Wednesday, 8.10.2014
14:00-14:15 Welcome and Introduction
14:15-15:00 Wietse de Boer (Miami University), The Early Jesuits and the Catholic Debate about Sacred Images, 1530s-1560s
15:00-15:45 Anna Knaap (Emmanuel College, Boston), Rhetoric, Enargeia and the Softening of Stone: Architectural Decoration and Hendrik van Balen’s marble paintings for the Antwerp Jesuit Church
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:00 Judi Loach (Cardiff University), The Image Theories of Early Modern Jesuits as Disciples of Thomas
17:00-17:45 Jeffrey Muller (Brown University, Providence), The Jesuit Theory of Accomodation
Thursday, 9.10.2014
9:00-9:45 Pierre-Antoine Fabre (L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris), Le pacte précaire de l’image et de l’écrit dans le livre illustré d’époque moderne: le cas de la ‘Peinture spirituelle’ (1611) de Louis Richeome
9:45-10:30 Jacques Riche/Bernard Deprez (Catholic University of Leuven, KU), Science and politics in some Jesuits' frontispieces
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:35 Andreas Thielemann (Bibliotheca Hertziana, Rome), Ascension in the Cylinder: Theory and Practice of an Image Machine of Athanasius Kircher S.J.
11:35-12:20 Colette Nativel (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) The ‘De statura, plastice et statuaria’ of Jules César Boulanger, S. J.(1558-1628): Formation of the Jesuit Orator or of the ‘Curieux’?
12:20-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:00 Ralph Dekoninck (Université catholique de Louvain l.n.), Sandaeus and the imago figurata. The Jesuit Image Theory at the Crossroads of Speculative, Mystical and Symbolic Theologies
15:00-15:45 Agnes Guiderdoni (Université catholique de Louvain l.n.), Mystical Figures and Emblematic Practice in Maximilian van der Sandt’s Work
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:00 Joost Vander Auwera (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels), Abraham Janssen van Nuyssen (Liège? 1571/75 – Antwerp 1632): Jesuits in the Family and the Main Altarpiece of the Jesuit Church in Mons
17:00-17:45 Jan Graffius (Stonyhurst College), Phoenix, Hen and Falcon: Robert Southwell and Henry Hawkins’ influence on Helena Wintour’s sacred embroidery for the Society of Jesus, 1650-1660
Friday, 10.10.2014
9:00-9:45 Steffen Zierholz (Universität Bern), ‘to make yourself present’: Space and Self in the Society of Jesus
9:45-10:30 Christine Goettler (Universität Bern), Self-cultivation and Interior Retreat in Jesuit and Courtly Culture: The Hermitages of Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:35 Walter Melion (Emory University, Atlanta), ‘Libellus piarum precum’ (1575): Iterations of the Five Holy Wounds in an Early Jesuit Prayerbook
11:35-12:20 Hilmar Pabel (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby), Spiritual Perception in Peter Canisius’ Meditations on Advent
12:20-14:15 Lunch break
14:15-15:00 David Graham (Concordia University, Montreal), Claude-François Ménestrier: The Founder of ‘Early Modern Grounded Theory’
15:00-15:45 Aline Smeesters (Université catholique de Louvain l.n.), ‘Simulacra avorum’: Two Jesuit Imitations of Vergil, Aeneid, VI, 756-887
15:45-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:00 James Clifton (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston), A Variety of Spiritual Pleasures: Anthonis Sallaert’s ‘Glorification of the Name of Jesus’
17:00-17:45 Andrea Torre (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Writing on the Body and Looking through the Wounds: the mnemonic metaphor of Stigmata
17:45-18:00 Final Discussion / Concluding Remarks