We are proud to announce that the new facsimile of Aby Warburg’s Bilderatlas Mnemosyne has won the Book of the Year prize in Apollo Magazine’s 2020 Awards ceremony! Congratulations to curators Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil and thanks to our collaborators Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Hatje Cantz.
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KRESS FOUNDATION GRANT FOR ICONOGRAPHIC DATABASE
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The Institute is pleased to announce that the Kress Foundation has awarded $30,000 to pay towards the upgrade of the internet resource of the Photographic Collection, the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database.
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VIRTUAL OPEN DAY DECEMBER 2020
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Taking place next week on Friday 11 December, join us online to learn about the programmes we offer, meet our staff and current students, discover the Institute’s collections and find out what it’s like to study at the Warburg Institute.
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We are delighted to have launched a number of scholarships for PhD applicants:
Warburg Institute Scholarships
JB Trapp Scholarship
The JB Trapp Scholarship is open to international students who have been offered a place on the Institute’s MPhil/PhD Programme. It will cover international fees and provide an annual £15,000 maintenance payment for a maximum of three years.
Rubinstein Scholarship
The Rubinstein Scholarship is open to home students who have been offered a place on the Institute’s MPhil/PhD Programme. It will cover home fees and provide an annual £15,000 maintenance payment for a maximum of three years.
External Scholarships
The London Arts and Humanities Partnership (LAHP) award
The London Arts and Humanities Partnership has up to 90 cross-institutional studentships per year available for postgraduate research students studying arts and humanities disciplines.To be eligible to apply for the LAHP award you must ordinarily be resident in the UK or the European Union.
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We also have a number of scholarships available for MA/MRes students currently available:
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The Institute is delighted to announce the continuation in the Spring Term 2021 of short courses in Classical Greek at beginner and intermediate level; Classical Greek Texts (advanced level only); and a five-day Intensive course in Intermediate Renaissance Latin.
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ABY WARBURG'S BILDERATLAS MNEMOSYNE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION
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In case you missed the news, we have launched a complete virtual tour of the two landmark exhibitions: Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne - the Original, at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) curated by Roberto Ohrt and Axel Heil in collaboration with the Warburg Institute; and Between Cosmos and Pathos: Berlin Works from Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas at the Gemäldegalerie.
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Before the current Warburg Institute building was built in the late 1950s a strip of Georgian houses used to occupy the land. The surrounding area underwent a transformation during this time, as the university grew and occupied an area of land that had previously been residential.
Historian Mark Amies, who also works as the Warburg Library’s Scanner Operator, shares with us his knowledge of the history of the area in this blog post.
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Watch our evening of conversation, poetry and film marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of poet Paul Celan, with Edmund de Waal, Idris Khan, Karen Leeder and Bill Sherman.
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Ana Debenedetti (Curator of Paintings, V&A) and Adam Lowe (Founder, Factum Foundation) discuss the impact of technology on new findings on the Museum’s Raphael Cartoons in advance of the postponed opening of the V&A’s new installation of the Raphael Court.
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