The Friends of the Warburg Institute have launched the following petition which may be of interest to those who know about the Warburg Institute and have benefited from its wonderful library: “The Times Higher Education recently reported that the University of London has taken legal action to challenge its own deed of trust concerning the care and integrityContinue reading “Petition: Save the Warburg Institute!”
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Conference: Commemoration of the Dead (London, 15 November 2014)
Conference Commemoration of the Dead: new approaches, new perspectives, new material London, Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street Saturday, 15 November 2014, 10am – 5pm Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth in new research and consideration of commemorative brasses and funerary monuments. This one-day joint meeting, sponsored by the Monumental Brass SocietyContinue reading “Conference: Commemoration of the Dead (London, 15 November 2014)”
CFP: Aby Warburg and Nature (Hamburg, 15-16 Jan 15)
ABY WARBURG AND NATURE Workshop, University of Hamburg, Warburg-Haus, 15 – 16 January 2015 Deadline: 31 August 2014 Organizers: Frank Fehrenbach and Cornelia Zumbusch (University of Hamburg) Aby Warburg’s references to enlivenment, life forces, and the afterlife of images are evidence for the paradigmatic meaning of the natural for his conceptualization of the emergence and re-emergence of pictorial formulas.Continue reading “CFP: Aby Warburg and Nature (Hamburg, 15-16 Jan 15)”
CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities (Hamburg, 27-29 Nov 14)
CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities. A trans- and interdisciplinary conference at the University of Hamburg Hamburg, 27-29 November 2014 Deadline: 31 July 2014 Increasingly, cultural studies focus on stories and the narration of stories as important catalysts for the constitution, confirmation, and modification of cultural identities. Not only in times of what seems like floods of images but sinceContinue reading “CFP: Visual Narratives – Cultural Identities (Hamburg, 27-29 Nov 14)”
(Updated) Conference Programme: Fifty Years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture (London, 21 June 2014)
(Updated) Conference Programme: Fifty Years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture. New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material Saturday 21 June 2014, 10.00 – 18.00 (with registration from 09.30) Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN ‘Tomb Sculpture will remain….among the basic works which determine turning points in the historyContinue reading “(Updated) Conference Programme: Fifty Years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture (London, 21 June 2014)”
CFP: Meanings of Erasure (Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015)
CFP: Meanings of Erasure Session at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015 Deadline: 15 September 2015 Recent scholarly interest in whiteness, emptiness, and material destruction that pervade medieval visual culture demonstrate a shift in focus: where art historians have historically focused on figuration, they now turn to the instances ofContinue reading “CFP: Meanings of Erasure (Kalamazoo, 14-17 May 2015)”
Conference: Colour (London, 26 June 2014)
Conference: Colour Warburg Institute, London, 26 June 2014 Registration deadline: 22 June 2014 This colloquium is being organised by the Warburg Institute and the National Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition on “Making Colour” at the National Gallery and will include an early morning viewing of the exhibition from 9.00 to 10.00 a.m. The conference is organised byContinue reading “Conference: Colour (London, 26 June 2014)”
CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)
Call for Papers: The Afterlife of Cicero London, The Warburg Institute, 7-8 May 2015 Deadline: 11 July 2014 The Warburg Institute, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London will be hosting an international conference on the afterlife of Cicero in London on 7–8 May 2015, organisedContinue reading “CFP: The Afterlife of Cicero (London, 7-8 May 2015)”
CFP: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)
Call for Papers: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality Conference, University of Zürich, 21-22 November 2014 Deadline: 4 July 2014 Book pages, diptychs, and triptychs were popular formats for the presentation of images in the medieval and early modern periods. In addition to their ubiquity, these objects also share one essential material feature: the supports that carry the imagesContinue reading “CFP: Foldable Pictures. Implications of Mediality (Zürich, 21-22 November 2014)”
Event: Puerta Vilchez lecture at the V&A (London, 19 June 2014)
Puerta Vilchez lecture at the V&A: Evening Lecture and Reception José Miguel Puerta Vílchez Qurtuba/Córdoba: Monumentality and artistic sensibility in al-Andalus Thursday 19 June 2014, 7pm Seminar Room Three, Learning Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London The patronage of the Umayyad caliphs of al-Andalus (Muslim-ruled Spain) created one of the highpoints of classical Islam. The splendourContinue reading “Event: Puerta Vilchez lecture at the V&A (London, 19 June 2014)”
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