Programme
10 March
9 a.m. - 9.30 a.m.: opening + coffee
9.45 a.m. - 10.45 a.m.: Pictures, politics and propaganda (discussants: Prof. Dr. Bruno De Wever and dra. Nelleke Teughels)
- Vladimir Dobrenko: 'The Image of the Enemy in Bolshevik political posters during the October Revolution and the Civil War'
- Sergei Kruk: ‘Wars of Statues: Ius imaginum and Damnatio memoriae in the 20th century Latvia’
- Rika Devos: ‘A cold war sketch’
10.45 a.m. - 11 a.m.: Coffee break
11 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.: Discussion Pictures, politics and propaganda
11.45 a.m. - 12.45 p.m.: Artefacts and narratives of power (discussant: Dr. Marc Jacobs)
- Thomas Cauvin: ‘Explaining the past through artefacts? 1998 historical exhibitions in Ireland and Northern Ireland’
- Fabrice Serodes: ‘Historical use of a caricature. The destiny of the perfidious Albion.’
12.45 - 2 p.m.: Lunch
2 p.m. - 3 p.m.: The iconic child (discussant: Prof. Dr. Nico Carpentier)
- Lily Chang, 'Representations of Wartime Children: Fear and Morality in the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945'
- Nele Van den Cruyce: 'Reflections of a child'
3 p.m. - 4 p.m.: Workers in the picture (discussant: Prof. Dr. Patricia Van den Eeckhout and drs. Joeri Januarius)
- Rachel Worth: 'Representations of English rural working-dress and the photography of Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901)'
- Alain P. Michel: 'Visual documents, Virtual reality and the renewal of Labour history'
4 p.m. – 4.20 p.m.: Coffee break
4.20 p.m. – 5.20 p.m.: Utopian landscapes (discussant Prof. Dr. Dries Tys)
- Rien Emmery: ‘Looking Past the Rural Idyll: History, TV Fiction and the Representation of the Flemish Countryside’
- Davy Depelchin: 'The story of an orientalist daydream: the use of images in branding the Belgian seaside resorts as exotic playgrounds for the 19th and early 20th-century bourgeoisie, and its importance as historical evidence for the present day'
11 March
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.: Masterclass Anne Cronin: 'Seeing Time: advertising images and the spatio-temporalities of neo-capitalism'
1 p.m. - 2.15 p.m.: Lunch
2.15 p.m.- 3.30 p.m.: Masterclass Marga Altena: 'Negotiating History: Representations of the Past through Visual Media'
3.30 p.m. - 3.45 p.m.: Coffee break
3.45 p.m. - 5 p.m.: Masterclass Kees Ribbens: 'Images all over. History visualized ... and made invisible'
5 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.: conclusions
5.30 p.m.: reception
March 6, 2009