Summer University, Ruusbroec Institute, 30 June-4 July 2025
Sunday 29 June 2025
Venue: TBA
- 19.00 - Welcome drink
Monday 30 June 2025
Ruusbroec Institute Library (Grote Kauwenberg 32)
- 09.00-09.45 - Registration
- 09.45–10.00 - Kees Schepers (Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp), Welcome and Introduction
- 10.00–12.00 - Hubert Meeus (University of Antwerp), Printing religious books in Antwerp from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century
- 12.00–13.00 - Lunch: Agora Caffee (Grote Kauwenberg 2)
- 13.15–16.30 – Lieke Smits & Anna Dlabačová (Leiden University), The Function(s) of Images in Middle Dutch Prayer Books
Tuesday 1 July 2025
Ruusbroec Institute Library (Grote Kauwenberg 32)
- 09.00–12.00 - Joris van Grieken (Royal Library Brussels), Printing religious images in Antwerp. 1500-1700
- 12.00–13.00 - Lunch: Agora Caffee (Grote Kauwenberg 2)
- 13.00–16.00 - Walter Melion (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), Word and Image in selected Emblem Books from the Ruusbroec Institute Library
- 16.00-17.00 - Visit: Special Collections of the University of Antwerp
Wednesday 2 July 2025
Museum Plantin-Moretus (Vrijdagmarkt 22)
- 09.00–12.00 - Ingrid Falque & Thor-Oona Pignarre-Altermatt (Université Catholique, Louvain-la-Neuve), Image-based Devotional and Meditative Practices in the Late Middle Ages: Historiographical and Historical Approaches
- 12.00–13.00 - Lunch: Garden Plantin Moretus
- 13.00–14.30 - Zanna van Loon (Museum Plantin-Moretus), The Use of Religious Images in editions printed by the Officina Plantiniana
- 14.30–16.00 - Workshop etching
- Summer University reception
Thursday 3 July 2025
Museum Plantin-Moretus (Vrijdagmarkt 22)
- 09.00–12.00 - Virginie D’Haene (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Designs for (religious) book illustrations in the collection of Museum Plantin-Moretus
- 12.00–13.00 - Lunch: Garden Plantin Moretus
- 13.00–14.30 - Kristof Selleslach (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Product Differentiation in the Liturgical Assortment Published by the Officina Plantiniana
- 14.30–16.30 - Demonstration printing press / Guided tour in the Museum Plantin-Moretus
- 18.30-21.30 - Summer School dinner: TBA
Friday 4 July 2025
Hendrik Conscience Library (Hendrik Conscienceplein 4)
- 09.00–10.30 - Walter Melion (Emory University, Atlanta, GA), TBA
- 10.30–12.00 - Steven Van Impe (Museum Plantin-Moretus), Highlights from the Prints and Books Collection from the Hendrik Conscience Library
- 12.00–13.00 - Lunch: TBA
Ruusbroec Institute Library (Grote Kauwenberg 32)
- 13.15–14.30 - Tine Van Osselaer (Ruusbroec Institute), Designing a devotion: prints for new and non-approved cults in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- 14.30–16.00 - Daniël Ermens (Ruusbroec Institute), Workshop Categorizing Devotional Prints from the Ruusbroec Institute Library
- 16.00 Farewell reception: TBA