Events
Programme
Oct-Dec2016
Highlights
EventsListing
Eventsarefreeofchargeunlessotherwiseindicated.Pre-registrationisrequiredformostlectures
andconferences(seedetailsbelow).(AHN=Art,HistoryandNeuroscience;BFZ=BilderfahrzeugeProject)
Art,HistoryandNeuroscience:TheWorkofArtintheAgeofDigitalReproducibility
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt, Warburg Institute,willrepeathis
2016-17CambridgeUniversitySladeLecturesinLondononthedatesshownbelow(seeAHNlecturedates).
14Oct2016
5.30pmAHNLecture
ThePainterwithoutHands:PhantomLimbsandtheHistoryofArt
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg Institute
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
20Oct2016
5.30pmAHNLecture
CompassionandCanonicity:HumanismandtheFearofScience
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg Institute
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
27Oct2016
5.30pmAHNLecture
TheWorkofArtintheAgeofDigitalReproducibility:WalterBenjaminandAbyWarburg
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg Institute
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
3Nov2016
5.30pmAHNLecture
RealandBanalEmpathy:MovementandFeeling
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg Institute
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
4Nov2016
6.00pmLeonardodaVinciSociety
TheFailureofPictures: FromDescriptiontoDiagramintheCircleofGalileoDavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg InstituteOrganisedbyLeonardodaVinciSocietytocelebratetheir30thAnniversaryPre-registrationnotrequired
16Nov2016
5.30pmBFZLecture
Medusa’sHair.Images,DiseasesandTerrorinPost-RevolutionaryFrance
MechthildFend,ReaderinHistoryofArt,UniversityCollegeLondon
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
EventsListing
17Nov2016
10.30 - 5.30
Conference
CulturalEncounters:TensionsandPolaritiesofTransmissionfromtheLateMiddleAgestotheEnlightenment-WarburgInstitutepostgraduateconference.
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
17Nov
3.00-3.40pm
BeingHuman
ToursofRarePhotographsandLettersexaminingWarburgArchive MaterialofAcademic
Refugees-thesetoursarepartoftheBeingHuman Festival
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
18Nov2016
10.30 - 5.00
OpeningDoors|MovingPictures
Warburg InstituteOpenhouse.Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
18Nov2016
5.30pmAHNLecture
TheBearandtheMarionettes:AutomaticityandInnocence
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg Institute
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
23Nov2016
11.30 - 12.45
BeingHumanFestival
AWalking TourofBloomsburydiscussingtheRevivaloftheAreaasaCentreofLearninginthePost-war Period - this tour is part ofthe BeingHuman Festival
JoanneAnderson, Lecturer inArt History, Warburg InstitutePre-registrationrequiredvia:
24Nov
3.00-3.40pm
BeingHuman
ToursofRarePhotographsandLettersexaminingWarburgArchive MaterialofAcademic
Refugees-thesetoursarepartoftheBeingHuman Festival
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
24Nov2016
5.30pmAHNLecture
Lip-SynchLessons:Sight,SoundandTouch
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg Institute
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
24Nov2016
5.30pm
MapsSociety
PlottingLondon’sBuildings,c.1450–1720
DrDorianGerhold(IndependentScholar).Free.Pre-registrationnotrequired.
This lecture will take place in the Woburn Suite, Senate House, University of London
25 Nov 2016
5.30pmLecture
Lachmann Today: The Debate on the Method of Textual Criticism and its Consequences for the
HistoryofAncientArt
Luca Giuliani, Professor of ClassicalArchaeology at the Humboldt University Berlin and Rektor oftheWissenschaftskollegBerlin-Preregistrationrequiredvia:
1Dec2016
4.30pm
5.30pm
6.00pm
AHNLectures
Art,HistoryandNeuroscience(finaltwolectures)
DavidFreedberg,DirectorandProfessoroftheHistoryofArt,Warburg Institute
Inhibition and Judgement: The Paradox of Disinterest
Tea break
NaturalPiety:SensationandReflection
Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
2Dec2016
10.30am-5.30pm
Gesture:AWorkshop-Aninterdisciplinaryworkshoponthephilosophic,literary,arthistorical “languageofgestures,” withspecialattention tothe workofWalter Benjaminand GiorgioAgamben.Ifyouwishtoattendpleaseemail dincludeyourname,institutionandstageofcareer.
14Dec2016
5.30pmBFZLecture
PaulDelaroche’s Egyptian Excursion:The Studies in PreparationforMosesontheNile(1853)StephenBann,EmeritusProfessorofHistoryofArtandResearchFellowinHistoryofArt(HistoricalStudies),UniversityofBristol.Pre-registrationrequiredvia:
ReadingClasses(duringterm-time)
Autumntermdates:3Oct-16Dec2016.Admissionfree.
Please contactthecourseleaderbeforeattendingyourfirstclass.
ArabicPhilosophy(Mondays,2.15-3.15pm)
BalādhuriReadingGroup(mostThursdays,5.00-6.30pm)EsotericTraditionsandOccultThought(Fridays,1.00-2.15pm)ClassicalGreek(occasionalWednesdays,12.00-1.15pm)NeoplatonismStudyGroup(Mondays,5.30-7.30pm)
Warburg-UCLScholasticismReadingGroup(Wed19Oct16Nov,5.30-6.30pm).
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