Deutsches Haus at NYU, the NYU Department of German, and the Department of History at NYU present the conference “Johann Joachim Winckelmann: The Transalpine Fantasy of Modern Paganism.” This conference, anticipating the 300th anniversary of Johann Joachim Winckelmann’s birth in 2017, seeks to reframe, reassess, and generally defamiliarize the antiquarian and historian who wrote the script of obsessive German philhellenism. Goethe, awed by…
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Historians Anthony Grafton and Carlo Ginzburg will discuss Arnaldo Momigliano’s lifework, one of the most distinguished 20th-century scholars of ancient and modern history. In 1939, following the passage of Italy’s racial laws, Momigliano was forced to leave his professorship in Turin. He continued his career at Oxford, London, and later in Chicago. His study of ancient and classic historiography and the emergence of national history…
Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures JACQUELINE LICHTENSTEIN Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Professor of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Université Paris – Sorbonne The Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professorship brings a distinguished scholar to the Institute each year to teach a course and give a series of public lectures. The Professorship was endowed in 2006 by the…
Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures JACQUELINE LICHTENSTEIN Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Professor of Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, Université Paris – Sorbonne The Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professorship brings a distinguished scholar to the Institute each year to teach a course and give a series of public lectures. The Professorship was endowed in 2006 by the…