The Warburg Institute. Public Lectures 2012-2013
Wednesdays at 4.30 in the Lecture Room (unless otherwise stated)
Admission Free without Ticket
17 October 2012
Richard Serjeantson, Fellow and Lecturer in History, Trinity College Cambridge
Descartes before dualism? A new manuscript draft of the regulae ad directionem ingenii
31 October 2012
John Onians, Emeritus Profesor, University of East Anglia
The brain as Parnassus and neurons as muses: the biology of artistic inspiration
14 November 2012
Hans Belting, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Art History and Media Theory, College of Design Karlsruhe
Dante’s picture theory and the shadow
15 November 2012
Hans Belting, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Art History and Media Theory, College of Design Karlsruhe
Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance art and Arab science
This event is held in association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe
Please note this event is on Thursday, 15 November at 16.30
21 November 2012
Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London
Word and image in the philosophy of Hobbes
5 December 2012
Alastair Hamilton, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, The Warburg Institute
“To rescue German honour” – Arabic studies and Qur’an translations in eighteenth-century Germany
This event is held in association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe
11 December 2012
Arnoud Vrolijik, Curator of Oriental Manuscripts and Rare Books, University of Leiden Library
Levinus Warner & his local network among Muslims in Istanbul, 1645-1665
This event is held in association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe
Please note this event is on Tuesday, 11 December at 18.00
16 January 2013
Virginia Cox, Professor of Italian, New York University
The laurel and the axe: execution poetry in Late-Renaissance Italy
23 January 2013
Horst Bredekamp, Professor of Art History, Humboldt University Berlin
Title to be confirmed
30 January 2013
Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
The Pandects of the Jews: Renaissance scholars and the path to the talmud
6 February 2013
Andrew Pettegree, Professor of History, University of St Andrews, and Director, Universal Short-Title Catalogue Project
Tabloid values. Abraham Verhoeven and the invention of the newspaper in seventeenth-century Europe
13 March 2013
Professor Michael Lackner, Department of Chinese Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Title to be confirmed
24 April 2013
Alison Coudert, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Davis
Cannibalism in the minds and imaginations of Early Modern Europeans and Americans
29 April 2013
Craig Stephenson, Author of Anteros: A Forgotten Myth and Possession: Jung’s Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche
The soldier, the Devil and the bear: layers of story-telling in Grimm’s ‘Bearskin’, 1396-1857
15 May 2013
David Davies (Emeritus Professor of History of Art, University College London)
The Iconography of Michelangelo’s Tomb for Julius II
26 June 2013
Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Dpto. Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Complutense Madrid
Readings and Counter-Readings of the Qur’an in the Spanish Golden Age
In association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe.
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