Conference

The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities

Date

Wednesday 8 January 2025 - Thursday 9 January 2025

Address

University Library
Witte Singel 27
2311 BG Leiden

Room

Vossius room

This conference marks the 25 years anniversary of the Intersections series (published by Brill) and reflects on a topical theme: the role of interdisciplinarity within the study of late medieval and early modern (expressions of) culture. conference will give participants the opportunity to examine recent paradigms in interdisciplinary research, as well as looking forward to the future of interdisciplinarity in the study of early modern culture.  Papers should foreground methodologies with a view to showing how they have been put into practice. How has the series Intersections and its thematic volumes served to promote interdisciplinary approaches to the study of word and image, knowledge production, modes of reception, the history of science, the history of the emotions, and other topics in cultural history.

Speakers are invited to present a case study relevant to their practice of interdisciplinary research, with special emphasis on working across two or more media.  How has interdisciplinarity as a scholarly method helped them to move beyond the boundaries of their academic discipline, and conversely, how has it allowed them to reflect on their respective disciplines and transform them?  What advantages has interdisciplinary research offered scholars; what benefits can it offer them in the future? 

Programme

Wednesday 8 January

9.00-9.15 Karl Enenkel, Welcome and introduction

9.15-10.00 Anita Traninger, Early Modern Memory Theaters: Media, Materiality, Metaphors

10.00-10.45 Karl Enenkel, The Paratextual Construction of Early Modern Authorship in Various Media

10.45-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.15 Claus Zittel, The Frontispiece as a Medium between Text and Image. Problems of Interpretation

12.15-13.00 Anna Dlabacova, Understanding the Book of Hours in Dutch as a Cultural Phenomenon: Reading Techniques, Scriptural Exegesis, and Spiritual Experience

13.00-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-14.45 Paul Smith, Roelant Savery's Vanishing Orpheus

14.45-15.30 Stijn Bussels, Look in the Mirror. The Evaluation of Beauty and Death in the Dutch Republic

15.30-16.15 Coffee/Tea break

16.15-17.00 Robert Seidel, The Interpretation of Disputations as Interdisciplinary Challenge: Friedrich Gotthelf Gotter's Dissertatio de ornatu orationis (1711)

17.00-18.00 General discussion on the Contributions of this day

Thursday 9 January

9.00-9.45 Wietse de Boer, Bodies as Media: Saint’s Relics in Sixteenth-Century Religious Controversies

9.45-10.30 Walter Melion, Cruciform Image-making in Petrus Bivero, S.J.’s Sacrum sanctuarium crucis (1634)

10.30-11.15 Coffee break

11.15-12.00 Cornel Zwierlein, Company Media: The General letters of the India Companies

12.00-12.45 Lukas Reddemann, Between Taming and Eliminating the Passions in Jesuit Spirituality. The cases of Giulio Fazio, Johannes Pelecyus and Henricus Engelgrave

12.45-14.00 Lunch break

14.00-14.45 John Thompson, Digging the Foundations for the Tudor House of History: a View from the Trenches

14.45-15.30 Alicia Montoya, Was there a Middlebrow in Early-Modern Europe?

15.30-16.15 Tea/Coffee break

16.15-17.15 General discussion

19.30 Conference dinner offered by Brill

Programme pdf