“FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY,
The University of Melbourne
Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Professor Charles Zika
“Witches and Other Stereotypes:
Image-Making in Pre-Modern Europe”
Tuesday 4 October 2005, 6.15 pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre A (just off Swanston Street, Near Gate 1)
Professor Charles Zika is a cultural historian of pre-modern Europe, specialising in the history of the German-speaking societies of central and western Europe before the Enlightenment. He has been especially interested in the multiple roles of religion, ideology and visual media in shaping societal change. In this lecture he shall explore how the visual stereotyping of witches, heretics and Jews, largely through the new technologies of print and printmaking, were critical to the promotion of moral and cultural values in early modern Europe.”
Who’s in?