After Menocchio: The Pasts and Futures of Microhistory (CMEMS Symposium 2026)

 

Date: Fri September 25th - Sat September 26th 2026, All day

Location: University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University

Please join us for After Menocchio: the Pasts and Futures of Microhistory, a symposium jointly organized by Stanford's Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and UC Berkeley's DE in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies in honor of the 50th anniversary of Carlo Ginzburg's The Cheese and the Worms. In addition to keynote speakers John-Paul Ghobrial (Oxford) and Amy Stanley (Northwestern), the Symposium will also include a series of roundtables and workshops featuring the work of early-career scholars. 

The draft program can be downloaded here: 

Microhistory Symposium 2026 Program.pdf 

Register for the Microhistory Symposium

 

Note that the first day's events (on Friday, September 25) will take place on the campus of UC Berkeley, while the second day's events (on Saturday, September 26) will take place at Stanford. 

Friday, September 25:
Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall
University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, September 26:
Pigott Hall (Building 260), 450 Jane Stanford Way
Stanford University

 

Event Sponsors

Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford University
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University
Department of English, Stanford University
Department of French & Italian, Stanford University
Department of History, Stanford University
Department of History, UC Berkeley
Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley
Division of Languages, Cultures, and Civilizations, Stanford University
Gladyce Arata Terrill Chair in Italian Studies, UC Berkeley