The historicity of the humanities
Historicity is a major issue in research in the humanities. We will consider this theme from various perspectives. There is the perspective of method, when we ask how this historicity is to be understood in relation to other disciplines that study human culture, but model themselves increasingly on the social sciences or cognitive sciences, such as archaeology; or when we consider particular historical methods and formats, such as the biography of the object. There is the perspective of the historiography of the humanities, and the ways in which historical methods used at present in the humanities relate to older methods; their resurgence and rediscovery. There is the philosophical perspective of the epistemological status of historicity, which is a key concern in philosophical hermeneutics. Finally, but this list is by no means exhaustive, there is the question of what we might call material historicity: how do disciplines concerned with the material history of objects, such as restoration studies, relate to other historical methods used in the humanities?
Programme
MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER
09.00 PLENARY SESSION: OPENING ADDRESS
Presentation of the partner institutions’ doctoral schools
Coffee break
11.00 Presentation of PhD and post-doc research projects (i)
13.00 Lunch
15.00 Lectio magistralis
Salvatore Settis (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
How to put Classical Art on Display
17.00 Presentation of PhD and post-doc research projects (ii)
Dinner
TUESDAY 20 SEPTEMBER
09.00 PLENARY SESSION: READING & DEBATE
Historicity in an interdisciplinary way
Coffee break
11.30 PLENARY SESSION: LECTURE
Francesco Benigno (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Historicity today
13.00 Lunch
14.30 PLENARY SESSION: LECTURE
Pieter Ter Keurs (Leiden University)
E.H. Gombrich and the Primitive: A model for future research?
Coffee break
16.30 PARALLEL SESSIONS: WORKSHOPS
The construction of historical narrative
Dinner
WEDNESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER
09.00 Lectio magistralis
Pascal Griener (Université de Neuchâtel)
Objects in Motion. The Restoration of Artworks, and its Importance for a Cultural History of Perception
Coffee break
11.30 PLENARY SESSION: ROUND TABLE
Historicity and material culture
13.00 Lunch
14.30 PLENARY SESSION: LECTURE
Caroline Van Eck (Cambridge University)
From Piranesi to Warburg. Stylistic Revivals and the Historicity of Memory
Coffee break
Visit to Cortona and its environs
Dinner
THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER
09.00 PLENARY SESSION: LECTURE
Isabelle Kalinowski (CNRS, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris)
Gottfried Semper, Style and the Thickness of Time
Coffee break
11.30 PLENARY SESSION: FINAL DEBATE
The Historicity of the Humanities
Scientific Committee
- Lorenzo Bartalesi - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Francesco Benigno - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Stijn Bussels - Leiden University
- Caroline van Eck - Cambridge University
- Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak - École Normale Supérieure/CNRS
- Isabelle Kalinowski - École Normale Supérieure/CNRS
- Pieter ter Keurs - Leiden University
- Lucia Simonato - Scuola Normale Superiore
- Miguel John Versluys - Leiden University
Participants
- Marco Bei (SNS)
- Chiara Capulli (Cambridge)
- Jules Colmart (ENS)
- Lorenzo Comensoli Antonini (SNS)
- Alexander Dencher (Leiden)
- Susan Filoche-Romme (ENS)
- Joshua Fitzgerald (Cambridge)
- Tommaso Ghezzani (SNS)
- Francis Haselden (ENS)
- Hannika Hass (ENS)
- Lieske Huits (Cambridge)
- Steven Lauritano (Leiden)
- Giulia Lovison (SNS)
- Rémi Mermet (ENS)
- Natalia Milovzorova (ENS)
- Gabriele Parrino (SNS)
- Sara Petrilli-Jones (SNS-Yale)
- Nadia Rizzo (SNS)
- Giacomo Santoro (SNS)
- Marco Scansani (SNS)
- Giulio Tatasciore (SNS)
- Suzan van de Velde (Leiden)
- Koenraad Vos (Cambridge)
- Jing Wang (ENS)Lectio magistralis of Salvatore Settis and Pascal Griener.
The Summer School is financed in the framework of the programme ERASMUS+ Blended Intensive Programme (BIP)