What does digital history offer that is new? Can it change our image of the past? Does it change how scholars and readers interact with the past? Stanford Public Humanities invites you to a virtual conversation with Stanford Professor of Classics Giovanna Ceserani, the author of A World Made by Travel: the digital Grand Tour which is an open access publication that combines —in dynamic format— original research with data and visualizations about the lives and journeys of 6,007 historical travelers to eighteenth-century Italy, the journey known then and since as the Grand Tour. Giovanna will be in conversation with art history professor and interim co-director of the Public Humanities, Emanuele Lugli. 

Wednesday, October 16
12-1:15 pm 
Register for the zoom link to attend
(Please note the event will be an open format rather than a webinar, but you are welcome to have your camera off). 

Giovanna Ceserani is a Stanford professor of classics and a historian of ideas and a digital historian, working at the intersection of classical scholarship, historiography and archaeology from the eighteenth century onwards. The author of two books ( A World Made by Travel: The Digital Grand Tour and Italy’s Lost Greece: Magna Graecia and the Making of Modern Archaeology), she is also the Faculty Director of the Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), Stanford's hub for digital humanities, and was a founding member of the Stanford digital project Mapping the Republic of Letters, and directs the Stanford digital project The Grand Tour Project.

Emanuele Lugli is an assistant professor of art history at Stanford. He has authored four books covering topics such as medieval politics, measurements, and an interdisciplinary study of hair through the art, philosophy, and science of fifteenth-century Florence. Prior to his academic career, he worked as a journalist across Europe, contributing to outlets like The Guardian, Slate, Il Sole 24 Ore, Vanity Fair, and especially, Vogue. His most recent reviews and articles are featured in Domani, Italy's reformist newspaper.