Event series: Word and Image in Times of Crisis
18 to 21 February 2019, Warburg Institute, Lecture Room

A series of events organised by Michelle O’Malley (Deputy Director of the Warburg Institute), Claudia Wedepohl (Archivist of the Warburg Institute) and Johannes von Müller (Coordinator of the Bilderfahrzeuge Project)
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Monday, 18 February, 17.30 (Lecture Room):
Reading Group: Aby Warburg, Pagan-Antique Prophecies in Words and Images in the Age of Luther
Aby Warburg’s seminal lecture on Martin Luther and the role of propaganda in the process of public opinion-making, delivered in November 1917, and published in 1920 is nowadays considered to be one of the founding documents of Bildwissenschaft (science of images) and of media studies.
Wednesday, 20 February, 17.30 (Lecture Room):
Jane O. Newman, Warburg on Luther and Dürer: Media Wars and the Freedom to Think
Thursday, 21 February, (Lecture Room):
16.30: Display of Materials relating to Aby Warburg’s work on early modern prints and the media of his time(Introduction by Steffen Haug and Claudia Wedepohl)
17.30: Roundtable Discussion: Word and Image in Times of Crisis
Johannes von Müller (Bilderfahrzeuge Project), Introduction
Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute), Chair
James Curran (Goldsmiths)
Jane Newman (UC Irvine)
Steffen Haug (Bilderfahrzeuge Project)