'Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland': A Book Launch, Featuring Author Michael Ostling
Event description
- Academic events
- Free
- Open to the public
Outside the imagination, witches don't exist. But in Poland and in Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, people imagined their neighbors to be witches, with tragic results. "Between the Devil and the Host" is the first book in English to tell the story of the imagined Polish witches. The author offers a new interpretation of witchcraft in Poland and research based on over 200 witch trials.
A light lunch will be served.
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Michael Ostling received his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto. Widely published on the topics of witchcraft, magic, other-than-human persons, and ethnobotany, he is co-editor of the internationally recognized journal "Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft" and editor of the online "Database of Witch Trials in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1500–1800 (forthcoming). Ostling teaches interdisciplinary humanities in the Honors College at Arizona State University, where he attempts to practice a radical pedagogical approach inspired by Polish statesman and philosopher Jacek Kuroń.
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This event is co-sponsored at ASU by:
* Barrett, The Honors College
* Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict
* Melikian Center: Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies