Embodying Europe in the Early-Modern Period
Research Seminar
- Event on-site and online via Zoom
- Date: May 19, 2022
- Time: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Nicolas Detering
- Location: Villino Stroganoff, Via Gregoriana 22, 00187 Rom
- Contact: rossi@biblhertz.it
How did
visual and textual personifications of the continent play into this formation?
How did metaphorical embodiments demarcate continental boundaries and
contribute to the ‹westernisation› of Europe? The talk will present recent
research on this topic and then argue that while personifications of Europe
were deeply intertwined with questions of power and continental hegemony, they
were also more inclusive than is generally known. It was not until the Enlightenment
period that Russia and Turkey were generally excluded from the ‹civilization›
of Europe.
Nicolas Detering is Professor of German Literature at the University of Berne. He is the author of Krise und Kontinent. Die Entstehung der deutschen Europaliteratur in der Frühen Neuzeit (2017). His most recent publications include Contesting Europe: Comparative Perspectives on Early Modern Discourses of Europe 1400-1800 (2020), with Clementina Marsico and Isabella Walser (eds.).
This event will take place on-site (without registration) and via Zoom:
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Scientific Organization: Jana Graul