Type:
Lecture
Audience:
Open to the Public
Building:
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room:
Auditorium
Monday, November 11, 2013 - 5:30pm
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Date:
Monday, November 11, 2013 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Cultural hybridity: problem or solution?
This lecture discusses the interest a few students of the Renaissance, especially in the circle of Aby Warburg, showed long ago in hybridization, and the reasons why this topic, once marginal, has moved towards the centre of Renaissance studies. It notes some of the strengths and weaknesses of the concept of cultural hybridity as a tool of analysis at both the macro- and the micro-level, as well as discussing terms that occupy some of the same conceptual space, from ‘ecotypes’ to ‘cultural translation’.