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.
SpringTerm 2021
Wednesdays, 2.00 – 3.30pm:
- 20 January 2021: Steffen Haug (Bilderfahrzeuge Research Project): ‘Politics in words and images: Warburg, his journal and the newspapers 1914–18’
- 27 January 2021: Dr Ceri Law (independent), Dr Micha Lazarus (Warburg), Dr Lucy Nicholas (Warburg) and Professor Richard Rex (University of Cambridge): A conversational panel to mark the recent publication of Roger Ascham and his Sixteenth-Century World
- 3 February 2021: Martina Mazzotta (Visiting Research Fellow): ‘Wunderkammer / Bilderatlas: exploring shared territories’
- 10 February 2021: John-Mark Philo (Visiting Research Fellow): ‘”Majestical Judgment”: How Elizabeth I read her Tacitus’
- 24 February 2021: Deanna Petherbridge (Associate Fellow): ‘Drawing without Footnotes’
- 3 March 2021: Noga Arikha (Associate Fellow): ‘The Self as Other: Franz Boas between Psychology and Anthropology’
- 10 March 2021: Monica Azzolini (University of Bologna): title tbc
- 17 March 2021: 'Artists' Workshop Practice in Italy': Genevieve Verdigel (British Museum), Lois Haines (Warburg), Elizabeth Eisenberg
- 24 March 2021: Felix Jäger (Bilderfahrzeuge Project): title tbc
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'