THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
School of Advanced Study | University of London

PUBLIC LECTURES, PANELS, AND BOOK LAUNCHES  - June 2023
Attendance free with advance booking


Mon 5 June: 5.30pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE & ONLINE
Warburg Director's Seminar & wine reception:
Daniel Sherer (Princeton University School of Architecture): 'Panofsky and Wittkower on Alberti: Divergent Receptions of De Re Aedificatoria I, 10'
Reading the afterlife of classical architectural theory and practice in Alberti's De Re Aedificatoria.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/directors-seminar-daniel-sherer


Weds 7 June: 5.30pm BST - ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Remembering Michael J.B. Allen (1941-2023). A panel of invited speakers will share what Michael's scholarship, friendship and example meant to them.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/remembering-michael-jb-allen-1941-2023


Fri 9 June: 5.30pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE & ONLINE
Warburg Director's Seminar & wine reception:
Stephanie Porras (Tulane University): 'What is an early modern viral image?'
Testing analytical models of art historical scholarship by tracing the production and reception histories of an illustrated book, a painting and an engraving all made in late 16th century Antwerp.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/directors-seminar-stephanie-porras


Tues to Thurs 13, 14, 15 June: 5.30pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE & ONLINE
E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series: 'On Conservation as a Human Science', by Prof. Peter N. Miller (Dean, Bard Graduate Center):
Peter Miller makes the case for treating conservation as a single human activity with an intellectual history of its own, and explores the entwined relationship between conservation and history.
Tues 13 June: Lecture 1 - In Search of Conservation's History
Weds 14 June: Lecture 2 - Conservation as History
Thurs 15 June: Lecture 3 - History as Conservation
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/e-h-gombrich-lecture-series-conservation-a-human-science


Mon 19 June: 5.30pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE & ONLINE
Book Launch & wine reception:
Celebrating the publication of Claudia Daniotti's Reinventing Alexander: Myth, Legend, History in Renaissance Italian Art (Brepols). The first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian Art, exploring the transition from medieval imagery of Alexander as a legendary fairy-tale hero to the new historically grounded portrait of him as an example of moral virtue and military prowess.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/book-launch-reinventing-alexander


Tues 20 June: 5.30pm BST - ONLINE VIA ZOOM
Renaissance Lives - Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Mary D. Garrard (Professor Emerita, American University Washington DC) in conversation with Beverley Brown (Warburg Institute)
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/renaissance-lives-artemisia-gentileschi-2


Weds 21 June: 2.00pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE & ONLINE
Book Launch & tea:
Celebrating the publication of Studies on Aby Warburg, Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing by Dorothea McEwan (London: Routledge, 2023)
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/book-launch-studies-on-Aby-Warburg


Thurs 22 June: 5.30pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE & ONLINE
Book Launch & wine reception:
'New Directions in the Renaissance Death Arts'. Marking the publication of The Death Arts in Renaissance England: A Critical Anthology (Cambridge 2022) and Memory and Mortality in Renaissance England (Cambridge 2023), this panel discussion explains ongoing research informing these two books and reflects upon the significance of the death arts for current scholarship.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/new-directions-renaissance-death-arts


Weds 28 June: 5.30pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE ONLY
Bilderfahrzeuge Lecture "Border Regimes" & wine reception:

Prof. Dr. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Princeton University): 'From Artistic Geography to a Global History of Art: Aby Warburg and his Legacy'. Following the traces of artistic geography from Warburg's initial use of the metaphor of pictorial vehicles to aspects of global art history as conceptualized today.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/BFZ-lecture-DaCosta-Kaufmann


Thurs 29 June: 5.30pm BST - WARBURG LECTURE THEATRE ONLY
Warburg Director's Seminar & wine reception:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Beyer (Universität Basel): 'Donatello. A life in anecdote'
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/directors-seminar-andreas-beyer



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