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The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.

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Learn the processes of transcription, textual criticism and the construction of critical editions and stemma codicum, all central to understanding how medieval texts were transmitted and received."

Book now for our online short course led by Dr Anna Somfai:
Textual Criticism and the Transmission of Texts - 2026
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January 2, 2026 at 11:28 AM
New year, new route.

In the Nativity story, an angel appears to the Magi in a dream and sends them home “by another way”, a reminder that beginnings are not always about grand resolutions.

Wishing you a year of wise choices, safe journeys and bright returns.
January 1, 2026 at 11:28 AM
Curious how luxury objects helped shape diplomacy in early modern France?

Join us for a free talk by Dr Barbara Lasic (Sotheby’s Institute of Art): Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters.

Book here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
December 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How did early modern Europeans understand the natural world, from plants and insects to unfamiliar landscapes and cultures?

Join Thomas Balfe for a six-week online course tracing the symbolic, scientific and political meanings of nature in Northern European art.

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Seeing Green: Nature in Northern European Art, 1550–1680
This short course explores the connections between European depictions of nature and the major religious, cultural and intellectual frameworks that shaped these works’ production and reception.
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December 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday 🌟

From the Warburg’s Iconographic Database: a medieval Nativity scene, one example of how manuscript artists visualised the story in the Middle Ages.

Image: Bibliothèque nationale de France – lat. 511, fol. 48r, 1370 (circa).

#MedievalArt #Manuscripts
December 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Bookings are open for Textual Criticism and the Transmission of Texts.

Learn how to build a critical edition and a stemma codicum, step by step, with Dr Anna Somfai.

Thursdays 2-4pm, 16 April-7 May 2026.

Book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#TextualCriticism #MedievalStudies
Textual Criticism and the Transmission of Texts - 2026
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December 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Explore how early modern artists imagined nature.

Our new short course, led by Thomas Balfe, looks at Dürer, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt and more, placing their works in wider cultural and intellectual contexts.

Fridays, 30 Jan–13 Mar (online).
Book now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Seeing Green: Nature in Northern European Art, 1550–1680
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December 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The hidden Hans-Würtz-Collection is a unique body of disability related images and artworks.

Find out more about the innovative collection in this talk with Professor Simon Mckeown and Professor Oliver Musenberg: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Hans-Würtz-Collection: unlocking a unique body of disability related images
The hidden Hans-Würtz-Collection is a unique body of disability related images and artworks.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Booking is now open for our LRBS short course 'Print and the ascent of magic'!

📅3-5 March 2026
🕠5.30-7.30pm
📍Senate House Library & Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social

Book here 👇
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December 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
"The filmmaker’s latest work is an idiosyncratic, inventive attempt to contextualise our images of blackness" @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Following strong interest from visitors & critics, we’re delighted to share that Black Atlas has been extended to 31 January 2026!

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December 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Tote-ally giftable!

Our blue book bag has been featured in The Times and The Sunday Times “Swanky Gifts for Book Lovers”: www.thetimes.com/life-style/l...
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Ever wondered what Warburg alumni go on to do?

Our latest Life After the Warburg blog features @louisamckenzie.bsky.social, now a Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Art and Inequality in the Post-Black Death Century project at the University of Glasgow.

Read:
Life after the Warburg: Louisa McKenzie
Warburg alumna Louisa McKenzie discusses her current research, the impact she hopes it will have and the routes her career has taken since leaving the Institute.
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December 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Reposted by The Warburg Institute
For our next event, Dr Barbara Lasic (Sothebys Institute of Art) will speak on ‘Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters’.

🗓️ 12 January
🕰️ 5:30pm
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social

🔗 Find out more and book: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes has published a new article from its upcoming 2025 volume!

‘Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)’ by Dinah Wouters,
Latin School Plays in European Drama. A Transregional and Multilingual Account of Joseph Plays (1500–1700)* | Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Abstract In this article I integrate school drama, mainly in Latin, with other types of drama during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. I do so by exploring connections between adaptations of…
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December 5, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How did Aby Warburg use his ninety-nine Zettelkästen as tools for thinking, organising, and connecting ideas?

In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of these remarkable index card boxes and what they offer researchers today
How Things Can Be Used: Aby Warburg’s Zettelkästen, Materiality, and Affordances
In this blog post, Dr Marianna Leszczyk explores the materiality and affordances of the Zettelkästen.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Join us online tomorrow for 'Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined'.

Juliet Simpson & Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art & worldviews to our sense of modernity

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Warburg Director's Seminar - Creating ‘Gothic Modern’: Medieval Afterlives as Modernity Re-Imagined
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December 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Edward George appeared on @6music.bsky.social today in a feature about Black Atlas!

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Lauren Laverne - Jump start your mid-morning with the biggest and brightest tunes - BBC Sounds
Lauren welcomes you to a brand new week with uplifting tunes.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Join us for the first event in this year’s @amaterialworld.bsky.social series.

Maria Golovteeva explores ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’

🗓️ 8 December 2025
🕠 5.30 to 7pm (GMT)
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟️ Free with advance booking

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November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Our Assetto Fellowships for Creative Practitioners-in-Residence are now open!

We’re inviting artists, designers, filmmakers, writers and other creative practitioners to spend 3 to 4 months working within the Warburg Institute.

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/research-fel...
November 29, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Explore how classical statues shaped visual culture beyond replication in this @ics.bsky.social conference 'The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon'.

10-12 December 2025 | 📍 Senate House

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#ClassicalStudies #Classics #VisualCulture
The Future of the Antique: Interpreting the Sculptural Canon
This conference marks the publication of the new, expanded edition of Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny’s seminal Taste and the Antique
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November 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
How does the Gothic shape modern art?

Professors Juliet Simpson and Jeanne Nuechterlein discuss Gothic Modern with Bill Sherman — exploring the proximity of late medieval art and worldviews to our sense of modernity.

📅 3 Dec, 5.30–7pm | 📍 Warburg

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November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Our Reading Room has a refreshed New Acquisitions Table!

Highlights include new titles on apocalyptic cultures, classical comedy, ceramics and divination.

You’ll also find a new volume on images of desire in the Mediterranean world, featuring a chapter by the Warburg’s Charles Burnett.

#Library
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...
Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai
This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…
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November 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"In both my museum jobs I’ve seen the benefits of the kind of interdisciplinary and collaborative environment that the Warburg promotes."

In our latest 'Life after the Warburg' we caught up with Warburg alumna Paloma Ley:
Life after the Warburg: Paloma Ley
Warburg alumna Paloma Ley discusses her AHRC-funded PhD, her experiences of working in museums, and how her MA at the Warburg continues to influence her research and career.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Now available to watch!

To coincide with his exhibition Black Atlas, Edward George presented a live performance-lecture entitled The Strangeness of Warburg.

Watch and listen here:
Edward George: The Strangeness of Warburg
To coincide with his exhibition Black Atlas, Edward George presented a live performance-lecture entitled The Strangeness of Warburg.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM