mugnaio del '500 [The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth Century Miller] (1976) and Sanjay Subrahmanyam's Three Ways to be Alien: Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World (2011) have transformed the way historians have crafted their métier in recent decades. An evening of conversation among the world's leading scholars and historians in the heart of downtown Yerevan, From Menocchio to Manuzzi: Conversations on Microhistory marks an auspicious event both in terms of the introduction of microhistory into Armenian scholarly circles and also a fresh take on this influential school by examining the seminal translations of Ginzburg's, Levi's, and Subrahmanyam's works. The event will take place at Yerevan's celebrated Cafesjian Center for the Arts and will be open to the public. Simultaneous translation into Armenian will be available..

Moderator. Filippo de Vivo

Introduced by Sebouh David Aslanian

Forum and The Richard G. Hovannisian Chair of Modern Armenian History, UCLA

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