Monday, October 28 2019, 5pm Gilbert Hall 118 Join the Willson/ Mellon Early Modern Studies group for a lecture by Oumelbanine Zhiri, Professor of French at the University of California San Diego. She has published on French and Arabic literature, Mediterranean culture, as well as European and Arabic travel literature and geography. Worldmaking, or global imagining, is a feature of early modern culture, best symbolized by the globes that became an important and prestigious production in Europe. However, intellectual world imagining extended to other continents, demonstrating an active circulation of knowledge across borders. The work of Ahmad al-Hajarî (d. ca. 1641) will help explore the global intellectual culture of the early seventeenth century, and the participation of non-Europeans in the birth of modernity. Sponsored by the Willson Center, the Mellon Foundation, and a consortium of UGA departments in support of the Early Modern Studies group. Refreshments will be served. Zhiri flyer (236.34 KB)
