INAUGURAL LECTURE

Myth, memory and history of the human body.
Francisco Marshall

Myth, memory, and history of the human body. Since the Neolithic, representations of the human body have been developed, and a tradition of complex knowledge on human condition has been transmitted. Analyzing the imaginary of the human body between the Neolithic and the Greek and Roman Classical Antiquity, we see the formation and historic evolution of different notions on the body and its properties and meanings, and, finally, its role on the genesis of modern culture.

Francisco Marshall Graduated in History at UFRGS (1988) and having received his PhD in Social History at USP (1996), Francisco Marshall has made his Postdoctoral Research at Princeton University (NJ, USA, 1998), with a Capes/Fullbright Scholarship, under the invitation of Peter Brown, and at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany, 2008-9), with an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholarship. Currently he teaches at UFRGS, in the History Department and Post-Graduation Program, and in the Visual Arts Post-Graduation Program. He has acted in the fields of Classical Archaeology and History, emphasis in Ancient and Medieval History, mainly in ancient history, classical archaeology, museology, iconology, studies on imaginary and history of culture. In 2001 he was the recipient of the Prêmio Açorianos (Açorianos Award) – in the category Essays on Humanities – for the book Édipo Tirano, a Tragédia do Saber (Prefeitura Municipal de Porto Alegre/ Secretaria Municipal de Cultura), and of the Alexander von Humboldt Scholarship, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany, in 2008.

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