Lectures and Talks

The Warburg Institute runs an active programme of lectures, talks and conversations, almost all of which are free and open to everyone.

Our programmes in 2022-2023 will combine online events with in-person sessions in the Warburg Institute Lecture Room, or in Senate House.

If you are attending an in-person event please make sure you book in advance.

See the COVID-19 and Visiting the Institute page for details of current safety measures and regulations.

Lecture highlights

29 Nov 2022

A Polish Envoy in England – Five Hundredth Anniversary of Ioannes Dantiscus’s Visit to ‘a very dear Island’

01 Dec 2022

Renaissance Lives - 'Giorgione's Ambiguity'

02 Dec 2022

Curatorial Conversation – Mysticism in the Museum: M.K. Čiurlionis and Luigi Pericle in London

31 Jan 2023

RESCHEDULED - Creatures of the Night: Nocturnal Art Making from Bandinelli to Picasso

05 Dec 2022

Curatorial Conversation – 'Art Routes: the UK Government Art Collection'

Lecture series

Work in Progress Series

The work in progress seminar explores the variety of subjects studied at the Institute.

A Material World

An event series that focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people who used them.

Bilderfahrzeuge Lecture Series

Book and Print Initiative

Curatorial Conversations

A series of lectures that invites curators from around the world to share their knowledge and experience.

From Devilry to Divinity: Readings in Dante's Divina Commedia

Maps and Society Lecture Series

These lectures focus on the history of maps and mapping worldwide.

Renaissance Lives

A series of conversations discussing the ways in which individuals transmitted or changed the lives of traditions, ideas and images.

Stargates - The Magic of Images from Heka to the Monas Hieroglyphica

A lecture series dedicated to the material aspects of making magical images

Explore all of our events, from public lectures and talks to research training and conferences, plus upcoming research seminars and reading groups

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