Event: National Library Public Lectures series
Date: From 17 November 2023 until 31 May 2024
Time: 18:30 onwards
Venue: National Library, Valletta
The series is coordinated by Maroma Camilleri (National Library of Malta), Jean-Paul De Lucca (Department of Philosophy, UM) and Mevrick Spiteri (National Library of Malta)
All lectures will be held at the National Library, Valletta, and start at 18:30. Free entrance. No booking required. For more info, please send an email.
Check out the lecture series flyer for abstracts and details.
LECTURES:
- 17 November 2023 - Situating Giuseppe Demarco in 18th-century Medicine and Neo-Latin Literature - Dr Jurgen Gatt & Skye Vassallo
- 15 December 2023 - Respicite Astra: Astronomy publications at the National Library of Malta – Prof. Frank Ventura
- 26 January 2024 - Contested identities in the antiquarian imagination: Reflections on the intellectual milieu of Abela's Descrittione di Malta – Dr Reuben Grima
- 16 February 2024 - Malta and the Enlightenment: Intellectual activity of some French Knights of Malta –
- 15 March 2024 - The Jesuits and their Missions in Early Modern Malta – Prof. Carmel Cassar
- 23 April 2024 - Philosophy Books at the National Library: Windows into an Uncharted Intellectual Culture – Prof. Jean-Paul De Lucca
- 8 May 2024 - Peering into the Realm of the Dead: Athanasius Kircher and the Mundus Subterraneus – Dr Carmel Serracino
- 31 May 2024 - Prohibited Literature in a Catholic Collection: The Case of a Hospitaller Library in Malta, 1760-1798 – Prof. William Zammit
