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Carlo Ginzburg and Franco Moretti in dialogue with Ovio Olaru and Andrei Terian

Drama and History: a Conversation on Büchner’s Danton’s Death

Franco Moretti has taught English and Comparative Literature at the universities of Salerno and Verona, at Columbia, and at Stanford, where he founded the Center for the Study of the Novel and the Literary Lab. He has published several books, among which The Way of the World, Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900, Graphs Maps Trees. Abstract Models for Literary History, The Bourgeois, and Distant Reading. His books and essays have been translated into thirty languages.

Carlo Ginzburg is an Italian historian, best known for developing the method called microhistory. A former professor at University of Bologna, UCLA, and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Carlo Ginzburg became internationally famous with books like The Cheese and the Worms (Il formaggio e i vermi [1976]) and Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’ Sabbath (Storia notturna: Una decifrazione del Sabba [1989]). His work mixes history, anthropology, and literary theory. Ginzburg is often interested in how “ordinary” people thought and imagined the world, especially during the Renaissance and Early Modern periods. He’s considered one of the most influential historians of the 20th century and his books and essays have been translated into thirty languages.

Ovio Olaru teaches German literature and Norwegian at Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu. His research focuses on Comparative and World Literature, he has co-edited several volumes and conducted research in several research projects. He has translated numerous books from Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, and Icelandic, among which Jon Fosse’s Septology and several of his plays. 

Andrei Terian is Professor of Romanian literature and Vice Rector for Research, Innovation, and Internationalization at the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania. His specialties are 19th to 21st century Romanian literature, world literature, and cultural heritage. He has published essays in international journals such as Textual Practice, Life Writing, CLCWeb – Comparative Literature and Culture, Slovo, World Literature Studies, Primerjalna Književnost, Interlitteraria, ALEA: Estudos Neolatinos. His latest books include the coedited volumes Romanian Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Theory in the “Post” Era (Bloomsbury, 2021; AATSEEL Prize for Best Multi-Scholarly Volume). He is the also the PI of the projects “A Transnational History of Romanian Literature” (2021–2026) and “Establishing a Laboratory of Cultural Heritage in Central Romania” (2023–2025).

Event in English, with translation into Romanian
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28 June, 12:30

Forumul Democrat al Germanilor (Sala Oglinzilor)   
1h 50min
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