On Thursday 28 October 2021, Yannice De Bruyn successfully defended her dissertation titled Staging Siege, Imagineering Violence in the Dutch Theatre 1645-1686. Staging Siege analyses the techniques with which siege violence could be performed onstage. Yannice has found that violence could be told (by means of ekphrasis), explicitly shown (by means of proxemics and tableau…
The ITEMP-Violence issue
The year 2021 starts on a positive note with the publication of Imagineering Violence, a special issue of Journal of the Northern Renaissance edited by Karel Vanhaesebrouck and Kornee van der Haven. The issue can be accessed freely here. Contributions include, but are not limited to, various papers that were presented at the 2019 conference…
PhD Defense Michel van Duijnen
On Thursday 19 December 2019, Michel van Duijnen successfully defended his dissertation titled A Violent Imagination: Printed Images of Violence in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1700. A Violent Imagination analyses the role of violence in late seventeenth-century Dutch print culture and discusses the uniquely explicit images produced during this period, which ranged from botched beheadings to…
Reflection on a successful program
The month of March has been very exciting for the ITEMP team. On March 21-22, we organised the conference Imagineering Violence. Spectacle and Print in the Early Modern Period. The conference took place in Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, which was also the location for an evening debate on 21 March with…
Exhibition Baroque Brutalities: Imagining Violence in Art (17th Century & today)
VANDENHOVE Centre for Architecture and Arts, Rozier 1, Ghent Thursday & Friday 28 & 29 March, 2-6 PM and Saturday 30 March, 10 AM – 5 PM. The exhibition shows 17th-century prints from the UGent University Library and works by Simon Pummell (video), Doina Kraal and Kevin Simón Mancera Vivas (peep-show box), Abattoir Fermé (performance…
Conference Program Imagineering Violence. Spectacle and Print in the Early Modern Period
The ITEMP team is proud to present the final program of our conference Imagineering Violence. Spectacle and Print in the Early Modern Period, that will take place next month in Amsterdam. Please find the program below this email. Some of the theme questions that will be addressed are the following: How can violence be represented…
Masterclass by Benjamin Schmidt: ‘Violent images, violence against images: the visual culture of violence in the in early modern period’ – 23 March 2019 (& 21 March Lecture)
This masterclass takes place in the context of the ITEMP conference in Amsterdam on 21-22 March 2019. In cooperation with the Huizinga Institute, Inger Leemans and Michel van Duijnen have invited Benjamin Schmidt to give a masterclass on the relationship between visuals and violence. The venue will be Vlaams Cultuurhuis Brakke Grond in Amsterdam. Using…
Specialist Course and Exhibition – Representations of Violence and the Eye of the Beholder (1600-today) @ Ghent on 28-29 March 2019
Kornee van der Haven, Karel Vanhaesebrouck and Yannice De Bruyn are happy to announce the organisation of a specialist course: Representations of Violence and the Eye of the Beholder (1600-today). This specialist course will take place on 28-29 March 2019 at the University of Ghent and is enabled by the UGent Doctoral Schools. The course…
Strange, bizarre, and wondrous
ITEMP’s own Michel van Duijnen keeps a blog on the most peculiar prints he encounters during his research. It is definitely worth a visit! Michel explains: During my research, I come across countless strange, bizarre, and wonderful prints. Only a small number of these works can be discussed in my thesis and academic articles, which…
ITEMP on RSA 2018 NOLA
On March 23rd, 2018, Inger Leemans organised the panels Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies I and Early Modern Knowledge Societies as Affective Economies II at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans. Karel Vanhaesebrouck presented his paper The Spectacle of Dissection: Early Modern Theatricality and Anatomical Curiosity in the Low Countries in…
ITEMP conference call for papers
After months of planning, the ITEMP conference is taking shape. Our call for papers is ready for distribution. Download the PDF here. Call for Papers Imagineering violence – A conference on the spectacle of violence in the early modern period. Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Flemish Arts Centre De Brakke Grond Date: 21-22 March 2019 The early…
Book release
July 2017 saw the release of the book The Hurt(ful) Body. Performing and beholding pain, 1600-1800. Pain and suffering in early modern performance and visual arts. Kornee van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck were co-editors. Karel Vanhaesebrouck also wrote the chapter To travel to suffer. Towards a reverse anthropology of the colonial body. Inger Leemans wrote the chapter The Economics of…
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