8 – 9 October 2015
Annual Workshop of the International Research Group Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’ legacy and the future of Iconology at the Kunsthistorische Institut Florence
organized by Maria Teresa Costa and Hans Christian Hönes

Aby Warburg: Bilingual Manuscript of „I costumi teatrali“, WIA III.42.1, fol [41] © The Warburg Institute, University of London
The workshop addresses these decisive migrations and considers how the adoption and processing of foreign-language texts and their corresponding methodologies have been fundamental to the disciplinary discourse of Art History, since the earliest days of its professionalization. The objects of investigation are both translations of texts by art historians who themselves migrated to other Sprachraums, changing their working language, and also the implication of this transfer for subsequent writings in the mother tongue.
In addition, the self-translations by art historians will be contextualised and juxtaposed against examples from other fields. This will lead to a case-based discussion of the theoretical and practical consequences of the understudied phenomenon of scholarly self-translation, especially with regard to the possibilities and limitations of the dissemination of art-historical methodologies (and therefore of the discipline itself). Consequently, the study of self-translations also addresses the problem of (un-)translatability of concepts and ideas.
PROGRAMME
Thursday, October 8th (KHI, Sala Conferenze, Palazzo Grifoni (Via dei Servi 51, I-50122 Florence)
14:30 Maria Teresa Costa and Hans Christian Hönes: Welcome and Introduction
Theory of Self-translation
Chair: Hans Christian Hönes
14:45 Verena Jung (South-Westfalia University of Applied Sciences Soest): Transferring your View on Art into another Language. Self-translation and Translation in the Arts
15:30 Linda Sandino (V&A London): Narrative Identities in Life History Recordings. The case of Leon Vilaincour
16:15 coffee break
Self-translation in art historiography I
Chair: Philipp Ekardt
16.45 Johannes von Müller (Bilderfahrzeuge, Warburg Institute London): Speaking art’s own language: Winckelmann writing Italian
17:30 Burcu Dogramaci (LMU München): Writings on Art and Architecture in Turkish Exile
18:15 coffee break
18:30 Sigrid Weigel (ZfL Berlin): Translation without original and the process of self-translation. The case of Hannah Arendt
20:00 dinner
Friday, October 9th
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Chair: Maria Teresa Costa
9:30 Yumiko Saito (TU Berlin): Loanwords in Yoko Tawada’s Japanese Translation of Opium für Ovid
10:15 Antonio Somaini (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3): Eisenstein’s General History of Cinema (1946-48) : Genealogies, Migrations, Remediations
11:00 coffee break
Self-translation in art historiography II
Chair: Andreas Beyer
11:30 Jennifer Cooke (University of Turin): Frederic Antal or a Connoisseur Turned Social Historian of Art
12:15 Giovanna Targia (LMU München): Edgar Wind’s Self-Translations. Genealogies, Crossroads and Perspectives of a Cultural-theoretical Tradition
13:00 light lunch
Chair: Gerhard Wolf
14:30 Uwe Fleckner (Bilderfahrzeuge, Universität Hamburg): ‚… always living in a foreign tongue‘. Carl Einstein and the language of exile
15:15 Irving Lavin (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): American Panofsky
Followed by a conversation between Irving Lavin and Gerhard Wolf
16:30 Final remarks
Sehr geehrter Herr Hönes,
Wird es den Vortrag Irving Lavins in gedruckter Form geben oder ist eine Video-Aufzeichnung im Netz abrufbar?
Mit freundlichen Grüssen
Fritz Kestel
Sehr geehrter Herr Kestel,
vielen Dank fuer Ihr Interesse! Ja, eine Drucklegung der Vortraege ist geplant – allerdings kann das freilich noch ein wenig dauern. Eine Aufzeichnung ist leider nicht verfuegbar.
Beste Gruesse,
Hans Christian Hones