Romanticism and the Peripheries:
An International and Interdisciplinary Conference
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon 5-7 December 2016
Provisional Programme Monday, December 5
09.00-09.30 Reception 09.30-09.45 Greetings
09.45-10.45 Plenary session: Javier Barón, Museo Nacional del Prado 10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.45 Session 1. Travel. Chair: Foteini Vlachou
11.15-11.35 RALUCA GOLEȘTEANU, “The Romanticism of the Periphery in the Age of the 1848 Revolutions: Images of the Self in Travel Notes of Central and Eastern Europeans Traveling West” (Institute of History Tadeusz Manteuffel, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw / Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin)
11.35-11.55 LAURENS DHAENENS, “A Modern Athens, a New Venice and Another Orient: Travel and Traditions in Argentine Art at the End of the Nineteenth Century” (Flanders Research Foundation and Catholic University of Leuven)
11.55-12.55 VERÓNICA URIBE, “Ann Cox Brown and her travels to Constantinople: 1836–1853” (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de los
12.15-12.45 Discussion
12.45-13.45 Lunch break (free)
13.45-15.15 Session 2. Memorials, ruins, gardens. Chair: Maria João Neto
13.45-14.05 JESÚS ÁNGEL SÁNCHEZ-GARCÍA, “Romantic Memorials of the Dead in a Corner of Spain. The Making of the City of Corunna as a Patriotic Mausoleum” (University of Santiago de Compostela)
14.05-14.25 JOAQUIM MANUEL RODRIGUES DOS SANTOS, “Influências do romantismo nas franjas do império colonial português: ruinismo e falsas ruínas no Estado da Índia” (ARTIS/FLUL, Lisbon)
14.25-14.45 ALEXANDRE TOJAL, “Jardins domésticos na Lisboa de Oitocentos: jardins românticos ou jardins do romantismo?” (IHA/FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon)
14.45-15.15 Discussion 15.15-15.45 Coffee break
15.45-17.45 Session 3. Romanticism, nation, politics. Chair: Daniel Alves 15.45-16.05 PAULO RIBEIRO BAPTISTA, “Romantismo, nacionalismo e fotografia:
aspectos do percurso artístico e cultural de Emílio Biel” (IHA/FCSH/ NOVA; Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança, Lisbon)
16.05-16.25 PEDRO MARTINS, “O medievalismo em Portugal entre o romantismo europeu e os debates sobre a decadência nacional” (IHC/FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon)
16.25-16.45 PAULO JORGE FERNANDES, “Caricatura, humor e ordem política: do Supplemento Burlesco ao Asmodeu (1847-1863)” (Departamento de História da FCSH/NOVA – IHC/FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon)
16.45-17.05 GENARO OLIVEIRA, “White canvas, whitening nation: romanticism and racial theories in nineteenth-century Brazil” (Spanish and Latin American Studies, New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies – NZCLAS, Faculty of Arts, The University of Auckland)
Tuesday, December 6
09.00-10.00 Plenary session: Amy Concannon, “The Romantic City: John Constable and the urban landscape”, Tate Britain
10.00-11.00 Session 4. Literature, illustrations of the gothic novel (chair session: to be
confirmed)
10.00-10.20 ALBERTO GABRIELE, “Peripheral Aesthetics: Intellectualized Vision and the Unrestrained Power of Shifting Forms in Ann Radcliffe’s The
Mysteries of Udolpho” (English and American Studies Department, Tel
Aviv University)
10.20-10.40 JULIA A. SIENKEWICZ, “In Pursuit of “Delightful Misery”: Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Literary Watercolors” (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
10.40-11.00 Discussion 11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.00 Session 5. Architecture. Chair: António Nunes Pereira
11.30-11.50 IRENE FATSEA, “Between ‘Classicism’ and ‘Romanticism’: The Paradox of Nineteenth-Century Greek Architecture” (School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens)
11.50-12.10 CRISTINA MENEGUELLO, “‘Gótico nos Trópicos’ – o estilo arquitetônico neogótico no Brasil entre as últimas décadas do século XIX e primeiras décadas do XX” (Universidade Estadual de Campinas-UNICAMP,
Brazil)
12.10-12.30 MARIANA SCHEDEL, “O Palácio da Pena como reflexo de D. Fernando II” (IHA/FCSH/NOVA; Palácio Nacional da Pena, Lisbon)
12.30-13-00 Discussion
14.00-16.00 Session 6. Landscape, representations. Chair: Raquel
Henriques da Silva
14.00-14.20 VALÉRIA PICCOLI, “Pintura de paisagem e identidade nacional nas Américas” (Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo)
14.20-14.40 ESTHER THYSSEN, “The Discourse of American Romanticism:
Landscapes of the West by Albert Bierstadt” (Rhode Island School of Design, Providence USA)
14.40-15.00 VILLE LUKKARINEN, “The Finnish Artist Werner Holmberg (1830–1860) and the Romantic Fragment” (Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and the Arts, University of Helsinki)
15.00-15.20 CLAUDIA HOPKINS, “Crossing Cultures: Genaro Pérez Villaamil” (University of Edinburgh)
15.20-16.00 Discussion 16.00-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.30 Plenary session: Bénédicte Savoy, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Wednesday, December 7
Organizing committee
António Nunes Pereira (Palácio Nacional da Pena/Parques de Sintra − Monte da Lua, SA)
Foteini Vlachou (Instituto de História Contemporânea, FCSH/NOVA; Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH/NOVA)
Maria João Neto (ARTIS - Instituto de História da Arte/FLUL)
Raquel Henriques da Silva (Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH/NOVA)
Scientific committee
Bénédicte Savoy (Technische Universität Berlin) France Nerlich (Université François-Rabelais Tours) Javier Barón (Museo Nacional del Prado)
Executive committee
Inês Cristóvão (ARTIS - Instituto de História da Arte/FLUL) Mariana Gonçalves (Instituto de História da Arte, FCSH/NOVA)
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