Saturday 24 November 2018
9:30 am – 6.00 pm (registration from 9:00 am)
Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN
Program
09.00 – 09.30: Registration
9.30 – 09.45: Welcome by Talitha Schepers and Alice Zamboni
9.45 – 11.00: Session 1: Royal Encounters ~ Chair: Lorne Darnell Bianca Schor (Independent Scholar, London): Albert Eckhout’s tapestry ‘Le Roi Porté’ in Malta: a diplomatic encounter
Travis Seifman (University of California): Displaying foreignness for prestige: Luchuan embassy processions in Edo, 1644-1850
Matthew Gin (Harvard University): Rites of passage: re-tracing Princess Maria Teresa Rafaela’s entry into France (1745)
11.00 – 11.35: Tea and coffee break
11.35 – 12.50: Session 2: Beyond the Documentary ~ Chair: Saskia Rubin
Gemma Cornetti (The Warburg Institute, University of London): Stefano della Bella and the triumphal entry of the Polish ambassador in Rome (1633)
Sabrina Lind (Ghent University): A book without readers? Or the audience and the importance of the festival book(s) of the Joyous Entry into Antwerp in 1635
Gaylen Vankan (University of Liège): Imagine Orient: a military procession by Jan Swart
12.50 – 13.50: Lunch (Provided for speakers and chairs)
13.50 – 15. 05: Session 3: Performing Processions ~ Chair: Tessa Nicholson
Laila Dandachi (University of Vienna): “The triumphal Exotic from the East”: the display of diplomatic performances of Early Modern Islamic Empires shaped by the iconic and emblematic nature of Islamic military arms and armour
Borja Franco Llopis and Francisco Orts-Ruiz (UNED, Madrid): Muslims and Moriscos in the processions and royal entries in Iberia (14-16th Centuries). Beyond their visual representation
Esther Pramschiefer (University of Cologne): Travelling theatres in Germany – audiences and actors proceeding outwards of walled cities
15.05 – 15.40: Tea and coffee break
15.40 – 16.30: Session 4: Religious Processions ~ Chair: Janet O’Brien
Ashley Patton (University of Minnesota): St Rose of Lima: identity, performance, and surrogacy
Massoumeh Assemi (The Courtauld Institute of Art): Muharram processions
16.30 – 16.40: Short Break
16.40 – 17.30 Session 5: Itinerant Processions ~ Chair: Maggie Crosland
Raoul DuBois (University of Zurich): Temporality and mediality of the processions in travelogues of the 15th and 16th century
Nicholas Mazer Crummey (Independent Scholar, Budapest): Observing a city in motion: an Englishman’s account of the 1675 Ottoman imperial circumcision festival in Edirne
17.30 – 18.00: Closing Remarks ~ Dr Sussan Babaie (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
For more information and registration: https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/perceiving-processions-early-modern-symposium