Congratulations to Rebecca Darley on the publication of a chapter examining the spatial relationships of Byzantine coins in South India and Sri Lanka, both to the landscape and to their own micro-contexts. The chapter forms part of a volume of conference proceedings, bringing together papers presented at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, in December 2012 on exploring space in the Middle Ages in a broad global context. More information about the volume can be found here.
Autor: Max Weber Stiftung
The Max Weber Foundation promotes global research, focused on the areas of social sciences, cultural studies and the humanities. Our research is conducted at ten institutes in various countries across the globe with different and independent fields of focus. Through our globally operating institutes, we are able to contribute to the communication and networking between Germany and our host countries or regions. By promoting academic dialogue and merging academic and non-academic employees from several countries with different cultural backgrounds, the Max Weber Foundation is able to strengthen the internationalization of research.
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A lecture series examining art history during the First World War, organised by Pablo Schneider, of the Bilderfahrzeuge Group, began last week at the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, bringing together academics from across Germany to consider developments in art history during these formative years. The programme will run until 15th July 2015. For more information and a full programme, click here.
This time our congratulations are due to Philipp Ekardt for the publication of his chapter in the edited volume Mouvement – Bewegung. Über die dynamischen Potenziale der Kunst.
The representation of movement, or, more exactly, the depiction of the human figure in movement, stood at the center of Aby Warburg’s interest as a scholar and thinker. The topic gave rise to some of Warburg’s most iconic terminological coinages, such as the concept of ‘bewegtes Beiwerk’ (animated parerga). It is less well known that Warburg also sought to envision the
Dr Cynthia Johnston
Institute of English Studies
School of Advanced Study (University of London)
London, 24 June 2015, 16:30
Warburg Institute
Woburn Square,
London WC1H 0AB
Prof Frederic Schwartz
University College London
History of Art Department
London, 27 May 2015, 16:30
Warburg Institute
Woburn Square,
London WC1H 0AB
The ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’ group will present two linked panels at the Renaissance Society of America. These bring together members of the research project and invited guest speakers to talk about the movement of objects and the shaping of maritime spaces. All of the papers will be presented on Saturday 28th March in the Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, First Floor, 2094.
Panel 1: Moving Objects, Shifting Spaces I: Mediterranean Migration of Artifacts and Its Effect on Conceptions of Space (Sat, March 28, 2:00 to 3:30pm, Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, First Floor, 2094)
Congratulations to Isabella Woldt. The Operating Principle of Picture Series. Aby Warburg’s Theory of the Function of the Image Memory and the Renaissance Festivals Pictures, in: IKON. Journal of Iconographic Studies, Vol. 7: Iconology at the Crossroads, 2014, pp 33-48.
The article is available for free download and here is the abstract!
Yet more good news for the group, and this time particularly for Maria Teresa! Congratulations are due for the publication of her article ‘Lo spazio sonoro dell traduzione: note a margine de il compito del traduttore del Walter Benjamin’. The article is freely available here, and here is a taster of what lies therein:
Congratulations to Pablo Schneider on the publication of his review of Dorothea McEwan’s biography of Fritz Saxl. The review, published in the Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (vol. 36, pp. 81-84), summarises this latest biography of Saxl, which seeks to highlight his position as a significant figure in twentieth-century art history. The article is available to read here.
Annual Conference of the International Research Group ‘Bilderfahrzeuge’
at the Warburg Institute, London
This conference takes up the question of the migration of images, forms and ideas, accessing the metaphor “Bilderfahrzeuge”, coined by the cultural theorist Aby Warburg (1866-1929). It is the first major opportunity for the international research group ‘Bilderfahrzeuge. Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology’ to introduce itself to a wider public and invite broad academic dialogue. Carefully-selected external speakers will present alongside the group’s own members, to offer an insight into how the dynamic of individual research projects contributes to this larger question.