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Annual
Programme
January to June 2015
Colloquia
For registration/payment details please visit: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2014-15
Reading Aristotle in Britain during the 13th Century
23 January 2015 - Conference of the Societas Artistarum 1 (13.30 to 18.00)
Organiser: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute)
Speakers: Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute), Dragos Calma (EPHE, Paris), Silvia Donati (Albertus Magnus Institut, Köln),
Emmanuelle Kuhry (IRHT, Paris), John Marenbon (Trinity College, Cambridge), Cecilia Trifogli (All Souls College, Oxford)
and Olga Weijers (IRHT, Paris and Huygens Instituut, The Hague)
Attendance at this conference is free of charge and pre-registration is not required.
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 (Warwick)
Speakers: Emily Butterworth (King’s College), Jean-Raymond Fanlo (Aix), Neil Kenny (Oxford), Olivier Pedeflous (Paris),
Rowan Tomlinson (Bristol) and Hugo Tucker (Reading)
Philosophers in the Kitchen
20 February 2015
Organisers: Guido Giglioni and Cecilia Muratori (Warburg Institute)
Speakers: Annalisa Ceron (Milan), Sam Galson (Princeton), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Sara Miglietti (Warwick),
Cecilia Muratori (Warburg Institute), Valery Rees (School of Economic Science, London) and Annika Willer (LMU Munich)
The Afterlife of Greek Tragedy
5 - 6 March 2015
Organisers: Peter Mack (Warwick) and John North (UCL)
Speakers: Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin), Katie Fleming (Queen Mary), Edith Hall (King’s College), Fiona
Macintosh (Oxford), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Queen Mary), 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
11 March 2015 - A workshop organised by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of IFLA, 15CBOOKTRADE,
CILIP and CERL
Organisers: Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute) and Cristina Dondi (Oxford/CERL)
This workshop will consist of a round table disccussion is free of charge; pre-registration is required by emailing: secretariat@cerl.org
“Bilderfahrzeuge”: On the Migration of Images, Forms and Ideas
13 - 14 March 2015 - Annual Conference of the International Research Group “Bilderfahrzeuge” at the Warburg Institute
Organisers: Andreas Beyer (German Forum for Art History, Paris) and Johannes von Müller (Bilderfahrzeuge Project)
Speakers will include: Carolin Behrmann (KHI Florenz), Jost Philipp Klenner (Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach) and
members of the Bilderfahrzeuge research team.
Colloquia
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 (Warwick), John North, Gesine Manuwald 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)
Pseudo-Galenic Texts and the Formation of the Galenic Corpus
14 - 15 May 2015
Organisers: Caroline Petit (Warwick)
Speakers: Siam Bhayro (Exeter), Véronique Boudon-Millot (CNRS, Paris), Charles Burnett (Warburg), Marie Cronier
(CNRS, Paris), Aileen Das (Manchester), Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (Mainz), Stefania Fortuna (Ancona), Mareike Jas (Munich),
Outi Merisalo (Helsinki), Vivian Nutton (UCL), Caroline Petit (Warwick) and Christina Savino (Humboldt Uinversity,
Berlin)
This event is free of charge; pre-registration required by emailing: warburg@sas.ac.uk
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 (Kent) and Joanna Weinberg (Oxford)
Speakers will include: Jan Loop (Kent), Theodor Dunkelgrün (Cambridge), Alastair Hamilton (Warburg Institute) and Joanna
Weinberg (Oxford)
Classical Heroines
5 June 2015
Organisers: Susan Haskins (Independent Scholar)
Speakers: Emma Barker (Open University), Elizabeth Dutton (Fribourg), Edith Hall (King’s College), Isobel Hurst
(Goldsmiths’ College), Letizia Panizza (Royal Holloway) 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 (Kent)
Speakers will include: Bernard Hamilton (Nottingham), Benjamin Kedar (Hebrew University Jerusalem) and Ora Limor
(Open University Israel
Raymond Klibansky Conference
18 - 19 June 2015
Organisers: Philippe Despoix (Montreal)
Speakers: To be confirmed
Public
Lectures
Wednesdays at 4.30 pm (except where otherwise indicated)
21 Jan
Painting and Navigation. Vittore Carpaccio’s teleri for the Scuola di Sant’Orsola
Dr Stefan Neuner, eikones NFS Bildkritik, Basel
Lecture in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project
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 and on Thursday 22 Jan at 4.30pm
This lecture is sponsored by Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
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
Please note this lecture is on Monday 26 Jan at 4.30pm
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
18 Feb
The Power of Plaster. Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Experience of Antique Sculpture at Tegel Castle
Professor Pascal Griener, Université de Neuchâtel
Lecture in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project
10 Mar
Libraries “in exile”: The case of the Library of the Jesuit Seminary in Jersey (1880-1939)
Dr Sheza Moledina, Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon and Institut d’Histoire du Livres
History of Libraries Seminar Series - Please note this lecture in on Tuesday 10 Mar at 4.30pm
11 Mar
‘Wondrous Flitting’ of Mary’s Holy House: Moving Home, Planting Signs
Professor Marina Warner, Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, and Professor of English and Creative Writing,
Birkbeck College, University of London
18 Mar
The Lives of Styles. Objects, Agency and Cultural Biography
Professor Caroline van Eck, Centre for the Arts in Society, Leiden University
Lecture in conjunction with the Bilderfahrzeuge Project
5 May
Bombs on Books: Germany’s Lost Libraries of World War Two
Dr Jan L. Alessandrini, University of St. Andrews
History of Libraries Seminar Series - Please note this lecture in on Tuesday 5 May at 4.30pm
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
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Please note that in order to attend Institute colloquia, delegates need to register and pay online in advance (unless
otherwise indicated) - visit: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2014-15, 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 usually £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
Organisers: Paul Taylor and Rembrandt Duits (Warburg Institute)
Bruno’s Art of Memory: A Laboratorium
Tuesdays, 17.30 - 19.00 (3, 10, 17, 24 Feb and 24 Mar 2015)
Organisers and presenters: Guido Giglioni and Hanna Gentili (Warburg Institute) and Sam Galson (Princeton)
History of Libraries
Occasional seminars (10 Mar and 5 May 2015 at the Warburg Institute)
Seminars jointly sponsored by the Warburg Institute, Institute of English Studies, Institute of Historical Research, and
Library & Information History Group of CILIP)
Organiser for Warburg events: Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute)
For information on all events in the seminar series visit: http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/257
Literature, Ideas and Society
One seminar per term (25 Feb and 6 May 2015)
Organisers: Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute)
Maps and Society
Occasional Thursdays at 5.00 pm (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
One meeting per term
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 £99.00 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.
Reading Classes
Reading classes are offered on the following topics (details at: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/reading-classes):
• Arabic Philosophy - Mondays 2.15 - 3.15 pm
• Editing Byzantine Texts - Fridays 3.45-5.45
• Esoteric Traditions - Fridays 1.00 - 2.15 pm
• German Palaeography - Fridays 11-12 am (Spring Term only)
• Latin Paleography - Tuesdays 4.15 - 5.15 pm
• Scholasticism - occasional Thursdays 5.30 - 6.30 pm