Special Presenters:
Herman Roodenburg
Vrije Universiteit, Meertens Instituut, Amsterdam
Beyond the Text: Or, How to Study Netherlandish Culture of the Sixteenth Century Now?
Peter Arnade
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
City, Republic, Empire: Political Imaginaries and Realities in the Long Sixteenth Century
Speakers:
Alfred Acres
Georgetown University
Gossart’s Religion
Renaud Adam
Royal Library of Belgium, Rare Books Department
Antwerp Printers at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century: a Social Enquiry
Inneke Baatsen (Doctoral Candidate) and Bruno Blondé
University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History
The ‘civilized’ citizen? Table manners between mentality and materiality
Marisa Bass
Washington University
Jan Mostaert’s History Painting
Bruno Blondé
University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History
The ‘civilized’ citizen? Table manners between mentality and materiality
Dick E. H. de Boer
University of Groningen
Lottery-rhymes as a mirror of cultural legacy of the ‘long 16th century’
Annick Born
Ghent interdisciplinary Center for Art & Science, Ghent University
The Customs and Fashions of the Turks « au vif contrefaictez » by Pieter Coecke van Aelst : critical reading and visual evidence
Stijn P. M. Bussels
University of Groningen
The mediality of the tableau vivant in joyous entries in the early modern period (15th till 17th centuries)
Hans Cools & Nina Lamal (Doctoral Candidate)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
An Italian voice on the Dutch Revolt. The work of Francesco Lanario in a European perspective
Jane Couchman
York University
Louise de Coligny, Princess of Orange, and the French connection
Krista De Jonge
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Tales of the City: The Image of the Netherlandish Artist in the Sixteenth-Century
Jelle De Rock
Ghent University / University of Antwerp; Centre for Urban History
From portrait to pictorial map: the genesis of autonomous city views in the 16th-century Southern Netherlands
Lloyd DeWitt
Art Gallery of Ontario
Pieter Claeissen the Elder’s Moses trampling Pharaoh’s Crown: artistic identity and context
Konrad Eisenbichler
University of Toronto
Publicity and Propaganda: Nicolaus Hogenberg’s Engravings of the Post-Coronation Cavalcade of Emperor Charles V in Bologna (1530)
Giancarlo Fiorenza
California Polytechnic State University
Frans Floris’s Mythological Vocabulary
Jac Geurts
Radboud University Nijmegen
‘Urban’ Identity in ‘Courtly’ Ceremonies. Public rituals in a rebellious duchy of Gueldres in the Hapsburg Netherlands
Angela Glover
University of Toronto, Doctoral Candidate
What Constitutes Sculpture?
The Guild Dispute of 1544 over the St. Gertrude Choirstalls in Leuven
Koenraad Jonckheere
Ghent University
Patterns of expectation: Another note on the historical explanation of pictures after the Image Debates
Ethan Matt Kavaler
University of Toronto
Mapping Time: The Netherlandish Carved Altarpiece in the sixteenth century
Ellen Konowitz
State University of New York at New Paltz
Dirk Vellert and early engraving in Antwerp: New Subjects for a New Medium
Samuel Mareel
Gent University
Fictions of self and city. Eduard de Dene and the city of Bruges in the Testament Rhetoricael (1562)
Maximiliaan P.J. Martens & Jochen Ketels (Doctoral Candidate)
Ghent University
Quinten Massys as Architectural Designer
Walter Melion
Emory University
The Hidden Coherence of the Old Testament: Exegetical Reflection in the Print Series Scenes from the Old Testament (1582-83) by Maarten de Vos
Elisabeth Neumann
University of Toronto, Doctoral Candidate
Inventing Europe in Antwerp’s 1520 Entry for Charles V: an Erasmian Allegory in the face of Global Empire
Konrad Ottenheym
Utrecht University
Sixteenth-century protestant church architecture by Netherlandish architects outside the Low Countries
Bart Ramakers
University of Groningen
Embodying knowledge. Personification in rhetorician drama
Bret Rothstein
Indiana University
The Joy of Looking, or Playing with Objects in Early Sixteenth-Century Antwerp
Peter Stabel & Kim Overlaet (Doctoral Candidate)
University of Antwerp, Centre for Urban History
Western perceptions of urbanity in the Christian and Muslim world (15th-16th centuries)
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
University of Texas at Austin
An Outsider’s View: Dürer’s Thoughts on Netherlandish Art, Artists, and Culture
Violet Soen
University of Leuven
The Council of Trent and the Preconditions for the Dutch Revolt
Jessica Stewart
University of California at Berkeley, Doctoral Candidate
Parrots for portraits. Albrecht Dürer and the material culture of 16th-c. Antwerp
Tianna Uchacz
University of Toronto, Doctoral Candidate
Painting as Discourse: Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan
Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
Ghent University
Animals in Revolt. Animal satire, anthropomorphism and political fear in the sixteenth-century Low Countries
Arjan van Dixhoorn
Gent University
Literature, Knowledge and Self in the Early Modern City. The Civic Community as Research Community, 1450-1650
Jeroen Vandommele
University of Groningen
Arranging ‘facts’ in ‘fiction’. Knowledge and memory in Antwerp print and play (1550-1565)
Caecilie Weissert
University of Vienna
Stage images
Edward H. Wouk
University of Zurich
Nulla dies sine linea: The Fate of Lambert Suavius
