Visiting chair from Collège de France to University of Trento

Venue: Department of Humanities, via Tomaso Gar, 14

• Prof. Roger Chartier, historian - Collège de France

Conferences titles:

Tuesday, October 10th, 2017, at 4 p.m. - Room 1 (Video archive in video box)

• From book to reading. Literary criticism, sociology of practices and cultural history 

Wednesday, October 11th, 2017, at 4 p.m. - Room 5 - LIVE

• Shakespeare and Cervantes: encounters

The course will be held in English.

Professor Chartier, formerly director of studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and now professor emeritus of the same College,  teaches Modern History, and in particular the history of culture. He is one of the world's leading specialists of the historical thinking regarding the texts and their production and reception. He directed the volume "From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment" of the History of Private Life directed by Ariès and Duby and (together with Guglielmo Cavallo) the "History of reading in the Western world" published by Laterza.

Scientific Director:
Giovanni Ciappelli
Department of Humanities
via Tommaso Gar, 14 - Trento
Phone +39 0461 282716