This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with - and intuitions about - memory, both in relation to different forms of artistic creation and in anticipation of concepts related to neuroplasticity and neuroesthetics; the significance and fluency of the image - its elliptical and metaphoric functions - and of affect for the phenomena and qualia of chronology and memory, in concert with contemporary understanding of the dynamic unconscious; and the interdisciplinary mode of thought - the philosophical and art historical, cosmographic and historical - at the heart of Warburg’s atlas. Schedule for Saturday, October 12th: 9:15 am - 11:30 am: Neuroesthetics roundtable: Anjan Chatterjee, David Freedberg, Vittorio Gallese, Ludovica Lumer, Edward Nersessian, and Andrea Pinotti; 11:45 am - 12:30 pm: An Eccentric Science: Georges Didi-Huberman; 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch break; 2:00 pm - 4:15 pm: Classical & Renaissance Art roundtable: Georges Didi-Huberman, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, François Quiviger, Dorothea Rockburne, and Christopher Wood.
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Participants
Anjan Chatterjee
Professor of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
Anjan Chatterjee is a Professor of Neurology, and a member of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Center for Neuroscience and Society at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his B.A. in Philosophy from Haverford College and M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. His clinical practice focuses on patients with cognitive disorders. His research focuses... read more! »
Georges Didi-Huberman
Philosopher and Art Historian, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Georges Didi-Huberman, philosopher and art historian, teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris, where he has been a lecturer since 1990. He is a winner of the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art given by the College Art Association. Born... read more! »
David Freedberg
Professor of Art History and Director of Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University
David Freedberg is Professor of Art History at Columbia University, and Director of its Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. He is best known for his work on psychological responses to images. His initial publications were on the problems of iconoclasm and censorship, but inThe Power of Images he moved on to discuss a whole range... read more! »
Vittorio Gallese
Professor of Psychobiology, University of Parma
Director, Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Parma
Vittorio Gallese MD is a trained neurologist and Professor of Psychobiology at the University of Parma, Italy where he is Director of the Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience, Fellow at the Italian Academy of Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University, New York, USA, Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Philosophy of the School of... read more! »
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. He received degrees from Yale, the Warburg Institute, and Harvard, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Technical University, Dresden, and the Masaryk University, Brno. The holder of the Palacký medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences, he is a member of... read more! »
Ludovica Lumer
Faculty, Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi Milano-Bicocca
Ludovica Lumer, a philosopher and neurobiologist, was born in Milan in 1971 and, since 1997, has been working with Semir Zeki at the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology (University College London), where she started researching in the field of neuroesthetics, studying the relationship between visual perception and artistic representation. In 2005 she opened an... read more! »
Edward Nersessian
Director, The Helix Center
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell Medical College
Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Edward Nersessian is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weill-Cornell Medical College, Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Distinguished Life Member of the American Psychiatric Association, and Corresponding Member of Société Psychanalytique de Paris. He is co-founder and first co-editor of the journal Neuropsychoanalysis, co-editor of the Textbook of Psychoanalysis and of Controversies in Contemporary Psychoanalysis.... read more! »
Andrea Pinotti
Professor of Aesthetics, Department of Philosophy, University of Milan
Andrea Pinotti teaches Aesthetics at the Università degli Studi di Milano and is “Directeur de Programme” at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris on the project Monument Nonument. His topics are the “Kunstwissenschaft” (Riegl, Wölfflin, Warburg & company), the image-theories, and the empathy-theories. He was a Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America of... read more! »
François Quiviger
Curator of Digital Resources, Assistant Librarian, Warburg Institute
François Quiviger took his Ph.D. from the Warburg Institute, London, where he works as curator of digital resources, librarian, and researcher. He has written, taught, and curated projects on early modern European academies, on mythology and on Renaissance material culture, art and art theory. His recent book, The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art (London, Chicago 2010), explores... read more! »
Dorothea Rockburne
Artist
Dorothea Rockburne was born in Montreal. She was educated at the Montreal Museum School and at Black Mountain College, where she studied with, among other contemporaries, Philip Guston and Franz Kline, as well as the German mathematician Max Dehn, whose teachings, merging the mathematical and natural worlds, provided her with new and complex approaches to her... read more! »
Christopher Wood
Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University; Visiting Professor, Department of German, New York University
Christopher Wood (A.B., Harvard 1983, Ph.D., Harvard 1991) has been teaching at Yale since 1992. He is currently Visiting Professor in the German Department, New York University, and has taught as a visitor at the University of California (Berkeley), Vassar College, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. In 1980 he was awarded Harvard’s Jacob Wendell Scholarship. He... read more! »
I would like to underline the notion of “plasticity” of the brain, related to memory processing, that I found very illuminating for my studies on the retroactive reconfigurations of memories and of the experience of the past in authors like Warburg, Bergson, Eliot, Borges.