Cycle de conférences 2012-1013 au Warburg Institute, université de Londres.

The Warburg Institute :
Public lectures 2012-2013

31 October
The brain as Parnassus and neurons as muses: the biology of artistic inspiration
John Onians, Emeritus Profesor, University of East Anglia

14 November
Dante’s picture theory and the shadow
Hans Belting, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Art History and Media Theory, College of Design Karlsruhe

15 November
Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance art and Arab science
Hans Belting, Emeritus Professor, Institute of Art History and Media Theory, College of Design Karlsruhe
This event is held in association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe

21 November
Word and image in the philosophy of Hobbes
Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities, Queen Mary, University of London

5 December
“To rescue German honour” – Arabic studies and Qur’an translations in eighteenth-century Germany
Alastair Hamilton, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, The Warburg Institute
This event is held in association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe

11 December
Levinus Warner & his local network among Muslims in Istanbul, 1645-1665
Arnoud Vrolijik, Curator of Oriental Manuscripts and Rare Books, University of Leiden Library
This event is held in association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe
Please note this event is on Tuesday, 11 December at 18.00

2013

16 January 
The laurel and the axe: execution poetry in Late-Renaissance Italy
Virginia Cox, Professor of Italian, New York University

23 January
Title to be confirmed
Horst Bredekamp, Professor of Art History, Humboldt University Berlin

30 January
The Pandects of the Jews: Renaissance scholars and the path to the talmud
Anthony T. Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University

6 February
Tabloid values. Abraham Verhoeven and the invention of the newspaper in seventeenth-century Europe
Andrew Pettegree, Professor of History, University of St Andrews, and Director, Universal Short-Title Catalogue Project

24 April
Title to be confirmed
Alison Coudert, Professor of Religious Studies, University of California Davis

29 April
The soldier, the Devil and the bear: layers of story-telling in Grimm’s ‘Bearskin’, 1396-1857
Craig Stephenson, Author of Anteros: A Forgotten Myth and Possession: Jung’s Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche

26 June
Readings and Counter-Readings of the Qur’an in the Spanish Golden Age
Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Dpto. Estudios Árabes e Islámicos, Universidad Complutense Madrid
In association with the Centre for the History of Arabic Studies in Europe.

The Warburg Institute
University of London,
School of Advanced Study
Woburn Square,
London WC1H 0AB.