The Engaging Margins conference takes place at the Université catholique de Louvain. Participants are warmly invited to attend the talks either in person or through live streaming. Registration is mandatory. All presentations will be in English or French. The hours of the program are expressed in the local time of Belgium. The program is subject to small changes, so please consult the program shortly before the conference.
Thursday 8 October 2020
9.30-9.50: Gwendoline de Mûelenaere (UGent) and Sophie Suykens (UGent), Welcome and introduction
9.50-10.45: Thierry Lenain (Université libre de Bruxelles), Cadrer / encadrer l’image fixe
COFFEE BREAK
Session 1: Theories and practices of framing
Chair: Elizabeth Vandeweghe (UGent)
11.15-11.45: Moe Furukawa (University of Tokyo): “Reliques of his own hand”: Vasari’s Libro de’ Disegni as a Reliquary Shrine (live-stream)
11.45-12.15: Maja-Lisa Müller (Universität Bielefeld): Mimetic Transgressions. The Frame as a Hybrid Operator (live-stream)
12.15-12.45: Steffen Zierholz (University of Bern): Framing Jesuit Imagery in Andrea Pozzo’s Corridor of Saint Ignatius (live-stream)
LUNCH BREAK
Session 2: Margins in manuscripts
Chair: Aline Smeesters (UCLouvain)
14.00-14.30: Orsolya Mednyánszky (Johns Hopkins University): Framing Meditation: Marginalia and Miniatures in the Vita Christi
14.30-15.00: Ingrid Falque (UCLouvain): Image and Contemplation at the Charterhouse of Nieuwlicht: the ms 358 of the University Library of Utrecht
15.00-15.30: Elli Doulkaridou (Université Paris 1): Manipulating the Margins: Vincent Raymond in the Service of Paul III
COFFEE BREAK
Session 3: Margins and geographical space
Chair: Abigail Newman (University of Antwerp)
16.00-16.30: Radu Leca (University of Heidelberg): Cannibals, Japan, and the Geographic Periphery of Early Modern European Cognition
16.30-17.00: Hayley Cotter (University of Massachusetts Amherst): Mare liberum, Mare clausum, and the Framing of Maritime Space (live-stream)
19.30: Conference dinner with speakers
Friday 9 October 2020
Session 4: Margins and education
Chair: Agnès Guiderdoni (UCLouvain)
10.00-10.30: Naïs Virenque (UCLouvain): Au-delà des catégories de la marginalité: La figure arborescente de la Logica parva (XIVe siècle), un outil cognitif rhizomatique?
10.30-11.30: Archives of the Université catholique de Louvain
10.30-11.00: Françoise Hiraux (UCLouvain): Présentation des collections des Archives de l’UCLouvain
11.00-11.30: Gwendoline de Mûelenaere (UGent): Overview of illustrated lecture notebooks from the Old University of Louvain
LUNCH BREAK
Session 5: Framing and iconography
Chair: Ingrid Falque (UCLouvain)
13.30-14.00: Mateusz Kapustka (University of Zurich): Framed by Flesh. Pieter Aertsen’s Meat Stall as Anti-Idolatrous Apology (live-stream)
14.00-14.30: Elizabeth Vandeweghe (UGent): Off the Table. The banquet as a framing device for cognitive processes in the Allegory of Taste by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel
14.30-15.00: Caroline Heering (UCLouvain): Le cadre comme ornement et l’ornement du cadre dans l’œuvre du jésuite anversois Daniel Seghers
COFFEE BREAK
Session 6: Framing the body
Chair: Ralph Dekoninck (UCLouvain)
15.30-16.00: Felix Jäger (Warburg Institute): In the corner of the eye: Seeing the “Iron Duke” of Alba (live-stream)
16.00-16.30: James Clifton (Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation): Vanitas and the Framing of the Ephemeral Image (live-stream)
16.30-17.00: Victor Stoichita (Université de Fribourg): Celebration and / or Protection. Bellini’s Portrait of Mehmed II (1481) (live-stream)
This conference is made possible thanks to the financial support of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS), the Fondation pour la Protection du Patrimoine Culturel Historique et Artisanal (Lausanne), the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), and the Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres (INCAL, Université catholique de Louvain).
