CONFERENCE PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
10–12 June 2015



Wednesday, 10 June 2015

venue: University of Warsaw, Room TBC


  • 18:00 keynote lecture: Andrew Morrall (The Bard Graduate Centre, New York)
    The Power of Nature and the Agency of Art in the Works of Jan Vermeyen
    and Nikolas Pfaff


    • Thursday, 11 June 2015

    venue: National Museum of Warsaw, Room TBC


    9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
    9:30–11:00 First Session

  • Sarah M. Guérin (University of Montréal)
    Presentation/Representation. The Agency of Materials in the Scenic Reliquaries,
    circa 1300
  • Barbara Baert (KU Leuven)
    Agency of things and the Enclosed Gardens. A case-study on Mixed Media,
    Remnant Art, récyclage and gender in the Low Countries (16th onwards)
  • Stefano Martinelli (University of Pisa)
    The Cloisters Leather Casket. A Fine Example of Late Fourteenth ­Century
    Flemish Craftsmanship

    • 11:15–12:45 Second Session

  • Kathryn Rudy (University of St Andrews)
    Touching Skin. How Medieval Users Rubbed, Kissed, Inscribed, Splashed,
    Begrimed, and Pricked their Manuscripts
  • Elina Gertsman (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland)
    Phantoms of Emptiness: the Agency of (No)thing
  • Mercedes López-Mayán (University of Santiago de Compostela)
    Art, Liturgy and Power in the 15th century: the ‘Manuscript Chapel’
    of Alfonso Carrillo, Archbishop of Toledo

    • 13:00 Lunch (provided)
    14:00–15:30 Third Session

  • Wim François (KU Leuven)
    The Bible between Material Book and Immaterial Word
  • Karen Eileen Overbey (Tufts University)
    Manual Medicine
  • Jack Hartnell (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
    Dexterity, Memory, and Cutting-Edge Agency in Decorated Surgical Saws

    • 15:45–16:45 Fourth Session

  • Peter Dent (University of Bristol)
    Agency, Beauty and Late-Medieval Sculpture
  • Christopher J. Nygren (University of Pittsburgh)
    “Let them fall down and worship thing.” Lorenzo Valla’s Renaissance Thing Theory

  • 17:00 keynote lecture: Miri Rubin (Queen Mary University of London)
    Why Matter Matters


    • Friday, 12 June 2015

    venue: National Museum of Warsaw, Room TBC

  • 9:00 keynote lecture: Jacqueline Jung (The Yale University)
    The Boots of St. Hedwig: Thoughts on the Limits of the Agency of Things

    • 10:00–11:00 Fifth Session

  • Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto (University of York)
    Knighted by the Apostle Himself: Political Fabrication and Chivalric Artifact
    in Compostela, 1332
  • Robert Maniura (Birkbeck, University of London)
    Miraculous Images

    • 11:15–12:45 Sixth Session

  • Krystyna Greub-Frącz (Independent Scholar, Cologne)
    The Choir Screen as Agent: A Reinterpretation of the Ghent Altarpiece
  • Emily N. Savage (University of St Andrews)
    The Choir-stall as Interactive Agent
  • Jessica Barker (The Courtauld Institute of Art and Henry Moore Foundation)
    Revealing and Concealing: Visibility as a Strategy of Power at the Royal
    Mausolea of Batalha and Westminster Abbey

    • 13:00 Lunch (provided)
    14:00–15:30 Seventh Session

  • Leah Clark (The Open University)
    Collecting, Exchange, and the Agency of Things in the Renaissance Court
  • Vera-Simone Schulz (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck-Institut)
    Infiltrating artifacts. The agency of things in 14th- and 15th-century Florence
  • Evelyn Korsch (University of Erfurt)
    The multilayered agency of luxury textiles. A diplomatic gift presented
    to the Republic of Venice in 1603

    • 15:45–16:45 Eighth Session

  • Jaya Remond (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
    Marketing Dürer: Prints as agents of self-promotion
  • Alexander Lee (University of Oxford)
    Michelangelo, Tommaso de’Cavalieri, and the Agency of the Gift Giving

    • 17:00 Closing Remarks


    ABSTRACTS AVAILABLE HERE