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The University of London offers heartfelt thanks to David Freedberg for his transformative work as Director The School of Advanced Study, University of London announces that Professor David Freedberg will stand down as Director of the Warburg Institute with effect from 30 April 2017. In tendering his resignation Professor Freedberg said: ‘having helped the Institute return to its intellectual origins in the work of Aby Warburg and rediscover both its significance and its implications for the world in which we live, I have decided I must reduce my international commitments and focus my energies on my own intellectual work. There are a number of writing projects that I am anxious to complete in the next years, and it is on these that I wish now to concentrate my attention’. In accepting his resignation, The Dean of the School, Professor Roger Kain said ' The University of London offers heartfelt thanks to David Freedberg for his transformative work as Director. Of all his many initiatives, the international conference to mark the 150th anniversary of Aby Warburg’s birth will live in the memory of those who attended for ever. We will move swiftly to identify a replacement for Professor Freedberg to build on his outstanding contribution to the development of the Institute and to secure its position as a world leading research centre in the humanities. In the meantime, I would like to assure the Institute and its staff and students of my personal support'. After leaving, Professor Freedberg will continue his academic involvement with ongoing Warburg projects such as Body and Image in Arts and Science (with Manos Tsakiris and the Nomis Foundation) the Bilderfahrzeuge group, and collaborations with the Siobhan Davies Dance Company and the Institute of Philosophy’s Centre for Experimental Aesthetics, Technology and Engineering.

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Symbolic Articulation - Workshop 10 Mar 2017, 10:00 to 17:30 Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB Organiser: Jürgen Trabant (Freie Universität Berlin) Booking in advance is required Booking: http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/7200 "Symbolic articulation" has two philosophical and terminological sources: one is Cassirer's famous theory of the "symbol" and the other one is Wilhelm von Humboldt's lesser known theory of "articulation". By extending the concept of "articulation" to the large realm of all symbols, the Research Group "Symbolic Articulation", adds a structural trait to the investigations of symbols in order to understand symbolicity better and to grasp the very specificity of different symbols through the specificity of their articulation. The Research Group, based at the Humboldt University in Berlin and funded by the VolkswagenStiftung, studies the fundamental processes and forms of symbolization. The workshop presents its findings on some basic philosophical problems (e.g. the symbolic threshold, the nature/culture divide, language and the writerly attitude, convention) as well as on concrete fields of symbolisation - like painting, dancing, drawing, poetry - in the Warburgian context of Image, Word, Orientation and Action. The language of the workshop is English. Organiser: Jürgen Trabant (Freie Universität Berlin) Speakers Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Maria Luisa Catoni (IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca) Yannis Hadjinicolaou (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Matthias Jung (Universität Koblenz-Landau) Sabine Marienberg (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Alva Noë (UC Berkeley) Anja Pawel (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Jürgen Trabant (Freie Universität Berlin) Tullio Viola (Humboldt Universität Berlin) PROGRAMME 09.30 Registration 10.00 Michelle O'Malley, Deputy Director of the Warburg Institute - Welcome 10.05 Jürgen Trabant - Introduction: Symbolic articulation: a research program 10.30 Horst Bredekamp - Origins of the image act and the question of gestalt 11.00 Sabine Marienberg - Articulating gestures 11.30 Coffee break (Common Room) 12.00 Matthias Jung - Articulating embodied reasons 12.30 Tullio Viola - Habit and the symbolic process 13.00 General discussion 13.15 Lunch break - [Lunch provided for speakers/organisers only] 14.30 Alva Noë - The writerly attitude 15.00 Yannis Hadjinicolaou - Symbolic articulation through stains 15.30 Coffee break (Common Room) 16.00 Anja Pawel - Ancient articulations? Antique schemata in modern art and dance 16.30 Maria Luisa Catoni - Symbolic articulation: word and schema 17.00 General discussion 17.30 Reception The Research Group "Symbolic Articulation" is interested in the reactions of the London workshop attendees. Therefore, the talks will be short (20 minutes each) in order to leave space for the discussion of each paper. In addition there will be time for general discussions. Attendance is free of charge and includes tea and coffee in the morning and afternoon. Lunch is not provided for attendees but there are numerous cafes in the area. (Note: Lunch is provided for speakers/organisers). Booking in advance is required

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Lines and Words: The Surprising Role of the Ordnance Survey | School of Advanced Study

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Heinrich Wölfflin in the Hispanic World 08 Feb 2017, 17:30 to 18:30 Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB Professor Tristan Weddigen, University of Zurich One century from the first publication of one of the most influential books of art history, Heinrich Wölfflin's "Principles of Art History" of 1915, the paper explores one major part of its global reception: its impact on Hispanic and Latin American art and architectural history and aesthetics since the 1920s. The aim is to show how Kunstwissenschaft was translated, adopted, and appropriated for the construction of national, political, ethnic identities. http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/7000

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On the Peak of Darkness: from the Abyss to the Light A weekly series of Dante public readings on Mondays from 18.30 to 19.50 in the Spring and Summer terms at the Warburg Institute Alessandro Scafi, Warburg Institute John Took, University College London Tabitha Tuckett, University College London Free of charge; pre-registration not required. Programme Spring Term 30 January 2017. Introduction: Dante’s life and works; Dante’s universe. 6 February 2017. Inferno, Canto I. The dark wood and wild animals. The appearance of Virgil. 13 February 2017. Inferno, Canto V. The lustful. Paolo and Francesca. 27 February 2017. Inferno, Canto XIII. The suicides. Pier della Vigna 6 March 2017. Inferno, Canto XXVI and XXVII. The evil counsellors. Ulysses and Guido da Montefeltro. 13 March 2017. Inferno, Canto XXXIII. Count Ugolino. Canto XXXIV. Centre of Hell. Lucifer. 20 March 2017. Purgatorio, Canto XVI.58-105; Canto XVII.91-105; Canto XVIII.13-75. The moral structure of Purgatory; the nature of love and its relation to free will. 27 March 2017. Purgatorio, Canto I; Canto II.106-132. Dante and Virgil emerge from the abyss of Hell on the shore of Mount Purgatory. Cato. The ritual of purification. Casella. Summer Term 8 May 2017. Purgatorio, Canto X.1-45. Canto XI.1-117. The First Cornice: the proud. The Lord’s Prayer; Omberto Aldobrandeschi; Oderisi da Gubbio. 15 May 2017. Purgatorio, Canto XXX. Appearance of Beatrice on the chariot of the Church 22 May 2017. Purgatorio, Canto XXXIII. Beatrice’s prophesies. The final ritual of Dante’s spiritual cleansing. 5 June 2017. Paradiso, Canto I. Ascent to the heaven of fire. 12 June 2017. Paradiso, Canto III. Heaven of the moon. Piccarda Donati 19 June 2017. Paradiso, Canto XI.Thomas Aquinas. Francis of Assisi. 26 June 2017. Paradiso, Canto XVII. Heaven of Mars. Cacciaguida. 3 July 2017. Paradiso, Canto XXXIII. The Empyrean. The vision of the Trinity. http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/6676

The Languages of Translation in Renaissance France and Europe | School of Advanced Study

Join us for the Durham-Warburg annual conference on French Renaissance Friday 10 February The Languages of Translation in Renaissance France and Europe, with papers from Susan Baddeley, Valerie Worth, Hugo Tucker, Marc Schachter, Emma Claussen, Luke O’Sullivan http://www.sas.ac.uk/events/event/7199 Free of charge bur register in advance (click on the link below)

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The Warburg Institute to establish the world’s first Chair in History of Art, Science and Folk Practice The Warburg Institute has been awarded $530,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a chair in the history of art, science and folk practice and an associated post-doctoral research position. The new professorship will be critical in restoring, developing and elaborating the theoretical, cultural historical and anthropological implications of the work of Aby Warburg, the founder of the institute and will inspire the kinds of cross-disciplinary work which will help revitalise the possibilities of research in the humanities. This welcome support from the Mellon Foundation enables the Warburg Institute to strengthen its pre-eminence in the study of the historical, psychological, anthropological and political dimensions of culture and the transmission of cultural forms across literature, art, music and science. The Director of the Warburg Professor David Freedberg, said: ‘The Warburg Institute is immensely grateful to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its generous grant enabling the establishment of a new chair in history of art, history of science and folk Practice – the first chair of its kind in the world. ‘Based on two major areas of Aby Warburg’s influential research that are still strong at the institute, the chair also provides for the necessary anthropological and sociological grounding in popular culture -- as envisaged by Warburg and ever more relevant in our own time. The scope of the new position will be global in its range but local in its attentiveness to regional detail and contexts. This is a moment in which the Warburg’s engagement with the interactions between Islamic and Christian cultures is being extended to other areas of the world as well, both Western and Eastern, Northern and Southern. The Mellon grant will enable this strengthening of our core mission. We are honoured that the Mellon Foundation has recognised our potential to further expand areas of research pioneered at the institute and long facilitated by its incomparable library.’ 1. The Warburg Institute. The Warburg Institute, which is a constituent institute of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, is the premier institute for the study of cultural history and the role of images in culture. It is dedicated to the history of ideas, the dissemination and transformation of images in society, and the relationship between images, art, and their texts and subtexts, of all epochs and across the globe. Find out more at www.warburg.sas.ac.uk or @Warburg_News 2. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Founded in 1969, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation endeavors to strengthen, promote, and, where necessary, defend the contributions of the humanities and the arts to human flourishing and to the well-being of diverse and democratic societies by supporting exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew and provide access to an invaluable heritage of ambitious, path-breaking work. Additional information is available at mellon.org. 3. The School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London is the UK’s national centre for the promotion and support of research in the humanities. SAS and its member institutes offer unparalleled academic opportunities, facilities and stimulation across a wide range of subject areas for the benefit of the national and international scholarly community. In 2015-16, SAS: welcomed 786 research fellows and associates; held 2,007 research dissemination events; received 24.4 million visits to its digital research resources and platforms; and received 194,145 visits to its specialist libraries and collections. The School also leads the UK’s only nationwide festival of the humanities: Being Human. Find out more at www.sas.ac.uk or follow SAS on Twitter at @SASNews. 4. The University of London is a federal university and is one of the oldest, largest and most diverse universities in the UK. Established by Royal Charter in 1836, the university is recognised globally as a world leader in higher education. Its members are 18 self-governing institutions of outstanding reputation, and nine research institutes. Learn more about the University of London at http://www.london.ac.uk

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Origins of Art: 18 Jan 2017, 18:00. Porf Steve Mithen (Reading): The Stone Age Origin of Art: What, When, Where, Why and by Whom? http://bit.ly/2ixQI0i Recent discoveries have pushed the boundaries of art making into unimaginable depths of time and across diverse geographies bringing to light the crucial role of images in the cognitive development of the human mind. Taking up Aby Warburg’s lead in the questioning of the formations and fundamental principles of image making and its cultural values, this lecture series seeks to explore the origins of art in a cross-disciplinary perspective. Six leading experts will share their research on prehistoric art, from climate change to early faces, asking fundamental questions that open up a think space for all researchers. The Origins of Art speaks to an interdisciplinary audience who are interested in thinking about art in the widest possible sense and the theoretical implications this has for visual culture of all ages.

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Apply for LAHP student funding as a postgraduate research student at the Warburg http://www.lahp.ac.uk/apply-for-a-studentship/ … by 13th January 2017

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships | School of Advanced Study

The Warburg Institute hosts Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships. Apply for 2017-18 by Friday 6 January 2017. http://bit.ly/2gec133