SPEAKERS
Lorenza Gay (Phd Student, The Warburg Institute)
Lorenza Gay is an art historian with a particular interest in iconography and iconology. Her PhD research is focused on the manners of representing the pagan gods in manuscript illuminations in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She recently completed an MA at the Warburg Institute in Art History, Curatorship and Renaissance Culture in collaboration with the National Gallery of London. Prior to this she received a MA in Art History (summa cum laude) and a BA in History from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.
Dr Anita Sganzerla (Art History Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Anita Viola Sganzerla is an art historian specialising in Renaissance and seventeenth-century graphic arts. An Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art, she studied at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (BA 2005), and at the Courtauld Institute (Diploma 2008; MA 2009; PhD 2014). Her doctoral research centred on a group of prints and paintings by the Genoese artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-1664), with a particular focus on the dialogue between invention and erudition in his works.
Anita’s research addresses the technical and conceptual complexity of works on paper, and the relationship between painting and the graphic arts in the early modern period.
She recently co-edited the volume I Pittori del Dissenso. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Andrea de Leone, Pier Francesco Mola, Pietro Testa, Salvator Rosa (Rome, 2014).
Aside from lecturing at the Courtauld and the Victoria and Albert Museum, she also works as an independent scholar and curator of a private collection.
Dr Claudia Daniotti (Renaissance Lecturer, The Bath Spa University)
Claudia Daniotti is an art historian specialising in Renaissance art, with an emphasis on the classical tradition and the transmission of iconographic motifs from antiquity to the present times. An Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University, Claudia studied in Venice and in 2016 completed her PhD on the imagery of Alexander the Great in 15th and 16th-century Italian art at the Warburg Institute. Her research interests also include the representation of Death and macabre allegories in medieval and early modern Europe and the reception of classical antiquity at the court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta in Rimini.
Dr Cornelia Linde (Research Fellow in Medieval History, German Historical Institute London)
Cornelia Linde, who joined the GHIL in October 2012, studied Medieval Latin, Classical Latin and Auxiliary Sciences of History at the universities of Göttingen, Bologna and Freiburg im Breisgau. She holds an MA in Cultural and Intellectual History and a PhD in Combined Historical Studies from the Warburg Institute, University of London. From 2009 to 2012 she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, University College London.
Her current research deals with the early history of the Dominican convent in Oxford (1221-1320).
Prof. Jill Kraye (Emeritus Professor and Honorary Fellow, The Warburg Institute)
Jill Kraye was Librarian of the Warburg Institute from 2002 to 2013. She is an intellectual historian who specializes in Renaissance philosophy and humanism. A collection of her articles was published under the title Classical Traditions in Renaissance Philosophy (2002). She edited the Cambridge History of Renaissance Humanism (1996) and Cambridge Translations of Renaissance Philosophical Texts, 2 vols (1997); and among the books she has recently jointly edited are Forms of Conflict and Rivalries in Renaissance Europe (2015), Palaeography, Manuscript Illumination and Humanism in Renaissance Italy: Studies in Memory of A.C. de la Mare (2016) and Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century (2016). She is one of the editors of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, the International Journal of the Classical Tradition and the Renaissance and Sixteenth-Century section of the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Juan Acevedo (PhD Student, The Warburg Institute)
Juan Acevedo studied Classical Literature and Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela, with a touch of Biblical Hebrew and much philosophical rambling around the Andes. He has worked extensively in translation, teaching Spanish and Classical languages, and in academic publishing as a typesetter (using LaTeX), specialising in Arabic-English bilingual editions.
His current research at the Warburg focuses on the complexity of the concept of element, its intrinsic relation to number, and to language as a phonetic, written and logical system. To put it otherwise, it has to do with the root concept of alphanumeric cosmology and its history through the international Middle Ages.
James Christie (PhD Student, The Warburg Institute)
James Christie is a historian of science with an interest in early modern astronomy and astrology. He has a BA (Hons) in Early Modern and Medieval Studies from the University of Sydney, and an MA in the Cultural and Intellectual History of Europe from The Warburg Institute. He is currently writing a PhD thesis on the relationship between astrology and the ‘plurality of worlds’ debate in the 17th century.
Antonia Von Karais (PhD Student, The Warburg Institute)
Antonia Karaisl is a third-year PhD at the Warburg Institute, researching the eighteenth-century philosopher Christian Wolff’s Oeconomica methodo scientifica pertractata as a philosophical foundation for an early modern welfare state model. Her academic background includes a BA in Classics from the University of Oxford and an MA in International Economics and European Studies from SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Besides her PhD, she is researching the application of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology to historic printed text and medieval manuscripts; she is the co-founder of Rescribe Ltd, a not-for-profit company spun out under the aegis of Durham University’s Classics department, with the mission to offer bespoke OCR services and develop open source OCR packages (see https://latinocr.org)
16:00-16:30
Saturday 18th November
The Survival of the Pagan Gods in the Middle Ages.​ Lorenza Gay (The Warburg Institute).
15:00-15:30
Iconographic Riddles in the Prints of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione​. Dr Anita Sganzerla (The Courtauld Institute)
Recovering the Lost Heritage of Ancient Greece: The Revival of Greek Studies in Renaissance Italy. Prof. Jill Kraye (The Warburg Institute)
16:00-16:30
In Praise of Forgetting: Lost and Found in “E”s and “N”s.​ Juan Acevedo (The Warburg Institute)
Saturday 25th November
Lost, Found and Lost Again: The Never Ending Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great.​ Dr Claudia Daniotti (Bath Spa University)
Learning Hebrew in the Middle Ages.​ Dr Cornelia Linde (German Historical Institute London)
How to Find Lost Things: Magic and the History of Science.​ James Christie (The Warburg Institute)
On the fossilising of Zeitgeist.​ Antonia Von Karais (The Warburg Institute)
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Registration and Welcome.​
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The Warburg Institute Presents:
November 18 & 25
@BeingHumanFestival2017
