NON ­ FINITO
Notions of the 'Unfinished' in Music, Art and Intellectual History

Conference at the Warburg Institute, London

19th and 20th May, 2006

Programme

FRIDAY 19th May, 2006:

Morning (10 am ­ 1 pm)

Keynote address:
1. Non-Finito: On Perpetual Postponement and The Fragment.
George Steiner, Cambridge

Art history:
2. Michelangelo's Contracts and the Problem of 'Non-Finito' - a Never-Ending
Story.
Horst Bredekamp, Berlin

3. 'Unexpected difficulties of an internal nature': Some Thoughts About the
Impossibility of Completing Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas.
Claudia Wedepohl, London

4. Rodin, Italy and the Non-Finito: Competing Theories and Practice.
Piers Burton-Page, London

Lunch (1-2pm)

Afternoon (2-5pm)

Science / philosophy / comparative religion:

5. On Known and Unknown Worlds in Medieval Science.
Charles Burnett, London

6. Messiahs' and Mahdis' Loose Ends: Unfinished Redemptions in Western
Religions.
Martin Treml, Berlin

Music and Musicology:

7. Schubert und kein Ende: Towards a Composer's last thoughts.
Brian Newbould, Hessle, Yorkshire

8. Imperfection Completed. Responses to Musical Fragments, Past and Present.
Christian Leitmeir, London/Munich

Drinks (5-6pm)
Concert of 'Unfinished Music' (6-7pm)
Dinner

SATURDAY, 20th May, 2006 :

Morning (10am-1pm)

Literature:

9. Kafka's Shorthand.
Davide Stimilli, Boulder, Colorado

10. Interruption and Continuity.
Gabriel Josipovici, Sussex

11. 'Mouvance' vs. Closure? The Concept of the Non-Finito and/in Medieval
Textuality.
Frank Bezner, Tübingen

Cartography:

12. From Medieval Comprehensiveness to Modern Provisionality: The Emergence
of Non-Finito in Sixteenth-Century Cartography.
Alessandro Scafi, London/Ravenna

Lunch (1-2 pm)

Afternoon (2-4pm)

Panel Discussion
Chair: Dorothea McEwan, London

Dorothea McEwan: Coordinator
Dorothea McEwan and Piers Burton-Page: Co-organisers.
Elizabeth Witchell: Correspondence (elizabeth.witchellsas.ac.uk).

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Dr. Dorothea McEwan
Archivist
The Warburg Institute
University of London
Woburn Square
London WC1H 0AB
www.sas.ac.uk/warburg