DATE:
April 26-27, 2019
PLACE:
Emmanuel College Room 302
75 Queen’s Park Crescent
University of Toronto
Toronto Canada
During the sixteenth and seventeenth century princes and the nobility found tomb sculpture an effective means of refashioning their identity and promoting their interests in a rapidly changing society. Enormous funds were spent on these monuments, either by the occupants themselves or by their heirs, for whom the sepulchers became a generalized marker of family status. Epitaphs were also fashioned of words, penned in ink and published as well as engraved in stone. Poetical tributes and eulogies to rulers gave them another type of public persona. For this conference we wish to focus on the agency of these creations in the social and political arena of Northern Europe and Iberia.
For the program and for registration go to: crrs.ca/rulersondisplay. For questions: rulersondisplay@gmail.com.
Speakers:
Marisa Bass, Yale University
Stephan Hoppe, Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University
Catherine Ingersoll, Virginia Military Institute
Ethan Matt Kavaler, University of Toronto
Marc Laureys, University of Bonn
Isabelle Lecocq, Brussels, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
Aleksandra Lipinska, Munich, Ludwig Maximilian University
Joanna Miles, University of Toronto
Elizabeth Rice Mattison, University of Toronto
Birgit Ulrike Münch, University of Bonn
Cynthia Osiecki, Nasjonalmuseet Oslo / University of Greifswald
Ivo Raband, University of Bern
Franek Skibinski, Toruń, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas at Austin
Catherine Stearn, Eastern Kentucky University
Ruben Suykkerbuyk, Ghent University
Steven Thiry, University of Antwerp
Barbara Uppenkamp, Independent Scholar
Wiebke Windorf, University of Duisburg-Essen