[Aaus-list] February 27 - Lecture by Professor Larry Wolff

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Wed Feb 13 11:17:41 EST 2013


"Natural History and National History in Habsburg Galicia"


Wednesday, February 27, 2013
12PM

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room (Room 1219 International Affairs Building)
420 West 118th St. Columbia University

Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk by Professor Larry Wolff (NYU)


This lecture will address the deployment of natural history to  
articulate Galicia's provincial coherence in the 19th century,  
following the establishment of the Habsburg province in the late 18th  
century.

Larry Wolff is professor of history at New York University, and  
director of the NYU Center for European and Mediterranean Studies. His  
new book (2012) is Paolina's Innocence: Child Abuse in Casanova?s  
Venice.  He is also the author of The Idea of Galicia: History and  
Fantasy in Habsburg Political Culture (2010), Venice and the ?Slavs:  
The ?Discovery of Dalmatia in the Age of Enlightenment (2001),  
Inventing Eastern Europe: The ?Map of Civilization ?on the Mind of the  
Enlightenment (1994), The Vatican and Poland in the Age of the  
?Partitions (1988), and Postcards from the End of the ?World: Child  
Abuse ?in Freud's Vienna (1988).  He has received Fulbright, American  
Council of Learned Societies, and Guggenheim fellowships, and he is a  
member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Free and open to the public.
For more information call 212-854-4697 or write to ma2634 at columbia.edu




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