VIULectures 2|15: Prof. John J. Martin, 18 November

Venice International University inaugurates the series of the VIULECTURES 2|15, a cycle of appointments open to the public, as part of VIU Fall 2015 term academic offer.

The discovery of the New World raised among several myths the association of Caribs [or “Canibs”] anthropophage cultures with definitions o representations of “barbarism” in support of the presumed superiority of European cultures. Prof. Martin will explore French humanist Michel de Montaigne critiques in his in his Essays (1580) and reports of European travelers to the New World to draw what we might call the ethnographic imagination of early modern Europe.
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