ROMANTICISM AND THE PERIPHERIES

An International and Interdisciplinary Conference

Sponsor

5-7 DECEMBER 2016 CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATIONLISBON

MONDAY, DECEMBER 5

09H00-09H30 RECEPTION

09H30-09H45 GREETINGS

09H45-10H45 PLENARY SESSION Javier Barón [Museo Nacional del Prado]

10H45-11H15 COFFEE BREAK

11H15-12H45 SESSION 1 Travel chair: Foteini Vlachou

11H15-11H35 RALUCA GOLES, TEANU “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]

11H35-11H55 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]

11H55-12H15 VERÓNICA URIBE “Ann Cox Brown and her travels to Constantinople: 1836-1853” [Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá]

12H15-12H45 DISCUSSION

12H45-14H00 LUNCH BREAK (FREE)

14H00-15H30 SESSION 2 Memorials, ruins, gardens chair: Maria João Neto

14H00-14H20 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]

14H20-14H40 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]

14H40-15H00 ALEXANDRE TOJAL “Jardins domésticos na Lisboa de Oitocentos: jardins românticos ou jardins do romantismo?” [IHA/FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon]

15H00-15H30 DISCUSSION

15H30-16H00 COFFEE BREAK

16H00-17H40 SESSION 3 Romanticism, nation, politics chair: Daniel Alves

16H00-16H20 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]

16H20-16H40 PEDRO MARTINS “O medievalismo em Portugal entre o romantismo europeu e os debates sobre a decadência nacional” [IHC/FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon]

16H40-17H00 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]

17H00-17H40 DISCUSSION

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6

09H30-10H30 PLENARY SESSION

Amy Concannon “The Romantic City: John Constable and the urban landscape” [Tate Britain]

10H30-11H00 COFFEE BREAK

11H00-12H00 SESSION 4 Literature, illustrations of the gothic novel chair: To be confirmed

11H00-11H20 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]

11H20-11H40 JULIA A. SIENKEWICZ “In Pursuit of “Delightful Misery”: Benjamin Henry Latrobe’s Literary Watercolors” [Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]

11H40-12H00 DISCUSSION

12H00-13H00 SESSION 5 Architecture chair: António Nunes Pereira

12H00-12H20 IRENE FATSEA “Between ‘Classicism’ and ‘Romanticism’: The Paradox of Nineteenth-Century Greek Architecture” [School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens]

12H20-12H40 MARIANA SCHEDEL “O Palácio da Pena como reflexo de D. Fernando II” [IHA/FCSH/NOVA; Palácio Nacional da Pena, Lisbon]

12H40-13H00 DISCUSSION

13H00-14H30 LUNCH BREAK (FREE)

14H30-16H00 SESSION 6 Landscape, representations chair: Raquel Henriques da Silva

14H30-14H50 VALERIA PICCOLI “Pintura de paisagem e identidade nacional nas Américas” [Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo]

14H50-15H10 ESTHER THYSSEN “The Discourse of American Romanticism: Landscapes of the West by Albert Bierstadt” [Rhode Island School of Design, Providence USA]

15H10-15H30 CLAUDIA HOPKINS “Crossing Cultures: Genaro Pérez Villaamil” [University of Edinburgh]

15H30-16H00 DISCUSSION

16H00-16H30 COFFEE BREAK

16H30-17H30 PLENARY SESSION Bénédicte Savoy [Technische Universität Berlin, Germany]

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7

Sintra visit