[Anmerkung der Redaktion: Dies ist die korrigierte und erweiterte
Fassung des bereits am 28. Januar 2006 versendeten Tagungsprogramms.]

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

19th and 20th May, 2006

Admission £15.00 per day. Students £7.50 per day.
Advance registration is recommended. For further information contact
Elizabeth Witchell at the Warburg Institute.
Tel: (020) 7862 8909 - email: Elizabeth.Witchellsas.ac.uk

Programme

FRIDAY 19th May, 2006:

10.00 - 10.45: Keynote address:
George Steiner, Cambridge
Non-Finito: On Perpetual Postponement and The Fragment.
Introduced by Piers Burton-Page

10.45-13.00. Art history
Chair: Elizabeth McGrath

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

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

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

Lunch (13.00-14.00) For invited guests only.

14.00 - 15.30. Science / comparative religion
Chair: Piers Burton-Page

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

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

16.00 - 17.30 Music and Musicology

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

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

17.30 - 18.00 Drinks

18.00 - 19.00 Concert of 'Unfinished Music'. Moderator: Piers Burton-
Page

Dinner. For invited guests only.

SATURDAY, 20th May, 2006 :
10.00 - 13.00 Literature
Chair: Martin Treml

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

Gabriel Josipovici, Sussex
9. Interruption and Continuity.
Coffee

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

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

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch. For invited guests only.
14.00 - 16.00 Round Table. Chair: Dorothea McEwan

Dorothea McEwan: Coordinator
Dorothea McEwan and Piers Burton-Page: Co-organisers.