FARB Programme
Previous meetings:
25 June 2011
Barbara Zimbalist, University of Antwerp: Vernacular Christology in the Low Countries and the expansion of the Visionary Genre
28 May 2011
Jack McMartin, University of Ghent: 'Goethe's Tower Society and Foucault's Panopticon: Disciplinary Bildung in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'
Erik Spindler, Universite Libre de Bruxelles: 'Expatriates: are they normal people?'
30 April 2011
Mieke Vandenbroucke, University of Ghent: The linguistic landscape of Brussels though shopfronts and signage
Eduardo Lamas Delgado, Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique: The influence of Rubens on Spanish baroque painting
26 March 2011
Stephen Donovan, University of Uppsala: The submarine shipwreck in British culture, 1914-1918
Alison More: 'Transformation and Adaptation: Changing Models of Feminine Devotion in the High Middle Ages'
26 February 2011
Frederica Van Dam, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium: 'The Antwerp artist Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930): the story of a (re)discovery'
Fanny Weinquin, Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique: '16th-century engravings of the myth of Callisto'
29 January 2011
Alise Jameson-van Hecke, University of Ghent: 'The influence of Gerard Langbaine's seventeenth-century play catalogues on eighteenth-century criticism and authorship Ideals'
Yuri Cowan, University of Ghent: 'Industrializing print, professionalizing authorship: Nimrod, Surtees, and the (New) Sporting Magazine'
30 October 2010
Elizabeth L'Estrange, Université Liège: 'The Master of Claude De France and manuscript painting around 1500'
Ingrid Falqué, Université Liège: 'The Lodovico Portinari Diptych by the Master of the Ursula Legend: Devotional portraits and the ascent of the meditative process in early Netherlandish painting'
25 September 2010
Kate Macdonald, Universiteit Gent: 'The favourite English novels of a Belgian reader: The 1930s collection of Elizabeth Van Hoof'
Emma Woodford: 'Pauline Godfryd and her mentors, Jaques-Emile Blanche, Lucien Simon and Jean-Gabriel Goulinat: an examination of a female artist’s supporters in 1930’s Paris.'
26 June 2010
Monica Sandor and Alison More: Daily life in the medieval beguinages in the southern Low Countries
29 May 2010
FARB outing to Paris by Thalys, with a Revolutionary Walk led by Jan Kelley, and lunch
24 April 2010
Margot Loudon: The painted churches of Bucovina: iconographical aspects
Jan Kelley: Researching the routes of Revolutionary Paris (for her new book, see this link)
27 March 2010
Elizabeth L'Estrange: The Hours of Anne de Montmorency: Investigating the Influence of Mme la Connétable - Abstract
Nicola Dach: Marginality, dialogue with traditions, and the will to survive: A typological approach to the music of the Muslim world
27 February 2010
Joanna Britton: Reading between the staves: The gender messages of songs by Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858)
Michael Tracy: The Edwardian world as seen through Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia
30 January 2010
Michael Tracy: on researching and writing memoirs
Tom Roe: Europe’s relations with Asia
28 November 2009
Emma Woodford: Researching a forgotten 20th century woman artist
Ros Falvey: Art patronage by the Cardinals in 14th-century Avignon - work in progress Abstract
31 October 2009
Katharine Burkitt, Université de Liège:' In the right place at the wrong time. Representing London in the work of Bernadine Evaristo' Abstract
Erik Spindler, Université de Bruxelles: 'Flemish immigrants and xenophobia in late medieval London' Abstract
26 September 2009
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: 'The Dorothy Novelette: Women's magazines in the late Victorian era' Abstract
2008-2009
27 June 2009
Paula Cagli: Bernini and Borromini: Baroque Rivals (lavishly illustrated)
23 May 2009
FARB outing to the Archéoforum and the Musée Curtius, Liège, including lunch and guided tours
25 April 2009
Katharine Burkitt, Université de Liège: The modern epic verse of Bernadine Evaristo
Liz L'Estrange, Université de Liège: The 'Tournament Tapestry' in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes: Portraits and Purpose' Abstract
28 March 2009
Emma Woodford: Women Artists and Success: A discovery of known unknowns
Nur Daut, University of Kent: The influence of domestic social actors
28 February 2009
Marty Gaal, University of Kent: The construction of middlepower identities
Antoinette De Vos, The Open University: Sex and the marriage market in Reynolds’ paintings (illustrated)
31 January 2009
Sarah Moran, Brown University: Accessing the Divine: Altarpieces and Spiritual Economies in the Flemish Beguinages
Stephanie Wolfe, University of Kent: The passage of time in reparations
13 December 2008
Guided tour of the Van Eetveldte house, Ave Palmerston, followed by FARB Christmas lunch
29 November 2008
Margot Loudon: Politics and black figure vase painters in 5thC BC Athens
Amy Tector, Université de Bruxelles: Disabled servicemen in Canadian First World War literature
25 October 2008
Ros Falvey: Tapestry and court culture in Brussels, followed by a guided visit to the Royal Museum of Arts and History at the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark
27 September 2008
Stephanie Wolfe, University of Kent: ‘Reparation politics in World War Two’
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: Teaching one’s own culture to foreign students: the culture filter’
2007-2008
28 June 2008
Marty Gaal, University of Kent: 'What do middle powers do in a changing world?'
Linda Broughton: 'How blogging works for academics'
31 May 2008
Line Henriksen: ‘Epic poetry’
Susie Sutch, University of Ghent: 'The Confraternity of the Virgin’s Seven Sorrows in the Low Countries' Abstract
26 April 2008
Margot Loudon, The Open University: 'The representation of Justice on the walls of Leuven Town Hall in the 15th century: initial thoughts on contextual aspects'
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: 'Hunted men in John Buchan's London' Abstract
29 March 2008
Stephanie Wolfe, Brussels School of International Studies: ‘German and US citizenship laws during World War Two’
23 February 2008
Elizabeth L’Estrange, Université de Liège, will be talking about her new book, Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the later middle ages (Manchester University Press, March 2008)
Ellen Harry: ‘French diminutives in the 17th century’
26 January 2008
Alice Jolly, author of 'What the Eye Doesn’t See, and If Only You Knew': ‘Researching a novel’
15 December 2007
Antoinette De Vos, The Open University: ‘Belgian bourgeois mating rituals’
Topic Discussion: 'Getting an Academic Job in Belgium'.
24 November 2007
Dafydd Walters, The Open University: The role of medieval legal texts in literary interpretation
Elizabeth L’Estrange, Université de Liège: Looking at medieval tournaments : the historian and the spectator
27 October 2007
Stephanie Wolfe, University of Kent at Brussels: Reparation politics as restorative justice
Edward Haasl, Universiteit Leuven: Attempts at peace education in the Interbellum
29 September 2007
Marty Gaal, University of Kent at Brussels: The application of identity in foreign policy analysis.
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: Cultural collisions in the wartime middlebrow novels of Angela Thirkell Abstract
25 June 2011
Barbara Zimbalist, University of Antwerp: Vernacular Christology in the Low Countries and the expansion of the Visionary Genre
28 May 2011
Jack McMartin, University of Ghent: 'Goethe's Tower Society and Foucault's Panopticon: Disciplinary Bildung in Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'
Erik Spindler, Universite Libre de Bruxelles: 'Expatriates: are they normal people?'
30 April 2011
Mieke Vandenbroucke, University of Ghent: The linguistic landscape of Brussels though shopfronts and signage
Eduardo Lamas Delgado, Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique: The influence of Rubens on Spanish baroque painting
26 March 2011
Stephen Donovan, University of Uppsala: The submarine shipwreck in British culture, 1914-1918
Alison More: 'Transformation and Adaptation: Changing Models of Feminine Devotion in the High Middle Ages'
26 February 2011
Frederica Van Dam, Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium: 'The Antwerp artist Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930): the story of a (re)discovery'
Fanny Weinquin, Institut royal du Patrimoine artistique: '16th-century engravings of the myth of Callisto'
29 January 2011
Alise Jameson-van Hecke, University of Ghent: 'The influence of Gerard Langbaine's seventeenth-century play catalogues on eighteenth-century criticism and authorship Ideals'
Yuri Cowan, University of Ghent: 'Industrializing print, professionalizing authorship: Nimrod, Surtees, and the (New) Sporting Magazine'
30 October 2010
Elizabeth L'Estrange, Université Liège: 'The Master of Claude De France and manuscript painting around 1500'
Ingrid Falqué, Université Liège: 'The Lodovico Portinari Diptych by the Master of the Ursula Legend: Devotional portraits and the ascent of the meditative process in early Netherlandish painting'
25 September 2010
Kate Macdonald, Universiteit Gent: 'The favourite English novels of a Belgian reader: The 1930s collection of Elizabeth Van Hoof'
Emma Woodford: 'Pauline Godfryd and her mentors, Jaques-Emile Blanche, Lucien Simon and Jean-Gabriel Goulinat: an examination of a female artist’s supporters in 1930’s Paris.'
26 June 2010
Monica Sandor and Alison More: Daily life in the medieval beguinages in the southern Low Countries
29 May 2010
FARB outing to Paris by Thalys, with a Revolutionary Walk led by Jan Kelley, and lunch
24 April 2010
Margot Loudon: The painted churches of Bucovina: iconographical aspects
Jan Kelley: Researching the routes of Revolutionary Paris (for her new book, see this link)
27 March 2010
Elizabeth L'Estrange: The Hours of Anne de Montmorency: Investigating the Influence of Mme la Connétable - Abstract
Nicola Dach: Marginality, dialogue with traditions, and the will to survive: A typological approach to the music of the Muslim world
27 February 2010
Joanna Britton: Reading between the staves: The gender messages of songs by Johanna Kinkel (1810-1858)
Michael Tracy: The Edwardian world as seen through Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia
30 January 2010
Michael Tracy: on researching and writing memoirs
Tom Roe: Europe’s relations with Asia
28 November 2009
Emma Woodford: Researching a forgotten 20th century woman artist
Ros Falvey: Art patronage by the Cardinals in 14th-century Avignon - work in progress Abstract
31 October 2009
Katharine Burkitt, Université de Liège:' In the right place at the wrong time. Representing London in the work of Bernadine Evaristo' Abstract
Erik Spindler, Université de Bruxelles: 'Flemish immigrants and xenophobia in late medieval London' Abstract
26 September 2009
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: 'The Dorothy Novelette: Women's magazines in the late Victorian era' Abstract
2008-2009
27 June 2009
Paula Cagli: Bernini and Borromini: Baroque Rivals (lavishly illustrated)
23 May 2009
FARB outing to the Archéoforum and the Musée Curtius, Liège, including lunch and guided tours
25 April 2009
Katharine Burkitt, Université de Liège: The modern epic verse of Bernadine Evaristo
Liz L'Estrange, Université de Liège: The 'Tournament Tapestry' in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes: Portraits and Purpose' Abstract
28 March 2009
Emma Woodford: Women Artists and Success: A discovery of known unknowns
Nur Daut, University of Kent: The influence of domestic social actors
28 February 2009
Marty Gaal, University of Kent: The construction of middlepower identities
Antoinette De Vos, The Open University: Sex and the marriage market in Reynolds’ paintings (illustrated)
31 January 2009
Sarah Moran, Brown University: Accessing the Divine: Altarpieces and Spiritual Economies in the Flemish Beguinages
Stephanie Wolfe, University of Kent: The passage of time in reparations
13 December 2008
Guided tour of the Van Eetveldte house, Ave Palmerston, followed by FARB Christmas lunch
29 November 2008
Margot Loudon: Politics and black figure vase painters in 5thC BC Athens
Amy Tector, Université de Bruxelles: Disabled servicemen in Canadian First World War literature
25 October 2008
Ros Falvey: Tapestry and court culture in Brussels, followed by a guided visit to the Royal Museum of Arts and History at the Parc du Cinquantenaire/Jubelpark
27 September 2008
Stephanie Wolfe, University of Kent: ‘Reparation politics in World War Two’
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: Teaching one’s own culture to foreign students: the culture filter’
2007-2008
28 June 2008
Marty Gaal, University of Kent: 'What do middle powers do in a changing world?'
Linda Broughton: 'How blogging works for academics'
31 May 2008
Line Henriksen: ‘Epic poetry’
Susie Sutch, University of Ghent: 'The Confraternity of the Virgin’s Seven Sorrows in the Low Countries' Abstract
26 April 2008
Margot Loudon, The Open University: 'The representation of Justice on the walls of Leuven Town Hall in the 15th century: initial thoughts on contextual aspects'
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: 'Hunted men in John Buchan's London' Abstract
29 March 2008
Stephanie Wolfe, Brussels School of International Studies: ‘German and US citizenship laws during World War Two’
23 February 2008
Elizabeth L’Estrange, Université de Liège, will be talking about her new book, Holy Motherhood: Gender, Dynasty and Visual Culture in the later middle ages (Manchester University Press, March 2008)
Ellen Harry: ‘French diminutives in the 17th century’
26 January 2008
Alice Jolly, author of 'What the Eye Doesn’t See, and If Only You Knew': ‘Researching a novel’
15 December 2007
Antoinette De Vos, The Open University: ‘Belgian bourgeois mating rituals’
Topic Discussion: 'Getting an Academic Job in Belgium'.
24 November 2007
Dafydd Walters, The Open University: The role of medieval legal texts in literary interpretation
Elizabeth L’Estrange, Université de Liège: Looking at medieval tournaments : the historian and the spectator
27 October 2007
Stephanie Wolfe, University of Kent at Brussels: Reparation politics as restorative justice
Edward Haasl, Universiteit Leuven: Attempts at peace education in the Interbellum
29 September 2007
Marty Gaal, University of Kent at Brussels: The application of identity in foreign policy analysis.
Kate Macdonald, University of Ghent: Cultural collisions in the wartime middlebrow novels of Angela Thirkell Abstract
