KORÁBBI ESEMÉNYEK

In recent years, examinations of forgery have proliferated across various academic fields and disciplines, so much so that it is now possible to speak of something like “forgery studies” as a coherent enterprise. This talk will use the new insights of forgery studies to examine the complexities of criticism itself, and the paradoxes it often entails.

On Sunday 21st of November, the House of European History invites you to take part in a range of activities! Come and travel through time or join our futuristic lab to make amazing 3D creations. And if you’re not up to the challenge of designing a 3D object, you can still get your hands messy by making clay models to take home! Messy or clean hands, the choice is up to you.

Why are the most memorable stories about the past so often untrue? Fact and fiction are not easily told apart, and when we imagine history our best guides are often novelists like Tolstoy or Jane Austen.

Europeans have been aware of China for hundreds of years. Contact had even been made prior to Marco Polo in the 13th century. The arrival of the Jesuit missionaries in the 16th and 17th century gave rise to a more structured dialogue, one that continued, with various gaps, through the Enlightenment into the modern age...