Selected Events 2008

Boost For Intercultural Dialog In Leipzig 

December 1, 2008. Internationally known American historian Natalie Zemon Davis presented her book Leo Africanus (original title: Trickster Travels, a Sixteenth-Century Muslim between Worlds) to an audience of about 70 Leipzigers. Supported by literary historian and critic Sigrid Löffler, the 80-year-old pioneer of intercultural research took her listeners on a journey into the world of African and European Renaissance, which - in its facets of intercultural exchange and dialog - proved to be amazingly close to today's readers. Main character of the book al-Wazzan (most commonly known as Leo Africanus in the West) was one of the Renaissance's greatest geographers and the author of The Description of Africa (1550), a bestseller across Europe.