Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1, Part 2

Part 2: An Eccentric Science

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.

Free and open to the public.