Century

Conference The Character of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 22 and 23 November 2002

On 22 and 23 November 2002 the study group The Nineteenth Century and
the Visual Culture study group of the Huizinga Institute, Research
Institute of Cultural History, are organising an international
conference on the character of nineteenth-century visual culture. The
conference investigates the changes that took place in visual culture
between 1800 and 1900 and asks to what extent the visual culture of
the nineteenth century diverges from the previous and following
centuries. The keynote address on 23 November will be given by
Vanessa Schwartz, historian at the University of Southern California
and author of Spectacular realities: early mass culture in fin-de-
siècle

Paris (1998). The conference language is English.

Conference programme

Programme Friday 22 November 2002, University of Amsterdam,
Oudemanhuispoort (entrance through gate between Oudezijds
Achterburgwal nos. 219 and 229), Amsterdam, rooms C 0.23, C 1.23 and
C 2.23:

09.30 Registration and reception with coffee and tea
10.30 Opening by professor dr. Marlite Halbertsma, secretary of the
study group The Nineteenth Century
10.40 Introduction by Julia Noordegraaf, secretary of the Visual
Culture

study group
11.00 Start sessions 1, 2 en 3
13.00 Lunch at personal expense
14.30 Start sessions 2 (continued), 4 en 5
16.30 Drinks at the café of the Atrium refectory, Oudezijds
Achterburgwal237, Amsterdam
19.00 Optional: diner at Oriental City, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 177,
Amsterdam (at personal expense, approximately between € 35 and € 40,
to be paid in cash)

Session 1: Visual Interactions
Chair: Marlite Halbertsma (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
11.00 Claudia Sedlarz (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaften):'On 19th Century Interior Colour Design'
11.30 Hanneke Grootenboer (Tulane University, New Orleans): 'Lover's
Eyes: The Gaze as Gift, or The Intimacy of Vision in Early Nineteenth-
Century Eye Miniature Painting'
12.00 Gil Mihaely (Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,
Centre desRecherches Historiques, Paris): 'Physical Markers of Sexual
Identity:Facial Hair and Masculine Identity in Nineteenth-Century
France'

Session 2: The Visual Dissemination of Information
Chair: Julia Noordegraaf (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
11.00 Mieneke te Hennepe (Universiteit Maastricht): 'Medical
Photography and the Depiction of the Skin'
11.30 Gregory Shaya (College of Wooster, OH); 'Pictures of Disaster:
The

Visual Culture of Catastrophe in Nineteenth-Century France'
12.00 Karen Carter (Miyazaki International College, Japan): 'The
Passant, the Badaud and the Spectatorship of French Fin-de-Siècle
Posters'
12.30 Joe Kember (University of Teesside, UK): 'The View from the Top:
The Representation of Mountains in British Visual Entertainments
before 1905'
14.30 Petra Brouwer (Free University, Amsterdam): 'Incomprehensible
Shapes'
15.00 Ad de Jong (Netherlands Open Air Museum): 'Follies, Villages and
Market Squares: Exhibitions of Vernacular Architecture and their
Visual Messages in Nineteenth-Century Europe'
15.30 Marina Moskowitz (University of Glasgow): 'Broadcasting Seeds on
the American Landscape'

Session 3: The Arrival of New Media
Chair: Hans Roosenboom (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
11.00 David Ogawa (Union College, New York): 'Infinite Desire: Sex and
Photography in 19th-Century France'
11.30 Margrith Wilke (University of Groningen): 'A World Worth Seeing:
the Visual Discovery of the City in the Second Half of the Nineteenth
Century in the Netherlands'
12.00 Derya Ozkan (University of Rochester, NY): 'Introduction of a
Western Image-Making Technology to a Non-Western Modernity:
Photography in the Ottoman Empire'
12.30 Frank Kessler (University of Utrecht): 'The Emergence of Living
Pictures in Late 19th-Century Visual Culture'

Session 4: Perception of Visual Culture
Chair: Marga Altena (University of Nijmegen)
14.30 Joseph Wachelder (Universiteit Maastricht): 'Focus on Pictures -
Pictures in Focus'
15.00 Marijke Jonker (Huizinga Institute); ' "Unité d'intérêt": the
Nineteenth-Century's Delight in Spectacle and the Intellectual
Recycling of an Old Concept'
15.30 Thomas Fechner-Smarsly (University of Bonn): 'Small and
Invisible Things: The Microscope in 'Life Sciences' and its
Reflection in Nineteenth-Century Literature'
16.00 Cornelia Aman (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der
Wissenschaften); 'Pictures and Light: German Religious Stained Glass
in the Late 19th Century'

Session 5: Travelling Identities and their Visual Representations
Chair: Eveline Koolhaas (Huizinga Institute)
14.30 Jill Steward (University of Northumbria at Newcastle): 'The Art
of Tourism: the Visual Culture of Tourist Travel'
15.00 Cyril Reade (University of Rochester, NY): 'The Neue Synagoge on
Berlin's Oranienburgerstrasse: The Oriental Face of a Modern Body'
15.30 Heloisa Barbuy (Museu Paulista da Universidade de São Paulo):
'The Establishment of Visual Culture in São Paulo (Brazil) in the late
Nineteenth-Century'
16.00 John M. Giggie (University of Texas at San Antonio): 'Picturing
Railroads: Ex-Slaves, Train Travel, and the Visualization of Freedom
in the American South'

Programme Saturday 23 November 2002, at the auditorium of the Van
Gogh Museum, Paulus Potterstraat 7 (at the Museumplein), Amsterdam:

10.00 Registration and reception with coffee and tea
10.30 Opening by professor dr. Joep Leerssen, chair of the study group
The Nineteenth Century and of the Huizinga Institute
10.40 Vanessa Schwartz (University of Southern California): 'The
Problems and
Possibilities of a History of Visual Culture in the 19th Century'
11.30 Jan Hein Furnée (University of Groningen): 'Visual Culture and
Social Change: Shopping in The Hague, 1850-1890'
12.00 Julia Noordegraaf (Erasmus University Rotterdam): 'The Emergence
of the Museum in the 'Spectacular' Nineteenth Century'
12.30 Lunch, at personal expense
14.00 Herwig Todts (Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp): 'Late
Nineteenth-Century Naturalism: A Matter of Taste?'
14.30 Mattie Boom (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam): '19th-Century Photography
and the Public Domain: Books, Subjects, Images, Photographers'
15.00 Tea break
15.30 Concluding discussion
16.15 Conclusion of the conference by professor dr. Marita Mathijsen,
the new chair of the study group The Nineteenth Century
16.30 Auditorium closes

The conference fee is € 23 and has to be paid on Saturday 23 November
at the registration desk at the Van Gogh Museum. The fee includes
coffee and tea and the drinks on Friday, lunch is at participants'
personal expense.

Since our funds are extremely limited, participants are kindly
requested to provide for their own accommodation. www.hotels.nl
offers a wide range of hotels in various price categories.

Please register for the conference at the following address:

Huizinga Institute
attn. Paul Koopman
Spuistraat 134
NL-1012 VB Amsterdam
e-mail paul.koopmanhum.uva.nl
fax +31-(0)20 525 44 29

PLEASE REGISTER BEFORE 28 OCTOBER 2002. Participants that register
after 28 October will not be able to join the conference dinner.

For more information about the conference you can contact one of the
organisers, Marlite Halbertsma (halbertsmafhk.eur.nl, +31 (0)10 408
24 44) or Julia Noordegraaf (j.noordegraaffhk.eur.nl, +31 (0)10 408
12 48), Faculty of History and the Arts, Erasmus University
Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, NL-3000 DR Rotterdam, the Netherlands.