Highlights: Conferences and symposia 11–12 June 2012 16:00–18:30 Institute of Classical Studies ICLS Annual Byzantine Colloquium Room G22/26
When East met West: the reception of Latin philosophical and theological thought in late Byzantium
14–15 June 2012 10:15–18:00 The Warburg Institute Colloquium The Warburg Institute
Warburg, Benjamin and Kulturwissenschaft
Contact: sarah.mayhew@sas.ac.ukk
Invited speakers include: Horst Bredekamp (Berlin), Howard Caygill (Kingston), Karen Lang (USC), Matthew Rampley (Birmingham), Frederic Schwartz (UCL), and Cornelia Zumbusch (Munich) In continental Europe the intellectual legacy of Aby Warburg is currently a major topic of debate. Several eminent German art historians have announced that the completion of the edition of Warburg’s writings is now a national priority. As the holder of Warburg’s papers the Warburg Institute is actively involved in editing Warburg’s writings. Walter Benjamin was almost a generation younger, but his legacy, in contrast, has been much more widely discussed. The comparative cultural historical method Warburg and Benjamin introduced independently offers ample ground for comparison, as scholars have shown in recent years. By looking at historical periods with a similar transitional character, Warburg and Benjamin developed radically new ways of perceiving and presenting the historical changes they observed. Above all they were both interested in human psychology as a constitutional factor for the phenomenon called ‘culture’. The terminology they developed through intuition is based on similar ideas, and has indeed become part of the language of the discipline of cultural history. The aim of this conference is to explore the parallels between two eminent theoretical thinkers and to inspire a new attention to Warburg’s writings in the UK. Conference organisers: Peter Mack and Claudia Wedepohl Contact: warburg@sas.ac.uk
15 June 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute of Commonwealth Studies Workshop Room G22/26
Decolonisation conference
15 June 2012 10:00–18:00 Institute of English Studies Conference / Symposium Venue tbc
The UCL Festival of London and Literature: One day in the city
Registration: £15 (standard); £10.00 (student/unwaged) Contact: chloe.pieters@sas.ac.uk
This conference will explore the everyday experience of the city, particularly (though not limited to) London. Organised by UCL’s Department of English, in partnership with the Bartlett School of Architecture and the Institute of English Studies, as part of UCL’s first literary festival Contact: jon.millington@sas.ac.uk
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