[PLEASE NOTE: the lecture by Jane O. Newman and the roundtable discussion had to be rescheduled to February 2018; for further information please visit the website of the Warburg Institute: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk.]

Warburg and Luther - Word | Image in Times of Crisis - 1517, 1917, 2017

The Warburg Institute is holding a series of events on 'Warburg and Luther - Word | Image in Times of Crisis - 1517, 1917, 2017' to mark both the fifth hundred anniversary of the Reformation and the hundredth anniversary of Aby Warburg's seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion-making. Warburg's lecture, delivered in November 1917, and published in 1920 under the title 'Pagan-Antique Prophecy in Words and Images in the Age of Martin Luther' is nowadays considered to be one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (science of images) and of media studies.


The events include:

A keynote lecture entitled 'Luther's Words are Everywhere': Protestantism and Politics, 1517-2017' by Jane O. Newman (California at Irvine) on 13 December at 17.30
Register at: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/13838

A roundtable discussion with James Curran (Goldsmiths), Jo Fox (Durham), Jost Philipp Klenner (Berlin), Jane O. Newman and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle) on 14 December at 18.15
Register at: https://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/13839

An open day on 16 December from 14.00 to 16.00, when the Warburg Institute's Library and Archive will display and offer introductions to materials that relate to Warburg's Reformation study. Pre-registration not required for the Open Day.


Attendance is free of charge. Please register in advance for the lecture and roundtable discussion using the links given above.

The events are supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, London, and the University of London Coffin Trust