Research Forum autumn Term 2011
research forum visiting professor lecture
Aby Warburg's Scissors
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
17.30 - 18.30, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Speaker(s): Carlo Ginzburg (Professor Emeritus, Scuola Normale, Pisa, and University of California, Los Angeles)
Ticket/entry details: Open to all, free admission. The lecture is now fully booked but please contact researchforum@courtauld.ac.uk if you wish to be put on the waiting list. Note that is still possible that there may be places on the day in the event of "no shows"
Organised by: Professor Caroline Arscott
The lecture will re-examine Aby Warburg's notion of Pathosformeln (formulas of emotion) looking more closely at the context in which it emerged as well as at its implications.
Carlo Ginzburg (Turin, 1939) has taught at the University of Bologna, at UCLA, at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He has received many awards, including the Aby Warburg Prize (1992), the Humboldt-Forschungspreis (2007), the Balzan Prize for the History of Europe, 1400-1700 (2010). His many books, translated into more than 20 languages, include: The Night Battles; The Cheese and the Worms; The Enigma of Piero della Francesca; Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method; Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches’s Sabbath; The Judge and the Historian. Marginal Notes on a Late-Twentieth-Century Miscarriage of Justice; Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance; History, Rhetoric, and Proof; No Island is an Island; Threads and Traces: True False Fictive.