Aby Warburg 150. Work. Legacy. Promise
On 13-15 June 2016, the Warburg Institute celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Aby Warburg. At the centre of this commemoration we are holding a conference dedicated to his work and heritage. It will reclaim the centrality of Warburg's thought and vision not only for the London Institute but for the world of international scholarship. A large group of distinguished scholars will discuss the implications of his thought for the history of art, images and cultures. The aim will be not only to illuminate the past, but to reveal the potential of his writings for the debate about contemporary cultural differences as well.
We are grateful to the following organisations for their support for the conference:
Max Kohler Stiftung
Martha Pulvermacher Stiftung
Samuel H. Kress Foundation
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research / Bilderfahrzeuge Project
Warburg-Haus
PROGRAMME
Monday 13 June
Film screening at the Warburg Institute
11.00 - 12.30
Screening of Aby Warburg: Metamorphosis and Memory (60 minutes. 2016), a film by Judith Wechsler. Judith Wechsler will be present at the screening and will lead a short discussion after the film.
If you wish to attend the film screening please register here: http://bit.ly/24Nx5Da
(Please note that the film screening is free of charge but pre-registration is required as places are limited).
Monday 13 June
Conference proceedings at UCL Institute of Education
14.00 Registration
14.30
Welcome
David Freedberg:
Aby Warburg and the Future of the Humanities
Session 1
14.45
Lorraine Daston:
Exempla and the Epistemology of the Humanities
15.20
Andreas Beyer:
Serendipity and 'Gute Nachbarschaft'
15.55 Tea
16.15
Sigrid Weigel:
Warburg's Reading of Darwin
16.50
Christopher Johnson:
Warburg's 'Zwischenraum': Between Hieroglyph and Diagram
17.20
Martin Warnke:
The Long Road of Warburg's 'Snail'
17.50 Surprise!
18:00Respondents: Jost-Philipp Klenner and Carolin Behrmann
18.30 Reception
Tuesday 14 June
9.00 Registration
Session 2
9.25
Peter Miller:
'Kulturwissenschaft' before Warburg
10.00
Horst Bredekamp:
Warburg, Berlin, the Middle Ages
10.35
Elizabeth Sears:
First Contact: Panofsky meets Warburg
11.10 Coffee
11.30
Quentin Skinner:
Hobbes's Leviathan Frontispiece: Some New Observations
12.05
Carlo Ginzburg:
Aby Warburg: Morphology and/or History
12.40
Respondents: Philipp Ekardt and Joacim Sprung
13.15 Lunch
Session 3
14.15
W. J. T. Mitchell:
Method, Madness, Montage: Aby Warburg to John Nash
14.50
Frank Fehrenbach:
Grisaille. The Life and Death of Images
15.25 Tea
15.45
Andrea Pinotti:
Variations without Theme: Warburg and the Morphology of the Neutral
16.15
Claudia Wedepohl:
Genesis without End: Warburg's 'großes Buch'
16.45
Robert Darnton:
How did Books Reach Readers in Eighteenth-Century France?
17.15
Respondents: Hans Christian Hönes and Giovanna Targia
17.45 Close
Wednesday 15 June
9:00 Registration
Session 4
9.20
Georges Didi-Huberman:
Discharged Atlas: Uprising as 'Pathosformel'
9.55
Uwe Fleckner:
Aby Warburg's 'Manet and Italian Antiquity' as Psycho-Intellectual Self- portrait
10.30
Anke te Heesen:
Exhibitions: The Cultural-historical Turn of the 1970s
11.05 Coffee
11.25
Philippe-Alain Michaud:
Staging the History of Art: Aby Warburg and the Concept of Representation
12.00
Kurt W. Forster:
The Past in Gestures, the Future in Memory. The Leipzig Circle of Physiologists and Warburg's Construct of mneme
12.35
Respondents: Gerhard Wolf and Linda Báez Rubí
13.15 Lunch
Session 5
14.15
Ulrich Raulff:
'Nachleben'. A Warburgian Concept and its Origins
14.50
Marina Warner:
Stepping beyond Words: Narratives on the Move in Times of Conflict
15.25 Tea
16.00
Martin Treml:
Warburg's 'Bilderatlas': A Tool for the Study of the History of Religion
16.35
Cornelia Zumbusch:
'Physik des Symbols'. Aby Warburg and the Energy of Art
17.20
Summing up: Anthony Grafton and David Freedberg
18.00 Close
Registration details
Due to the large demand for conference places we are pleased to announce that the conference will now be held in a larger space, the Logan Hall at the Institute of Education, on the first two days of the conference. This means that places can be booked for the first two days of the conference, 13 and 14 June 2016 (see Registration below).
On Wednesday 15 June 2016 the conference will need to remain in the Jeffery Hall at the Institute of Education. As this Hall cannot accommodate as many people, booking has closed for 15 June. For people only able to attend the conference on 13 and 14 June we can offer the following alternatives for viewing the 15 June proceedings:
- We have made special arrangements to live stream the conference proceedings to Germany via the internet. Details of how to access this will be available on our conference web page at: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/colloquia-2015-16/aby-warburg-150/
- The conference proceedings will be recorded and the videos made available on our website approximately one week after the conference.
- There are a limited number of places available on 15 June to attend a live-streaming of the conference proceedings at the Warburg Institute. To register to attend the live-streaming please see below.R E G I S T E R H E R E:
To attend the Aby Warburg 150 conference on 13 and/or 14 June 2016 at Logan Hall and/or the live-streaming of the conference on 15 June at the Warburg Institute please visit http://bit.ly/1WkgvCs
If you have any queries please email: warburgsas.ac.uk
Quellennachweis:
CONF: Aby Warburg 150 (London, 13-15 Jun 16). In: ArtHist.net, 19.05.2016. Letzter Zugriff 05.05.2025. <https://arthist.net/archive/13035>.