Avenali Lectures

Natalie Zemon Davis, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 1998-1999

“Moors, Christians, and Africans in a Muslim Traveler’s Account of the Renaissance”
February 5, 1999

Occasional Paper || Natalie Zemon Davis is currently the Northrop Frye Visiting Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Toronto. Beginning in 1981 and until her retirement in 1996, she held the Henry Charles Lea Professorship of History at Princeton University, where she also directed the Shelby Cullom Davis Center of Historical Studies from 1990 to 1994. She served as President of the American Historical Association in 1987.

Other Events with Natalie Zemon Davis

“Africans and Jews in the Plantation Culture of 18th-century Suriname”
February 10, 1997

Panel Discussion || February 13, 1997

with Zemon Davis, Peter Sellars (opera and theater director), Ira Lapidus (Department of History) and Stefania Pandolfo (Department of Anthropology).