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
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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: [email protected]
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: [email protected]
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