Monday 3 July 2017
9.00h, Agora café
Breakfast and registration
10.00–10.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Welcome and introduction
10.30–12.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Goran Proot, Typographical evolution in the long 16th century
14.00–15.30h, Plantin-Moretus Museum, printing office and demonstration room
Diederik Lanoye, A technical approach to composing and printing in the 16th century
15.30–17.00h, Plantin-Moretus Museum, auditorium
Joris Van Grieken, Printmaking in 16th century Antwerp, from local to global
Tuesday 4 July 2017
09.00–11.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Andrew Pettegree, The first age of print: reflections from the Universal Short Title Catalogue
11.00–13.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Tom Deneire, Digital Special Collections: Digitization, Metadata, Research
14.00–15.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Eric Jorink, 16th-century genres 1: Herbals
15.30–17.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
- Hubert Meeus, From Nameplate to Emblem. The Evolution of the Printer’s Device in the Southern Low Countries up to 1600
17.00–18.00h, University of Antwerp Library, Entrance Hall
- Daniel Ermens, Visiting the exhibition 'Historic and modern book bindings, a confrontation'
Wednesday 5 July 2017
09.00–10.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Elisabeth de Bruijn, 16th-century genres 2: Narrative literature in the vernacular
10.30–12.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Jeroen De Keyser, 16th-century genres 3: Scholarly text editions
14.00–15.30h, Plantin-Moretus Museum, auditorium
Jan Storm van Leeuwen, Changes in the style of bookbinding decoration in sixteenth-century Europe
15.30–17.00h, Plantin-Moretus Museum, auditorium
Dirk Imhof, Selling books in the 16th century: the case of Christophe Plantin and Joannes I Moretus
Thursday 6 july 2017
09.00–10.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Andrew Pettegree, Lost and Found. New approaches in material bibliography
10.30–12.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Stijn Van Rossem, The publishing world in the early modern period: privileges, patronage, censorship
14.00–15.30h, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
Steven Van Impe, 16th-century books in the collections of Antwerp’s Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library
15.30–17.00h, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, Georges Eekhoud Cabinet
Marieke van Delft, Presenting 16th-century books to a 21st-century audience: an introduction to the ‘Conn3ct’-exhibition, (followed by a visit to the exhibition 17.00–18.00h, Nottebohm Room)
18.30h –, University Club Restaurant, Conference dinner
Friday 7 july 2017
09.00–11.00h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Pierre Delsaerdt, Libraries in 16th-century Europe
11.00–12.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
Jeroen Puttevils, How print enabled the proliferation of the lottery market in the late medieval and sixteenth-century Low Countries
13.30–15.30h, Ruusbroec Institute Library
August den Hollander, 16th-century genres 4: Printed Bibles
15.30–16.30h, Agora café
Conclusions and farewell with drinks