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Sehr herzlich lädt das Warburg-Haus im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe zum Jahresthema, »K.B.W.: Warburg-Haus 1926–2026. Der Mythos und seine politischen Formen«, am Dienstag, 3. November 2026, um 19.00 Uhr ein in den Lesesaal zum Vortrag von Barbara Baert, KU Leuven, Aby-Warburg-Stiftungsprofessorin 2023.

Der Vortrag findet statt zum Erscheinen von Barbara Baerts neuem Buch Back to the Marshes. Myth, Method, Matter. A Memoir Almost, das unlängst im Verlag De Gruyter erschienen ist. Es wurde in großen Teilen verfasst während Barbara Baerts Aufenthalt als Stiftungsprofessorin 2023 im Warburg-Haus. Wir freuen uns sehr, sie wieder im Haus zu begrüßen zum Vortrag:

Marshes: Myth / Method / Matter

Marshes: Myth/Method/Matter offers a cross-disciplinary exploration of the marsh through the lenses of art, culture, and the history of ideas. It traces literary, symbolic, and artistic encounters with the marsh within a phenomenological framework, approaching it in turn as mythological archetype, methodological paradigm, and artistic challenge.

Barbara Baert explores cosmological imagination and the sensory experience of wetlands, while attending to the artistic significance of raw and biological materials such as clay, mud, and fungi. In doing so, she reconsiders the contemporary challenges facing Bildwissenschaft in the context of the Geological and Ecological Turn.

»Back to the Marshes is a compendium of ideas, a paean to free speech, and a signpost to new intellectual pathways where researchers can wander, and readers can find an alternative hermeneutic rooted in humility and engagement. Free spirits and outcasts alike can gather on the swamp’s felty shores: in latent creativity and hoping for a better world beyond. Because this is what the swamp does: it swallows taboo and vomits it up as the ultimate ability to contemplate the unthinkable. And there, in the briny belches of the subconscious, in the dregs of an oppressive dream, stands humanity.«
— Barbara Baert, Introducing the Marshes, pp. 9–10.

Barbara Baert is Professor of Medieval Art, Iconology and Historiography at KU Leuven. Her work brings together questions and insights from the history of ideas, cultural anthropology, and philosophy, with a particular sensitivity to cultural archetypes and their manifestations in the visual arts. Baert is the recipient of several international fellowships and awards, including the prestigious Belgian Francqui Prize for Human Sciences in 2016.

Her recent book, Back to the Marshes. Myth, Method, Matter. A Memoir Almost (2026), is the final volume of a tripartite study with De Gruyter on the cultural impact of weather and environment, the artistic manifestations of fertility and anxiety, and the study of matter and medium. The series includes About Sieves and Sieving (2019) and Looking into the Rain (2022).