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, Kln),
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), Franois Dupuigrenet Desroussilles (Florida State), Shanti Graheli (St Andrews), Kristian
Jensen (British Library), Alessandro Ledda (Catholic University Milan), Raphale 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 OBrien (Durham) and Peter Mack (Warwick)

Speakers: Emily Butterworth (Kings 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 Universitt Berlin), Katie Fleming (Queen Mary), Edith Hall (Kings 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: Raphale 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 Mller (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 DAvray (UCL)

Speakers: David dAvray (UCL), Serena Ferente (Kings 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), Vronique 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 Gods 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 Dunkelgrn (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 (Kings 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 Carpaccios teleri for the Scuola di SantOrsola
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, Universit 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 Franois - A lecture to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Coronation of
Franois 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, Universit de Neuchtel
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, Bibliothque Municipale de Lyon and Institut dHistoire du Livres
History of Libraries Seminar Series - Please note this lecture in on Tuesday 10 Mar at 4.30pm

11 Mar

Wondrous Flitting of Marys 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: Germanys 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

Fechtbcher: 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) - 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
Directors 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)

Brunos 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: Raphale 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 years 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