Annual Programme 2014 - 2015 Public Lectures
Annual Programme 2014 - 2015 Public Lectures Wednesdays at 4.30 pm (except where otherwise indicated) 2014 20 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct E H Gombrich Lecture Series on the Classical Tradition Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom Marjorie Curry Woods, Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Austin Memory, Emotion and the Queen: Teaching the Aeneid Troy Books for Boys: Glosses on the Achilleid and Ilias latina Boys Performing Women: The Classics and After Please note these lectures will start at 5.00pm 29 Oct Seeing the Sultan. On some Difficulties concerning the Image of the Other Professor Victor Stoichita, Université de Fribourg, Domaine ‘Histoire de l’art et archéologie’ Lecture in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project 18 Nov Investigations on a Sophisticated Copy of the 1555 Edition of the Poems of Louise Charly (Louise Labé) Professor Dominique Varry, Université de Lyon - ENSSIB Organised in collaboration with the Centre Gabriel Naudé - Please note this lecture is on Tuesday 18 Nov at 4.30pm 19 Nov Warburg, Benjamin and the Presence of Dürer Professor Andrew Benjamin, Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought at Monash University and Distinguished Anniversary Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Kingston University Lecture in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project 12 Dec Title to be confirmed Professor Peter Geimer, Director of the Institute of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin Lecture in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project - Please note this lecture is on Friday 12 Dec at 4.30pm 2015 22 Jan Nutrire il corpo, nutrire lo spirito: alcune cene rinascimentali tra cibo e parola Professor Nuccio Ordine, Università della Calabria Please note that this lecture will be in Italian 26 Jan ‘Le grand roy François’ - A lecture to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Coronation of François 1er Professor Robert Knecht, Emeritus Professor of French History, University of Birmingham 11 Feb Alberti self-fashionista: The Name, the Self-portrait, the Autobiography Professor Martin McLaughlin, Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies, Department of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford 11 Mar Title to be confirmed Professor Marina Warner, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex 20 May Fechtbücher: A Neglected Source for the Histories of Art and Education Professor Sydney Anglo, Professor Emeritus, University of Wales Swansea • • • Registration Details and Further Information Please note that in order to attend Institute colloquia, delegates need to register and pay online in advance (unless otherwise indicated above) - visit: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk/nc/events, chose the relevent event page, then click on the link “Click here to register online”. The standard fee for colloquia (including lunch and refreshments) is £25.00 (£12.50 for students/pensioners) for one day, and £40.00 (£25.00 for students/pensioners) for two days Admission to lectures and seminars is free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis and no pre-registration is required (except where otherwise indicated) For full details on all events visit: www.warburg.sas.ac.uk/nc/events. If you have any queries about events please email: warburg@sas.ac.uk Seminars Director’s Work-in-Progress Seminars Wednesdays at 2.15 pm A weekly seminar in which Fellows, doctoral students, members of the Institute and invited speakers present their latest research. History of Art Occasional Mondays at 4.30 pm Art Historiography Seminars are organised in collaboration with The Burlington Magazine Organisers: Paul Taylor and Rembrandt Duits (Warburg Institute) From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in the Divina Commedia Tuesdays, 1.00 - 2.15 pm (Autumn term only) Hosted by: The Warburg Institute, UCL and the Italian Cultural Institute, London Organisers/speakers: Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), John Took and Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) Free of charge to Warburg/UCL staff and students; £80.00 (£50.00 concessions) for members of other colleges/the general public. Literature, Ideas and Society One seminar per term (3 Dec 2014; Spring date tbc; and 6 May 2015) Organisers: Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) The Philosophy of Giordano Bruno Tuesdays, 17.30 - 19.00 - starting 30 Sep 2014 (Autumn term only) Organisers and presenters: Dilwyn Knox (UCL) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Maps and Society Occasional Thursdays at 5.00 pm (20 Nov 2014; 15 Jan, 5 Feb, 26 Feb, 12 Mar, 30 Apr, 14 May and 28 May 2015) Organisers: Catherine Delano Smith (Institute of Historical Research), Tony Campbell (formerly Map Library, British Library) and Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) Medieval Philosophy Network Occasional meetings Organiser: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture 11 - 14 May 2015 Organised by: The Warburg Institute and the University of Warwick Specialist research training for doctoral students working on Renaissance and early modern subjects in a range of disciplines. Advance registration and payment of £60.00 fee required. Renaissance Latin Course 14 - 28 September 2015 Organiser: Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Advance registration and payment required. Fee: £175.00; free of charge for current and next year’s Warburg students. Early Modern Fiction Occasional Thursdays at 5.00 pm (16 Oct, 30 Oct, 13 Nov, 27 Nov and 4 Dec 2014) Organisers: Isabelle Moreau (UCL) and Jacqueline Glomski (King’s College) Reading Classes Reading classes are offered on the following topics (details at: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/reading-classes): • Aljamiado Reading Course - Mondays 4.15 - 7.15 pm, 13 October to 3 November 2014 • Arabic Philosophy - Mondays 2.15 - 3.15 pm • Esoteric Traditions - Fridays 1.00 - 2.15 pm • Latin Paleography - Tuesdays 4.15 - 5.15 pm • Scholasticism - occasional Thursdays 5.30 - 6.30 pm Colloquia The Afterlife of Classical Latin Satire 10 October 2014 Organisers: Fiachra Mac Gorain (UCL) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Paul Davis (UCL), Tom Geue (Bristol), Emily Gowers (Cambridge), Sari Kivistö (Helsinki), Llewelyn Morgan (Oxford) and Victoria Rimell (La Sapienza, Rome) Rethinking Allegory with Angus Fletcher: A Symposium in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Allegory. The Theory of a Symbolic Mode 23 October 2014 Organisers: Karen Lang and Vladimir Brljak (Warwick) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Angus Fletcher (City University New York), Brenda Machosky (Hawai’i-West O’ahu), Christiania Whitehead (Warwick) and Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary) French Renaissance Court Culture. The Legacy of Frances Yates. 24 October 2014 Organiser: Ewa Kociszewska (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Sydney Anglo (Swansea), Luisa Capodieci (Paris I - Sorbonne), Richard Cooper (Oxford), Ewa Kociszewska (Warburg Institute), Margaret McGowan (Sussex) and Nuccio Ordine (Calabria) Local Antiquities, Local Identities: Art, Literature and Antiquarianism in Europe between the 14th and 17th Centuries 13 - 14 November 2014 Organisers: Kathleen Christian (Open University) and Bianca de Divitiis (Naples) Speakers: Francesco Benelli (Columbia, New York), Kathleen Christian (Open University), Bianca de Divitiis (Naples), João R. Figueiredo (Lisbon), Krista de Jonge (Leuven), Stanko Kokole (Ljubljana), Oren Margolis (Oxford), Fernando Marías (Autónoma Madrid), Susana Matos Abreu (Porto), Katrina Olds (San Francisco), Konrad Ottenheym (Utrecht), Richard Schofield (Venice), William Stenhouse (Yeshiva, New York) and Edward Wouk (Manchester) Henry More (1614-1687) - A Conference to Mark the Fourth Centenary of his Birth 5 December 2014 Organisers: Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Alan Gabbey (Barnard), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Douglas Hedley (Cambridge), Sarah Hutton (Aberystwyth), David Leech (Bristol), Cecilia Muratori (Warwick) and Jasper Reid (King’s College) Bodies of Ideas: Science and Classical Reception 11 December 2014 Organisers: Sam Galson (Princeton) and Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) Speakers will include: Roberto Lo Presti (Humbolt University Berlin), Liba Taub (Cambridge), Duncan Kennedy (Bristol), Roberta Giubilini (Warburg Institute), John Sellars (King’s College), Hamutal Minkowich (UCL), Joe Moshenska (Cambridge) and Brooke Holmes (Princeton) Intellectual History 17 December 2014 Organisers: Paul Richard Blum (Loyola Maryland), Nancy Struever ( Johns Hopkins) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Stephen Clucas (Birkbeck), Marta Fattori (Rome), Thomas Frangenberg (Leicester), Howard Hotson (Oxford), Donald R. Kelley (Rutgers), Eckhard Kessler (Munich), Colette Nativel (Paris), José R. Maia Neto (Belo Horizonte), Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway) and Richard Sorabji (King’s College) Societas Artistarum 23 January 2015 Organiser: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute) Speakers: To be confirmed The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade 6 February 2015 - A conference organised by the Warburg Institute and the Bibliographical Society Organisers: Paolo Sachet and Jill Kraye (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Lodovica Braida (Milan), François Dupuigrenet Desroussilles (Florida State), Shanti Graheli (St Andrews), Kristian Jensen (British Library), Alessandro Ledda (Catholic University Milan), Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute), Nicholas Poole-Wilson (Bernard Quaritch Ltd), Paolo Sachet (Warburg Institute) and Julianne Simpson ( John Rylands Library) Writing History in Sixteenth Century France 13 February 2015 Organisers: John O’Brien (Durham) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Emily Butterworth (King’s College), Jean-Raymond Fanlo (Aix), Neil Kenny (Oxford), Olivier Pedeflous (Paris), Rowan Tomlinson (Bristol) and Hugo Tucker (Reading) Colloquia Philosophers in the Kitchen 20 February 2015 Organisers: Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute) and Cecilia Muratori Speakers: To be confirmed The Afterlife of Greek Tragedy 5 - 6 March 2015 Organisers: Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) and John North (Institute of Classical Studies) Speakers: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin), Katie Fleming (Queen Mary), Edith Hall (King’s College), Fiona Macintosh (Oxford), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary), Tanya Pollard (CUNY), Valentina Prosperi (Sassari), Andrea Rodighiero (Verona), Hanna Roisman (Colby College), Ruth Webb (Lille) and Gerald Wildgruber (Basel) A Coordinated Approach to Recording and Searching Provenance Records and Images: Moving Forwards 12 March 2015 - A conference organised by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of IFLA, 15CBOOKTRADE, CILIP and CERL Organisers: Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute) and Cristina Dondi (Oxford/CERL) Speakers: To be confirmed The Migration of Images and Ideas - Bilderfahrzeuge conference 13 - 14 March 2015 Organisers: Andreas Beyer (German Forum for Art History, Paris) and Johannes von Müller (Bilderfahrzeuge Project) Speakers: To be confirmed Ideas and Society in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance 17 April 2015 - A conference organised by the University of Warwick and UCL Organisers: Alexander Russell (Warwick) and David D’Avray (UCL) Speakers: David d’Avray (UCL), Serena Ferente (King’s College), Magnus Ryan (Cambridge), John Sabapathy (UCL), Hannah Skoda (Oxford) and John Watts (Oxford) To book a place on this conference please contact: alexander.russell@warwick.ac.uk The Afterlife of Cicero 7 - 8 May 2015 Organisers: Peter Mack (Warburg Institute), John North (Institute of Classical Studies), Gesine Manuwald (UCL) and Maria Wyke (UCL) Speakers: Virginia Cox (New York University), Nina Dubin (CASVA, Washington), Katherine East (Royal Holloway), Lynn Fotheringham (Nottingham), Matthew Fox (Glasgow), Luke Houghton (Innsbruck), Catherine Keen (UCL), Andrew Laird (Warwick), Carole Mabboux (Savoie), David Marsh (Rutgers), Martin McLaughlin (Oxford) and Laura Refe (Venice) New Approaches to Erasmus 22 May 2015 Organisers: Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway) and Stephen Ryle (Leeds) Speakers: To be confirmed Studying God’s Languages - Scholars of Hebrew and Arabic in Early Modern Europe 29 May 2015 Organisers: Jan Loop (CHASE, Warburg Institute) and Joanna Weinberg (Oxford) Speakers will include: Jan Loop (Warburg Institute), Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge), Alastair Hamilton (Warburg Institute) and Joanna Weinberg (Oxford) Classical Heroines 5 June 2015 Organisers: Susan Haskins (Independent Scholar) and Peter Mack (Warburg Institute) Speakers: Emma Barker (Open University), Isobel Hurst (Goldsmiths’ College), Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway), Ruth Morse (Paris) and Susan Walker (Ashmolean Museum) Sharing the Holy Land. Perceptions of Shared Sacred Space in the Medieval and Early Modern Eastern Mediterranean. 12 - 13 June 2015 Organisers: Jan Vandeburie and Jan Loop (CHASE, Warburg Institute) Speakers will include: Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), Benjamin Kedar (Hebrew University Jerusalem) and Ora Limor (Open University Israel
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