[Commlist] cfp: Emotional Objects – Northern Renaissance Afterlives in Object, Image and Word, 1890s-1920s

*CALL FOR PAPERS: Emotional Objects – Northern Renaissance Afterlives in 
Object, Image and Word, 1890s-1920s*

*/A One-Day International Symposium: The Warburg Institute, 22-23 April 
2021/*

Keynote Speaker: Prof. dr. Gabriele Rippl, Universität Bern

Organized by Professor Juliet Simpson, FRSA, FRHistS (Coventry 
University/Warburg Institute)

Supported by The Royal Historical Society, The Warburg Institute, and 
the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University

In 1920 Louis Gillet, the French art historian and internationalist, 
published a rousing article defending the repatriation of stolen 
fragments from the Van Eycks’ Ghent Altarpiece from Germany to Belgium 
as ‘un drapeau’. His ensign of a Northern patrimony pitched as an 
emotive call for a different cultural ‘belonging’ post-1918 was part of 
a pattern. Jean Fouquet’s Melun diptych was vaunted as both a ‘jewel’, 
yet the opprobrium of France. At its most charged was the identification 
of Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece with extreme War trauma, bodily and 
mental distress during its 1918-19 Munich display. Yet these Northern 
Renaissance ‘Afterlives’ remain under-explored. This symposium aims to 
develop new knowledge of how these and other responses to the Northern 
Renaissance (in the period spanning the early 1900s-1920s) become 
activated via objects, images and words in potently emotive contexts of 
reception, image transfer and cultural memory-making to negotiate 
conflicts of the present.

Key areas of focus will be to consider the significance of new 
histories, narratives and emblems of Northern Renaissance visual, 
material and literary cultures, as well as Northern Renaissance cultural 
and religious legacies. In particular, the aim will be deeper 
investigation of their entwining with the cultural modernities of the 
early twentieth century.

Please send proposals of 300 words max. with a short biography (150 
words) to (juliet.simpson /at/ sas.ac.uk) <mailto:(juliet.simpson /at/ sas.ac.uk)> by 
*30 September 2020* (midnight BST). Applicants will be notified of 
outcomes by early October 2020.  A publication based on the conference 
is planned.

For the full details please see: 
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22793 
<https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/event/22793>


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