Gesture: A Workshop
Friday, 2 December 2016
Lecture Room, The Warburg Institute
Co-hosted by the Walter Benjamin London Research Network (WBLRN) and the Warburg Institute.
10:00 Christopher Johnson (WI/BFZ), Welcome: Some Gestures towards Gesture
10:20 Caroline van Eck (University of Cambridge), "Eloquentia corporis as a Theory of Mind: Intentionality and Inanimate Movement"
11:05 Eckart Marchand (WI/BFZ), "Baxandall meets Belting: Gestures in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Paintings"
11:50 Philipp Ekardt (WI/BFZ), "Gesture and Discernment: The Power of Feelings according to Alexander Kluge"
12:35 Lunch
1:30 David Freedberg (WI), "The Paradox of the Pathosformel"
2:15 Julia Ng (Goldsmiths), "Sketching the Sky Torn Asunder: Gesture in Benjamin's Kafka"
3:00 Coffee, tea break
3:15 Andrew Benjamin (London Graduate School, Kingston University), "Empathy and the Doubling of Gesture"
4:00 Roundtable discussion, led by Josh Cohen (Goldsmiths)
**PLEASE NOTE: Due to personal reasons Professor Werner Hamacher is no longer able to come to London, and the seminar on Thursday, 1 December has been cancelled.
Please visit cpct.uk and http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/gesture-workshop for details.
The event is now fully booked but seats may still become available. To register on the waiting list, please contact: johnson [at] bilderfahrzeuge.org
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The WBLRN is co-convened by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT) and the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, and the London Graduate School at Kingston University.
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