The Oxford Centre for European History is proud to announce the 2025 OCEH and Isaiah Berlin Annual Lecture - On Mechanical Traces: Reflecting on Connosseurship Once More, from esteemed historian, Carlo Ginzburg. This lecture, chaired by Professor Filippo de Vivo (St. Edmund Hall), has limited spaces available. To confirm your attendance, please reach out to oceh@history.ox.ac.uk
About the speaker: Dr. Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg received his PhD in History from the University of Pisa in 1961, and went on to teach at the University of Bologna, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Ginzburg is one of the foremost proponents of microhistory, a field he helped make famous with his most famous text, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (1976). His contributions to the field of witchcraft histories, seen in The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1966) and Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath (1980) have been foundational texts for decades and the source of lively historiographic discussion and debate. Ginzburg's work is not merely relegated to the histories of the early modern world - as seen in The Judge and the Historian: Marginal Notes and a Late-Twentieth-century Miscarriage of Justice (1999). Across a widely celebrated career, Carlo Ginzburg has written extensively on the topic of historiography and the art of history, with his works forming an essential pillar to modern historical research and thought.
