LYNX

Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage

Seminars

LYNX Research Seminars

W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago)

May 9, 2025

San Francesco - Classroom 1

10:00am – 12:00pm

Art and Infinity

Fascination with the infinite seems hardwired in human consciousness, finding expression in art and literature, science and religion. But not all infinities are the same. This lecture will explore several varieties of infinity as they are realized in the visual arts, from William Blake’s “Minute Particulars” to J. M. W. Turner’s sublime landscapes to Antony Gormley’s Infinite Cube, now on display at the Smart Museum. The lecture will include the story of this work’s origin in the visionary geometry of the late artist Gabriel Mitchell, and Antony Gormley’s rendering of his model of the Infinite Cube. It will conclude with the screening of a 7 minute video of the Cube with dance, flute, and vocal music.

May 21, 2025

Ex Boccherini - Conference Room

10:00am – 12:00pm

Seeing through Madness

This presentation will talk about the forthcoming book, Seeing through Madness. The book began as an attempt to use the concept of madness as a framework for understanding “normal” human behavior in individuals and collectives, and it has evolved into a study of contemporary political madness and the rise of fascism in the U.S.

Archive

20 March 2025: ICONOδRAMMA. TESTI E IMMAGINI (V-IV SEC. A.C.). Continuità e variazioni iconografiche | 02:00 p.m.

Conference room, Ex Boccherini (Piazza San Ponziano,6). Speakers: Anna Beltrametti, Maria Luisa Catoni, Monica Centanni, Paolo Biagio Cipolla, Michele Di Bello, Alessandro Grilli, Roberto Indovina, Riccardo Olivito, Alessandro Poggio

10 February 2025: Elena Canadelli (University of Padua) Science on Display: History, Narratives and Perspectives of a Forgotten Heritage é 3pm, Classroom 1, San Francesco Complex - see the abstract

11 November 2024: Jeffrey Lockhart (University of Chicago), How and Why There Is so Much Gender in AI | 11am, San Francesco Complex | Web page

18 October 2024: Michael Lambek (University of Toronto), The Continuous Presence of the Past: Materializing and Personifying History in Madagascar | 4pm, San Francesco Complex | Web page

1 October 2024: Stephan Lehnstaedt (Touro University of Berlin), Successful Atonement? Victims of the Second World War and their Experiences with German Compensation | 3:00pm, San Francesco Complex, Classroom 2

4 July 2024: "Iconogramma. Per una filologia delle immagini" | 11:30am (new time), San Francesco Complex, Sagrestia.

26 June 2024: Fabio Remondino (Bruno Kessler Foundation of Trento), 3D heritage in the AI era | 11:00am, San Francesco Complex, Classroom 2.

24 June 2024: Arianna Traviglia (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia), Exploring the Impact of Digital Technologies on Cultural Heritage and Humanities Research | 10am (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 2)

28 May 2024: Maddalena Carli (Università di Teramo), Ephemeral Exhibition Spaces. Art and Politics in Fascist Italy | 2pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 1)

9 May 2024: Marcella Simoni (Università Ca' Foscari Venezia), The Rise and consolidation of the radical right in Israel, 1967-1993-2023 | 4pm (San Francesco Complex, Cappella Guinigi)

17 April 2024: Samuel Cohn (University of Glasgow), Art & Inequality in the Shadow of the Black Death: New Ideas, New Questions | 2pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 1)

11 April 2024: Gianfranco Mancosu (Bristish Academy, London), ‘L’occhio del regime’ and the Nostalgia of the Empire: Propaganda and Cultural Legacies of Italian Colonialism | 2pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 1)

27 March 2024: Domenico Esposito (German Archaeological Institute), A reassessment of the second style paintings of the Villa dei Misteri at Pompeii | San Francesco Complex, Classroom 2, 4pm - 6pm

4 March 2024: Bianca Gaudenzi (University of Konstanz, Germany - Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma), The restitution of looted art in post-fascist Europe, 1945-1998 | San Francesco, Classroom 2, 10am - 12pm

12 February 2024: Bianca Gaudenzi (University of Konstanz, Germany - Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma), The “return of beauty”? Restituting fascist-looted cultural property in Italy, 1945-2001 | San Francesco, Classroom 2, 11am - 1pm

18 December 2023: Sabina Brevaglieri (Humboldt University, Berlin / IMT Visiting Professor), Tesoro Messicano: Making a paper-monument of Baroque Rome | San Francesco, Classroom 1, 11 am

4 December 2023: Sabina Brevaglieri (Humboldt University, Berlin / IMT Visiting Professor), Thinking colonial heritage historically. Missionary collecting, 16th century to present | San Francesco, Classroom 2, 10 am

22 November 2023: Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Pennsylvania), Shaping Roman landscape: ecocritical approaches to architecture and wall painting in early imperial Italy

21 November 2023: Mantha Zarmakoupi (University of Pennsylvania), An archaeology of disability

7 November 2023 [joint seminar with the Research Unit MUSAM]: Andrea Dal Pino (Sigma Ingegneria SRL), MARMOREAL: application of photogrammetry and Virtual Reality for the digitalization and visualization of assets in the stone market

5 July 2023: Rafael Brundo Uriarte (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz), Navigating a brave new world of "creativity": the promises and perils of AI

1 June 2023: Silvia Massa (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), Elania Pieragostini (Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford) and Merel van Erp (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam), The challenges of online collections of works on paper. Two projects from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

24 May 2023: Carla Ardis (Museum of London Archaeology), Building a new archaeology: the impact of development-led archaeology on our understanding of the past and on archaeological practice. A view from the United Kingdom

28 April 2023: Stefano Campana (University of Siena) - "Taking stock of the Emptyscapes initiative: background, design, outcomes, impact"

27 April 2023: Filippo Demma (Direzione Regionale Musei della Calabria) - "Activities, Projects and Future Scenarios for the Direzione Regionale Musei della Calabria and the Museum and Archaeological Park of Sybaris"

27 February 2023: Matthias Theodor Vogt (Saxonian Institute for Cultural Infrastructures), "Strengthening Resilience in Peripheral Areas. Some New Field Research Findings in the Region Tajima, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan"

13 May 2022: "Designing a Database for the Catalogue of the National Museums in Lucca"

27 April 2022: Dario Rodighiero (Harvard University), "Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage" (LYNX/AXES/SysMa/NETWORKS seminar)

28 March 2022: Alain Berthoz (Collège de France), "The brain movement perception and space: how humans deal with the variety of action spaces" (LYNX/MoMiLab seminar)

Advanced Seminars

Analysis and Management of Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies

19 May 2025 | 2pm - 5pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 1) - Mariia Shevchenko (AMCH), Presentation of the PhD project

16 June 2025 | 2pm - 5pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 1)

14 July 2025 | 2pm - 5pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 2) - Evgeniia Viaznikova (AMCH), Presentation of the PhD project

15 September 2025 | 2pm - 5pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 1) - Elisabetta Bartoli (AMCH), Presentation of the PhD project

13 October 2025 | 2pm - 5pm (San Francesco Complex, Classroom 1) - Miyase Çelen (AMCH), Presentation of the PhD project

17 November 2025 | 2pm - 5pm - Sami Ulqani (AMCH), Presentation of the PhD project