John H. D'Arms, President, American Council of Learned Societies, leads off the series with a discussion of journals and monographs, the traditional forms of scholarly communication in the humanities and social sciences. D'Arms will focus on a project inviting established historians to publish monographs in electronic form. This is the fourth in a series of talks on timely issues sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities. Earlier series examined memoir writing, the future of the book, and copyright. The series is cosponsored by the Rackham School of Graduate Studies and the President's Information Revolution Commission.
All events are free and open to the public.
The Rackham Building is on the UM campus at 915 East Washington Street. Davis is professor emerita, Princeton, and currently teaches history and medieval studies at the University of Toronto. She will depict the adventures of a Moroccan-educated explorer who was kidnapped by Christian pirates and taken to Rome, where he was first enslaved, then baptized, and eventually completed his book, The History and Description of Africa. Follow this link to a tiff file. Davis has published widely on the cultural history of sixteenth century France and early modern Europe, with particular emphasis on the lives of peasants, women, and artisans.