Launch Event: 26 October

Posted on 18 October 2010

Professor Kate Lowe to lecture on 'News from Africa'

Musicians in Lisbon ca1522 - public domain

Professor Kate Lowe (Queen Mary, University of London) will join the 'Conversion Narratives' project team to celebrate our official launch on Tuesday 26th October, 2010. Professor Lowe, an expert on Renaissance and Early Modern Italy and Portugal, will deliver a lecture on 'News from Africa: reporting conversion in Renaissance Italy'.

The lecture draws on Professor Lowe's current research on the representation and experiences of sub-Saharan Africans in Southern Europe between 1440 and 1650. It will provide a first taste of some questions and research areas which are central to the 'Conversion Narratives' project: how did people and information travel between countries and continents in this period? What forms did stories of conversion take? Why were people interested in news of conversion, and what were its and social and political implications?

The lecture will take place in the Berrick Saul Auditorium in the University's new Humanities Research Centre. It will be followed by a reception to celebrate the launch of the 'Conversion Narratives' project.

5.30 pm
Tuesday 26th October, 2010
The Berrick Saul Auditorium, Humanities Research Centre, University of York