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Held 20 -22 May 2010

at The Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

PHYSIOGNOMY FROM LAVATER TO THE GREAT WAR

PROGRAMME, 20-22 May 2010

THURSDAY 20 MAY
Scuola Normale Superiore, Aula Dini, Piazza del Castelletto

3.30 INTRODUCTION

LAVATER AND ENGLAND

Session Chair: Lina Bolzoni

4.00 David Bindman, ‘Fuseli’s Takeover of the English Edition of Lavater’s Physiognomy’

abstract

4.45 Sybille Erle, ‘Catchy Nets and Beauty Webs: William Blake’s Physiognomical Bodies’

abstract

5.30 Pascal Griener, ‘William Blake & Classical Pathos. The Lesson of the Laocoon (1825-6)’

abstract

Unfortunately this paper had to be cancelled.

6.30             RECEPTION

FRIDAY 21 MAY
Scuola Normale Superiore, Sala degli Stemmi, Palazzo della Carovana

Morning: LAVATER IN CONTEXT

Session Chair: Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen

9.00 Martial Guedron, ‘Physiognomonie de la grimace en France au tournant des Lumières’

abstract

The whole paper as a PDF

9.45 Thomas Kirchner, ‘The Problems of an Illustrator: Daniel Chodowiecki between Lavater and Lichtenberg’

abstract

10.30 Coffee

10.45 François Delaporte, ‘La Fabrique des mimiques’

abstract

11.30 Georges Vigarello, ‘Physiognomonie et figures de l’obésité’

abstract

12.30 LUNCH

Afternoon: PHYSIOGNOMY in CULTURE

Session Chair: Jackie Pigeaud

2.30Alberto Castoldi, ‘L’immaginario della fisiognomica’

abstract

3.15 Segolène Le Men, 'Phyiognomonie, silhouette et caricature: une sémiologie graphique'

abstract

4.00 Tea

4.15 Paul White, ‘Darwin’s Emotions and the Problem of Expression’

abstract

5.00 Stéphanie Dupouy, 'L'Expressivité animale chez Darwin'

abstract

SATURDAY 22 MAY
Scuola Normale Superiore, Sala degli Stemmi, Palazzo della Carovana

Morning: PHYSIOGONOMY, CRIME and SOCIETY

Session Chair: Pascal Griener

9.00 Marc Renneville, ‘Physiognomonie et criminalité, de la phrénologie au criminel-né’

abstract

9.45 Lucia Rodler, ‘L’uomo dilinquente tra antropologia e letteratura’ abstract

10.30 COFFEE

10.45 Dolores Martin, ‘Le Travail de Paolo Mantegazza sur les émotions et leur expression’

11.30 Maurizio Ghelardi, ‘Aby Warburg e la fisiognomica: tra Lavater e Darwin’

abstract

12.30 LUNCH

Afternoon: VISUALISING PHYSIOGNOMY

Session Chair: Thomas Kirchner

2.30 Malcolm Baker, ‘Physiognomy Institutionalised:  Faces and Art Education and the South Kensington Museum, 1852-1908’

abstract

3.15 Antoinette Lenormand-Romain, ‘ “Accentuer l’individualité pour parler aux masses”, de David d’Angers à Rodin’

abstract

4.00 Phillippe Dagen, ‘Le Crane de l'artiste’

abstract

4.45 TEA

5.00 CONCLUSION