Presentations

Upcoming

26 Mai 2023

Marjolijn Bol (book talk), ‘The Varnish and the Glaze: Transparency and Durability.’ Materializing Transparency (University of Basel).

July 3-5

Grace Kim-Butler (paper),  ‘Amyloid and the Making of Biofilm Forms.’ Workshop Fibers of Existence: Disordering Animals. Department III, MPIWG, Berlin, Germany.

July 3 – 7 2023

co-organized (Marjolijn Bol and Érika Wicky), Beyond the Gloss: The Multi-sensory Experience of Eighteenth-Century Varnishes, panel at 16th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), Rome.

papers included in the panel:

-Marie Thébaud-Sorger and Romain Thomas, ‘Eighteenth-Century Varnishes, an ambiguous and versatile material for the arts’
– Marjolijn Bol and Grace Kim-Butler, ‘The many durabilities of urushi lacquer: a diptych presentation’
– Érika Wicky, ‘The Lingering Scent of Eighteenth-Century Varnishes’

Past

25 November 2022

Henrike Scholten (paper): ‘Faking the miraculous: materials and motions for making images ‘appear’ in marble.’ 9th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Art Technological Source Research Working Group (Université Paris 1 Panthéon).

24 November 2022

Jan van Daal (paper): ‘Anticipation, Breakage, Care: Reworking an ABC of Gestural Modifiers in Medieval Art Technology, c. 800-1450.’ 9th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Art Technological Source Research Working Group (Université Paris 1 Panthéon).

6 October 2022

Marjolijn Bol (project presentation): ‘Dynamics of the Durable: A History of Making Things Last in the Visual and Decorative Arts.’ GoGreen: Developing sustainable strategies for conservation of cultural heritage (University of Amsterdam).

5 October, 2022

Marjolijn Bol (presentation), ‘Making Scents of the Past. Making Scents Last’,  Workshop Memory of Scent (Atelier Néerlandais, Paris).

July 26, 2022

Marjolijn Bol (paper), ‘Theorizing the Hard through Art: Making and Knowing Durability in the Pre-modern Period, Technology as Resource: Material Culture and Processes in the Pre-modern World (World Economic History Congress, Paris).

June 7-11, 2022

Marjolijn Bol & Grace Kim-Butler (presentation), ‘Working Hands On/Off with Toxicity. Case studies with Gold and Mercury’, Lorentz Center symposium, “Gold & Mercury | Metals in Transit” (Lorentz Center, Leiden). For more info, see https://www.lorentzcenter.nl/gold-en-mercury-metals-in-transit.html

April 29-30, 2022

Grace Kim-Butler (presentation): ‘The Microbial Lives of Tombstones’, Harriet Ritvo Symposium (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA). For more info, see https://history.mit.edu/events/harriet-ritvo-symposium/.

April 4-5, 2022

Marjolijn Bol (paper): ‘Theorizing the Hard through Art: Making and Knowing Durability in the Pre-modern Period.’ Technology as Resource: Material Culture and Processes in the Pre-modern World (Pre-session WEHC 2022, Musée du Quai-Branly Jacques Chirac).

8 February 2022

Marjolijn Bol (paper): ‘Splendeur Mimétique. le vernissage et le glaçage dans la peinture sur panneau prémoderne.’ Séminaire La fabrique de l’art : utilisation des données matérielles en histoire de l’art (Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris).

14-18 January 2021

Marjolijn  Bol (paper): ‘Made to Last. Durability through virtuosity in the arts of the early modern period.’ Virtuosities. The ethics and aesthetics of manual skills from the Middle Ages to the 19th century (Organized by Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University & The University of Nantes).

23 June 2021

Marjolijn Bol (project presentation): ‘Dynamics of the Durable.A History of Making Things Last in the Visual and Decorative Arts.’ KNIR Research Dialogues (organized by Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome, June 23, 2021, moved online).

27-28 May 2021

Marjolijn Bol (talk): ‘Desiring the Durable: New Perspectives on Historical Ambitions to Make and Own Long-lasting Art.’ Cultural Heritage 360, Workshop 3: Cultural Content and Value (Organized by Durham University & University of Oslo, 27-28 Mai 2021, moved online).

November 23, 2020

Marjolijn Bol (project presentation): ‘Dynamics of the Durable: A History of Making Things Last in the Visual and Decorative Arts.’Das Ephemere und das Dauerhafte – The Ephemeral and the Durable (University of Siegen, November 23, 2020, moved online).