The work in progress seminar explores the variety of subjects studied at the institute. Papers are given by invited international scholars, research fellows studying at the Institute, and third-year PhD students.
Autumn Term 2020
Wednesdays, 2.00 – 3.30pm:
- 21 October 2020 | Donna Bilak (Independent Scholar), Loren Ludwig (Independent Scholar), Tara Nummedal (Brown University) introduce a new open access online publication, Furnace & Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier's Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary
- 28 October 2020 | Carlotta Paltrinieri (Visiting Fellow): 'Artistic Academies, Printed Books, and the Republic of Letters'
- 4 November 2020 | Rheagan Martin (Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellow): 'Seeing Through: The Possibility of Translucency in Fifteenth-Century Printed Astronomical Texts'
- 11 November 2020 | Federico Campagna (writer and philosopher), Beatrice Bottomley (Warburg PhD), John Tresch (Professor in the History of Art, Science and Folk Practise), Liana Saif (PhilAnd Researcher, Warburg) discuss Campagna’s “Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality” (2018), an innovative work that lies at the crossroads between philosophy, intellectual history and the history of science.
- 18 November 2020 | Beverly Brown: 'Who Let the Dogs Out: Jacopo Bassano, Naturalism and Prints'
- 25 November 2020 | Luisa Capodieci: '"A dress the color of the sky". The apparition of Isis in Anet castle after Frances Yates'
- 2 December 2020 | Micha Lazarus (Visiting Fellow): 'Northern Renaissances: Reforming the Classics in Wittenberg and Beyond'
- 9 December 2020 | Anita Hosseini (Bilderfahrzeuge Project): 'The Elephant in the Room: Simon Voulet's Anamorphic Machine'