Cultures of Belgian Space - Cultures de l'Espace belge (1850-1924)

2-day conference, organised by KU Leuven, in collaboration with Ghent University & ULB, with the support of FWO, FNRS & local partners

Keynote: Patrick McGuinness (St Anne's College, Oxford, UK)

PROGRAM

DAY 1, 15 October, d'Ursel Castle

Registration (9:30)
Introduction (10:00 - 10:30)

10:30-12:00

Panel 1: Spaces of Spectacle and Projection
chair: Tatiana Debroux

Margo Buelens-Terryn (University of Antwerp) / Ilja Van Damme (University of Antwerp),
Spaces of Illustrated Lecturing. The Uses of the Magic Lantern in Public Lectures in Antwerp and Brussels, ca. 1860- ca.1920
 
Evelien Jonckheere (University of Antwerp) / Davy Depelchin (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium - Constantin Meunier Museum),
In shadows. Spectacular Spaces Imagined and Performed by Le Diable-au-Corps in Brussels (1893-1929)
 
Leen Engelen (LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven - University of Antwerp),
A Garden with a View: Visual Culture at the Antwerp Zoo

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-15:00
Panel 2 : Exporting Cultural Identity and the Transformation of the Exotic
chair: Claire Moran
 
Maria Golovteeva (Coventry University),
Spaces of Colonial Exhibitions in Nineteenth-Century Belgium
 
Ole W. Fischer (University of Utah),
Scaring the Skin of Architecture. Notes on the Section Congolaise in Tervueren 1897
 
Jos Vandenbreeden (KU Leuven),
La nature et les structures dans l'architecture de l'Art nouveau. La réception de la spatialité japonaise et la conception de l'espace dans l'architecture de Victor Horta.
 
Charlotte Rottiers (KU Leuven),
Exporting National Identity: The Neo-Flemish Renaissance Castle in Peking (1903-1905) as an Instrument of Communication or Disruption
 
15:00-15:30: Coffee, tea and light refreshments 

15:30-16.45
Panel 3: Studios, Staging and Nature 
chair: Marjan Sterckx

Laurence Brogniez (Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB) / Tatiana Debroux (Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB),
Exposer (dans) l'atelier: du lieu de travail au lieu d'exposition
 
Dominique Bauer (KU Leuven),
Fernand Khnopff's Studio: A Space of Aesthetic Transformation
 
Jason Hartford (University of Dundee),
Belgium: Fabricated Natural in the Land of the Anthropocene
 
16.45-17.15: Coffee, tea and light refreshments

17.15-18:30
Keynote: Patrick McGuinness (St. Anne's College, Oxford),
The Poetics and Politics of Privacy in Belgian Symbolism

(possibility to go back to the hotel)

20.00 Conference dinner at d'Ursel Castle

DAY 2, 16 October, d'Ursel Castle - Verhaerenmuseum

09.30-10:00: reception with Coffee, tea and biscuits
 
10:00-12:00
Panel 1 Travel, Dépaysement and Exile
chair: Leen Engelen
 
Tom Verschaffel (KU Leuven),
Staging Baudelaire's Misery: Settings and Supporting Actors of Charles Baudelaire's Stay in Belgium (1864-1867)
 
Stefan Huygebaert (Ghent University),
"The Two Bruges:" Travelers vs. Tourists and the Saint-John's Hospital
 
Juliet Simpson (University of Coventry / Warburg Institute),
Sensing the Medieval in Fin-de-Siècle Belgian Liminal Spaces: The Beguinage as Work of Art
 
Ulrich Tiedau (University College London),
Belgian-Space-in-Exile in Interwar Britain

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30
Panel 2: Collections, Catalogues and Interiors
chair: Ilja Van Damme
 
Ulrike Müller (University of Antwerp),
The Collector's Cabinet as a Creative Space between (National) Tradition and Renewal
 
Zsuzsanna Böröcz (KU Leuven),
The Private Interior as Exhibition Space: The Catalogues of the National Exhibitions of Brussels in 1880 and the Architect, Archaeologist and Collector Jules-Jacques van Ysendyck (1836-1891)
 
Apolline Malevez (Queen's University Belfast),
The Interiors of Georges Le Brun and James Ensor: Collection, Display and Identity
 
14:30: to the Verhaerenmuseum, view of the Schelde
 
16:00-17:30
Panel 3: Literature
chair: Jason Hartford
 
David Gullentops (Vrije Universiteit Brussel - VUB),
L'espace tensionnel chez Rodenbach, Verhaeren et Maeterlinck

Michael Rosenfeld (Université libre de Bruxelles - ULB),
Belgian Queer Spaces: Gay Cruising Areas in the Press and in Georges Eekhoud's Fiction

Mathilde Régent (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3),
Les intérieurs de Maeterlinck, de l'idéalisme allemand au perspectivisme animal
 
17:30 - 18:30/19:00: Beer and wine reception and light refreshments

Concluding remarks
Claire Moran and Dominique Bauer
Presentation of Interdisciplinary Association of Interior Studies
 
Speakers' Dinner (in Puurs Lof) , around 20:00  

Organisers
This conference is organised by Dominique Bauer (KU Leuven), Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University), Laurence Brogniez (Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB), Jason Hartford (University of Dundee, UK), Claire Moran (Queen's University Belfast, UK) and Rik Hemmerijck (Emile Verhaerenmuseum, Puurs-Sint-Amands, Belgium)
 
Our sponsors
This conference is made possible through the support of the universities of Leuven (KU Leuven) and Ghent (Ghent University), by the Research Foundation Flanders (F.W.O.) and the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.N.R.S.) and by the generosity of our sponsors: our main sponsor the Municipality of Puurs - Sint- Amands, and furthermore Bouwbedrijf Van Wezemael nv, Vermeiren Princeps, Van Reeth's Koffiebranderij, notary Luc Rochtus, and Guido Peleman, CEO of Peleman Industries/Unibind and chairman of the Emile Verhaeren Society