What was new in the renaissance? What were some of the catalysts for change? How did globalization affect technology in the early modern period? Using Giovanni Stradano’s famed Nova Reperta print series as a case study, this international symposium and its related collaborative research project will consider the relationship between novelty, technology, and globalization in…

In this session Roger and Dusia Kneebone draw on a body of work over several years in which we have brought expert clinicians, scientists, artists and performers together to explore the wordless ‘ways of doing’ which characterize their work. By demonstrating selected aspects of their work to one another, participants share understandings that elude verbal…

Presentation: Prof. dr. Noémie Étienne, University of Bern Chair: Dr. Jenny Boulboullé, Utrecht University Registration: Through an email to j.briggeman@uu.nl before 4 May Download the full invitation HERE This public lecture is part of the international conference ‘The Making of Art Expertise: Changing Practices of Art History & Conservation, 1850–1950’, to be held May 8-10 in Utrecht and…

Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies and the Technical Art History Colloquium present: Lecture and Workshop ‘Printing Colour in Late Mediëval England: The Baffling ‘Craft’ of the Book of St Albans (1486)’ With Elizabeth Savage, University of London Full invitation: link Programme: link Registration: link The dozens of heraldic schemes in the Book of St Albans (printed…

On 4-6 April 2019, Marieke Hendriksen will attend  the workshop Social Technologies and Global Knowledge Economies, 1750-1850, to be held in Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen. She will present a paper titled ‘Global and Local Materialities and Techniques: Plaster and Papier Mâché in the Production and Circulation of Anatomical Knowledge, 1750-1850’. The remarkable density of connections that characterized knowledge production between 1750…